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On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19
Channel Guide MagazineCloud Atlas is certainly the most ambitious of this week's titles. With a budget of over $100,000,000, the film is one of the most expensive independent films made to date. Nominated for a Golden Globe award, the film involves cast members playing... -
'Mr. Selfridge': The man who invented retail therapy
Until recently, the Vera Wang bridal shop in Singapore imposed a non-refundable $482 fee to try on dresses. And last month a health food retailer in Australia posted this notice on its door: “As of the first of February, this store will be...
Tags: Mary Pickford, NBC (tv network), Grant Park, Music Box Theatre, Entourage (tv program)
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Netflix goes sci-fi with the Wachowskis
Netflix is going big with its next original series. After tapping the talents of David Fincher and Eli Roth for previous productions, the online outfit is getting Andy and Lana Wachowski, creators of "The Matrix" series, who will work with J. Michael...
Tags: The Voice (tv program), House of Cards (tv program), The Matrix (movie), Channing Tatum, NBC (tv network)
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GLAAD award nominees include 'Wallflower,' 'Cloud Atlas'
Among the nominations for its annual entertainment awards, GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy and anti-defamation organization, chose to honor animation's first gay character, a film directed in part by a transgender woman...Tags: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Social Issues, Minority Groups, Dolly Parton, Golden Globe Awards
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Is city short of space to shoot?
According to Andy and Lana Wachowski, most of their films are set in Chicago — although none have actually shot here. When my colleague Chris Borrelli asked about this for a piece that ran in the Tribune last week, Lana Wachowski replied, "There...
Tags: North Lawndale, Television, Big Love (tv program), Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Channing Tatum
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Inside 'Cloud Atlas' directors' Chicago workshop
The Wachowskis lie low. It's what they do. Indeed, They do it so well that when you meet the Wachowskis and ask them about their lying low, you find yourself reminding yourself: You have never really seen them before. Not really. They don't stand for...
Tags: MTV Movie Awards, IKEA, Arts and Culture, Academy Awards, Dentistry and Dental Health
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An interview with David Mitchell, the author behind 'Cloud Atlas'
David Mitchell came to Los Angeles because of an 8-year-old book. Thanks to the movie by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, Mitchell's novel "Cloud Atlas" has landed on American bestseller lists -- right behind the decidedly less literary...
Tags: Entertainment, Andy Wachowski, Literature, Music, Arts and Culture
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Holdover 'Argo' beats four newcomers on slow moviegoing weekend
Moviegoers had four new films to choose from at the box office this weekend, but "Argo" — the well-reviewed film that has been out for 17 days — still seemed like a better option to most. Ben Affleck's political thriller claimed the top...
Tags: The Possession (movie), The Matrix (movie), Windsurfing, Crime, Law and Justice, Nickelodeon (tv network)
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Taylor Swift, 'Cloud Atlas' and assumption junction
On semi-rare occasions, you absolutely know when something’s going to be good. You judge a book by its cover because you’ve practically already read it. A new Fiona Apple album, good. 3 Doors Down’s greatest hits, bad. That said, it&...
Tags: Fiona Apple, Rock of Ages Corporation, Halle Berry, Music, Jim Broadbent
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'Cloud Atlas' review: A historic mess
* (out of four) Hokum of monumental proportions is still hokum. Watch the 6-minute “Cloud Atlas” trailer about 30 times and you’ll have an idea of what it’s like to sit through this epic disaster, which never bores but never...
Tags: Entertainment, Keith David, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry
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'Cloud Atlas'? Shrug ★★ 1/2
A big-budget film's marketing mission is simple: Eliminate the idea of an unsuspecting audience. Did people know what they were getting when they got "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"? Yes. They got what they were shown in the 30-second ads, over and...
Tags: Halle Berry, Movies, James D'Arcy, Metropolis (movie), Hugo Weaving
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SCOTT PORTER
Scott Porter stars as Bluebell, Alabama's golden boy George Tucker in The CW's new series "Hart of Dixie," a fish-out-of-water story about a New York City doctor (Rachel Bilson) adjusting to life in a small Southern town after she inherits a local medical...Tags: Bandslam (movie), Channing Tatum, Romance (genre), Aubrey Plaza, Rosario Dawson
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