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Avatar is hitting DVD while it is still raking in box office and it’s best to see James Cameron’s masterpiece on the big screen. However, if you’re only going to see the pic on home video this is your chance, [...]


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It was neck and neck, but the Steve Carell-Tina Fey flick, Date Night managed to pull ahead of Clash of the Titans for the top spot at the box office. The romantic-comedy nailed an estimated $27.1 million, while Titans came in a close second with $26.8 million. But, Titans took a big 56-percent drop in [...]


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PIERCE BROSNAN, CHARACTER ACTOR?

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Pierce Brosnan’s natural charisma were determining factors in landing him Remington Steele, several James Bond films, and The Thomas Crown Affair.  However, Brosnan is a highly underrated actors, as witnessed by his excellent work in the Western Seraphim Falls, the thriller The Tailor of Panama, and The Matador. 

He was also a more believable Bond [...]


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Clash of the Titans pulled in an estimated $64,055,000 in receipts between Good Friday and Sunday. That makes the flick the highest movie debut for the Easter weekend. Certainly 3-D helped those numbers and it’s clear audiences can’t get enough of that medium, despite tough scrutiny from critics who were unimpressed with the conversion from [...]


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Movies on DVD

Sherlock Holmes explores the hunkier side of the super-sleuth as he solves crimes with his personal enabler, Dr. Watson. The flick stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson.
Special Features: Sherlock Holmes: reinvented.

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[caption id="attachment_27380" align="alignleft" width="350" caption=""City of War" author Neil Russell."][/caption]
A naked woman, billionaire businessman and a whole heap of intrigue. These are the elements that collide in Neil Russell’s first novel, City of War.

Russell is a former executive at Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, MGM/UA…all before he formed his own company, Horizon, which was later [...]


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OK, so Disney has gone a little hog-wild rushing their theatrical releases to home video. But, Alice in Wonderland coming out just three months after its debut in theaters seems extreme. Certainly it is a shift from the normal 16 week window from theaters to DVD and it’s an experiment that Producer Richard Zanuck can’t [...]


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Universal Pictures has got to be praying that Repo Men isn’t the box office poison that Green Zone and The Wolf Man were. The story is set in the future where human replacement parts are easily obtainable…unless you default on the payments for the services. In which case, be it a kidney, liver, eye or [...]


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Moviegoers leaped right back down into the rabbit hole for the second week in a row. Filmmaker Tim Burton’s updated revisiting of Alice In Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, grabbed the top slot bringing in a huge $62 million over the weekend. That’s down 42.6 percent from its debut of $116,101,023, but with mega box office [...]


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Stephen J. Cannell is the brains behind the hit TV shows, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street and The Rockford Files to name just three. But, he’s also a successful author as well.

The producer has penned an average of a novel a year – and now he’s upping the ante.

Cannell has been asked to [...]


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