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Items by By DAVE ITZKOFF
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Arts, Briefly: James Bond Box Office Lowered by a Quantum
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 12:26am EST by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
When final weekend box-office figures were reported for “Quantum of Solace,” the movie saw its record-breaking numbers stirred, but not dramatically shaken.
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Wallace Shawn on ‘Gossip Girl’? It’s Not Inconceivable
Posted: November 17th, 2008, 3:06am EST by By DAVE ITZKOFF
The protean Wallace Shawn, an actor, playwright and emissary from the New York intelligentsia, has a recurring role on the prime-time CW soap opera.
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Arts, Briefly: Dark Knight Score Ineligible for Oscars
Posted: November 14th, 2008, 2:39am EST by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The score for the blockbuster Batman movie “The Dark Knight” has been disqualified from consideration for the Academy Awards, Variety reported.
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Arts, Briefly: American Film Market Attendance Declines
Posted: November 14th, 2008, 2:37am EST by By MICHAEL CIEPLY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Attendance at the American Film Market, which ended Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., dropped about 5 percent, to 7,903 from a record 8,343 in 2007.
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Arts, Briefly: Film Plans for Osage and a Rushdie Novel
Posted: November 12th, 2008, 12:40am EST by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The film adaptation of Tracy Letts’s play “August: Osage County,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, has been acquired by the Weinstein Company.
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Opera With Heart (Also Spleen, Liver and Entrails)
Posted: November 9th, 2008, 2:27am EST by By DAVE ITZKOFF
There is a deep, blood-soaked, entrail-clogged difference between “Repo! The Genetic Opera” and other musical dramas.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘In the Heights’ Movie Is in the Works
Posted: November 7th, 2008, 11:49pm EST by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Universal Pictures said on Friday that it had acquired the film rights for the Broadway musical “In the Heights.”
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Arts, Briefly: The Farrellys Meet the Stooges, at Last
Posted: November 5th, 2008, 2:21am EST by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Since at least 2004 those latter-day knuckleheads Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the gross-out auteurs of “There’s Something About Mary” and “Kingpin” fame, have been contemplating a movie in which they would upgrade the Three Stooges for 21st-century audiences.
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Arts, Briefly: A ‘Dark Knight’ Death Under Examination
Posted: November 4th, 2008, 1:51pm EST by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A British jury investigating the death of a special-effects technician on “The Dark Knight” was told that he was killed in an accident during the shooting of a stunt.
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Arts, Briefly: Screenwriter Announced for ‘Spider-Man 4’
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 2:07am EDT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
David Lindsay-Abaire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the drama “Rabbit Hole,” will write the screenplay for “Spider-Man 4.
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Arts, Briefly: Conflicting Statements on Muhammad Film
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 12:38am EDT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The son of the filmmaker Moustapha Akkad said that a forthcoming movie about the life of the Prophet Muhammad would not be a remake of his father’s 1977 film, “The Message.”
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Arts, Briefly: He Is ‘Iron Man,’ Again and Again
Posted: October 30th, 2008, 1:17am EDT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Robert Downey Jr. has completed his career-rehabilitation program.
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Film: They’re Not Judd Apatow. Really.
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 3:25pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
Does Judd Apatow now own the ruanchy guy genre? Two filmmakers, Kevin Smith and David Wain, are about to find out.
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Arts, Briefly: A Rock Musical About, Yes, Cleopatra
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 12:31am EDT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The director Steven Soderbergh, whose body of work includes the films “Schizopolis,” “Kafka” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” is planning to make a rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra.
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Arts, Briefly: Mediator Is Selected in Actors Guild Impasse
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 12:27am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
A federal mediator will try to break the contract stalemate between Hollywood’s major film and television studios and the Screen Actors Guild.
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Arts, Briefly: Bollywood Union Calls Off Strike
Posted: October 4th, 2008, 12:13am EDT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The striking union that briefly brought film and television production to a halt in India said that its demands had been met and that it would call off its strike.
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Arts, Briefly: Actors Inch Closer to a Strike Vote
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 12:17am EDT by By EDWARD WYATT; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee voted late Wednesday to ask the union’s board to approve a strike authorization vote by its 120,000 members.
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Arts, Briefly: 'Blindness' Movie Stokes Protest
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 12:16am EDT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The National Federation of the Blind is planning to protest the film “Blindness” at more than 80 theaters nationwide, the organization has announced.
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Arts, Briefly: Screen Actors Impasse
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 11:06pm EDT by By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Bickering over a new contract continues between the Screen Actors Guild and major Hollywood studios.
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Arts, Briefly: More Pirates Ahoy for Johnny Depp
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 12:39am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
The Walt Disney Company’s film division said Wednesday that Johnny Depp would star in a fourth installment of its “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
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Arts, Briefly: Gish Prize Awarded to Robert Redford
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 12:36am EDT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Robert Redford has been named the winner of the 2008 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in recognition of his films, his activism and his creation of the Sundance Institute.
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Ideas & Trends: The Refined Art of Tastelessness
Posted: August 16th, 2008, 11:50pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
An ick is a yuk is a buck, and today’s taboo is tomorrow’s box-office bonanza.
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Film: Spoof Within a Movie Within a Movie Within ...
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 10:14pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
The creative team behind “Tropic Thunder” discusses the making of the film.
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Film: Elves and Killer Beanstalks From Director’s Personal ‘Hell’
Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
The beasts of “Hellboy II” began as drawings in Guillermo del Toro’s visual diary. The director offers a peek into that world.
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Film: Free to Follow His Heart Right Back to ‘Star Wars’
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 8:07pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
George Lucas is revisiting his signature franchise once again. Then, maybe, at last, a small movie?
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Film: Israelis and Arabs Walk Into a Film ...
Posted: May 25th, 2008, 2:50am EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
“You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” attempts to satirize the continuing tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors, one of the least funny topics of modern times.
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Film: A Young Actor With Nothing to Hide
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 5:02pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
As the star and co-writer of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” Jason Segel finds a way to play his real-life embarrassment and humiliation for laughs.