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Jun 09, 2009 -
Don't freak out — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is still scheduled to open nationwide on July 14, but for two weeks the only option will be to see the movie on your normal movie screens (with the exception of two theaters: one in New York and one in Los Angeles). Starting July 29, the movie will be available on IMAX screens nationwide.
Why the delay?
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Oct 02, 2008 -
Ah, the latest old cartoon character to be swiped from the past: Yogi Bear. Warner Bros. is planning a feature film for Yogi Bear and Boo Boo with a mixture of live-action and CGI characters (like last year's Alvin and the Chipmunks movie).
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Sep 11, 2008 -
Even though The Dark Knight has gone above and beyond the line of duty at the box office, earning an estimated $512 million domestically, Warner Bros. has announced it will get a re-release in January 2009. The Hollywood Reporter notes:Warner Bros.
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Jul 11, 2008 -
There was plenty of sequel chatter immediately following the major box office success of the Sex and the City movie, but now certain head honchos are confirming that there is "a lot of energy behind doing another SATC movie." According to EW, "a sequel to the Sex and the City movie is in the early stages of development."
HBO's president of programming group, Michael Lombardo, mentioned that they're "really heartened by the fans' enthusiasm," and a source confirmed that Warner Bros.
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Mar 13, 2008 -
It was a rumor before, and now it's confirmed: the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is to be made into two separate films: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The films are set to be released in November 2010 and May 2011.
The movies will be shot back-to-back and will be directed by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince director David Yates.
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Sep 14, 2007 -
First Ramona and now Paddington Bear! The stories of my youth are flocking to the screen. Harry Potter producer David Heyman is teaming up with Warner Bros.
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Feb 13, 2007 -
There's a reason that Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is one of the most outstanding documentaries I've ever seen: Frankly, the bizarre, sordid tale just begs to be made into a movie. With reclusive, stripper-obsessed executives and convoluted concepts like "hypothetical future value," the story is so unbelievable it almost sounds like fiction.
That juicy potential wasn't lost on Warner Bros., which on Tuesday made a preemptive deal for an Enron movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and produced by the actor's Appian Way company.
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Dec 08, 2006 -
The new Leonardo DiCaprio movie, Blood Diamond, opens today after several months' worth of controversy. On the one hand, many people are glad to have the movie released, hoping that it will bring to light the serious issue surrounding "conflict diamonds," which continue to finance African warfare. But according to the AP, U.S.
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Nov 20, 2009 -
It's not that the trailer for The Blind Side isn't compelling; the problem is that it combines Sandra Bullock's twangiest, most-over-the top lines with a heartrending song, which makes it seem schlocky. That's exactly what I expected from the movie, but I have to admit that I was wrong — to my surprise, I found it to be a sentimental gem that's actually quite restrained.
The Blind Side is the true story (based on Michael Lewis's book) of NFL player Michael Oher, who grew up in Memphis's projects with his drug-addicted mother and landed in and out of foster homes.
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Sep 22, 2009 -
Warner Brothers is already developing a sequel to the not-yet-released Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and early gossip suggests that Brad Pitt has been in talks to join the cast as Moriarity, Holmes's rival.
Please let this be true! Not only would adding Pitt to the Downey-Law lineup help keep the Holmes franchise afloat, but Downey and Pitt in the same film is pretty much my dream — both guys have that wise-cracking persona, good looks, and it would be so much fun to see them spar.
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