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Watch the Trailer for Invictus: Is This the Next Best Picture?

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 9:42 AM on October 30, 2009

It’s a movie about the transformation of the racial culture of South Africa. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Anybody else feel like they know where this is headed?... read more

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Ten Television Commercials Featuring Voiceovers by Famous Actors

By Emily Riemer on 7:00 AM on October 12, 2009

For those of us who still don’t have TiVo or a DVR (And there are dozens of us!), our television-watching habits naturally include some commercial viewing. And occasionally, a disembodied voice emanates from the screen that is so familiar, it drives you crazy until you are able to place it. Here, we identify 10 commercials featuring voiceovers by famous actors, to ease your no-doubt frustrated mind.... read more

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Wanted 2 coming to a theater near you

By Muriel Vega on 1:31 PM on April 21, 2009

Despite being limited by the graphic novel's original story, Wanted is primed to return with a whole new storyline and in Wanted 2. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie's Evan Spiliotopoulos has been tapped to help flesh out a new storyline, something that might prove as a challenge, since most of the characters died in the first film.... read more

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Sundance 2009: Film Round-Up

By Michael Dunaway on 3:47 PM on February 5, 2009

Sundance Film Roundup Narrative Films An Education Nick Hornby wrote the script for An Education, so you’d expect the dialogue to be superb, and it is. (Although, it’s a strange choice to adapt someone else’s book instead of one of his own; he’d “rather mess up other people’s stories.”) And newcomer Carey Mulligan is spectacular in the leading role, so good that if I had seen the film earlier I would have made a point to see The Greatest, another Sundance selection starring Mulligan. In this one, though, she plays a schoolgirl who begins to spend time with an older... read more

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Morgan Freeman injured in car accident

By Sean Gandert on 10:22 AM on August 5, 2008

Sunday evening reports came from CNN that actor Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a car accident over the weekend. According to the report, the Oscar-winning actor was driving down a highway south of Memphis with Demaris Meyer when their car veered off the highway and flipped several times. Freeman had to be extracted from the wreckage using the jaws of life.... read more

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