Collectives find the venues suit their mix of music and performance art. Museums see the concerts as big draws for the young visitors they need.
Collectives find the venues suit their mix of music and performance art. Museums see the concerts as big draws for the young visitors they need.
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Museums become venue of choice for some bands
Filmmakers Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders faced a tough deadline when they were brought in to rework the animated film.
Animated movies can take forever to make — three or four years is well within the ordinary. “How to Train Your Dragon,” which tells the story of a scrawny kid destined to prove his hecklers wrong through an unusual relationship with a dragon, moved at a radically different pace: the two filmmakers behind March 26’s 3-D adventure had just 12 months to make their film, inheriting a project needing a top-to-bottom overhaul.
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and a baptism of fire
The friendly competition inspires game coders, designers and programmers to create works outside the industry box.
Among those who live and die on a pure and irrepressible love of video game design, there’s a desire to perform the craft in a space free of any of the constraints inherent in business. That’s where the Experimental Gameplay Project comes in.
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Experimental Gameplay Project unleashes video design creativity
The director’s version of Stieg Larsson’s international bestseller is coming to the U.S.
When a team of Swedish producers known for their TV crime dramas asked Danish director Niels Arden Oplev if he’d be interested in helming their next project, his immediate response was “Haven’t you made enough of those?”
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‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ a hit for Niels Arden Oplev
Everybody comes in for a skewering on Comedy Central’s new animated series.
It’s not enough to be illustrated and funny anymore: These days, animation is a place for subversion and hidden meaning. It’s also the place for overt political posturing: Since “The West Wing” went off the air, liberalism and conservatism have been largely absent from television as prominent story lines or attributes. Live action television starring humans, that is. When the characters are drawn, partisan knives come out, even if the results often fizzle like ABC’s “The Goode Family.”
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‘Ugly Americans’: drawing partisan lines
Jennifer Love Hewitt has split from her Ghost Whisperer co-star Jamie Kennedy, according to U.S reports.
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Hewitt & Kennedy split
California authorities are investigating tragic actor Corey Haim’s alleged links to a prescription drug scam.
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Haim’s name linked to San Diego drug ring investigation
Police in the U.K. are investigating claims comic actress Catherine Tate has been receiving sinister letters alleging she is having an affair.
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Tate ‘targeted by hate mail’
A representative for Joaquin Phoenix has shot down reports the star is preparing to return to the big screen as Edgar Allen Poe.
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Phoenix’s rep denies Poe reports
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden’s wedding might be sooner than expected - the socialite-turned-jewellery designer is already calling the rocker her husband.
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Richie already married in her mind
Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman will switch bodies in a new buddy comedy movie.
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Reynolds and Bateman swap bodies for new movie
Health nut Jennie Garth has turned her front lawn into a vegetable garden, so her three daughters can learn all about the benefits of eating organic produce.
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Garth grows her own vegetables
Kick-Ass expertly blends side-splitting humor with bone-shattering
Hollywood’s two actors unions have officially ended their two-year feud.
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SAG’s board makes peace with rival union
Reality TV hits a new low with ‘Pretty Wild,’ a disturbing look at wannabes.
Reality TV hits a new low with ‘Pretty Wild,’ a disturbing look at wannabes.
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Review: ‘Pretty Wild’
Funnyman Jay Baruchel proves he’s not quite ready for the big leagues
During a Time magazine interview, Hanks suddenly veered off course, going from being a gauzy celebrator of the importance of studying history to an unruly political activist.
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The Big Picture: ‘The Pacific’s’ Tom Hanks is the right wing’s new boogeyman
The actor-director says “It’s the thing I have been going toward, in a way, since I was young, and I think when it’s done I may be finished.”
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Mel Gibson says Viking movie may be his last
In terms of pure star power, SXSW leans toward cult heroes on the comeback trail and indie acts on a victory lap.
In terms of pure star power, SXSW leans toward cult heroes on the comeback trail and indie acts on a victory lap.
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SXSW 2010: The music stories to watch
In a cost-savings move, Walt Disney Studios is shutting down director and producer Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers Digital studio in Marin County, which employs 450 people.
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Disney to close Bob Zemeckis’ digital film studio, laying off hundreds
Will Charlie Sheen cut a deal with prosecutors, or is he ready to fight to clear his name? That’s the question as the sitcom star’s court date looms Monday.
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Will Charlie Sheen bargain or battle in felony court?
We now know our Top 12, and some — myself included — are disappointed that two of the more idiosyncratic and intriguing performers, Alex Lambert and Lilly Scott, got the chop.
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Ann Powers: Has ‘Idol’ gone too indie?
Lions Gate, in a statement, termed Icahn’s offer “financially inadequate and coercive.”
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Lions Gate rejects Carl Icahn’s hostile tender offer to raise stake to nearly 30%
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
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Phil Spector’s appellate lawyers allege judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct
