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Jamie Foxx Arrested by 'Citizen'
Zap2It.comJamie Foxx is taking the law into his own hands for his next project. The Oscar winner is in final negotiations to star opposite Gerard Butler in the thriller "Law Abiding Citizen," according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the movie, a man (Foxx) is...Tags: The Soloist (movie), Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Movies
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TV ON DVD: Hiro and an antihero
HEROES: Season 2 Series Superpowers saga sent Hiro back to samurai era and amnesiac Peter to Ireland, while introducing new "heroes" in New Orleans, Central America and that evil Company ( Kristen Bell). Strike-shortened season earned mixed reviews....Tags: Stephen Fry, Heroes (tv program), Sony Corp., Emma Thompson, Kristen Bell
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The brains behind 'Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
Rumors of a fourth go-round with Indiana Jones were in the air even when "K-19: The Widowmaker," the Russian sub movie starring Harrison Ford, was released in 2002. Ford told interviewers then that not only was the new Indy sequel going to happen, but...Tags: M. Night Shyamalan, Spider-Man, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen
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'The Mist' 2-Disc Collector's Edition
Zap2It.comNot to quibble, but given that Frank Darabont's "The Mist" was a box office disappointment and generated mixed reviews, was there a great clamoring for a two-disc "Collector's Edition" DVD? Are there aficionados out there going "You know, my collection is...Tags: Marcia Gay Harden, Movies, Stephen King, Ethan Coen
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'Crystal Skull' poster artist Drew Struzan's brush with blockbusters
Special to The TimesAt its best, the art of movie poster illustration conveys a tangible sense of adventure. There are few sharper contemporary examples than the imagery crafted by veteran artist Drew Struzan for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" back in the summer of...Tags: Marketing, Diseases, Harrison Ford, Consumer Electronics Industry, John Carpenter
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'The Mist'
jan.stuart@newsday.comStephen King is all things to all filmmakers. To Frank Darabont, he's a left-of-Noam-Chomsky nihilist who thinks the military and the religious right are to blame for anything and everything that ails us. That, at least, is the King that emerges from...Tags: Genetics, Minority Groups, Medical Research, Stephen King, Religious Texts
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Missed opportunities in Stephen King's The Mist
VarietySix years after the lavish critical and commercial failure of The Majestic, writer-director Frank Darabont has returned with a vengeance to the horror genre with The Mist. Darabont's writing credited include such '80s titles as The Fly II and The Blob,...Tags: Minority Groups, Marcia Gay Harden, Maine, Movies, Stephen King
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'Mist' From King Story Creeps In and Creeps Us Out
Zap2It.comGood and creepy, "The Mist" comes from a Stephen King novella and is more the shape, size and quality of the recent "1408," likewise taken from a King story, than anything in the persistently fashionable charnel house inhabited by the "Saw" and "Hostel"...Tags: Marcia Gay Harden, Maine, Movies, Stephen King, Truman Capote
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Review: 'The Mist' gutsy, bold
amNewYork Movie CriticThe last film that Frank Darabont adapted from a Stephen King story was "The Green Mile" and before that "The Shawshank Redeption," both tales of hope in situations of despair. In "The Mist," based on King's novella, Darabont has a new tack on hope, and...Tags: Minority Groups, Marcia Gay Harden, Maine, Movies, Stephen King
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Stephen King's 'Mist' in a soupy fog
Sun Movie Critic(C) The Mist, slack yet also bludgeoning, derives from a taut, skillful Stephen King novella about a "white and bright but nonreflecting" fogbank that sweeps through a small Maine town. It becomes increasingly terrifying in its "impartiality" and...Tags: Minority Groups, Marcia Gay Harden, Maine, Movies, Stephen King
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'Mist' director was overjoyed to get his hands on King horror
Frank Darabont is in a very animated state. He's sitting in a corner booth at the upscale Gold Coast eatery RL discussing one of his favorite subjects -- author Stephen King. His eyes are wide and his arms are flailing, which might be horrifying for...Tags: Weaponry, Marcia Gay Harden, Maine, Movies, Stephen King
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'300' Director Inks 'Illustrated Man'
Zap2It.comFrom zombies and Spartans to superheroes and ... aliens? In demand "300" helmer Zack Snyder has been attached to direct the adaptation based on the science fiction-themed stories in Ray Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man," report the trades. Snyder and his...Tags: Ray Bradbury, Billy Crudup, Fiction
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