| Boll Sets His Sights on Sudan
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Perhaps the last person one would expect to be following in the activist footsteps of Clooney, Cheadle and Farrow is a filmmaker being petitioned to call it quits.
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| A Kentucky Survivor
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Although it’s been on the boards for several years now, a movie about the remarkable life of an historic bus crash victim appears to finally be moving forward.
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| He’s Super-Khali-Fragilistic
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After small roles in The Longest Yard and this summer’s Get Smart, a freak of Indian nature and WWE marketing is ready for his Bollywood close-up.
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| Battleship Potemkin Baby Steps
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An old school filmmaker and new world technology have been brought together for a unique movie theater lobby exhibition in Russia.
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| A Dark Day for the Documentary Institute
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In the face of harsh cuts in state funding, the University of Florida’s Journalism and Communications faculty decides to pass a big part of the buck to its flourishing Documentary Institute.
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| Clint, Walt and Harry
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Another wave of Dirty Harry 6 rumors in a city the Inspector has never cleaned up seems to suggest that this could all be a matter of two different Clint Eastwood projects.
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| Gwyneth Paltrow's Cannes Short
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It’s only four minutes long, but the prospect of the Iron Man co-star being framed by the guy who played Frank Booth in Blue Velvet should guarantee a fair number of looky-loos.
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| Gazing Into the Crystal Ball
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How much richer will Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull make Harrison Ford, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg? We pull out the calculator.
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| Loosey-Goosey on Leno
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It was a very different kind of Harrison Ford kicking off his promotional TV duties last night in beautiful downtown Burbank.
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| Dolph Headed in a Die Hard Direction
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In Hollywood, Dolph Lundgren probably couldn’t get a callback. But in Sofia, Bulgaria, he’s busy starring in his 35th film and planning to follow it with his fourth directorial effort.
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| Setting the Crystal Skull Stage
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Long before George Lucas and co. came up with the premise for Indiana Jones 4, a lesser known group sourced Mike Mitchell-Hedges' crystal skull artifact for an episode of a beloved Sci-Fi Channel series.
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| Enduring Some Customs Savagery
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Perhaps if Dangerous Minds director John N. Smith had titled his latest feature Passion and Longing, he wouldn’t have had quite so much trouble with Canadian customs.
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| Compelled Towards a Cosmic Investigation
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A new documentary project being put together by a pair of Ohio medical professionals pick ups the general thread of fictional films like Ghost and Always.
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| A Couple of Cinematographers
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Nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for The Black Dahlia, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond is now starring in his own buddy flick alongside Hungarian compatriot László Kovács.
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| The John Hughes Club
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With the one-time king of the teen movie prom happily living a non-cinematic life in Illinois, it’s now up to filmmakers like 34-year-old Aussie Phil Price to try and carry the torch.
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