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Newsweek’s Oscar Roundtable with Six of 2009’s Best Actors

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Back in December, THR hosted a roundtable interview with the six soon-to-be-nominated Best Directors of 2009 (sadly, Peter Jackson was the one who didn’t make the Oscar cut).
| by Alex Billington | Feb. 10 |

Following in suit, Newsweek put together their own big roundtable interview after the Academy Awards nominations were announced.

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Some Old Hag Hates on Susan Boyle

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What a jealous old hag that woman who’s been hating on Susan Boyle.
| by Richie Berges | Feb. 10 |

Apparently there’s some singer in England named Elaine Paige who Susan Boyle aspired to be once she began her rise to stardom on “Britain’s Got Talent”.

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The Faces Behind Some of TV’s Best Cartoon Characters

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There’s a big part of me that didn’t even want to share these pictures. And I’ll give you two reasons why.
| by Nattyb | Feb. 10 |

The first one is a question. Ever see an athlete on TV and you’ve never heard them speak before and then when you do you’re like “I never thought he’d have that voice?”

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For the Big Game? Why, Pigskins

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BEFORE we return to the regularly scheduled cooking portion of our program, it is important to note that pigskins were never used to make American footballs.
| by KIM SEVERSON | Feb. 10 |

The term comes from an archaic English sport called mob football or, among the more academically minded, medieval football.

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Lakeshore Producing ‘I, Frankenstein’, Shooting Starts in July

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Remember hearing about this last year? If you were excited for it back then, we’ve got some good news for you today.
| by Alex Billington | Feb. 10 |

Lakeshore Entertainment has bought the script and is readying an adaptation of Kevin Grevioux’s Darkstorm comic series I, Frankenstein.

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Watch This: First Official Trailer for Jon Foo’s Tekken Movie

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We’ve been trying to keep up to date on the live-action Tekken movie that’s apparently shot and done, but there is a surprising lack of information on it out there.
| by Alex Billington | Jan. 10 |

However, an early trailer for the movie has finally appeared on Teaser-Trailer.com (via SlashFilm) and it looks pretty awful.

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Another Awesome New Robin Hood Trailer to Kick off 2010!

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We weren’t expecting to see a new trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood for a few more months (since the first one arrived just a few weeks back), however much to my surprise, I received an email tonight alerting me that MovieMaze.de had a second brand new international trailer for Robin Hood that I just had to see.
| by Alex Billington | Jan. 10 |

They were right, it was a must see, as it finally gives us more of the badass Robin Hood look and feel that we haven’t really seen before.

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Joe Johnston Planning to Shoot Captain America Next June

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We haven’t heard much from Marvel recently about The First Avenger: Captain America, which is still slated for release in July of 2011.
| by Alex Billington | Dec. 09 |

What we do know, though, is that Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Jurassic Park III, The Wolfman) is directing and the screenplay is being written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (of all three Chronicles of Narnia movies).

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Official US Trailer for Chinese Epic The Warlords with Jet Li

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What was on your Christmas list? How about an ancient Chinese epic movie called The Warlords starring Jet Li?
| by Alex Billington | Dec. 09 |

|‘m not sure why, but Magnolia Pictures just debuted the official US trailer for The Warlords, which is a part of their Six Shooter Film Series V2, on Christmas Eve tonight (on Apple). Despite their odd timing, this is actually a badass trailer.

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Angelina Jolie To Star In Gucci

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Angelina Jolie has been tapped to star in the upcoming Fox 2000 film, Gucci.
| by Karla Bitten | Dec. 09 |

Jolie will star as Patrizia Reggiano, the ex-wife of the late former Gucci head, Maurizio Gucci. Reggiano was sentenced to 29 years in prison after hiring a hit man to kill Gucci 1995.