A Hollywood Blockbuster
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Little more than a year ago, it seems that a combination between the largest movie rental company, Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), and the second-largest, Hollywood Entertainment (Nasdaq: HLYW), would have certainly raised antitrust questions.
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Blog: In Los Angeles, fans of the sci-fi classic get down to some serious watching.
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With changing times, movie promotions too are turning at their innovative best.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 -- For sale: a piece of Hollywood history.
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The veteran actor joins a talented cast in this above average drama.
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Lately, I have been asked if there is anything really good playing at the movies. Now I have something to rave about -- a film called &quot;Hero.
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With an unconventional promotion, Blockbuster nets a new customer.
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Alexander Payne's latest is one of the year's most entertaining movies.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Steven Soderbergh&#39;s so-breezy-it-could-blow-away caper &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve&quot; is not so much a movie as a riff on a movie, a game played by beautiful people in exotic locations who all seem to be having a fabulous time.
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Meet The Fockers continues its amazing run.
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Hollywood's superhero foursome is still fantastic at the box office.
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Just hours after being named one of the year's 10-best films by the National Board of Review in New York, the new political drama "Blood Diamond" got the red-carpet treatment in Hollywood. And there was much serious talk among the glittering attendees.
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Mira Nair's new film gets good reviews and good box office collections.
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Steven Soderbergh attempts to resurrect the magic of classical Hollywood, principally by sucking out all the air, energy and pleasure from his own filmmaking.
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The action film holds on to the top box office spot.
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Hollywood was a real eye opener for British film director Nick Hamm. Directing Robert de Niro in the thriller "Godsend" offered a master class in movie acting.