Spike Lee eyes film on U.S. black soldiers in WW2
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Spike Lee will pay tribute to black U.S. soldiers who fought during World War Two with a new film to be shot in Italy.
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Bob Bolus was flipping through Parade magazine two years ago when he came across an article about Sgt. William H. Genaust, who filmed the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945.
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When prizefighter-turned-actor Canada Lee first gained attention for his performance as Bigger Thomas in Orson Welles' 1940 stage production of "Native Son," he was favorably compared to another renowned black actor of the time.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 11 -- Since the end of World War II, it has been part of the lore of America's first black fighter pilots: The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to enemy fire.
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LOS ANGELES  - The "G.I. Joe" brigade is growing larger. Rachel Nichols ("P2"), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Lost") and Said Taghmaoui ("The Kite Runner") will join Sienna Miller and Ray Park in the live-action movie based on the popular military doll and its comic-book and cartoon series spinoffs.
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Racial hatred, violence and suicide are among concerns for movie viewers questioned about film classification.
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Spike Lee has been awarded the $50,000 Wexner Prize, which recognizes innovation, quality and integrity among artists.
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The popular all-American comic-book military man and action figure dating back to the 1940s is undergoing a significant transformation for the Paramount Pictures-distributed "G.I. Joe" film, which begins production in February and is scheduled f...
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NEW YORK  - Oliver Stone is fighting the Vietnam war again, this time recruiting Bruce Willis to star in a film revolving around the infamous My Lai massacre.
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Sign up for the army, but know you could come home in a wheelchair. That was the hard lesson for Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, whose experience is detailed in new film "Body of War."
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The future of New Orleans and its  ability to recover from Hurricane Katrina is uncertain, film  director Spike Lee said on Wednesday ahead of the premiere of a  four-hour documentary on the storm.
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Oliver Stone is fighting  the Vietnam war again, this time recruiting Bruce Willis to  star in a film revolving around the infamous My Lai massacre.
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A major Hollywood studio and top US screen star have unveiled a new documentary addressing the bloody conflict that has raged without resolution for four years in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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BEIJING  - "Nanking," a documentary about the Japanese army's 1937 massacre of civilians in China's pre-war capital, will roll out in more than 100 Chinese theaters starting Saturday.
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Director Spike Lee says he will make a follow-up to his film about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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One of the most poignant interviews in the Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke" is given by a man who lost his mother in the aftermath of the storm, filmmaker Spike Lee said Sunday. In the interview, Herbert Freeman recalls his mother's death at New Orleans Convention Center and the moment he had to leave her body there as he and other evacuees were taken out of the city.
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NEW YORK  - Fact-based fiction ruled this year's National Board of Review selections as Clint Eastwood's Japan-centric World War II drama "Letters From Iwo Jima" took home best film of the year honors.