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'House of Cards': An addictive, if lonely, experiment in viewing at your own pace
Pacific Rim Kaiju Footprint Photo
BOX OFFICE: OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Closing In On A Worldwide Cume Of $250 Million
Julianne Hough & Ryan Seacrest Break Up
Afghan Whigs, Usher, Palma Violets & More: Every Band I've Seen at SXSW, Part 3
Latest Larimer County wildfire deja vu for many Galena fire evacuees
Diary of a SXSW Newbie: Austin Music Festival Day Three, AKA the Day of Small Miracles (And Usher!)
SXSW: Buddy Holly's Widow Keeps Legacy Alive, Recalls Death: 'I Couldn't Keep Him Home'
Parked next to this today (x-post from /r/pics)
The Problem with Monsters University
"The Carter" Documentary - [A Lil Wayne Intervention episode without an intervention at the end]
The Whistleblower. The Canadian film industry doesn't produce an abundance of quality films it's true. However, The Whistleblower is an important, engaging and very well made movie that everyone should see. It was sorely overlooked upon release. On Netflix.
Kate Beckinsale in Talks for Eliza Graves
THE WOLVERINE: James Mangold Teases The "Yashida Compound" In Latest BTS Still
Its been almost ten years since Once Upon a Time in Mexico came out. Mr. Rodriguez, can we get a blind, gunfighting Johnny Depp movie?
And here's why the Cabin in the Woods Visual Companion is worth every penny: Drew Goddard showing his Werewolf how to be a Werewolf.
10 Great Films for St. Patrick’s Day
Breaking the Fourth Wall - compilation of scenes acknowledging the presence of the camera/audience.
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Maybe this will put an end to all the rumours of Emma Watson as Anna Steele

'House of Cards': An addictive, if lonely, experiment in viewing at your own pace

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:26 AM PDT

"House of Cards" makes for addictive viewing, but with everybody watching it on their own schedule, it's easy to feel just a bit isolated. Also, news about a Geena Davis TNT pilot filming in Oregon, West Linn's Aubrey Cleland "American Idol" dream, and "Bates Motel," which is located in a fictional Oregon coastal town.

Pacific Rim Kaiju Footprint Photo

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:07 AM PDT

Evidence of a giant Kaiju monster has appeared in the form of a massive footprint left near the shores of Japan. We have a photo of this deep impression left in the wet sands of a terrified community. News reports aren't clear at this time what could have left such a mark, but we'll know soon enough when Pacific Rim hits theaters this summer.

Pacific Rim comes to theaters July 12th, 2013 and stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Diego Klattenhoff, Burn Gorman, Robert Kazinsky. The film is directed by Guillermo del Toro.

BOX OFFICE: OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Closing In On A Worldwide Cume Of $250 Million

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:06 AM PDT

Despite facing off against new releases such as The Call and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Oz: The Great And Powerful has managed to hold on to the #1 spot at the North American box office this weekend. With some kids out of school this past week, it performed steadily over the past five days, with a current total of $144.9 million (a number which includes $11.4 million on Friday and the projected $42 million for the next two days). It took only six days for The Wizard of Oz prequel to cross $100 million; a result that Disney are very pleased with. "We benefited by the fact that that we were the first big event film which had the halo effect of people talking about it over the weekend and wanting to go see it if they didn't have the chance," said one studio exec. Internationally, the film crossed $100 million

Julianne Hough & Ryan Seacrest Break Up

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Julianne Hough and Ryan Seacrest have reportedly split, according to multiple reports.

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Afghan Whigs, Usher, Palma Violets & More: Every Band I've Seen at SXSW, Part 3

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 02:05 PM PDT

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News

Dan Reilly

There are thousands of artists in Austin for SXSW, and I'll be seeing a lot of them. This year, I decided to challenge myself and write about every band I see, no matter how much of their set I caught, or even if I saw/heard them unintentionally. Most of these "reviews" are pieced together from my illegible notebook scribblings, but that's all I've got.

Enjoy... or something.

Dosh
Any set before 1 p.m. at SXSW can really affect my constitution. Going to the First Avenue party of all Twin Cities acts (you'll remember First Ave. from "Purple Rain" or, if you're my family, my engagement photo) was one of the wisest choices I've made during SXSW. Dosh played a mellow but captivating instrumental set while my wife informed me of his biography: Apparently, his parents were a priest and a nun who fell in love, left the cloth and got married. He's one of those guys who you can just tell works on an enlightened level, at least musically.

Latest Larimer County wildfire deja vu for many Galena fire evacuees

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:11 AM PDT

Evacuating from the path of wildfires is becoming a frighteningly familiar experience for residents near or in Lory State Park, who were also evacuated last summer during the High Park fire.

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Diary of a SXSW Newbie: Austin Music Festival Day Three, AKA the Day of Small Miracles (And Usher!)

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, Exclusive

Sarah Chazan

Follow along daily as Spinner Editor Sarah takes on SXSW for the very first time.

Day Three: "Friday is when the weekend people come," a person snidely said to me at a show Thursday night. While I wasn't exactly sure what that meant, it didn't sound great, so expectations for my third day at SXSW were pretty low. Boy, did I have a surprise coming to me.

SXSW: Buddy Holly's Widow Keeps Legacy Alive, Recalls Death: 'I Couldn't Keep Him Home'

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 01:45 PM PDT

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, Exclusive

Buddy Holly would have dedicated part of his life to helping young musicians if he hadn't perished in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959, according to his widow Maria Elena, and that's what a new prize and scholarship launched by The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation intend to do.

A $5,000 yearly scholarship at the University of North Texas in Denton will enable a promising music student to follow in Holly's footsteps, while the "Learning the Game" prize will be awarded each year at the South by Southwest Music Festival to "the preeminent unsigned band or artist at SXSW who best reflects those qualities that set Buddy apart, including songwriting, performance and production."

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Posted: 16 Mar 2013 10:20 AM PDT

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The Problem with Monsters University

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 10:11 AM PDT

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"The Carter" Documentary - [A Lil Wayne Intervention episode without an intervention at the end]

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 10:10 AM PDT

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The Whistleblower. The Canadian film industry doesn't produce an abundance of quality films it's true. However, The Whistleblower is an important, engaging and very well made movie that everyone should see. It was sorely overlooked upon release. On Netflix.

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:59 AM PDT

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Kate Beckinsale in Talks for Eliza Graves

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:58 AM PDT

Kate Beckinsale in talks for Eliza Graves

Kate Beckinsale is in talks to take the lead in Eliza Graves, which will be directed by Brad Anderson (The Call; The Machinist).

The screenplay is based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and follows a Med School student trapped in a mental institution that has been overtaken by its inmates. Some of whom are now pretending to be doctors. Kate Beckinsale will play the title character, an inmate that has an affair with the Harvard grad.

This psychological thriller is coming from Nu Image/Millennium, with a script from Joe Gangemi (Wind Chill). Paranormal Activity franchise creator Oren Peli is producing.

Production begins June 21st in Bulgaria.

Eliza Graves comes to theaters in 2014 and stars Kate Beckinsale.

THE WOLVERINE: James Mangold Teases The "Yashida Compound" In Latest BTS Still

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before. A long dolly shot at the Yashida compound on the @wolverinemovie. twitter.com/mang0ld/status…— James Mangold (@mang0ld) March 16, 2013 A panorama of camera "A" at Yashida Compound. Matt Toll (1st AC) and Marc Spicer ("A" Operator extraordinaire). twitter.com/mang0ld/status…— James Mangold (@mang0ld) March 16, 2013 The Wolverine stars Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto and Svetlana Khodchenkova. The film is set to hit theaters July 26th. Follow @PaulRomCBM !function(d,s,id){var

Its been almost ten years since Once Upon a Time in Mexico came out. Mr. Rodriguez, can we get a blind, gunfighting Johnny Depp movie?

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 08:39 AM PDT