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Jean Dujardin poster controversy could ruin The Artist star's Oscar hopes | Film | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk | Feb 2, 2012
Frenchman tipped to win best actor Academy Award embroiled in sexism row over adverts for new film Les Infidèles

Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds Team For Controversial Art Biopic Big Eyes - CinemaBlend.com
www.cinemablend.com | Jan 22, 2012
Witherspoon will play Margaret Keane, an artist whose pop-eyed paintings became all the rage in the 1960s. Also known as Waifs, Keane and Sad Eye paintings, these works of art popped up around San Francisco nearly 50 years ago and became household commodities until controversy cropped up.

Pentagon Probing Possible Release of Classified Details for Bin Laden Film - Wilshire & Washington
www.wilshireandwashington.com | Jan 6, 2012
The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security announced Thursday that Department Defense and CIA were investigating whether classified information about killing bin Laden was released to producers a movie raid. The...

The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition Blu-ray image controversy
www.theblurayblog.com | Jun 20, 2011
Here we go again. You might recall last years Lord of the Rings controversy, regarding the questionable image quality of the Blu-ray transfers on the discs in the theatrical edition boxed set. Particularly the soft, noise-reduced presentation of the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring. Well, the

Norio Ohga, Former Sony President Credited With Developing CD, Dead at 81 | Billboard.biz
www.billboard.biz | Apr 25, 2011
Former Sony President and Chairman Norio Ohga, who gave up a career as an opera singer to join the fledgling consumer electronics maker in the 1950s and later led its...

Natalie Portman's 'Black Swan' Double Stands by Claims
www.backstage.com | Apr 17, 2011
Although Darren Aronofsky and Mila Kunis have stepped forward to refute claims that Natalie Portman only did five percent of the dancing, dancer Sarah Lane refuses to back down.

CBC News - Film - Library tried to dump Iran film before cancellation
www.cbc.ca | Jan 21, 2011
A day before cancelling a film critical of Iran because of threats, Canada's national library quietly tried to unload it to the Canadian Museum of Nature, CBC News has learned.

EWTN.com - Ahead Of New Narnia Movie, Actor's Comments On Aslan Cause Controversy
www.ewtn.com | Dec 8, 2010
News Headlines - Top 8-December-2010 -- Catholic News Agency Share | Ahead Of New Narnia Movie, Actor's Comments On Aslan Cause Controversy CNA STAFF, December 7 (CNA/EWTN News) - Actor Liam Neeson, the voice of the lion Aslan in the latest Narnia film, has

Iran sends 'Farewell Baghdad' for Oscar
www.variety.com | Sep 28, 2010
A film about the intertwining lives of American and Iraqi soldiers, Farewell Baghdad, is Iran's choice for a foreign-language film Oscar nomination.

Controversy walks the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival < PopMatters
www.popmatters.com | Sep 14, 2010
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