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  Opportunity:
Amelie Director Seeks ‘Magical Kid’ In Toronto To Play T.S.
Spivet
(Feb 01, 2012) Award-winning French filmmaker
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
is looking in Toronto for the same kind of “magical” quality he
found with his Amélie star Audrey Tautou to lead the cast
of his new 3-D adventure movie.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Linda Barnard
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 Drake as Barack Obama: It’s the Rapper’s Dream Role
(Jan 28, 2012) *Rapper
Drake
is letting it be known that he’s got the
itch to play the Commander-in-Chief when the movie is made.
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Monsieur Lazhar Review: When Truth Is Hard To Teach
(Jan 26, 2012) In
Monsieur Lazhar,
a distraught elementary school teacher hangs herself in her
Montreal classroom.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Peter Howell
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 Genie
Awards: Strombo, Andrea Martin To Host Show
(Jan 31, 2012) SCTV alum
Andrea Martin
and talk-show host
George Stroumboulopoulos
have been named hosts of the
32nd Genie Awards.
Source:
www.thestar.com |
 Nearly 10 Years After Debut Film Win, Sudz Sutherland Heads
"Home Again"
(Jan 27, 2012) The comedy Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
won
Toronto's
David "Sudz" Sutherland
the Best Canadian First Feature prize at TIFF in 2003.
He's been working mainly in TV since then, but he's returning to
film with an immigrant deportation drama called
Home Again.
Source:
www.thestar.com - by: Peter Howell
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 ‘The Help’ Cleans Up at SAG Awards: Davis, Spencer, Cast Win
Big
(Jan 30, 2012) *”The Help” got the upper hand in the Oscar race
on
Sunday when the movie won three awards from the
Screen Actors Guild,
including best cast in a surprise over silent movie romance “The
Artist.”
Source:
www.eurweb.com
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 Sundance 2012: ‘It’ Star Gina Rodriguez Moved To Tears
(Jan 26, 2012) PARK CITY, UTAH—Last year,
Sundance was abuzz over
Elizabeth Olsen (Martha
Marcy May Marlene) and
Brit Marling (Another
Earth). Now it’s 27-year-old Puerto Rican-American
Gina Rodriguez’s
turn as star of the hip-hop drama, Filly Brown.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Linda Barnard
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 SAG Nominated Directors Discuss Crafting The Perfect Ensemble
Cast
(Jan 26, 2012) LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Alexander Payne, director
of The
Descendants, likens it to “inviting people to my home for
dinner.” Bridesmaids helmer Paul Feig describes it as spending
hundreds of hours waiting for that “one aha moment.”
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Glenn Whip
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 ‘Modern Family,’ Betty White Come Up Big At SAG Awards
(Jan 29, 2012) LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s actors picked
veteran
performers, Alec Baldwin, Betty White and the comedy “Modern
Family” as three of their top TV winners at
the Screen Actors Guild Awards
on Sunday.
Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Bon Tourtellotte The Associated Press
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 Tyrannosaur Review: Angry Brits
(Jan 26, 2012)
“I don’t know why you’re doing this,” one of the youths says to
him, and
Tyrannosaur
seems equally baffled by the male rage it unleashes. But
answering that question is secondary to the lucidity of the
performances.
Source:
www.thestar.com - By Peter Howell
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