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New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
Growing up in the '70s, John Halamka was a bookish child with a penchant for science and electronics. He wore black horn-rimmed glasses and buttoned his shirts up to the collar.
"I was constantly being called a geek or a nerd," he recalled,
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'Avatar' to be nominated for 9 Oscars
Cast member Zoe Saldana arrives at the premiere of "Avatar" in Los Angeles
Photograph by: Matt Sayles
Credit: AP
A large part of the rationale for opting for an Oscar Top 10 was the hope that Academy voters would embrace mainstream hits, thereby
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10 top alternatives to traditional Christmas cinema
"Toy Story": If you live in a house with young children, what is Christmas Day, really, but a story about toys? (Or at least a story about Mom and Dad assembling toys.) Pixar's first picture — and the one that introduced us to Woody and Buzz Lightyear,
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New Toy Story 3 Clip, Photos Posted
Along with the clip, I’ve included a gallery of 29 high resolution screen-captures — many of which would make for good computer desktop wallpaper. If you’re a Pixar fanatic like me, then you will certainly appreciate all the small little details. For
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Tech review: Good Christmas gifts for this year and next year
You've torn through your gifts, manufactured fake enthusiasm for those crummy ties and desk calendars you received, and now are grinding your teeth in disbelief that your family didn't catch all those obvious signals you were sending about what you
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The Year Of The Hangover
It was the year of the hangover. The headache-inducing fall of 2008, with stock markets and consumer and business confidence plummeting, led to a sobering January and February. Jobs were down, bankruptcies were up and condo developers were slashing
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Critics pick decade's top films
Years pass and tastes change, at least a little. In choosing their top films of the past decade, Associated Press movie critics David Germain and Christy Lemire stuck closely to their favorites from each year.
But here and there, a film that came in a
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Disney Sees Superhero Dollars in Marvel Unknowns
LOS ANGELES -- Moviegoers have shown a willingness to be entangled
by Spider-Man's web over and over again. Now, as Disney prepares to
buy the comic-book powerhouse Marvel, it faces the question of
whether fans will also get attached to characters as
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Twilight tops 2009 moviegoers' survey
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Twilight: New Moon topped moviegoers' lists of the best films of '09, while its star Robert Pattinson emerged the year's sexiest male actor
The Twilight vampire franchise topped a survey of 2009 moviegoers' favorites, but film fans were
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New Moon named Best Movie of 2009
New York (ANI): Twilight sequel New Moon has been voted the best movie of 2009 in a new poll. Conducted by AOL movie Web site Moviefone.com, heartthrob Robert Pattinson took away the title for Sexiest Male star, with 46.5pct votes, while co-star
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Marvel shareholders approve acquisition by Disney
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Disney completes US$4.24-billion Marvel buy
NEW YORK The Walt Disney Co. completed its US$4.24-billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment Inc. on Thursday, bringing Spider-Man, Iron Man and 5,000 other characters under the same roof as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Marvel shareholders approved
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'10 big movies get early start
Johnny Depp plays the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland."
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As movie years go, 2010 is looking a bit different. And that should be a good thing.
Sure there are the standard parade of sequels, remakes, fantasies and action flicks.
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'Potter,' 'Avatar' spur boxoffice record in '09
Crowd-pleasing pics and extra-dimensional tix combined to lift
Hollywood to new boxoffice heights in 2009, with estimated domestic
b.o. up more than 8% to a record $10.61 billion and admissions
climbing almost 4%.
Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of
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This year in film - what could possibly go wrong?
Can the New Year live up to what was a rotten old year for everybody but the movie business? There are never any guarantees that films will perform, and movies usually look best sight unseen.
On the other hand, the first half of '10 does include some
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"Avatar," "Up" among Producers Guild nominees
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Box office hits "Avatar," "Star Trek," "Up" and "District 9" scored nominations on Tuesday for the Producers Guild of America Awards, a race that often foretells the winner of the best picture Oscar.
The guild took
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Why Do Most Car Movies Suck?
Are cars in movies these days? Yes. Are they fun to watch? Not so much. Cars and movies are roughly the same age, but they've never really gotten along. What's wrong with this (motion) picture?
It is 1991, and I am in my parents' basement, lying on the
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Twilight saga tops People's Choice Awards
THE Oscar voters will have their say in March, but Wednesday night it was the turn of the average moviegoer to vote, vote, vote for the best films and actors of the past 12 months. And the average moviegoer, it transpires, likes the Twilight movies,
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Separated At Birth: Borderlands And CodeHunters [Two Of A Kind]
A post on reddit.com has fans pondering the connection between Borderlands, a comic-shaded video game that begins with a bus trip through the wasteland, and CodeHunters, a comic-shaded animated short that begins with a bus trip through the
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Pixar's Conservative Soul
[W]hen I say conservative, I mean a small “c”
conservative that sees the world along the same lines as Edmund Burke:
“A disposition to preserve.” I'm going to call this “social
conservatism,” by which I don't mean the religious or moral
conservatism of
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Handicapping the summer movie clashes
LOS ANGELES — The dust has barely settled on the 2009 movie year, but it’s never too early to look ahead to the promise and peril of 2010, especially its summer box-office showdowns.
About 40 percent of all movie tickets are sold between Memorial Day
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Favorite Films of 2009
Hello everyone. It's been a long time since I've posted. Hopefully, I can start to post more than a few times per year. If there is a Muse of blogging, he was not inspiring me last year. Happy 2010 to all. Stay tuned for my (belated) top songs and
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Rotten Tomatoes Bestows Top Golden Tomato Awards to 'Up' and 'The Hurt Locker'
-- Wide Release: "Up" – 98% Tomatometer score
-- Limited Release: "The Hurt Locker" – 97% Tomatometer score
-- Worst Reviewed Film: "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" – 4%
Tomatometer score
-- Action / Adventure: "The Hurt Locker"
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Is There a Plan Behind Disney's Housecleaning?
I'm assuming that the giant pillars of the Seven Dwarfs are still atop the Team Disney building, but hearing the news today that Oren Aviv has been ousted as studio production chief, I'm getting the feeling that everything else at Bob Iger's Mouse
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Pixar Sends Bryan Cranston to Mars
"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston has joined the cast of Walt Disney's "John Carter of Mars."
Andrew Stanton is directing the production, which goes before cameras next week.
The adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series centers on a Civil
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Ask AP: Signing Statements, Steve Jobs' Income
(AP) How does Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs manage to get by on $1 a year - and without selling any Apple stock since 1997?
Curiosity about how Jobs pays the bills inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A
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JOHN CARTER OF MARS officially underway!
When the dim bulb that blinked on JOHN CARTER at Paramount blinked... and Disney/Pixar jumped in and swooped up the rights, I was relieved. Then, after watching AVATAR, I was again relieved, because with AVATAR's success, I know that it will raise
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Mo'Nique earns supporting-actress prize at Globes
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Mo'Nique won the supporting-actress Golden Globe Sunday for her role as a loathsome, abusive welfare mother in the Harlem drama "Precious," while the blockbuster "Up" came away with the award for animated film.
The prize marks a
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Cameron's `Avatar' wins best drama honor at Globes
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" won best drama at the Golden Globes and picked up the directing honor for James Cameron on Sunday, raising the "Titanic" filmmaker's prospects for another Academy Awards triumph.
It
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Documentary on children's games from around the world a highlight of Alameda film festival
Dutch documentarian will on hand to teach games to festivalgoers.
As the Dutch teacher watched a group of children playing in the street, he was struck by an idea.
Two children play an outdoor hopping game in Botswana in this scene from Jules
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Wes Anderson makes indelible endings a trademark
As the credits of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" began to roll and the Bobby Fuller Four's "Let Her Dance" blared through the theater at a recent showing of the movie, a young girl leapt to her feet and joined the on-screen characters, dancing in the aisle.
Much
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Media Moguls Beware of Steve Jobs' Tablet
Watch out newspaper publishers and movie makers: the man in the black turtleneck is about to take a hefty chunk of your paycheck and give it to Apple shareholders.
Steve Jobs wants to transform the media industry just like he “revamped the music
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Computers in movies look nothing like
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Fagottron's UPular Remix
YouTube whiz kid Fagottron, whose hypnotic spliced up Disney remixes I've posted here several times, has apparently gone into business with Disney itself, as his take on Pixar's UPular is being promoted on the Pixar YouTube channel. Pixar refers to
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'Hurt Locker' wins big at PGA Awards
Summit's battle-hardened
"The Hurt Locker" scored another victory Sunday night as it
took home the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in
Theatrical Motion Pictures at the 21st annual PGA Awards.
The presentation capped the Producers Guild of
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'Hurt Locker' Wins Producers Guild Award
LOS ANGELES – "The Hurt Locker" scored the top film award from the
Producers Guild of America, building new momentum for the Iraq war
drama in the expanded Oscar race for best picture. The film about a
risk-taking bomb disposal technician beat out such
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Toy-maker Hornby in fast lane as F1 champ Button helps drive up sales of Scalextric
The British driver's success on the track last year meant that Scalextric products based on the F1 grand prix teams were among Hornby's best-sellers. The company signed a worldwide licence agreement with Button's successful Brawn F1 team last
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Science & Tech: Apple take wraps off new iPad tablet
Apple take wraps off new iPad tablet Jan 27 2010 Steve Jobs launches the iPad Image 2 COMPUTER giant Apple has finally revealed its much anticipated tablet device - the iPad. The iPhone firm's chief executive, Steve Jobs, unveiled the black touchscreen
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Our Neighbors: Hollywood comes to Crockett to film Eastwood-Damon flick
The Warner Bros. film "Hereafter" will be shot in a number of locales, including France, several parts of London and the Hawaiian island of Maui. Given that East Bay native Clint Eastwood is the director of the film, described as a "supernatural
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Miramax offices close, Disney says brand continues
LOS ANGELES (AP) The offices of award-winning Miramax Films were closing on Friday, but the brand will continue to exist for at least two years.
The closures were in line with plans announced in October to slash Miramax's movie production to three per
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Which 10 pictures will get Oscar nods?
You might have heard of this one. James Cameron's eco-friendly action blockbuster is breaking box-office records and fueling water-cooler conversation on a weekly basis. It's also a titanic leap ahead in technical know-how, one of the rare movies you
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Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga win Grammys
Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga were early Grammy winners Sunday during
the awards pre-telecast from Los Angeles' Staples Center.
"This is my first Grammy, you guys!" said a breathless Swift as she
accepted an award for best female vocal country
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Oscars' Best-Picture Field Too Broad?
(AP) James Cameron can deliver an audience, whether at movie theaters or at the Academy Awards, whether in the frosty North Atlantic or on a lush world light-years away.
Cameron's science-fiction sensation "Avatar" is among a strong crop of
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'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker' lead Oscar nominations
The science-fiction sensation "Avatar" and the war-on-terror thriller "The Hurt Locker" lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow.
For the first time
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Oscar nominations bring few surprises amid an unusual battle for best director
They're playing it again, Sam, in Hollywood, but, boy, has the landscape changed since "Casablanca" took the top prize in March 1944 at Grauman's Chinese Theater. That was the last time the Academy Awards had 10 best picture nominees, as they do this
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Doodle 4 Google homepage logo contest offers kids a chance to win scholarship, laptops
You know the fun Google logos that adorn the search engine page every now and then? For the last couple of years, Google has challenged kids, kindergartners through high school seniors, to try their hands at doodling a Google too.
Now, they're
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Cinema & Film: Film Review: The Princess and the Frog (U)
DISNEY’S first hand-drawn animation since Home on the Range petered out six years ago, this is an Oscar-nominated return for a company now being run by exuberant John Lasseter.
The colourful genius behind computer-generated Pixar films like Toy Story
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'Avatar,' 'Hurt Locker' Lead Oscars Nominations
The science-fiction sensation "Avatar" and the war-on-terror thriller "The Hurt Locker" lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow.
For the first time
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Pixar’s Up Wins Best Feature at the 37th Annual Annie Awards
The 37th Annual Annie Awards were held tonight and Pixar’s Up ended up walking away with the Best Animated Feature Film award. The Annie for best animated feature has matched the eventual Oscar winner almost every year, except twice, since the Academy
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Transformers drive Hasbro 4Q profit increase
NEW YORK — Strong sales of boys' brands including Transformers and Nerf helped Hasbro Inc. post a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit, sending shares up 11 percent, briefly touching a 52-week high.
The owner of the G.I. Joe, Tonka and Playskool
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Berlin film festival rolls out 3D red carpet
A man walks past billboards advertising the upcoming Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin.
Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter
The head of the festival's nine-day European Film Market, Beki Probst, said
the event would offer digital 3D
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Twitter names CFO of Pixar as its CFO
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Twitter names Pixar executive as CFO
SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet microblogging service Twitter named a chief financial officer Wednesday, as the 2-1/2-year-old company steps up its efforts to make money.
Twitter said Ali Rowghani, the finance chief at Walt Disney Co's Pixar Animation
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Cinema Releases: DVD releases: Up (Cert U)
FOLLOWING the death of his wife Ellie voiced by Elie Docter), retired balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen refuses to be parted from the house he built with his beloved. When developers threaten to bulldoze the property, Carl ties thousands of brightly
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Valerie Zehl's Neighbors: Lessons in unconditional love
Millions of Americans are saying "I love you" today not with words but with red roses, chocolates and jewelry.
While his wife Denise was alive, Doug Green purchased plenty of all three.
And he took her on getaways that brought them -- with daughter
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Disney-Pixar's Toy Story 3 Takes Over Toy Fair
Disney-Pixar's Toy Story 3 kicked off the American International
Toy Fair in New York City today with a plethora of new toys and
playthings that pay homage and celebrate the best the toy industry has
to offer. In a playful, Toy Story-themed setting
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Guber Grills Apple on Its Top 10 Issues
John Gruber, the Daring Fireball himself, stowed his keyboard and took a Macworld Expo stage on Friday evening to spell out the top 10 problems plaguing Apple. Gruber's gripes ranged from competition, to Steve Jobs, and even software about boxes.
The
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Disney-Pixar's Toy Story 3: The Videogame Lets Players Create a Story of Their Own
February 16, 2010 -
BURBANK, Calif. - Disney Interactive Studios today officially announced development of Toy Story 3: The Video Game, supporting all major platforms and featuring a fun, new way to enjoy the Toy Story universe. Unveiled at the
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Games: Hater:Puppy Tweets Are The Cutest Tweets
Obviously, if your dog could use Twitter, his doggie-tweets would be the most erudite 140-character missives the world has ever witnessed. He'd make wry observations about the curious texture of Beggin' Strips, and concoct quips about Justin Beiber so
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Gary Thompson: Gary Thompson production
LAST YEAR'S phenomenal slate of animation - Pixar, hand-drawn Disney, Miyazaki, Henry Selick - seemed to offer everything but Wallace & Gromit. That oversight will be corrected tomorrow, when the Ritz at the Bourse showcases this year's Oscar-nominated
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"Avatar" Faces Tough Rivals For Tech Oscars
"When 'Avatar' is out there, it's the 800-pound gorilla in the room," says Visual Effects Society chair and VFX supervisor Jeff Okun. "Every film gets judged next to that."
To nobody's surprise, "Avatar" dominates the tech race at this year's
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Tookie's Toys location closing
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Raleigh independent toy store Tookie's Toys is closing one of its two locations.
The store in Falls Village off of Falls of Neuse Road is having a going-out-of-business sale. The final day of business there will be Feb. 28
Katherine
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'Hurt Locker' Takes 6 Prizes At UK Film Awards
LONDON -- Britain's love of the underdog triumphed Sunday as intimate war drama "The Hurt Locker" beat 3D spectacular "Avatar" to take six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.
Kathryn Bigelow won the best-director battle
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'Hurt Locker' takes 6 prizes at UK film awards
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The seating arrangement is planned for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards to be held at The Royal Opera House in London, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. The annual awards will take place Sunday, Feb 21.
British
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Up directors blown away by awards
Up directors Bob Peterson and Pete Docter told how the success of the 3-D animated movie had blown their minds.
The film was a box office smash, scooped Best Animation at the Baftas, a host of other awards and is up for both Best Animation and Best
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Cameron's Avatar wins big at new 3D awards show
The world's highest grossing film of all time was the toast of the 3D Society's first annual ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, winning statues for best Live-Action 3D Feature, best 3D character (Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana) and
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A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter Creating Oscar Magic
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Disney's Pixar Animation Studios head into the next week's Oscars with the only movie ever nominated for both best film and best animated film, "Up," about an old man and boy on an adventure in a faraway land. Since its
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CeBIT 2010: Live 3-D-TV
Strikers and defenders furiously compete for the ball. Suddenly, the forward drops into the penalty area. Penalty shot. The penalty taker carefully sets the ball just right. Cut to the goal camera. Like a cannon ball, the leather flies over and past
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CeBIT 2010: Live 3-D-TV
This is the year in which 3D cinema and 3D TV will make the breakthrough. At CeBIT in Hannover, Fraunhofer researchers are presenting technologies and standards that are hastening the progress.
Strikers and defenders furiously compete for the ball.
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Disney's pricey makeover
When Walt Disney Co. asked publisher Dan Vado to make a series of comic books based on its Haunted Mansion theme-park ride, he worried that the empire built on the likes of Snow White and Tinker Bell would reject his brand of creepy humor.
Vado gave
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'Shrek' will kick off Tribeca
The Tribeca Film Festival is going green.
"Shrek Forever After," from DreamWorks Animation and Paramount, will world preem April 21 as the fest's opening-night film.
Directed by Mike Mitchell, the 3D toon is the fourth and final chapter in the
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Star of the Sea: Black Point and Georgetown, On the Mve Again!
We left Exuma Park on Thursday 2/26 after a great stay there. We were well know by the time we left the Park, mostly because of our night out on the island. We were so excited that we could not sleep well, all in anticipation of our trip to Black Point.
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Meet Toy Story 3's Twitch, the Insectaloid Warrior
Twitch is another one of the new characters we will meet in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3. Other new toy characters include Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear, Trixie and Buttercup, and Peas in a Pod. Twitch is a five inch tall insectaloid warrior. Here is the
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We present the BANG (Bay Area News Group) Awards -- for stuff real movie fans care about.
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almost two hours, we watched the "Wolf Pack" in "New Moon" run around shirtless, showing off their incredibly ripped torsos. Then, in a pivotal scene, leading man Robert Pattinson steps into a doorway, peels off his shirt and bares
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Choices' Oscar picks
With that, we'll put on our fearless prognosticator cap and take our best guesses:
The skinny: Not much comepetion here Bridges is the clear front-runner.
Who should win: Firth, for giving a delicate, heartbreaking performance as a grieving English
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Previewing Cars Land at California Adventure
Construction is well underway at the Disneyland Resort for the addition of Cars Land to Disney’s California Adventure.
The 12-acre addition will include three new attractions based on the Disney/Pixar animated film “Cars.”
One of the attractions will
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`Basterds' star Waltz wins supporting-actor Oscar
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Christoph Waltz won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for his role as a sociable fiend of a Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds," while the blockbuster "Up" was named best animated feature.
The first award of Oscar night went
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`Hurt Locker' earns best-picture Academy Award
LOS ANGELES The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.
Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn
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From Movie Theater to Home Theater: PlayStation(R)Network Delivers High Definition Movies From Six Major Movie Studios in the United States
FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today announced that 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital
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Disney to rename Rapunzel as Tangled
London (ANI): Disney is all set to rename Rapunzel, the much-loved fairytale, because it failed to appeal to boys. The studio's forthcoming version of the Brothers Grimm story will be renamed Tangled after market research showed that boys do not like
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Disney and Starz Entertainment Extend Pay TV Output Agreement
BURBANK, Calif. and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Entertainment, LLC, and Disney-ABC Domestic Television, a division of The Walt Disney Company, announced today the signing of a new, exclusive long-term licensing agreement for
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Oakland gets green taxis
Ford Escape Web site. The Crown Victoria cars get around 14 mpg, Mann estimated.
OAKLAND — That bright green Friendly Cab taxi that just sped by you isn't just green on the outside.
Beneath its gleaming hood runs a gas-electric engine, and it's one of
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Apple CEO gets OK to raze Woodside mansion
A judge has approved computer magnate Steve Jobs' long-delayed plan to tear down his mansion in Woodside and build a smaller home on the wooded property. But a preservation group is hoping for a last-minute agreement to relocate the 85-year-old
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'How to Train Your Dragon' and a baptism of fire
Animated movies can take forever to make -- three or four years is well within the ordinary. which tells the story of a scrawny kid destined to prove his hecklers wrong through an unusual relationship with a dragon, moved at a radically different pace:
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3-D TVs may take a while to find a place in region
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`Toy Story' creator Pixar earns theater award
LAS VEGAS The makers of "Up," "WALL-E" and other Academy Award-winning cartoons have taken home a new prize.
Disney-owned Pixar Animation received the ShoWest Big Ten Award on Tuesday in honor of the company's perfect track record - 10 films, 10
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'Toy Story 3': Woody, Buzz cope with abandonment issues as their kid grows up
"Come on, let's see how much we're going for on eBay," laments John Ratzenberger's Hamm the Piggy Bank as he and the other toys ponder a lonely future, with their owner, Andy, heading to college and leaving them behind.
Though the film is not yet
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Film | Theater owners honor Pixar
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The maker of
Up,
WALL-E and other Academy Award-winning animated films has taken home a new prize.
Disney-owned Pixar Animation received the ShoWest Big Ten Award on Tuesday in honor of a perfect
track record - 10 films, 10
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'How to Train Your Dragon' filmmakers had a baptism of fire
LOS ANGELES — Animated movies can take forever to make — three or four years is well within the ordinary. “How to Train Your Dragon,” which tells the story of a scrawny kid destined to prove his hecklers wrong through an unusual relationship with a
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Arts: Taking a ‘Little Mermaid’ to Dark New Depths
In John Neumeier’s ballet adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” the title character undergoes an extreme physical ordeal so that she might live on land. As the orchestra plays a stomping series of cataclysmic chords, a malevolent sea witch wrenches off
