Tue Dec 15, 2009, 9:15 am EST
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Source: AP
BERLIN - Roman Polanski's latest movie, "The Ghost Writer," will have its world premiere at the Berlin film festival in February, organizers said Tuesday.
Polanski's movie was among a first batch of entries in the festival's main program that was announced Tuesday — among them a premiere of Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island."
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Sun Dec 13, 2009, 1:01 pm EST
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Source: AP
LOS ANGELES - "The Princess and the Frog" earned a big wet kiss from family audiences as the animated musical leaped to No. 1 with $25 million in its first weekend of nationwide release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Disney musical is the studio's first hand-drawn animated tale in five years, a contrast to the computer-animated films that now dominate the cartoon world.
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Fri Dec 11, 2009, 6:25 pm EST
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Source: AP
- 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 bit lower on their list at the time has crept up in their esteem to make their cut for best of the decade.
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Mon Dec 07, 2009, 8:01 pm EST
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Source: AP
- "Invictus" is a sports film that is more about what's happening in the stands than on the playing field.
It's South Africa in 1990 and change — as seen in the first scene of the film — is literally coming down the street. After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) has been released.
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