NEW YORK - "Up in the Air" was named best picture from the National Board of Review and won a total of four awards.
Directed by Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Thank You for Smoking"), the film stars George Clooney as a perpetually traveling contractor who fires people for a living. The National Board of Review, which announced its awards Thursday, also chose Clooney as best actor, an honor he shares with Morgan Freeman who plays Nelson Mandela in "Invictus."
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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Almost everywhere you look at Universal Studios Hollywood, there are signs flaunting the 5-year-old marriage of NBC and Universal.
There's the billboard of Conan O'Brien from NBC's "The Tonight Show" smiling down at visitors on their way to the ride based on Universal Pictures' "Jurassic Park," and those cutouts of the bubbly hosts from the NBC-owned entertainment news show "Access Hollywood" greeting guests as they step off the backlot tram tour.
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LOS ANGELES - Ben Affleck, Katie Holmes, rapper 50 Cent and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" co-stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are taking their acts to the Sundance Film Festival.
They are among the stars of big-name premieres announced Thursday for Robert Redford's independent-film showcase that runs Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Utah.
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LONDON - Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis have appeared in London at the world premiere of the Hollywood movie "Nine."
The musical, inspired by Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2, also stars Kate Hudson, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard and singer Fergie.
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- Partial list of film awards given by National Board of Review, announced Thursday:
Best Film: "Up in the Air"
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NEW YORK - "Up in the Air" is the National Board of Review's pick for best film of the year.
Directed by Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Thank You For Smoking"), the film stars George Clooney as a perpetually traveling contractor who fires people for a living. The National Board of Review also chose Clooney as best actor, an honor he shares with Morgan Freeman who plays Nelson Mandela in "Invictus."
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WASHINGTON - Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone is again taking on the financial world in a sequel to 1987's successful "Wall Street," but this time he said greed is not only good — it's legal.
Stone just finished filming "Wall Street 2" and dropped a few hints while talking to a class at American University late Wednesday that focuses on his work.
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GENEVA - Authorities acted to protect Roman Polanski from public attention Thursday by moving him from a Zurich area jail to an undisclosed location before his transfer to house arrest in the Swiss Alps.
Polanski was taken from the jail in Winterthur for "security reasons and personal protection," Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.
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NEW YORK - There are only so many songwriting suggestions an outsider is allowed to offer Paul McCartney. Kirk Jones, director of the new Robert DeNiro movie, "Everybody's Fine," found the limit.
McCartney, who has written only a handful of songs specifically for films, decided to contribute the emotional ballad "(I Want to) Come Home" for the story about a widower learning about his grown children after the former Beatle saw an advance screening of the movie.
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