Summer box office looks bigger in 3-D
Fewer paying customers showed up for this summer's movies than in any summer since 1997, but Hollywood still raked in record receipts of $4.35 billion. The answer to this seeming contradiction: 3-D. more
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Jury deadlocks in Calif. marriage fraud case
A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday after jurors told him deliberations had grown hostile in the marriage fraud case of Mexican-born actress Fernanda Romero and her husband. more
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Summer movie blues
This year's summer movie season is coming to an end and, if you're like me, it's hard not to say good riddance. As Shakespeare would have put it if reviewing films had been his line of work, for critics the warm weather months are "the summer of our discontent." more
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Why did so few specialty films cross over this summer?
Summer - that elusive, seductive damsel exiting the bar after this weekend - tends to inspire a lot of things, including too many contemporary country singers to write bad songs. What it usually also does is get filmgoers to take a break from the male explosion extravaganzas and female star-driven dramedies to check out something smaller, lighter and more human, movies that people see because they discover them, not because they're marketed into submission. more
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'Alive' survivors to Chilean mining kin: Be strong
Former rugby players from Uruguay who survived more than two months of isolation in the snow-covered Andes met on Saturday with some of the relatives of 33 trapped miners and urged them to stay strong. more
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