“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” looks to blot out “New Moon” opening when released this coming June
By Adam Shapiro

TORONTO, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/19/2009 – If you think “New Moon” is going to do major box office, wait till you get a bite of “Twilight III,” also known as “Eclipse,” this coming summer.
It will be [...]

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NEW YORK (Hollywood Today) 11/19/09 – With midnight showings poised to kick off the second installment of the wildly popular “Twilight” book-to-movie series Friday morning, “New Moon” has already dominated the box office.  According to Entertainment Weekly, the film has broken the record for most presale tickets sold by ticket services Fandango and MovieTickets.com.
Starring Kristen [...]

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Lunar frenzy but can Rob Pattinson & Co. beat Shia LeBeouf and Robots’ top 2009 weekend bow of $108 million?

By Peter Lonergan
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/19/09 –With the film New Moon set to open in just one day, anticipation around the world is building to a frenzy.  The movie is a sequel to the enormously [...]

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Top scientists and young filmmakers meet at USC to discuss the love affair between science and science fiction – and learn that much film and TV sci-fi is already real
By Paul M. Allen

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Today) 11/17/09 – What will the world look like in 2050 when science further looks like science fiction [...]

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‘Precious’ still climbing charts for Oprah and Perry
By Keith Williams

Cusack studies stars and finds he is one

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/15/09 – It was the end of the world as we know it this weekend with Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic 2012 heating up an estimated $65 million from 3404 solar flares.   Caught in the ensuing [...]

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Roll over Beethoven and Tchaikovsky then news: You can learn a piano song in minutes. Patents issued. Tablature for Piano sings in a new era.

New York  (Hollywood Today)– 11/14/0 – The United States Patent Office has granted a second extraordinary patent to a uniquely simple piano-learning technique so simple kids to [...]

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‘2012’ scores $24 million
By Jeffrey Jolson
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/14/09 — If blowing up asteroids and the White House was popular, why not end the earth for real box office appeal?
Director Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day,” “The Day after Tomorrow”) set his personal best for opening night box office with a $23.7 bow for his “2012” [...]

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Pixar animation always beautiful, story and characters turning darker and older *** 3 Stars
By Gabrielle Pantera
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/14/2009 – “We came up with this image of a floating house held aloft by balloons, and it just seemed to capture what we were after in terms of escaping the world,” says Up writer-director Pete [...]

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Film from first-time director Adam Salky explores the sexual awakening of three high school seniors ** 2 stars
By Jennifer Huber
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/13/2009 – “Most of the laughs in the film are from the tension and release, and the audience re-living the anxiety of those first fumbling steps toward experiencing sexuality,” says Dare director [...]

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HFPA’s Cecil B. DeMille Award At “67th Annual Golden Globe Awards” Live on NBC Jan. 17
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/12/09–  Martin Scorsese will be honored at “The 67th Annual
Golden Globe Awards” on January 17 with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his
“outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.”  The award, voted by
the Board of Directors of [...]

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Love in a Wormhole:  SG-1/Atlantis Convention
By Alicia Hollinger

What brings a worldwide audience from as far away as Australia, Germany, Brazil and England to a sci-fi convention? Fascination with high tech gadgetry, wormholes and aliens? No, not this time. It’s the hot guys.
An audience of predominantly middle aged women gathered the weekend of Nov. 6-8 [...]

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Do protests help or hurt a film is the question

By Nadine Jolson

Kill Speed under fire

SANTA MONICA, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/7/09 — You may have heard about “Kill Speed,” perhaps the most talked about film at AFM 2009.
There is a negative campaign circulating. According to Eric Norwitz, the attorney representing Epic Pictures Group, Inc., and Patrick [...]

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