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A Galaxy of Stars Burning Out
1 hour ago
As a country, our appetite for stars -- for gossip and photos and red carpet footage -- is greater than ever, but our willingness to shell out to see those stars in the movies for which they're supposedly known seems to have faded a bit. Take "Tenderness," a Russell Crowe thriller that got dumped into a single screen in New York last Friday by a studio who clearly didn't expect legions of Crowe fans to make any kind of larger release worthwhile.
This week on the IFC News podcast, we talk about the changing nature of stardom, and whether having an A-lister in your film makes nearly as much business sense as it used to.
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- Alison Willmore
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Did You Hear About "Avatar"?
5 hours ago
This week we can immerse ourselves in tales of American sentiment, French fantasy, English history, Italian romance and alien invasion.
"Avatar"
After more than a decade on hiatus, James Cameron returns from his days as "King of the World" with a mind on conquering a few new ones in this sci-fi epic that the director maintains will alter the face of moviemaking forever. (Early reviews seem to agree.) A galaxy away from Cameron's days as a miniature maker on Roger Corman's "Battle Beyond the Stars," "Avatar" blends performance capture technology with real world photography to create Pandora, where a troubled U.S. marine (Sam Worthington) is tasked with infiltrating the Na'vi, a tribe of primitive but proud aliens, via a genetically created body, though he finds his loyalties torn when he falls in love with one of their own (Zoe Saldana). The film's reported $300 million price tag is surely
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- Neil Pedley
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