Studios that had planned to shoot elsewhere turned on a dime and flocked here, bringing stars such as Val Kilmer and Drew Barrymore with them.
To entice filmmakers to choose Michigan over other competing states, the state legislature passed bills creating refundable tax credits of up to 42 per cent for in-state movie production expenses.
Giving businesses [...]

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In sporting terms, it’s the Hollywood equivalent of a bloodied prize-fighter suddenly deciding to chuck in the towel and flee the ring in the dying seconds of a long and gruelling heavyweight bout that was almost certainly headed for a draw.
Producer Scott Rudin has abruptly walked away from the forthcoming film The Reader and removed [...]

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A new Walt Disney film about a rapping chihuahua that mixes Aztec warrior history and romance jumped to the top of the US and Canadian box office over the weekend, figures showed Sunday.
“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” a computer-animated production featuring a dog cast set in ancient Mexican ruins, took 29 million dollars on its debut weekend, [...]

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Hollywood is coming out this fall with a slew of political movies that hit all the hot-button topics as the tight U.S. presidential campaign nears its climax.
“There is a sense now that these political films can really be successful, and they’re a genre aimed at one side of the political spectrum or the other,” said [...]

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Forget Batman vs. the Joker, or Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden. The most enthralling head-to-head dust-up this year is the latest round in the epic battle between movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and producer Scott Rudin, two of Hollywood’s most ruthless characters.
Weinstein and Rudin, who are rumoured to have hated each other for years, have been [...]

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A new  Facebook profile created for Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin claims that he has agreed to write a movie about the invention of the popular Facebook social network.
“I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name–which I find more flattering than creepy–but this is me,” the profile notes. “I don’t [...]

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When hearing about “Hamlet 2,” many may firstly think that the poor great Shakespeare is ripping his hair off his head in his grave. Well, I wouldn’t go so far, at least until I found out more about the movie.
Firstly, because lead characters in the original “Hamlet” are all dead and it would be far-fetched [...]

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Chase, who has created successful film franchises around the theme of empowering women, has traveled the world to make movies, and along the way, has connected with more cultures than most.
“The idea of figuring out your individual path, while still holding on to those dearest to you,” says Chase. “It’s something we all grapple with [...]

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Rainn Wilson understands the luckless drummer he portrays in new movie “The Rocker” because they both spent so many years on the outskirts of fame.
But when the movie opens on Wednesday, Wilson for the first time will enjoy Hollywood’s limelight as leading man in a major studio comedy, joining the ranks of top comic actors [...]

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Iran has banned an award-winning young actress from leaving the country over her appearance in a star-studded Hollywood production, the state news agency IRNA said on Wednesday.
“Golshifteh Farahani was banned from leaving by the authorities at the airport on Tuesday when she was about to leave for Hollywood to examine a new offer,” IRNA said [...]

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