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Colin Firth & Michael Fassbender Take On A 'Genius'; Sheryl Crow Lends Voice To 'Hot Flashes': Biz Break

Colin Firth & Michael Fassbender Take On A 'Genius'; Sheryl Crow Lends Voice To 'Hot Flashes': Biz Break

Also in Thursday evening's round-up of news briefs, Bennett Miller's Channing Tatum-Steve Carrell drama heads to theaters; Stellan Skarsgård joins a comedy/drama; And Wreck-It-Ralph is on track to dominating the weekend's box office.
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Skyfall Heads For Royal Premiere; Tony Scott Had 'Therapeutic' Drug Levels At Time Of Death: Biz Break

Skyfall Heads For Royal Premiere; Tony Scott Had 'Therapeutic' Drug Levels At Time Of Death: Biz Break

Also in Tuesday morning's round-up of news briefs: Shameless star Emmy Rossum set for Hilary Swank project; Colin Firth is set for a charity gala at the upcoming Dubai International Film Festival; And Oscar submissions for Best Animated Feature are almost due.
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Colin Firth And Helen Mirren To Reprise British Monarch Roles In Separate Gigs

Colin Firth And Helen Mirren To Reprise British Monarch Roles In Separate Gigs

Colin Firth won an Oscar playing Britain's King George VI in the 2010 historical drama The King's Speech. And Dame Helen Mirren won her Academy Award playing the current U.K. monarch Queen Elizabeth II back in 2006 for her role in The Queen. Now both are set to wear their crowns again in two separate projects.
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Dressed for Success: Jessica Chastain, Colin Firth, Eddie Redmayne and Diane Kruger Among Actors on Vanity Fair Best-Dressed List

Dressed for Success: Jessica Chastain, Colin Firth, Eddie Redmayne  and Diane Kruger Among Actors on Vanity Fair Best-Dressed List

Jessica Chastain can hold her own with British royalty when it comes to fashion. The Tree of Life actresss and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, each adorn a cover of Vanity Fair magazine's September Style issue, which includes the magazine's annual International Best Dressed List. more »

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Disney's Brave Premiere, Cannes' Beasts and Colin Firth's Mad Dogs: Biz Break Cannes

Disney's Brave Premiere, Cannes' Beasts and Colin Firth's Mad Dogs: Biz Break Cannes

Also in Saturday's (mostly) Cannes related news round up, actress Isabella Rossellini gets a new festival jury gig, Lincoln Center teams with Dubai to spotlight Arab cinema, and two groups join for a $150 million equity fund for indie filmmakers. Also check out this weekend's specialty film releases.
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Watch The King's Speech Edited Down to Just the Stuttering

Watch The King's Speech Edited Down to Just the Stuttering

And now, from the brilliant (and perhaps insomniac) mind that brought you that supercut of Kickboxer featuring nothing but the kicking, wind down your week with The King's Speech — featuring nothing but the stuttering. Or as they call it in Oscar-history circles, "156 seconds of infirmity that earned Colin Firth an Academy Award for Best Actor." You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll squirm, etc. Happy Friday!
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Was Ricky Gervais Set Up?

Was Ricky Gervais Set Up?

Over the last week or so, film-culture observers witnessed an odd phenomenon sweep the country: A palpable, recognizable feel of anticipation -- for an awards show. Even rarer was the reason behind it. When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that Ricky Gervais would return for a third stint emceeing the Golden Globe Awards, we expected a return to last year’s delirious exercise in blunt-force celebrity accountability.
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GALLERY: Highlights (and Lowlights) of the 2012 Golden Globe Awards

GALLERY: Highlights (and Lowlights) of the 2012 Golden Globe Awards

You might have heard there was a big awards show last night? And as usual, the 69th Golden Globes delivered their standard array of highlights, lowlights and headscratching curios over three hours at the Beverly Hilton. Let's revisit the ups and downs in words and pictures, shall we?
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Haiku Contest Winners Announced!

This won't come nearly close to matching the poetry witnessed throughout last week's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy premiere giveaway contest (or the tense, masterful symphony of the film itself, chock-full of your favorite British thesps and "Pillow lipped chameleons"), but: "Thanks to all who played/With odes to Tinker, Tailor.../Winners after the jump!"

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Write a Haiku, Win Tickets to the L.A. Premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Attention all spy genre enthusiasts, Cold War buffs and Gary Oldman fans: Movieline is giving away three (3) pairs of VIP tickets to the Los Angeles premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to the trio of readers who come up with the most clever haiku poems dedicated to one of the film's stars.

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Is King's Speech Really Better Than Unforgiven, The Sting, and These Other Best Picture Oscar Winners?

The folks at Rotten Tomatoes have tabulated their annual Best of the Best list, inserting Tom Hooper's 2011 Best Picture winner The King's Speech into the annals of Oscar history. But comparing great films to other great films has always been something of an apples to oranges situation; how can you measure, say, The Godfather Part II against An American in Paris -- two very different films that occupy adjoining slots on the list and have the same Tomatometer ranking (98 percent)? With a carefully calculated algorithm, that's how! Still... why does The King's Speech not quite feel right sitting so high above other bona fide classics?

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Jen's Oscar Predictions: The King's Meh, FTW

Yes, yes. The King's Speech will win, and no matter how hard we try to tell ourselves any other film has a chance in hell, its abiding safeness will triumph Sunday night. But I'd like to think the Academy will spread the love around -- a win for The Social Network here, a Natalie Portman winner's guffaw there, and some gold for Hailee Steinfeld. Hope she brings her blingitude for the big night.

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AFI Fest Wrap Up and Gallery

AFI Fest Wrap Up and Gallery

This past week, Movieline had the honor of being a media sponsor at the glitzy AFI Fest in Hollywood, presented by Audi. There were splashy film galas every night, honoring the biggest films of the year like The Company Men, Love and Other Drugs, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, The King's Speech and Casino Jack. The categories of films in competition include World Cinema, New Auteurs, Young Americans, Breakthrough, and several categories of Shorts. Names of the winners, and a link to our gallery, after the jump.

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