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Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts Team for 'Larry Crowne,' 'Yellow Sumbarine' Gets Its Beatles: Movie Casting

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Hanks and Roberts Team for 'Larry Crowne'Looks like somebody got chummy while filming 'Charlie Wilson's War.' Heavyweights Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, who co-starred in that 2007 film, are teaming up to star in 'Larry Crowne,' a comedy that Hanks wrote and will also direct. The film marks Hanks' first directing gig since his 1996 helming debut 'That Thing You Do!' and follows a middle-aged man (Hanks) forced to carve out a new career. [Deadline Hollywood]

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Director Eric Rohmer Dead at 89

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Director Eric Rohmer Dead at 89French filmmaker Eric Rohmer, whose acclaimed body of work won him the Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, has died in Paris at the age of 89.

According to AP, the cause of Rohmer's death was not immediately known.
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Taylor Lautner Flies to 'Northern Lights,' Channing Tatum Goes for 'Knockout': Movie Casting

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Taylor Lautner Flies to 'Northern Lights'Now that Twilight' star Taylor Lautner has got his abs squared away, he's going after a pair of wings -- pilot's wings, that is, for the high-flying action movie 'Northern Lights.' He'll play one of four cocksure aviators who "push themselves to physical and emotional limits in the unforgiving world of performance aerobatics." Contrary to earlier reports, Tom Cruise will not portray his billionaire daddy. Whether Lautner really did receive a rumored $7.5 million payday for the role is, as they say, still up in the air. [Entertainment Weekly]

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'A-Team' Trailer Leaks Online

'A-Team' Trailer Leaks OnlineThe trailer for summer's hotly anticipated 'A-Team' movie was supposed to debut in theaters this weekend before showings of 'Daybreakers.' But because the Internet is such a wonderful, beautiful thing, the video went ahead and leaked early on the Web site for a Canadian newspaper. Score!

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Netflix Imposes 1-Month Delay on Renting Warner Bros. DVDs

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Netflix Imposes 1-Month Delay on Renting Warner Bros. DVDsIn a major blow to Netflix junkies everywhere, Warner Bros. has struck a deal with the online DVD rental giant that will prevent Netflix subscribers from renting the latest WB releases for a full 28 days after they go on sale.

That means it'll be four long weeks from the time 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' -- and the rest of Warners' new DVDs and Blu-rays -- hit retail and rental store shelves and the day that they show up in the mailboxes of Netflix's 11 million (and growing) members.
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Mariah Carey Acceptance Speech: Was She Drunk?

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Mariah Carey Acceptance Speech: Was She Drunk?Theatrical, dramatic, talented, beautiful and diva-esque are all words that have been used to describe Mariah Carey. After her acceptance speech at last night's Palm Springs Film Festival, it seems we can add another adjective to that list: drunk.

After winning the award for Breakthrough Actress for her appearance-transforming turn in 'Precious,' Carey took to the stage with director Lee Daniels and proceeded to deliver a fun-loving -- if incoherent and rambling -- speech, in which she talked about kittens, cotton, meeting Helen Mirren and the immediate state of her own sobriety.

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Online Film Critics Society Winners: 'Hurt Locker,' 'Inglourious Basterds' Slay Competition

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Online Film Critics Society Winners: 'Hurt Locker,' 'Inglourious Basterds' Slay CompetitionIn the wake of today's announcement of the Online Film Critics Society's 2009 award winners, 'The Hurt Locker' isn't feeling any pain and 'Inglourious Basterds' is in its glory.

The two films continued their victory march through the awards season, each racking up four of the trophies doled out annually by the OFCS, the oldest organization of Internet-based film journalists.
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