Beyonce, U2, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Jamie Foxx, Garth Brooks and Jack Black were among the many celebrities who participated in Barack Obama's inaugural kick-off concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.
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Denzel Washington will take on the post-apocalyptic landscape in the new thriller The Book of Eli The Hollywood Reporter reportsThe two-time Oscar winner will also produce the project along with Joel Silver Susan Downey and Alcon Entertainments Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson Allen and Albert Huges will directBased on a story by Gary Whitta with a screenplay by Anthony Peckham the film follows the plight of a lone futuristic action hero Washington as he attempts to save a dilapidated America with knowledgeProduction starts in January in New Mexico A release date has not been set Joyce Eng
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Does MGM have a Bourne winner The studio has beat out several rivals to grab rights to Robert Ludlums The Matarese Circle shop Amazon a Cold War-set thriller about two spies one from the CIA and one from the KGB who reluctantly team up to bring down an international cabal of killers called the MatareseMichael Brandt and Derek Haas 310 to Yuma will pen the script and Denzel Washington is loosely attached to play the American agent Matt MitovichMore movie news149 Box Office 21 Does a Number on George Clooney149 Film Icon Charlton Heston Dead at 84149 24s Rajskub Cooks Up Role in Julie and Julia
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It's a good thing they quit their day jobs....1) Brad Pitt: Restaurant mascot 2) Denzel Washington: Coffin polisher3) Jerry Seinfeld: Phone sales (lightbulbs) 4) Ellen DeGeneres: Oyster shucker5) Jack Nicholson: Toy-store employee6) Lucy Liu: Pajama-factory worker7) Tom Hanks: Bellboy8) Jim Carrey: Janitor9) Jerry Springer: Cincinnati mayor10) Charles Bronson: Coal miner11) David Letterman: Weatherman12) Jay Leno: Mechanic13) Norm MacDonald: Garbage collector14) Mr. T: Gym teacher15) Danny DeVito: Hairdresser16) Quentin Tarantino: Video-store clerk17) Ken Kercheval: Cemetery-plot salesman18) Whoopi Goldberg: Funeral-parlor makeup artist19) Calista Flockhart: Aerobics instructor20) Josh Holloway: Chicken-farm worker21) Robin Williams: Street mime22) Bruce Willis and Sandra Bullock: Bartender23) Lorenzo Lamas: Fry cook24) Dennis Franz: Postman25) Carroll O’Connor: Substitute teacher26) Carol Burnett: Hatcheck girl27) Steve Buscemi: Fireman28) John Goodman: Bouncer29) Groucho Marx...
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So Denzel Washington is starring in a remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 for director Tony Scott with a new screenplay by David Koepp Now Washington and Koepp are very talented and Scott can get a movie made but among movies in no need of remaking The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ranks high on the list So this weeks DVD Tuesday is dedicated to the original in all its grimy gloryHow do you steal a New York City subway train Former movie publicist Morton Freedgood figured out a way and his 1973 novel written under the pseudonym John Godey was snapped up before publication and immediately put into production under director Joseph Sargent and screenwriter Peter Stone Needless to say city officials and representatives of the Metropolitan Transit Authority werent wild about the story of four identically dressed hijackers hiding behind color-coded nicknames whats betting this is where Quentin Tarantino connoisseur of all things down and dirty got
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