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VIDEO: The New Age

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The New Age
Free | Starz

Posted: 9/7/2009

Synopsis: Without jobs to support their Hollywood lifestyle, married sophisticates see no point in living. watch

VIDEO: Nine HD Official Trailer [Fergie,Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz &Sophia Loren]

The exclusive AMAZING trailer for the upcoming hit musical NINE! Nine is a 2009 American musical film directed by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, by the late Anthony Minghella and Michael Tolkin (although Minghella receives sole credit), is based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical of the same name, which was derived from an Italian play by Mario Fratti inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8 . Maury Yeston composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the songs. The film is scheduled to be released in the US on November 25, 2009. The principal cast consists of Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Pen lope Cruz, Judi Dench, and Sophia Loren with Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson and Grammy Award winner Fergie in supporting roles. Having reached the age of forty, director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) is facing a midlife crisis that is stifling his creativity and leading him into a variety of complicated romant watch

"Jerry Was a Man"

“Jerry Was a Man” is the slickest and most handsomely produced of the three episodes shown by ABC so far, and it’s based on a short story by probably the most influential of 20th-century American science-fiction writers, Robert A. Heinlein; 2007 is the centennial of his birth. He wasn't the best American sf writer of the century (though many would give him that, too), but the most influential in part because he demonstrated the ease with which one could sketch in details to give a sense of otherness in fiction — but an otherness in which the characters were entirely at home (unless there was some reason they shouldn’t be). And ingenuity, both in sociological speculation and in story construction, was often his strong suit, particularly in the work he published in the first decade or so of his sf-writing career, beginning with a story in John Campbell’s magazine Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. This story was first published in a competing magazine, S...read more

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Title Year Type
Nine (Writer) 2009 Movie
Changing Lanes (Writer) 2002 Movie
Deep Impact (Writer) 1998 Movie
The Burning Season (Writer) 1994 Movie
The New Age (Director) 1994 Movie

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3-D Monsters Mash Moved Up, More Movie News

Per Variety, DreamWorks Animation has moved up the release of Monsters vs. Aliens, its first pic produced in stereoscopic 3-D, to May 15, 2009 — a week before James Cameron's 3-D Avatar is set to bow.... John Leguizamo has joined M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, playing Mark Wahlberg's best friend.... Ron Howard is set to direct an adaptation of The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud's novel about Ivy League grads snobbing up Manhattan.... Oscar-nominated screenwriter Michael Tolkin is penning Rob Marshall's big-screen take on Nine. read more

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