DAVID GERMAIN

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`The Help,' Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards

Finally, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity.

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Hazanavicius wins at Directors Guild for 'Artist'

The Directors Guild of America Awards are the latest Hollywood film honors to go silent.

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RFK's wife stars in daughter's 'Ethel' at Sundance

Ethel Kennedy prefers coming to the Sundance Film Festival when she's not the star of a movie.

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'28 Days Later' star Murphy makes Sundance return

Nine years later, Cillian Murphy is back at the Sundance Film Festival, where he got such great exposure that people finally learned to pronounce his name.

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Sundance doc traces Simon's 'Graceland' hit album

Paul Simon recalls his return to South Africa like a family reunion — musical brothers getting back together after decades apart.

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Tim and Eric drop a 'Billion' at Sundance

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are guilty of a bit of exaggeration with the title of their Sundance Film Festival premiere.

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Jackson's 'Hobbit' doubles film speed to 48 frames

Peter Jackson is making his hobbits and dwarves march double-time in his "The Lord of the Rings" prequel, which he's shooting in a faster film speed than the Hollywood standard.

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Sean Penn shares film's dream of ducking stardom

Sean Penn's new movie casts him as a former rock star who turns his back on stardom and goes into exile overseas.

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Weaver revisits paranormal with 'Red Lights'

Sigourney Weaver may not believe in ghosts, but the paranormal world of her latest film is not alien territory for her.

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Neil Young journeys to Utah with new concert film

Neil Young recalls how his first concert film with director Jonathan Demme was a lush, stately tribute to country music.

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Jackson: Film saved life of West Memphis 3 suspect

Peter Jackson believes Damien Echols would be dead now if not for a 1996 documentary that cast doubt on the man's guilt in three child murders.

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Wealthy hit the skids in Sundance doc 'Versailles'

Lauren Greenfield's Sundance Film Festival entry "The Queen of Versailles" tells the story of every American in danger of losing a home amid the economic crisis.

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A tamer Gervais leads predictable Golden Globes

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association dared to let Ricky Gervais come back and host the Golden Globe Awards, a year after he insulted the organization and nearly everyone in the star-studded room with his lacerating wit.

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'Contraband' swipes No. 1 spot at box office

"Contraband" managed to steal the top slot away from competitors at the weekend box office.

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Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers

Hollywood has more tricks in its bag than ever with digital 3-D and other new film tools. Yet as the images on screen get bigger and better, movie crowds keep shrinking — down to a 16-year low as 2011's film lineup fell well short of studios' record expectations.

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Silence is golden: 'Artist' leads French-y Globes

Ah, Paris. City of Light. Land of romance. Gobbler of all the best Golden Globe nominations.

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Krasinski, Hunt, Common among in-crowd at Sundance

John Krasinski, Helen Hunt, Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried, Danny Glover and rap star Common are among the stars with movies heading to the Sundance Film Festival.

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Draft Billy? Draft Kermit? Oscars have job opening

Maybe the Academy Awards need to launch a "Draft Billy" movement. Or even a "Draft Kermit" campaign.

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`Paranormal Activity 3' scares up huge $54M debut

"Paranormal Activity 3" didn't just go bump in the night. It made a ton of noise at the box office with a record-setting, $54 million opening.

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'Real Steel,' 'Footloose' duke it out for No. 1

The robot boxers of "Real Steel" and the dancers of "Footloose" are in a tight fight for the box-office title. The Hugh Jackman tale about machines in the boxing ring took in $16.3 million, which would make it the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Oscar organizers aim for world-class film museum

Academy Awards overseers have the expertise and memorabilia. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has the know-how to run a world-class exhibition space. So the two outfits have hooked up to create what they hope will be the finest museum in the world devoted to moviemaking.

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Robots take title as 'Real Steel' earns $27.3M

Boxing robots are the undisputed champions at the weekend box office.

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'Dolphin' deposes 'Lion' with $14.2M to grab No. 1

A dolphin has dethroned "The Lion King" at the weekend box office.

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Movies and music: Toronto film fest turns tuneful

Bruce Springsteen pumped up the volume for music at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, and this year, the cinema showcase has cranked it up to 11.

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Hollywood's summer story: more dollars, fewer fans

The good news for Hollywood: summer movie revenues are up worldwide as studios rebounded from a dismally slow start to the year.

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