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Halo, which became a huge video-game hit for Microsoft and helped it successfully launch its Xbox game console, will be transformed into a movie in 2007 as the result of a deal signed Wednesday between the software company and two studios, Universal and 20th Century Fox. The studios reportedly agreed to pay Microsoft $5 million, [...]

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Remember John Carpenter’s The Fog?
The original starred Adrienne Barbeau as a husky voiced milf who struggled against evil forces in a northwestern coastal town. Thematically it played out as a conservative’s warning that single working mothers threaten the status quo, kind of how The Ring told kids that copying videotapes for friends meant sure death. [...]

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Those who haven’t had a chance to visit the islands don’t know what they’re missing.
Sure, you could stand around some Chinese theatre door step and wait for a hawker to give you tickets to a new movie preview, but it’s usually a bait and switch: You’re pomised a test screening of the latest Bruce Willis [...]

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Chatter overheard at the recent “Lost” DVD release event at Turtle Bay Resort: Former soap actor Cynthia Watros joins the cast as Libby, a mysterious character who may or may not have been in the tail section of Oceanic Flight 815 when it crashed. …
The massive hatch set at the Hawaii Film Studio soundstage took [...]

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Naveen Andrews, who plays Iraqi castaway Sayid on the popular ABC show “Lost,” feels a bond with the people of Iraq - even though he is British, and of Indian descent.
“I feel a sense of responsibility to the Iraqi community and to the Arab world,” Andrews told us at the DVD launch party for “Lost” [...]

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