Pursuitist Luxury:

• newKarl by Karl Lagerfeld
  “The future is now”. And indeed it is. Unveiling his new street chic diffusion line, Karl, exclusively for one month via London-based luxury online fashion boutique, Net-a-Porter, Karl Lagerfeld has once again proven why he’s arguably the most…
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• newDaily Dream Home: The Glass Pavilion, Santa Barbara, California
  The Glass Pavilion is a redefining structure within modernism. It is a benchmark building that sets the bar as to what modernism is and can be. Set within a 3.5+/- acre estate of oak groves in Montecito, this home is impressive beyond words. The five…
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• newFerris Bueller 2012? Watch the Super Bowl Ad
  This 10-second YouTube teaser shows Ferris Bueller star Matthew Broderick asking “How can I handle work on a day like today?” and then cues a snippet of “Oh Yeah,” the song from the John Hughes movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.″ What the…
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• newHow to Lose Weight While Cleaning
  Stevie Markovich’s “Aerobic Housecleaning Lifestyle” video came out in 2002, but now it has some stiff competition: Carolyn Barnes’ “Clean Momma Program,” complete with her signature move, the Rag Drag. WSJ’s James R. Hagerty reports.
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• newFacebook IPO Coming Next Week
  The Facebook IPO is upon us… Want to get in and acquire Facebook stock? Here’s the details of the Facebook IPO, which will be filed next week. Facebook — which will likely raise up to $10 billion in its offering – — is on track to be the la…
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• newMetrokane’s Bullet Cocktail Shaker
  Houseware design company Metrokane has fashioned a sleek, sexy cocktail shaker that grab everyone’s attention. The Art Deco inspired cocktail shaker is made from polished or brushed stainless steel. It comes in two sizes – 18 or 28 ounces, costin…
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• newQ&A with The Balvenie Scotch Whiskey Brand Ambassador
  Samuel Simmons is the Brand Ambassador for The Balvenie – one of the few family-owned Scottish whiskey distilleries. As Brand Ambasssador, it is Samuel’s job to travel the world and extolled the virtues of Scotch. Not a bad job. Samuael was kind…
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• newThe Mercer – Luxury Chic in the heart of Soho
  Situated directly in the heart of Manhattan’s most eclectic and energetic neighborhood, at the corner of Mercer and Prince Street, The Mercer is the ultimate urban hotel. Hotelier Andre Balaz has developed this Soho institution, creating a home awa…
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• newJuan Montoya Design in Panama City, Florida for $1.3 Million
  Colombian-born designer Juan Montoya is noted for his ability to blend elements of various cultures within his home constructs; a trademark style of shaping modernist features around antiquities and social themes, all the while paying close attention…
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• newKids Boots by Moschino
  Italian design label Moschino stresses fun and exuberance in their children’s collection. You’ll find that in excess with these vibrant red kids boots. They feature superior attention to detail, quality construction and colorful embellishments. Y…
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Nikki Finke on Deadline.com:

• new‘The Grey’ Howls First Friday, ‘One For The Money’ 2nd, ‘Man On A Ledge’ Back In 5th
  FRIDAY PM, 3RD UPDATE: Sources are telling me that the No. 1 movie at the North American box office is projected as Open Road Films acquisition of Liam Neeson-starrer The Grey with what’s thought to be $6.2M for today and $17.6M for the weekend f…
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• newATO Pictures Buys James Marsh’s ‘Shadow Dancer’: Sundance
  ATO Pictures has acquired all North American rights to director James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer. It stars Andrea Riseborough (Wallis Simpson in W.E.) and Clive Owen. Screenplay was written by Tom Bradby and is based on his novel. Riseborough plays a wo…
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• newAustralian Academy Awards: ‘The Artist’, Streep, Dujardin, Hazanavicius All Winners
  Los Angeles, CA – The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts announced the winners of its newly launched AACTA International Awards recognizing International Achievements in Film tonight by AACTA President, Geoffrey Rush, at an intimate a…
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• newABC Gives Drama Pilot Orders To Soaps From Mark Gordon And Callie Khouri
  After picking up 3 comedy pilots this afternoon, ABC just gave the green light to 2 drama pilots, Americana and Nashville, both primetime soaps. The latter pickup is contingent on the project becoming a co-production between Lionsgate TV, which devel…
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• newSAG National Board Okays AFTRA Merger: Combined Union To Be Named SAG-AFTRA
  No surprise on the timing of these SAG and AFTRA National Board Of Directors votes because an announcement will be made at the SAG Awards televised Sunday night on TNT/TBS. Here’s SAG’s statement followed by AFTRA’s:LOS ANGELES (January 27, 2…
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• newDanny Boyle, Stephen Daldry Chime In On London Olympics Plan
  For the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, movie director Danny Boyle said he’s aiming for intimacy rather than spectacle. “We wanted to make the feel of the opening ceremony … intimate and personal,” he said in an interview today…
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• newWeinstein Co. Gets Closer On ‘Lay The Favorite’ : Sundance
  There are two offers on Lay the Favorite, the Stephen Frears film that stars Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I’m guessing that the Weinstein Company will win this over the weekend, and release the film on VOD for in the vicini…
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• newHot Trailer: ‘Journey 2: Mysterious Island’
  The Warner Bros 3D family adventure sequel opened first internationally to great numbers from an early rollout to less than double-digit territorie including Australia Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. With $18.6M so far, it’s been tracking 95% ahead o…
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• newCBS Orders 3 Comedy Pilots, Including Kohan/Mutchnick & Malins/Berlanti Projects
  CBS has given pilot orders to 2 projects written and executive produced by power showrunner duos, which had put pilot commitments — Partners, from Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, and an untitled half-hour from Greg Malins and G…
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Slash Film:

• newSony Will Sneak Peek Parts of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ in Select Cities on February 6
  Earlier today we talked about some of the story aspects [1] in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man that play into the 'untold story' that Sony is promising from the film. I assumed we'd have to wait a while longer before learning more about the story,…
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• newSorry, India: David Fincher’s Unwillingness to Cut Nudity Means No Release For ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’
  Briefly: David Fincher is committed to the integrity of his films. He's committed to it to the degree that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo won't be released in India, because the director refused to make cuts. Variety [1] reports that the January rel…
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• newCasting Bits: Mary Louise Parker Replacing Demi Moore in ‘Lovelace’?, Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly in ‘Writers’
  [1]It was just a few days ago that Demi Moore dropped out [2] of the porn biopic Lovelace after being hospitalized for "exhaustion," but it looks like filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman may be close to finding their replacement already. Us…
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• new‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Responds to ‘Fantastic Four’ Rumor: “I Know as Much as You Guys Know”
  [1]With the strong buzz surrounding his feature debut Chronicle, I've no doubt that director Josh Trank has a bright future ahead of him. But as he plans his next steps, there's one previously rumored project that he's apparently not lined up for,…
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• newWhat Can We Learn From the Official Synopsis For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’?
  Sony is rebooting Spider-Man's screen image, and director Marc Webb has shot The Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield playing Peter Parker, Emma Stone playing Gwen Stacy, and Rhys Ifans playing Dr. Curt Connors, the man who becomes the Lizard.We…
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• newSlipups and Pratfalls Abound in ‘The Artist’ Blooper Reel
  There is a very good chance [1] that The Artist will soon be crowned Best Picture. If nothing  else, you're going to hear more and more about the silent Cannes fave in the weeks leading up to the Oscars [2].We've seen a featurette [3] that talked…
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• newMatthew Broderick Returns as Ferris Bueller… to Sell Cars For Honda?
  How's your '80s nostalgia level today? If it is feeling a little low, take a look at the ten-second preview clip for a Honda ad that will run during the Super Bowl. In the clip, Matthew Broderick teases a reprise of one of his most-loved roles: Ferri…
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• newPage 2: Harry Potter, Evil Dead, Star Wars, 2001, Star Trek, Oscars, E.T., Samuel L. Jackson, Shame, Aliens, Jim Henson
  [1]What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest…
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• new‘Mirror Mirror’ International Trailer is an Improvement Over the Domestic One
  [1]I can't tell whether it's that the footage of Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror is truly getting better, or whether I'm just developing some weird cinematic version of Stockholm Syndrome. But after kind of hating the first trailer [2], the film start…
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• new‘Paradise Lost’ Could Shoot in June, Says Bradley Cooper
  Several studios have been actively trimming and shedding projects over the past year. Universal cut loose a handful of board game movies (Ouija, Monopoly, etc.) and scrapped Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness, while Warner Bros. has pau…
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Rotten Tomatoes:

• newWeekly Ketchup: Hugo and The Artist Top Oscar Nominees
  The entire last week has seen much of Hollywood's movers and shakers in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, and so this was another slow news week, and more than that, it was also one of the most "Rotten Idea" filled weeks this column has ever seen.…
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• newCritics Consensus: The Grey is Certified Fresh
  While the world of filmdom trains its sights on the Sundance Film Festival this week, there are plenty of diversions in multiplexes for those of us who couldn't make the trek to Park City. We've got a snowy survival story (The Grey, starring Liam Nee…
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• newR Rating Planned for Terminator 5
  Megan Ellison promises "it will be an R rated film as God and James Cameron intended."
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• newDisney Heads to Space with Chronicle Scribe
  Max Landis sells the studio an untitled adventure project.
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• newMirror Mirror Bumped to March 30
  You'll have to wait a little longer for your Tarsem fix.
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• newDarren Aronofsky's Noah Eyes Summer Start
  Plans are to start filming in New York and Iceland sometime in July.
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• newIn Defense of Katherine Heigl
  As "One for the Money" searches for its first Fresh review, one writer offers appreciation for its star.
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• Total Recall: Ed Harris's Best Movies
  A prolific character actor with leading-man chops and four Oscar nominations under his belt, Ed Harris has been entertaining audiences for decades -- so when we saw his name in the credits for Man on a Ledge, we knew exactly what we needed to do with…
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• Evangeline Lilly Divulges Hobbit Details
  She talks about her "deadly" character, and her increased role in the sequel.
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• Sam Worthington Talks Man on a Ledge, Wrath of the Titans, and More
  He discusses his time on the ledge and hints at what's different about the "Clash of the Titans" sequel.
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The Wrap

• newScreen Actors Guild and AFTRA Approve Merger
  The merger of Hollywood's two leading acting unions, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, moved closer to reality after SAG's national board approved the measure on Friday. The vote was approved…
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• new'The Tree of Life' Is 'Rare and Extraordinary,' Says the Academy
  The Academy has made an unusual exception for "The Tree of Life," determining that the film has four true producers and should not be limited by an AMPAS rule that limits the number of producers on a Best Picture nominee to three.Sarah Green, Bi…
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• new'Robot & Frank,' Lucy Walker,' International Directors Win Sundance Awards
  The Sundance Film Festival will announce its main awards on Saturday night – but in the meantime, the festival has given awards to several other films, from the new Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions/Samuel Goldwyn Films acquisition "Robot & Fr…
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• new'So You Think You Can Dance' Choreographer Alex Da Silva Gets 10 Years for Rape
  Alex Da Silva, a former choreographer for Fox reality competition "So You Think You Can Dance," was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for raping a former dance student and assaulting another, TMZ reports. Da Silva, 43, was arrested in…
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• newABC Picks Up Three Comedy Pilots
  ABC beefed up its comedy stockpile Friday with pilot orders for three pilots. "How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life," created by Claudia Lonow ("Friends With Benefits," "Accidentally on Purpose" and, more recently, the trou…
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• new'Anderson' Executive Producer Jim Murphy Steps Down
  Jim Murphy, co-executive producer of Anderson Cooper's syndicated daytime talk show "Anderson," has stepped down. Murphy joined the show seven months before its September 2011 premiere, following stints on "Good Morning America," "CBS This Mo…
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• newGolden Globes Trial: Dick Clark CEO's Dealmaking Bluffs on Display
  Dick Clark Productions Chief Executive Officer Mark Shapiro had to admit in Los Angeles District Court late this week that he employed bluffs and half-truths to get NBC to agree to an $150 million deal to air the Golden Globes. The practice…
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• newSundance Deals: Participant Media Nabs 'Middle of Nowhere'
  Participant Media and AFFRM (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement) have jointly acquired U.S. theatrical rights to the marriage drama "Middle of Nowhere," the companies said on Friday. The Sundance entry centers on a woman who is…
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• newSarah Jessica Parker Replaces Demi Moore in 'Lovelace'
  Sarah Jessica Parker will play feminist icon Gloria Steinem in the upcoming porn biopic "Lovelace." The "Sex and the City" star will replace Demi Moore, who bowed out of the Millennium Films production after being hospitalized earlier this we…
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• new'This Means War' Gets PG-13 After Trimming Sexual Content
  When "This Means War" hits theaters on Valentine's Day, the Reese Witherspoon action comedy will arrive with a PG-13 rating, TheWrap has confirmed.  Fox, the studio behind the McG film, has trimmed sexual content in the film, and in return t…
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Variety

• newABC orders 'Nashville,' 'Americana' pilots
  TV News: Dramas from screenwriters Khouri, Seitzman
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• newATO sees its 'Shadow Dancer'
  Film News: James Marsh thriller finds a home
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• newAustralian Academy lauds 'Artist'
  Film News: Wins best pic, actor and helming nods at org's first awards ceremony
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• newSAG board approves AFTRA merger
  Film News: AFTRA board to meet Saturday; approval would trigger Feb. 27 vote by members
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• newGK Films, Infinitum Nihil clock 'Hours'
  EXCLUSIVE: E. Ncholas Mariani penned oater screenplay
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• newPaul Reubens joins Charlie Kaufman pic
  EXCLUSIVE: 'Frank or Francis' musical comedy stars Carell, Cage, Black
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• newGlobes' value in trial spotlight
  TV News: Friday testimony centers on what NBC paid and what the HFPA thought it could get for kudocast from another network
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• newSundance/NHK nod a 'Close' call
  Award Central: 'Close Far Away' helmer Assur wins Filmmaker Award
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• newCBS orders three comedy pilots
  TV News: Pickups include project from Greg Berlanti, Greg Malins
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• newABC orders three comedy pilots
  TV News: One adapted from Britcom 'Only Fools and Horses'
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IndieWire

• new'The Artist' Sweeps the Inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts International Awards
  "The Artist" took three of the five Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts International Awards, winning best picture, director and actor. Tying for best screenplay are...
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• newOscar Weighs In: No Brad Pitt Nomination For 'The Tree of Life'
  The Academy has announced its final tally for official producers of Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life." They are Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill. On the...
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• newDoes Oscar Really Follow the Critics? Tell-All Charts
  Every year, the lead-up to the Oscars is rife with horse race terminology: there are front-runners, films that lag behind and, of course, last minute surges.  As Hollywood bounces from award...
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• newOscar Watch: Foreign Language Nominee 'Bullhead' Opens February 17
  Drafthouse Films has scheduled a limited release of "Bullhead," nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.  The underdog foreign language pick will open in Los Angeles, New...
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• newOmar Sy, "Intouchables" Lead César Award Nominations (French Equivalent Of The Oscars)
  His big year (or is it 2 years, since this all began in 2011) continues... After being labeled a French black cinema icon, and then winning the Lumière award (essentially the French...
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• newSlamdance 2012 - Keith Miller's Meditative Docu-Drama "Welcome to Pine Hill" Wins Grand Jury Award
  The Slamdance Film Festival doesn't get as much *shine* as the Sundance Film Festival, even though they both take place in Park City, UT, and at almost exactly the same time. This year's...
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• newMaiwenn's Poliss Scores 13 Cesar Nominations Including Best Director and Best Picture
  The Maiwenn directed film Poliss scored the most Cesar nominations -- 13 --  including best picture, best screenplay and best director.  But you wouldn't know it from this breaking...
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• Oscar Watch: Entertainment Weekly's Annual Oscar Issue - Snubs, Shocks, Surprises
  Entertainment Weekly's Annual Oscar Issue breaks down the nominees, throws down some surprising predictions, gives tribute to the shocking snubs, and adds insights on what you might have missed....
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• Octavia Spencer, Pam Grier, Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes To Be Honored By Essence
  Announced earlier today... Taking place on February 23, 2012 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, ESSENCE will celebrate five extraordinary women who have left an indelible impression with their work...
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• My Two Cents on the Oscars
  Admitting to limited interest in the Academy Awards, per se, I am, however, very interested in Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary and Best Animated Feature this year because I LOVE Chico...
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