- Darnell Martin could have made an entire movie about Muddy Waters . Or Etta James . Or Chuck Berry .
Instead, the writer-director has made a movie about all of them with "Cadillac Records," cramming their complicated individual stories into the larger saga of Chicago-based Chess Records , the label that launched those stars and so many others during the 1950s and '60s.
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LOS ANGELES - Kirsten Dunst doesn't need Spider-Man — she's got an assistant who recently proved capable of protecting the actress.
Dunst's assistant performed a citizen's arrest on a man who bypassed security and showed up at the actress' Hollywood home in November. Dunst was not home at the time.
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LOS ANGELES - Audiences spent Thanksgiving with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn , whose holiday comedy " Four Christmases " took in $31.1 million to open as the top weekend movie. The film opened Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC:
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CHICAGO - Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation.
William Balfour was arrested at Stateville Correctional Center and released to detectives as he awaited formal charges in the shooting deaths of the singer and Oscar-winning actress' relatives, said Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond.
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LOS ANGELES - Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy " Four Christmases ," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Warner Bros . release, featuring Witherspoon and Vaughn as a couple suffering through four separate family holiday gatherings, raised its total to $46.7 million since opening Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend .
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CLEVELAND - Fans of the holiday classic " A Christmas Story " are celebrating the film's 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.
The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard's memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in Indiana but largely filmed in Ohio. The movie starred Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker, a young boy determined to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas .
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CHESTERTON, Ind. - An annual Wizard of Oz festival that once attracted 75,000 fans of the classic film to see the actors who played Munchkins has been cancelled, its organizers announced Friday.
Brenda Maynard, president of the Indiana Wizard of Oz Festival, said the low turnout at September's event caused by heavy rains and flooding was part of the decision to end the festival after 27 years.
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BERLIN - German director Tom Tykwer's action thriller "The International" will kick off the annual Berlin film festival with its world premiere in February.
In the film actors Clive Owen and Naomi Watts play agents trying to uncover the criminal transactions of a powerful bank.
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HONG KONG - From one Bond to another: job well done.
Roger Moore told reporters Thursday that Daniel Craig was "marvelous" as James Bond because he brought a fresh dimension to the character.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Early this month, when it looked like same-sex marriage was on the rocks in California, gay rights activists summed up their angst about the upcoming Proposition 8 vote with four wistful words: What would Harvey do?
Harvey was Harvey Milk , the late San Francisco supervisor and subject of "Milk," the film that opened this week about the pioneering gay politician assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone 30 years ago Thursday.
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