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At the movies, violence is the new sex

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 13:18
Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said on Friday. With online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by producers who look to action sequences or special effects to fill the gap. "The Paperboy" in which Nicole Kidman played a woman sexually attracted to Death Row prisoners and the sex surrogate film "The Sessions" with Helen Hunt are examples of recent films with sex that flopped at the box office.

At the movies, violence is the new sex

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 13:16
Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said on Friday. With online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by producers who look to action sequences or special effects to fill the gap. "The Paperboy" in which Nicole Kidman played a woman sexually attracted to Death Row prisoners and the sex surrogate film "The Sessions" with Helen Hunt are examples of recent films with sex that flopped at the box office.

At the movies, violence is the new sex

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 12:57
Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said on Friday. With online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by producers who look to action sequences or special effects to fill the gap. "The Paperboy" in which Nicole Kidman played a woman sexually attracted to Death Row prisoners and the sex surrogate film "The Sessions" with Helen Hunt are examples of recent films with sex that flopped at the box office.

At the movies, violence is the new sex

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 12:52
Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said on Friday. With online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by producers who look to action sequences or special effects to fill the gap. "The Paperboy" in which Nicole Kidman played a woman sexually attracted to Death Row prisoners and the sex surrogate film "The Sessions" with Helen Hunt are examples of recent films with sex that flopped at the box office.

Day 11: Behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 10:15
Behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, which wraps on Sunday after a 12-day run: ADIEU, LEGOLAS: Blood, sex, blood, drugs, booze, blood, and then more blood... Orlando Bloom, as a cursing, womanising and gun-toting cop in the South African-set crime thriller "Zulu", seems intent on saying goodbye to Legolas the Elf and Will Turner, Pirate of the Caribbean. Bloom co-stars with Forest Whitaker as two detectives tracing the source of a new methamphetamine drug that is causing havoc in the slums around Cape Town.

Steven Soderbergh moves from film to TV

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 03:00
The US director has decided to take a break from the silver screen for a stint in television. Soderbergh is going to direct and produce a medical mini-series starring Clive Owen, reveals Deadline.com. "The Knick," a period drama set in downtown New York in 1900, follows the medical staff of Knickerbocker Hospital as they push the boundaries of clinical medicine at a time of very high mortality rates -- before the discovery of antibiotics.

Steven Soderbergh moves from film to TV

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 03:00
The US director has decided to take a break from the silver screen for a stint in television. Soderbergh is going to direct and produce a medical mini-series starring Clive Owen, reveals Deadline.com. "The Knick," a period drama set in downtown New York in 1900, follows the medical staff of Knickerbocker Hospital as they push the boundaries of clinical medicine at a time of very high mortality rates -- before the discovery of antibiotics.

Steven Soderbergh moves from film to TV

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 02:49
The US director has decided to take a break from the silver screen for a stint in television. Soderbergh is going to direct and produce a medical mini-series starring Clive Owen, reveals Deadline.com. "The Knick," a period drama set in downtown New York in 1900, follows the medical staff of Knickerbocker Hospital as they push the boundaries of clinical medicine at a time of very high mortality rates -- before the discovery of antibiotics.

Steven Soderbergh moves from film to TV

Agence France-PresseMay 25, 2013 02:49
The US director has decided to take a break from the silver screen for a stint in television. Soderbergh is going to direct and produce a medical mini-series starring Clive Owen, reveals Deadline.com. "The Knick," a period drama set in downtown New York in 1900, follows the medical staff of Knickerbocker Hospital as they push the boundaries of clinical medicine at a time of very high mortality rates -- before the discovery of antibiotics.

Charlie Sheen to use real name in "Machete Kills"

Agencia EFEMay 24, 2013 19:33
Los Angeles, May 24 (EFE).- For the first time in his career, Charlie Sheen will use his real name, Carlos Estevez, in the credits of the movie "Machete Kills," a decision that contrasts a past statement that he does not feel "Latino." Celebrity-news Web site TMZ.com published a shot from the film, to premiere September in the United States, which shows Sheen carrying an assault rifle while a super on the screen says "and introducing Carlos Estevez."
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