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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Tom Hanks</title>
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		<title>Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Vera Farmiga: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch, and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Da Vinci Code, Angels &#038; Demons), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Actress Vera Farmiga, a potential contender for the 2010 best supporting actress Oscar

Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges and wife Susan

Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (for The Silence of the Lambs) and Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman
Photos: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S.
Click on the photos to enlarge them.

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		<title>Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty: Governors Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da Vinci Code), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Norman Jewison, whose socially conscious cop drama In the Heat of the Night won the best picture Oscar in 1968

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science&#8217;s Board of Governors  posed for a group photo following the 2009 Governors Awards
Front Row (left to right): Sid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UP Tops Box Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
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Pixar’s Up  safely landed at the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend  with $68.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. 
Directed by Peter Docter, the  animated  adventure tale opened at 3,766 locations, scoring an average of  $18,109 per theater. The story follows a 78-year-old widower who, wishing to   fulfill his  dream,  takes his entire house on a trip to South America.

Last week’s champion, Night  at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, dropped to second place. The Ben Stiller vehicle earned  another $25.5 million for a domestic total of $105.2 after a strong  two-week run. 

Debuting at No. 3 with $16.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Tops Box Office, TERMINATOR SALVATION in Second Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian outran its competition at the North  American box office this weekend with $53.5 million, according to studio  estimates Sunday.
Shawn Levy’s sequel to the 2006  hit stars Ben Stiller (above, with Robin Williams and Ricky Gervais) as a former museum security guard who  heads to the Smithsonian to rescue his pals from the hands of a ruthless  Egyptian leader. The film pulled $23.1 million more during opening weekend than  its predecessor.

At No. 2, McG’s Terminator Salvation debuted with $43 million. The fourth installment in the  popular Terminator series stars Christian Bale as John  Connor, who leads the human resistance in a battle against the machines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANGELS &amp; DEMONS #1, STAR TREK #2 at the Box Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franck Tabouring</dc:creator>
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Ron Howard’s Angels  &#38; Demons topped the North American box office with $48 million  in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The latest big-screen adaptation  of one of Dan Brown’s popular novels struggled to beat J. J. Abrams’ Star  Trek (above, top photo), which came in a close second with another $43 million this  weekend. The sci-fi reboot’s domestic total currently stands at $147.6 million. 
In Angels  &#38; Demons, Tom Hanks (above, lower photo, with Ayelet Zurer) reprises his role as professor Robert Langdon, who heads to the  Vatican to solve a murder and help prevent a ruthless terrorist attack. The  film scored $29 million less on opening weekend than its predecessor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Globes 2009: Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Drew Barrymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Tom Hanks, Sally Hawkins © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Dev Patel, Freida Pinto © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

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		<title>Best Films &#8211; 2002</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier &#8212; though no less bizarre &#8212; with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas&#8217; play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
 More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAST AWAY &#8211; Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Cast Away (2000) 
Direction: Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay: William Broyles Jr.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Lari White
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Many will see Cast Away as a celebration of the triumph of the human spirit. Others will prefer the more mundane explanation that the film merely depicts a man following his animal survival instincts, which propel him to remain alive almost against his will. Whichever way one chooses to view the survival of Tom Hanks&#8216; Federal Express engineer  Chuck Noland (No-land, get it?) after being stranded for years on a desert island (mostly shot in Monuriki, Fiji), Cast Away is little more than an elaborate star vehicle disguised as an existential adventure film. Indeed, this Robert Zemeckis production offers little depth in its presentation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE &#8211; Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sleepless-in-seattle-tom-hanks-meg-ryan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Direction: Nora Ephron
Screenplay: Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch, and Delia Ephron (uncredited), from an original story by Jeff Arch
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie O&#8217;Donnell, Gaby Hoffman, Victor Garber, Rita Wilson, David Hyde Pierce, Rob Reiner
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&#160;

In Krzysztof Kieslowski&#8217;s Red, the last installment of his &#34;Three Colors&#34; trilogy, the word &#34;magic&#34; is never bandied about. No need to. Magic is just about everywhere in that lyrical tale about love and fate. In Nora Ephron&#8217;s Sleepless in Seattle, which received an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay, the word &#34;magic&#34; seems to crop up every other minute. Ephron and fellow screenwriters Jeff Arch, David S. Ward, and (an uncredited) Delia Ephron were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROAD TO PERDITION &#8211; Tom Hanks, Paul Newman</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/road-to-perdition-mendes-hanks-newman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Road to Perdition (2002) 
Director: Sam Mendes
Screenplay: David Self; from Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner&#8217;s graphic novel
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Dylan Baker, Ciarán Hinds, Liam Aiken

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British director Sam Mendes won an Academy Award for his first film, American Beauty, released in 1999. Three years later, for his second film, Road to Perdition, Mendes once again relied on the assistance of cinematographer Conrad L. Hall and composer Thomas Newman  to create another stylized look at dysfunctional American families. But instead of 1990s suburbia, Road to Perdition throws us into the warped universe of a Depression-era Midwestern town, a place where family values include loyalty, faith, extortion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venice Film Festival 2004</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 This past Wednesday, Sept. 1, the 61st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off with a gala screening of Steven Spielberg&#8217;s The Terminal, a box-office and critical disappointment in the United States, where it opened more than two months ago.
At the festival&#8217;s press screening, the film received an equally unenthusiastic reception &#8212; but none of that matters to festival organizers, who surely didn&#8217;t pick Spielberg&#8217;s latest production because of its cinematic qualities. What matters is that both Spielberg and The Terminal&#8217;s star, Tom Hanks, were on hand for the gala evening &#8212; a surefire way to guarantee worldwide coverage for the festival. 
&#34;I wanted a festival of quality films for mass audiences,&#34; says festival director Marco Muller. &#34;But [...]]]></description>
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