Naomi Watts has been tapped to play Princess Diana in the film, “Caught in Flight.” The British-Australian actress will star in the Oliver Hirschbiegel directed biopic, which will focus on the last two years of Diana’s life and her relationship with surgeon Hasnat Khan, the BBC reports . Read full article > >

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“ Luck ,” HBO’s new gritty, realistic (if somewhat confusing) horse racing drama, is in hot water with PETA, after it became public that two horses died during the filming of the series’s first season. As Entertainment Weekly reported , the pilot — which fictionalized a horse being injured and euthanized in one scene — did not carry the American Humane Association’s stamp to assure viewers that “No animals were harmed” during filming. That’s because a horse suffered a severe fracture while filming a race sequence and had to be euthanized. The same fate befell a second horse during episode seven’s filming. Read full article > >

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There’s paranormal, and then there’s para- puhleeez . The line between those two can be quite fine, especially when results vary from viewer to viewer. “The River,” which premieres on ABC on Tuesday night, leaps back and forth from frightening to ridiculous so often that it might as well be performing double-Dutch jump rope. It’s a drama about a film crew that goes in search of missing nature/adventure TV show host Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood), who was last seen shooting episodes of his docu-series, “The Undiscovered Country,” in remote tributaries of the Amazon River. He was presumed dead — until his GPS locator started beeping out a distress signal. Read full article > >

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ABC’s ‘The River’: Creepshow catches a bad case of jungle rot

Michael Fassbender wins the best actor prize at the Evening Standard British film awards for his roles in sex addiction drama Shame and Jane Eyre.

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US film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died in New York at the age of 81.

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Acting veteran Ben Gazzara dies

Appeared in more than 100 films and TV series.

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Actor admits he was intoxicated while filming.

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It’s a football weekend: The Redskins aren’t playing, but they did beat Super Bowl contender New York Giants twice. Twice! So should the Giants win, that’s a nice feather in Washington’s cap. Whichever team you’re rooting for, you’ll want to check our ideas for the best places to watch the big game . Of course, there are plenty of great events in the days leading up to the game, and we’ve got a list of those, too . Our favorites include performances by Step Afrika!, a film series dedicated to female directors and dubstep trailblazers Skream & Benga. Read full article > >

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UK cinema box office takings passed the £1bn mark for the first time last year, according to the British Film Institute (BFI).

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John Latenser doesn’t want to lose his dome. The Bethesda-based location scout was standing last week on one of Hollywood’s favorite spots in D.C., a sliver of pavement at the edge of the reflecting pool with the U.S. Capitol looming just so over his shoulder — as it has loomed over Sean Penn, Aaron Eckhart and various Transformer robots . Read full article > >

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Filming movies in Washington, D.C., just got harder

Its first chunk of investor funding is almost gone, and DreamWorks, which garnered 10 Oscar nominations this year from two of its films, must find more, or reduce its ambitions.

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Dreamworks Caught in a Real-Life Drama

Sean Penn discusses his new film, “This Must Be the Place,” by Paolo Sorrentino, and his relief work in Haiti.

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A documentary, “Room 237,” collects theories and interpretations surrounding the symbols and intentions of Stanley Kubrick in his film “The Shining.”

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Wait, they haven’t given out the Oscars for last year’s films and we’re already talking about 2012? It’s hard to believe another movie season is upon us — and even harder, at a time when Hollywood seems more addicted than ever to sequels, prequels and reboots, that we might go to the multiplex and enjoy something genuinely original. The spring collection of films includes its share of adaptations of proven properties, but as anyone familiar with “Batman” or “The Green Lantern” knows, it’s all in the execution. Here are some opening dates to circle (and maybe one to cross off): Read full article > >

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Spring preview — Films: ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Moonrise Kingdom’