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HANNA (2011) (***1/2)

There are a bunch of movies that this thriller brings to mind. It's like THE PROFESSIONAL crossed with the BOURNE series and a touch of KICK-ASS. The first and last of those films because of the young female protagonist and the middle one for its reality grounded action. But then you get a dose of fairy tale woven in as well.

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EA, FUNimation Announce Mass Effect Anime Movie Deal

BioWare, a division of leading video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and FUNimation Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, announced today an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from one of the video game industry’s most revered franchises, Mass Effect.

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Green Lantern Special Effects Worker Sued Warner Bros.

Special effects worker John Franco has filed suit against Warner Bros. and numerous other companies over injuries he claims he suffered on the set of GREEN LANTERN, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

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Teaser Trailer Available for Dean Wright's Cristiada

VFX vet Dean Wright (THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE and THE LORD OF THE RINGS) is in post-production on his first directorial feature, CRISTIADA, an epic about the Cristeros War concerning the rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

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Review: 2011 The New York International Children’s Film Festival

The 2011 edition of the New York International Children’s Film Festival began early in March and wrapped on the 27th with its Awards ceremony, classy post-ceremony reception and traditional goodie-bag giveaway. If the fifteen-years and counting Big Apple fixture needed any more legitimacy, its newly won status as an Oscar-qualifying festival (NYCIFF prize winners now have a shot at the Academy’s golden statue) surely kicked it up a notch.

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