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Actor Edward Woodward Dies At Age 79; Starred In Cult Hit "The Wicker Man"
16 hours ago
Woodward accepts the Emmy for his performance as The Equalizer.
Actor Edward Woodward has passed away at age 79. The acclaimed star of stage and screen had appeared in many high-profile films including Breaker Morant, The Final Option, Young Winston and - more recently- the hit British comedy Hot Fuzz. He also starred in the popular British TV series Callan. However, Woodward will always be associated with the classic cult horror film The Wicker Man in which he plays a police inspector whose search for a missing girl leads him to interact with a bizarre society that mingles sex, murder and the occult. The film's long and pained history has been the subject of books and documentaries, but suffice it to say that it became a far bigger hit in the years after its initial release. Woodward co-starred in it with Sir Christopher Lee. In the 1980s, Woodward became a popular »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
"2012" A Tidal Wave At International Boxoffice; $225 Million Gross
19 hours ago
By Lee Pfeiffer
The critically-lambasted Roland Emmerich disaster flick 2012 defied expectations and has amassed a gigantic opening gross of $225 million from international play dates. The film benefited from a strong marketing campaign that persuaded plenty of dimwits in the audience that the world really is expected to end in 2012, based on some hooey in an ancient Mayan calendar. So many people bombarded Nasa with their concerns that, for the first time, the space agency had to go viral in their own marketing campaign to assure these folks that the world isn't really scheduled to be destroyed in 2012. (If that were the case, you could at least be assured that Cinema Retro wouldn't send you any more of those annual letters cajoling you to renew your subscription.) Disney's A Christmas Carol held strong and looks to build into a sizable holiday hit. The rock-oriented Pirate Radio opened weak but the studio »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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