Filmmaking 101

AP - Indiana Jones managed to retrieve the trinket he was after in the opening moments of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He pretty much wrecked everything else in the ancient South American temple where the little gold idol had rested for millennia.

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E! Online - Ever wonder what camp classic “Kung Fu Fighting” would sound like as performed by Jack Black and Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Green? Then you are a freak.

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AP - Drew Barrymore was involved in a hit-and-run accident, but instead of staying put, she followed the other driver and took down the license plate number.

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E! Online - “Aren’t we all supposed to be a little bit the victim of trends? I can look back at pictures of myself with the great assurance that I will be embarrassed by about 60 percent of them. This is the nature of fashion—admiring the wrong girl, you know, looking at the wrong picture, wishing you were somebody else. And that’s the developmentally correct thing.”

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AP - More is more in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” the follow-up to the 2005 fantasy hit “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.” It’s simultaneously darker and funnier, more substantive and more engaging, more violent and more technically accomplished.

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E! Online - For the little kids in grown-ups who have yet to grow up, good news is on the horizon: A double helping of nostalgia will soon be making its way to screens both big and small.

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Reuters - Hard-hitting Brazilian film “Blindness” gets the Cannes film festival under way on Wednesday, kicking off 12 hectic days of movies, publicity and late-night revelry in the Riviera resort.

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Reuters - “The Sound of Music,” one of Hollywood’s greatest money-spinners, will scale new heights when the original von Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July.

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AP - Turns out it was a nicotine jones that led to Shia LaBeouf’s arrest in Chicago.

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Reuters - Director Andrew Adamson knows box office magic with his first three feature films making more than $2.1 billion worldwide.

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