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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – A major food TV show and production company are interested in filming in Tucson—something local leaders say could bring big bucks to the area. While exactly what show and production company is still under wraps, Tucson is making historical moves to bring them here.

Gone are the hay days of westerns filmed in Southern Arizona, along with many major film and TV production.

“Arizona, Tucson and Pima County in general, are a little bit behind all the time because we don’t have film incentives. We’re competing with New Mexico on these things all the

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UNCERTAIN, Texas — **EDITOR’S NOTE: The video above is from Sept. 2020.

East Texas is going to welcoming the Hollywood lights, at least for a little while.

According to the Texarkana Gazette, the upcoming feature film, tentatively known as “Untitled Caddo Lake Film” is looking for locals from East Texas, Shreveport and other areas surrounding Caddo Lake to fill 40-plus paid roles with speaking parts. Most roles will only require one-to-two days of work.

The film, which is set to begin production in October, will be produced by Academy

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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese actor Sonny Chiba, who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” has died. He was 82.

Chiba, known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday in a hospital near Tokyo where he had been treated for COVID-19 since Aug. 8, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday. It said he had not been vaccinated.

Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world. He did many

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For the second time in a year, Samuel L. Jackson is playing a hitman in a movie. And for the second time in a year, you’ll wish he hadn’t. 

His assassin character in “The Protégé,” Moody, is nowhere near as obnoxious and loud as Darius Kincaid from “Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.” Still, the actor should try another fictional profession on for size. Preferably in a movie that’s not a garbled mess.

Samuel L. Jackson trains Maggie Q to be a killing machine in "The Protege."
Samuel L. Jackson trains Maggie Q to be a killing machine in “The Protégé.”
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“The Protégé” starts out well enough. On a job, Moody discovers a

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In the latest case of Amazon’s extreme room illiteracy, the corporate overlords acquired a new film produced by Jungle Cruise co-stars Emily Blunt and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, based on the life and subterfuge of Kate Warne, the first female member of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Yes, the same private security firm that crushed late 19th and early 20th century labor movements, often violently, is back with a whole new feminist attitude and the backing of a remarkably successful union-busting megacorporation.

Well, the whole feminist thing might not be new—nor the Pinkertonian propaganda. This mass-market glorification of a

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Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige responds to the lack of a Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer, saying that it will come before the film releases.

Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, has confirmed that a trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home will be released before the film hits theaters. Fans have been wanting a trailer for a while now, and the film is seemingly talked about on social media in great lengths. This has been a highly anticipated film, especially since fans have loved Tom Holland’s portrayal of Peter Parker and his appearances in other MCU films. His two solo films, 

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When the Egyptian director Ayten Amin was 10 years old, a classmate’s sister killed herself. The news gripped the school. But, in a society where suicide is a sin, no one talked about it; instead, they mourned the girl as though she had died mysteriously, or in an accident. “When I was shooting my first film, it suddenly hit me,” Amin says over a video call from her home in Cairo. “How did my classmate feel back then? How did she grow up knowing what happened, but with no one talking about it?”

In her new film, Souad, Amin

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