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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 5 Free ‘The Grey’ Blu-rays With Liam Neeson
CHICAGO – In our latest action/adventure edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Blu-ray, we have 5 Blu-rays up for grabs for the highly anticipated home entertainment release of “The Grey” starring...
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Blu-ray Review: Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ Fails to Explore Its Alleged Subject
CHICAGO – Madonna’s “W.E.” completes a trilogy of lackluster Oscar bait released last year by the Weinstein Company. Each film squandered potentially fascinating subject matter by upstaging it with...
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TV News: FOX Renews ‘Touch,’ Cancels ‘Alcatraz’
CHICAGO – Good news, bad news for fans of FOX dramas. To no one’s surprise, FOX has pulled the plug on their highly-promoted “Alcatraz” as ratings plummeted throughout the season. A little more...
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Film Feature: Five Ways to Make Sure That ‘The Avengers 2’ Doesn’t Suck
CHICAGO – If there’s one thing that Marvel superhero movies do well, it’s set up extremely-high expectations for the next Marvel superhero movie. “Iron Man 2” got us excited for “Thor.” Then “Thor” got...
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TV News: NBC Renews ‘Community,’ ‘30 Rock,’ ‘Parenthood’
CHICAGO – Good news, TV fans. NBC has made official several of their on-the-bubble shows, renewing “Community,” “30 Rock,” and “Parenthood.” The good news is a bit tempered though as “30 Rock” has been...
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TV News: ABC Renews Seven Shows Including ‘Once Upon a Time,’ ‘Revenge,’...
CHICAGO – In advance of next week’s official Fall schedule announcement, ABC gave a vote of confidence to seven of their biggest shows, revealing that they will be a part of the 2012-2013 schedule. The...
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TV News: CBS Cancels ‘A Gifted Man,’ ‘Cougar Town’ Moves to TBS
CHICAGO – As we told you would happen earlier this week (in this feature), CBS has canceled “A Gifted Man,” a show that had a small audience from day one and ABC has finally given up on “Cougar Town,”...
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Film Review: Bobcat Goldthwait’s ‘God Bless America’ Takes Aim at Stupidity
Rating: 3.0/5.0 CHICAGO – While I’m writing this, a commercial for “My American Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” is playing on TV. It seems appropriate to kick off writing about a film that takes satirical aim...
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TV News: NBC Renews ‘Parks & Recreation,’ ‘The Office,’ ‘Up All Night’
CHICAGO – Now this is getting interesting. NBC has officially renewed three comedies — “Parks & Recreation,” “The Office,” and the very on-the-bubble “Up All Night.” Rumors of “Parks” only getting...
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TV Review: USA Tries to Find Ratings Gold Again with ‘Common Law’
CHICAGO – Is the USA model getting a little tired to anyone else? Does every show have to be a mystery-of-the-week series? Can they try something totally new? “Common Law” is not as quirky as some of...
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TV News: ABC Renews ‘Happy Endings’
CHICAGO – Here’s some great news to end your week — ABC has officially renewed “Happy Endings,” bringing their total of renewals in advance of next week’s full schedule announcement to eight. This...
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TV News: NBC Cancels Four Shows Including ‘Bent,’ ‘Awake’
CHICAGO – NBC released the least surprising quartet of cancellations in a very long time by announcing that four of their under-performers will not be on the list when schedules are announced next week...
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Film Review: Brit Marling Speaks Volumes in ‘Sound of My Voice’
CHICAGO – Fresh off her Spirit Award nominated film “Another Earth,” the up-and-coming filmmaker Brit Marling again writes and stars in “Sound of My Voice,” portraying another mysterious and...
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TV News: The CW Renews ‘Nikita,’ ‘Hart of Dixie,’ ‘Gossip Girl,’ Cancels ‘The...
CHICAGO – Well, now this is a bit unpredictable. While the other networks have fallen relatively in line with predictions (CBS, NBC, and ABC have yet to do anything that we didn’t predict in our...
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TV News: NBC Cancels ‘Harry’s Law’
CHICAGO – This one was predictable. NBC continues to leak out their renewals and cancellations one piece at a time. Despite having decent overall ratings, the youth demo that advertisers want never...
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TV News: ABC Renews ‘Scandal,’ Cancels ‘GCB’
CHICAGO – TV By the Numbers reports that ABC has given a thumbs up to a second season of Shonda Rhimes’ “Scandal” while also deciding that “Desperate Housewives” clone “GCB” was never going to find an...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: ‘RENT’ Prequel ‘tick, tick... BOOM!’ & The...
CHICAGO – In the latest extra-special HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Music with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 2 admit-two passes up for grabs for the “RENT” prequel and Chicago rock...
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TV News: ABC Renews Four Shows Including ‘Body of Proof’
CHICAGO – ABC decided to throw TV journalists a curveball late on Friday when they announced the renewal of two on-the-bubble shows that most were predicting would get the axe — drama “Body of Proof”...
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TV News: Recap of Cancellations, Renewals For 2012-13 Season
CHICAGO – With the onslaught of news stories this week about what would and what would not be included in next week’s Fall schedule announcements, it’s easy to lose track of your favorite show. Let us...
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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 30 Pairs of Chicago Passes to Sundance Ballet...
CHICAGO – Last-minute Hookup! In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 30 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the...
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