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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Free movies, cool junk and a surprise
— Free stuff at Alamo South: “Shrek” at 1 p.m. Friday, “Batman the Movie” at noon Saturday and classic “Superman” cartoons at 1 p.m. next Monday through Thursday.
— The British version of the MPAA wants to rate Internet content.
— More movies at the Cathedral of Junk this Saturday.
— There’s a surprise in “Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” and you shouldn’t click here if you don’t want to know it.
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Movies on iTunes?
It could happen by this fall. The New York Times is reporting that Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs is in talks with studios. Movie sales have been discussed in the past, the story says, but studios are now more receptive since TV shows have done so well online. Studios aren’t keen on Jobs’ proposal to charge just $9.99 for movies already available on DVD, the Times says.
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The Bollywood Superman
— The Indian super-hero movie “Krrish” is set to open Friday at the Tinseltown Austin theater. Here’s a link to more info about the “masked man who leaps from skyscraper to skyscraper, saves the world and suddenly breaks into song.”
— Halle Berry gets a kitten. No, that’s not really news, but the pictures are cute.
— The Movie Binge looks ahead to “Wordplay,” opening Friday in Austin, and “The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green”, set to open here July 28.
— Tinkerbell will finally speak and when she does, she’ll sound a bit like Luanne Platter.
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