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Miranda July Returns to Movies

About time! According to Anne Thompson , director/artist Miranda July has finally completed her second film (after winning the Camera d’Or for her first, Me and You and Everyone We Know ). It’s a relationship comedy costarring Hamish Linklater called The Future , and it’s about a self-obsessed couple who can’t stop Googling their own names. In honor of July’s last effort, let’s start pooping back and forth in anticipation. [ Thompson on Hollywood ]

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ScarJo and Sam Rockwell Board Kubrick Film

For a dead man, Stanley Kubrick sure is prolific. Steven Spielberg mounted his A.I. : Artificial Intelligence as a semi-posthumous collaboration with the director, and now a lost Jim Thompson story commissioned by Kubrick is scheduled to go before cameras with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johanssen starring. Next up for dead Stanley: tackling 3D! [ Production Weekly ]

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ScarJo and Sam Rockwell Board Kubrick Film

Senior Citizen Football Star

At 61-years-old, Tom Thompson says he’s kicking it old school, playing as a kicker for the Kangaroo football team at Austin College in Texas. kxii’s Maddie Garrett has the full story from the field.

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Senior Citizen Football Star

Emma Thompson’s Name To Be Removed From Polanski Petition This Week

Emma Thompson was on The View today to talk about her admirable work fighting sex trafficking. Strangely, the ladies didn’t ask her about another case of sexual exploitation—the one Roman Polanski perpetrated and Thompson initially appeared to endorse. Thompson, you see, disappointed many of her fans earlier this fall when she signed a petition — along with a host of other boldface names , including Salman Rushdie, Natalie Portman, and Diane Von Furstenburg — demanding that Polanski be freed on charges relating to his rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977

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Jack Thompson Sues Facebook

Jack Thompson, the disbarred crusader against violent video games, has sued Facebook, alleging site users posted violent threats against him. In a Facebook group called “I Hate Jack Thompson”, one post in particular was singled out and mentioned in the lawsuit

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