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Have to admit, I'm a bit surprised that a remake of My Fair Lady has generated as much talk as it has in 2009, but that's what happens when a couple of very high profile names get attached.

In January 2006, Hollywood came to Cape Girardeau. Johnny Knoxville and Diane Lane were among the actors, actresses and stage crew who ascended upon the town for scenes filmed at the Missouri Dry Dock and other locations for the movie "Killshot". Though most of the scenes shot in Cape Girardeau were cut from the film's final version, the economic ...

When you're making a "boy meets girl" romantic comedy, it helps if the boy already knows the girl.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt goes gooey for Zooey in " Days of Summer" By Denise Martin Zooey Deschanel works her magic in this Sundance crowd-pleaser about a guy, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who falls hard for a girl who doesn't believe in love.

How you view or regard every day of the week depends on what you do, what you like and a myriad other reasons.

Film distributors and exhibitors in Argentina have suspended the premieres of 'Hannah Montana: The Movie' and other big releases set for Thursday as an outbreak of AH1N1 swine flu hits attendance during winter break, the year's biggest season.

Kevin Spacey will star in and produce "Father of Invention," an ensemble comedy whose cast includes Heather Graham as a lesbian who sleeps with his character.

A Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment release of a Weinstein Co. presentation of a Film Colony and Lawrence Bender production.

The entertainment world, at least where it pertains to technology, morphs, twists, turns, and fires so fast it's hard to keep up.

Cape Girardeau's little courtship with Hollywood known as "Killshot" has really faded into our distant collective memory - a place where we store things that we really don't even care to dig up, judging by the lack of reaction we get at semissourian.com when we post anything related to the movie.

Revolutionary Road: American Beauty director Sam Mendes returns to familiar terrain, only in a time-warp, as he directs Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in this existential take on 1960s suburbia based on Richard Yates's novel.

Cold Case: KILLSHOT The Reel Story: Mickey Rourke is The Blackbird, a stone cold half Ojibway hitman commuting between Toronto and Detroit adding bodies to his resume.

If "Fighting for Life" doesn't leave you an emotional wreck, you're probably a lost cause.

"Killshot" Rated R • WHO: Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Thomas Jane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Hal Holbrook, Lois Smith • THE SCOOP: Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, this story concerns a couple with marital woes who must go into the Federal Witness Protection Program after stumbling upon an extortion scheme ...

Although not nearly so well known as its critical acclaim would suggest, Yates' novel, about an unhappily married couple living in the Connecticut suburbs in 1955, had long been contemplated for the movies.

'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' returns to the shelves in Blu-ray form 17 years after its initial release.

NEW IN TOWN 2.5 stars $29.95. 97 mins. A female executive anticipating a big promotion agrees to move from sunny Miami to remote Minnesota to restructure a manufacturing plant.

Land of the Lost: The Complete Series Seven-Disc Box Set Land of the Lost: The Complete Series has been out of print for some time and is now being re-released to coincide with Will Ferrell's big-budget spoof of the classic '70s Saturday morning TV show.

DVD Tuesday: 'Robin Hood' on Blu-ray & 'Killshot' By W. Andrew Powell May 26, 2009 Category: DVDs Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Out this week on Blu-ray, Kevin Costner stars in one of his last good films, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves .

Also releasing this week. New In Town - Renee Zellwegger in what looks like a remake of NORTHERN EXPOSURE.