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Bond movie Skyfall's deserted island a real place -- in Japan

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If you've seen Skyfall, you've probably been struck by the lair that the movie's villain has. It turns out, those deserted buildings and run down landscape are real, and really deserted, with a complicated history dating back to 19th century Japan.
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Critics agree new Twilight movie unlike its predecessors

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Twilight is on track to be the largest movie of the year, in terms of box officie receipts. It had a huge opening, raking in $140 million, making it the second biggest opening of the series, however. Critics, however, say this time the series is different.
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New Ken Burns documentary looks at Dust Bowl, 'worst sustained environmental disaster' in U.S. history

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Ken Burns is widely celebrated for the incredible documentaries he brings to television. His latest work, set to air on PBS stations Nov. 18 and Nov. 19, looks at the conditions that led to the Dust Bowl -- an environmental disaster called the worst in our history, and how it happened.
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New movie looks at the struggles of foreign-born, adopted children

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Somewhere Between seeks to tell the story of the 80,000 girls adopted from Chinese families over the past 25 years. What feelings do they have as they manage their quest to understand what their roots are, and how that culture meshes with the culture they grew up in, here in the United States.
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'Lincoln,' 'Skyfall' bring history into movie theaters this weekend

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Abraham Lincoln wasn't just Honest Abe, he had a wheeling and dealing political side. That's the take of the new movie, Lincoln, out this weekend. It'll be up against Skyfall, the 50th anniversary edition of the James Bond series.
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New Zealand debuts Hobbit-themed currency as movie anticipation builds

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The Hobbit will debut this winter, and in anticipation, New Zealand is turning itself into Middle Earth. Air New Zealand re-did its in-flight safety video and now the country is unveiling coins, legal currency, with hobbits pictured on them.
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Documentary filmmaker examines reasons why Americans don't vote

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Errol Morris makes political ads, among other TV and movie productions, and even made a series of commercials in support of John Kerry's losing campaign in 2004. His latest project, though, is apolitical, and looks at why Americans just don't vote.
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Stella Rimington: The real woman behind James Bond's M

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When the British government first decided to reveal the person behind their MI5 spy agency, many were surprised to find that the person was a she, not a he. That woman was Stella Rimington, who's become the basis of James Bond's M -- and a fiction writer in her own right.
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Jack Black discusses surprisingly different role in 2011's 'Bernie'

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Jack Black is a well-known Hollywood clown. He's been in bunches of movie, playing a role of the laughable jokester. But that's not his only side. In 2011, he played a serious murderer in Bernie. And amidst all of that, he's part of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
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Journalist discusses details of real life story behind new movie 'Argo'

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In the wake of the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979, six Americans managed to take refuge with Canadian diplomats. The Canadians and the CIA worked together to create a fake movie that would provide cover for them to leave the country. The whole matter is the plot for a new movie, out this week.
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