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Dam Short Film Festival founder builds audience and community

The Dam Short Film Festival, which has grown every year since first being presented in 2005, will screen 124 shorts Tuesday through Saturday at the historic Boulder Theatre.

Marilyn Monroe’s dress worn for Kennedy’s birthday up for auction

The flesh-colored, skin-tight beaded gown Marilyn Monroe wore during her breathless rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy is going on the auction block this fall.

‘The Secret Life of Pets’ unleashes clever comedy

Ever wonder what your pets do while you’re at work all day? Me neither. But that’s the premise of the thoroughly entertaining “The Secret Life of Pets,” which offers nearly as much for grown-ups as it does kids.

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Helicopter pilot dishes on years flying filmmakers around Las Vegas

The coolest thing that has ever happened in a helicopter piloted by Tom Schaus was not when Steven Soderbergh operated a camera from the passenger seat during the making of “Ocean’s Eleven.”

 
With ‘Revenant,’ Oscar winner Inarritu crafts riveting tale of revenge

You rarely think of an Oscar-winning piece of directing as merely a tuneup. Yet Alejandro G. Inarritu has expanded upon some of the techniques he mastered in 2014’s “Birdman” and applied them to “The Revenant” to create a truly spectacular tale of revenge.

 
Stage crasher interrupts People’s Choice awards

Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Depp and hit film “Furious 7” were among the top winners at Wednesday’s People’s Choice awards, which featured an on-stage incident that recalled Kanye West’s Video Music Awards antics seven years ago.

Disney has found the voice for ‘Moana’

Walt Disney Animation Studios has tapped Hawaiian newcomer Auli’i Cravalho to voice the title character in the upcoming animated adventure “Moana.”

 
What Hollywood is doing to address its transgender talent shortage

Hollywood is seeing a boom in movies, TV shows and reality series about transgender topics. To meet the demand, casting directors and producers are often going through unorthodox channels to find transgender talent – experienced or not.

Hollywood is going to extremes to promote new movies

Hollywood studios are going to ever more creative lengths to attract attention in a jam-packed entertainment market where social media plays a key role in promoting content.

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