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2008

21 is the fact based story about six M.I.T students who were trained in the art of card counting. They subsequently took the Vegas casinos for millions! Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) and young Hollywood super star Kate Boswoth (Superman Returns) star in this clever and adrenaline filled heist film. An .. Read more

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  Farrell and Harris 'to join Way Back'

  • 09 Jan 2009

  Colin Farrell and Ed Harris are in final discussions to join the cast of Peter Weir's wartime drama The Way Back. Based on the memoirs of Slavomir Rawicz, the movie tells the story of a group of soldiers who attempt to escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942. According to Variety, Farrell will play a Russian in the movie, which is scheduled to start shooting in Bulgaria in March. Ed Harris is to play an American, while Jim Sturgess and 14-year-old Atonement actress Saoirse Ronan will portray a... Read more

  

  Viva Las Vegas!

  • 08 Apr 2008

  "You're talking about counting cards?!" Jim Sturgess deduces as he's inducted into a very different kind of math club in the movie 21. When? Every weekend. Where? Smug smiles from Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth and the gang… Welcome to Sin City! Just a couple of years younger than Hollywood, 225 miles to the West, Las Vegas seems to exert a magnetic hold on filmmakers - and has done ever since the mafioso Bugsy Siegel built the Flamingo Hotel for his girlfriend, the actress Virginia Hill, in 1946. Read more

  

  Iron Man maintains grip on UK box office

  • 14 May 2008

  Marvel Comics adaptation Iron Man has continued its blockbusting ways by holding on the top spot at the UK box office and becoming the highest-grossing film on the chart, new figures from Nielsen show. The high-octane flick, which stars Robert Downey Jr in the lead role alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges, clobbered new entry What Happens In Vegas… with Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz to stay top dog - or Iron Man - in the chart. This week's number three spot went to break up comedy Read more

  

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  • 07 Apr 2008

  In the mid 90s, around the time Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were concocting Good Will Hunting, a story about a janitor at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with a genius for numbers, along with half a dozen real MIT students, were cashing in on their talent. Every Friday night they would board a plane from Boston to Las Vegas, Nevada and hit the casinos. Every Sunday, they would return to their college rooms, several thousand dollars better off. They weren't breaking the law, but... Read more

  

  21 twists to the top of box office chart

  • 31 Mar 2008

  Gambling drama 21 has knocked animated hit Horton Hears A Who! from the top spot at the US box office, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. The film, which stars Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne and Kate Bosworth, is based on the true story of six MIT students who took several Las Vegas casinos to the cleaners after studying card counting techniques. It also won big at US cinemas, taking $23.7 million (£11.93 million) on its opening weekend. That was enough to knock Horton Hears A Read more

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    Inspired by a true story, 21 mixes Las Vegas casino wheeling and dealing with college-kid angst. Kevin Spacey is crafty MIT professor Micky Rosa, who trains gifted students to count cards and then flies them out to Vegas to raid the blackjack tables between classes. At first they rake in a bundle, ...

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    21 is the fact based story about six M.I.T students who were trained in the art of card counting. They subsequently took the Vegas casinos for millions! Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) and young Hollywood super star Kate Boswoth (Superman Returns) star in this clever and ...

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