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Children Watching R-Rated Movies Could Lead To Early Drinking

Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:35

Written by Dad Blogs

David Goodhue - AHN News Reporter

Hanover, NH, United States (AHN) - New research from Dartmouth College suggests keeping kids away from R-rated movies could significantly delay when they start drinking alcohol.

The researchers studied 3,600 New England middle school children, and said in a statement that among participants who said their parents never let them watch R movies, few started drinking over the next two years.

Of the group whose parents more carefully monitored their movie watching, 3 percent said they took up drinking when they were questions 13 to 26 months after the initial survey.

But among the group who said their parents let them watch R-rated films "sometimes," 19 percent began drinking, and 25 percent of the group who said their parents "always" let them watch the restricted movies began drinking.

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The Last Airbender Green Hornet To Be Converted To 3D

Friday, 23 April 2010 04:59

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Anthony Jones - AHN Entertainment Reporter

Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) - With the recent undeniable success of 3D movies in theaters, two new films have just been added to the 3D conversion line. M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender" and Michel Gondry's "The Green Hornet" are both heading into another dimension.

According to Deadline, "The Last Airbender" will be converted by Stereo D, the company who worked on the 3D for James Cameron's "Avatar." The film, set for release on July 2nd, is not currently scheduled to have its release date pushed back for the changes.

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Private And Confidential Harry Potter Script Found Abandoned In A Pub

Friday, 09 April 2010 04:54

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Harry Potter y la Orden del Fenix - 2007

Anne Lu - AHN Entertainment Contributor

London, United Kingdom (AHN) - A "Harry Potter" script marked "private and confidential" has been spotted under a pub's table. A reader has spotted 118-page script from "The Deathly Hallows" abandoned in a pub where the film's crew went on a drinking session the night before.

The reader, who found it at the Waterside Tavern pub in Kings Langley, Herts, has surrendered the script to the tabloid The Sun, which surrendered it to Warner Bros.

WB told the paper, "We are grateful to The Sun for the safe return of this script."

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Disney Announces The End Of At The Movies

Friday, 26 March 2010 04:07

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Anne Lu - AHN Entertainment Contributor

Chicago, IL, United States (AHN) - The show that started with the movie critic legends Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and ended with Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott has been canceled. Disney has announced that "At the Movies" will air its final episode in August.

The show started with a show that first featured the partnership of Ebert and Siskel on "Sneak Previews" in 1975. "Siskel and Ebert and The Movies" then began in 1986, which was re-titled to simply "Siskel and Ebert" in 1989.

Siskel was replaced by Richard Roeper when Siskel died in 1999 of brain cancer. The hosts were replaced by Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz in 2008 after Roeper left and Ebert was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Last year, Scott and Phillips became the show's permanent critics. The show will air its last broadcast on August 14, 2010.

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Top Five Sports Movies of All-Time?

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:42

Written by auncfan

Cover of Hoosiers

With March Madness just around the corner, I'm sure "the boy" (aka my 9 year old son) and I will take in a viewing of "Hoosiers" to get into the spirit of the single greatest sporting event in the United States. Being Tar Heel fans, we'll also need something to take our minds off of the disappointment of not making the field of 64 this year. Even if they expand it to 9064, I'm not sure the Heels would get the invite. They will be participants in the N.I.T (Not in Tournament) this year. So I digress.....

What are the Top Five Sports Movies in your opinion? I'm talking the movies that are "must see TV". We're talking the movies that you propped your child's bouncy seat in front of before they were old enough to ever ask for Barney or Yo Gabba Gabba? I'm aging myself here, but when I was in grade school, I went to see Rocky III. At the end of the movie, a Dad that had brought his kids to the movie stood up and cheered when Rocky knocked out Apollo Creed. I'm not sure why I even bring that up, but I still laugh when I think about it. First because our parents dropped us off. Second because we were like "dude...it's only a movie".

Below is my Top 5. I'm interested to hear yours as well.

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