Instead of going the traditional route to market “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a film producer decided to spend the entire budget to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

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It starts off strong, and it ends even stronger. And there’s the middle.
Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” and “Rebecca” and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray, died Sunday. She was 96.
Tolkien tops princess power at the multiplex.
For a movie that’s all about literally going home again, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” is further proof of just how hard it is to do so figuratively.
The searing historical epic “12 Years a Slave” and the con-artist caper “American Hustle” lead the 71st annual Golden Globes with seven nominations each.
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