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10/25/09 The 50 comeback concerts Michael Jackson planned in London last summer sold out in a few hours.  |  JAM! Showbiz

04/20/09 Woodstock may have taken place 40 years ago, but the Oscar-winning film that chronicled that landmark event -- along with such features as "Don't Look Back," "The Last Waltz" and "Stop Making Sense" -- set the bar so high that few music-driven documentaries in their wake have measured up.  |  Variety

04/17/09 X-Men franchise producer Laura Shuler-Donner clarified this week one of the big mysteries and confusions about the upcoming X-Men: First Class project, although given the title and source material, it shouldn't have been a mystery at all.  |  Rotten Tomatoes

04/07/09 Shock, disbelief and a deep sadness pervade the independent film world after the sudden death of Wouter Barendrecht, co-founder and chairman of Fortissimo Films, who died of a heart attack Sunday at 43.  |  The Hollywood Reporter

01/07/09 The Top 10 mania that grips year-end film culture provides some of the most vulgar oversimplifications, abstractions, nonsense, critical self-regard and hype known to man.  |  Defamer

01/04/09 The Hollywood Reporter: You're one of a handful of directors who really acts as your own music supervisor on your movies.  |  The Hollywood Reporter