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'Titanic' Effects Maker Files for Chapter 11

Less than a year after going public, the digital production company founded by director James Cameron has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell the core of its business to a private investment firm for $15 million.

Digital Domain Media Group Inc., best known for its work on Cameron's "Titanic," has produced visual effects for more than 90 movies, including "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and the "Transformers" series. And in April, its Tupac Shakur hologram made a splash when it took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and appeared to perform alongside Snoop Dogg.

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NBC's 'Today' Skips 9/11 Moment for Kardashian

While its rivals covered the solemn commemoration of the first plane striking the World Trade Center on Tuesday, NBC's "Today" show aired Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner talking about her breast augmentation.

It was an embarrassing moment for the once-dominant morning show, now often beaten by ABC's "Good Morning America" in the ratings, and showed the continued delicacy of Sept. 11 memories for television.

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Bob Dylan: Stigma of Slavery Ruined America

Bob Dylan says the stigma of slavery ruined America and he doubts the country can get rid of the shame because it was "founded on the backs of slaves."

The veteran musician tells Rolling Stone that in America "people (are) at each other's throats just because they are of a different color," adding that "it will hold any nation back." He also says blacks know that some whites "didn't want to give up slavery."

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Paraguay's Lone Film Thrills Toronto Festival

Two Paraguay filmmakers proved this week that a hit movie can be made on a small budget, with the international premiere of their crime thriller "7 boxes" (7 Cajas) at the Toronto film festival.

Directors Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori's first feature film is the only one from Paraguay being screened at North America's biggest film festival.

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Jolie Visits Jordan Camp for Syrian Refugees

The U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, is touring a refugee camp in Jordan for Syrians who fled the civil war in their country.

The Hollywood star arrived on Tuesday morning in the Zaatari camp, which hosts about 27,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict. She met with Syrian refugee women separately and toured the sprawling tent city.

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Marc Jacobs Goes Big On Stripes at NY Fashion Week

Marc Jacobs kicked romanticism to the curb with a bold New York fashion week show dominated by hypnotizing stripes and delivered at crackerjack speed.

Celebrities including singer-designer Kelly Osbourne and Latino heart throb Ricky Martin joined the crowd Monday at the Lexington Armory, where Jacobs sent his models out to the beat of "Copped It" by British punk group The Fall.

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Motherhood Makes Actress Alba in Tech Entrepreneurs

Film star Jessica Alba swapped Hollywood for Silicon Valley on Monday, introducing fellow technology entrepreneurs to her new Internet firm, inspired by motherhood.

The star, known for roles in films including "The Fantastic Four", said it was becoming a mom that compelled her to create The Honest Company devoted to non-toxic, environmentally-friendly products for families.

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Director Lana (Larry) Wachowski Comes Out As Transgendered

"Cloud Atlas" co-director Lana Wachowski this week publicly embraced her gender switch from Larry for the first time -- with bright pink dreads.

Her sex change was long rumored, but never confirmed as Wachowski had previously avoided interviews and publicity tours by insisting on no-press clauses in her film contracts.

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Lawrence, Cooper Drip 'chemistry' in New Films

Actors Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper won over audiences and at least one director as an onscreen cute couple at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday.

"A gift to a director is chemistry and these two had a great chemistry," said David O. Russell, after directing the pair in his latest film "Silver Linings Playbook."

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Makeup Masks All-Star Cast in 'Cloud Atlas'

Heaps of makeup transformed the all-star cast of "Cloud Atlas," which premiered on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, "startling" the cast members themselves, they said.

"I loved working with Hugh (Grant), you didn't know it was him until he said (in a thick English accent) 'Oh fuck off,'" quipped actor Jim Broadbent at a press conference.

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