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Jones Theatres

Posted Apr 10, 2009 @ 10:34 AM
Last update Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:18 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

Movies playing this week at the Jones Theatres.


Movie 6

Posted Apr 10, 2009 @ 10:36 AM
Last update Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:20 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

Playing this week at Movie 6.


‘Cans Film Festival’ slated for Dec. 3

Posted Nov 16, 2009 @ 10:37 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

Jones Theatres, Inc. and Kool Gold KGFF Radio, AM-1450, are joining forces again to present the annual “Cans Film Festival,” a special movie showing to collect canned goods for the Salvation Army holiday food baskets.


Theatre to change hands

Posted Nov 06, 2009 @ 04:46 PM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

Longtime Shawnee motion picture exhibitor Jones Theatres, Inc., said the company has signed a lease to operate a movie theatre at Shawnee Mall, owned by the Lightstone Group.


'Zombieland' a lively comedy about the undead

Posted Oct 09, 2009 @ 12:04 PM
LOS ANGELES —

You'd be justified in thinking you've visited "Zombieland" before.

After all, there has been no shortage of zombies at the movies in recent years, just as there has been no shortage of vampires. And within that genre, a crop of zombie comedies has arisen, from "Shaun of the Dead" to "Zombie Strippers" to "Dead Snow."


'Couples Retreat' is far from paradise

Posted Oct 09, 2009 @ 11:29 AM
LOS ANGELES —

"Couples Retreat" suggests what life might have been like if the guys from "Swingers" had grown up, moved to the suburbs and turned into lame, sitcommy cliches.

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn team up again, on screen and on the script (along with Dana Fox), for this broad comedy about four couples who go on a tropical vacation together.


Speaker elected for five-year term to actors’ council

Posted Sep 14, 2009 @ 10:13 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

St. Gregory’s University alumnus Jess W. Speaker, III was elected this year to the Council of Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Speaker was elected to serve for five years in a stage manager seat in the Eastern region.

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Film festival kicks off today

Posted Sep 10, 2009 @ 09:50 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

“Deadland,” a sci-fi action movie set in a post-apocalyptic world complete with a worldwide plague and nuclear fallout, will be the opening-night film at the third annual Southern Winds Film Festival, which will again be hosted in Shawnee.

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Festival to show Seminole native's 1st film

Posted Aug 20, 2009 @ 09:55 PM
Last update Aug 21, 2009 @ 09:26 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

The Southern Winds Film Festival in Shawnee will show the documentary “Pappy Boyington Field,” created by Seminole-born Kevin Gonzalez on Sept. 11 in the Hornbeck Theater. The film starts at 1 p.m.

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The Goods' never gets started

Posted Aug 14, 2009 @ 10:27 AM
LOS ANGELES —

Enduring the soul-sucking process of buying a used car is bad enough. Watching a movie about soulless used-car salesmen is even worse — especially when it's a comedy that strains desperately for raunchy, politically incorrect laughs.

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Tribal elders travel to Iowa to participate in filming Tecumseh documentary

Posted Aug 10, 2009 @ 10:10 AM
SHAWNEE, Okla. —

Nearly 150 elders from three local tribes left Oklahoma Wednesday on their way to Tama, Iowa, to take part in the filming of a documentary about legendary Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his legacy, the Shawnee Dance.


Yi's 'Paper Heart' movie blurs reality and fiction

Posted Aug 07, 2009 @ 10:31 AM
LOS ANGELES —

Reality and fiction share the screen in "Paper Heart," a fictional tale of fledgling romance wrapped inside a documentary about whether love exists.

"Paper Heart," conceived by 23-year-old comedian Charlyne Yi, who also stars in the film, introduces viewers to biologists, bikers, a romance novelist, a couple married for 50 years and others who talk about love and how to recognize it.


Film turns downtown Oklahoma City into Texas

Posted Jun 15, 2009 @ 01:40 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY —

For a few days, a portion of downtown Oklahoma City has been transformed into 1950s Texas for the filming of an independent movie.

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Review: 'Pelham' an overcaffeinated thriller

Posted Jun 12, 2009 @ 10:45 AM
LOS ANGELES —

The way the original 1974 film's title has been condensed tells you everything you need to know about the direction "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" is headed. In these fast-paced, mixed-up times, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.

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Another movie to be shot in Guthrie

Posted Jun 10, 2009 @ 11:48 AM
GUTHRIE, Okla. —

A film based on the life of prison reformer Jack Black is to begin filming in Guthrie in July.


Shooting for 'Killer Inside Me' continues in Okla.

Posted May 26, 2009 @ 03:05 PM
GUTHRIE, Okla. —

The first week of filming in Guthrie for the film "The Killer Inside Me" is finished, with more scenes set to be shot in the coming days.


Summer brings new life to familiar film franchises

Posted May 22, 2009 @ 09:55 AM
LOS ANGELES —

Some movie franchises never die; they just start over.

This summer brings new versions of "X-Men," ''Terminator" and "Star Trek" — each revitalized with a tested Tinseltown technique: the origin story.


Machines dominate in fourth 'Terminator'

Posted May 22, 2009 @ 09:53 AM
LOS ANGELES —

We have seen the future in "Terminator Salvation," and the future is noisy.

This fourth flick in the "Terminator" saga takes place in 2018, 14 years after Judgment Day. John Connor is a rising force in the resistance against Skynet, the artificial intelligence network that started thinking for itself and eradicating humanity. He has seen destruction and listened to the recordings left by his mother that foretell his future, but he has yet to send anyone back in time in hopes of stopping it, including the man who will become his father.

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'Wolverine' is just action and more action

Posted May 01, 2009 @ 11:11 AM
LOS ANGELES —

Say you're immortal, and you've served in the battlefields of the Civil War and the trenches of World War I. Wouldn't you eventually want to sit out World War II and Vietnam? Yet Hugh Jackman's mutant Wolverine and his brother (Liev Schreiber) serve in all four wars during a prologue for "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

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Neeson to star as Zeus in 'Clash of the Titans'

Posted Apr 10, 2009 @ 11:00 AM
LOS ANGELES —

Liam Neeson is set to begin work on his first film since the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson.

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