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'Pacific Rim' Early Reviews: What the Critics Say About Guillermo del Toro's Monster Movie  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 12:42 PM PDT By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Guillermo del Toro's monsters-vs.-giant-robots opus "Pacific Rim" hits theaters Friday, and the early buzz is that it's a visually sumptuous fantasy from the Mexican moviemaker. Critics have largely praised the film as an indulgent but nonetheless tasty piece of popcorn entertainment - although a few have groused that it is a soulless enterprise unworthy of the director behind such visionary and dark spectacles as "Pan's Labyrinth. ... Full Story	Top
SWV to pursue comeback in new We TV reality show  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 10:53 AM PDT By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - A new unscripted We TV series will follow R&B trio Sisters With Voices - perhaps better known as SWV - as the group makes a comeback attempt. Six one-hour episodes of "SWV - Sisters With Voices" will air in early 2014. Of course, one could say that the group has already made a successful comeback by landing a reality show, but why quibble? "The journey of SWV is the kind of real and personal comeback story our viewers love to see," said Lauren Gellert, WE TV's senior vice president of original production and development. ... Full Story	Top
Village Voice Taps Tom Finkel for Editor  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 10:51 AM PDT By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tom Finkel will take the reins of struggling alt-weekly the Village Voice, the Voice Media Group said Monday. Finkel comes to the New York publication from the company's St. Louis paper, the Riverfront Times. He was also the managing editor at Miami New Times for eight years and edited City Pages in Minneapolis for five years. He joins a paper that has been hard-hit by the downturn in print advertising and battered by high-profile layoffs. In May, Voice editor Will Bourne and deputy editor Jessica Lustig resigned after being ordered to lay off staff. ... Full Story	Top
'Pacific Rim' Review: There Be Monsters in Here Somewhere  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 10:50 AM PDT By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - I would rather have one Chewbacca than an entire clone army." That's how director Angela Robinson reacted when suits at Disney suggested that her film "Herbie: Fully Loaded" feature a computer-generated VW Beetle in the title role rather than a nuts-and-bolts car. Would that Guillermo del Toro had had the same attitude regarding 'Pacific Rim," his new big-budget take on giant robots (here known as "jaegers," German for "hunters") versus giant monsters (which, as any Comic-Con all-access pass-holder can tell you, are known in Japanese as "kaiju"). ... Full Story	Top
Britain on royal baby watch in countdown to arrival  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 10:18 AM PDT By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Photographers are camped outside the hospital, social media are buzzing, and stores are touting baby goods ahead of the expected arrival this week of the future heir to the British throne. Britain is officially on baby watch with Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton awaiting the imminent arrival of their first child who will be third in line to the throne. ... Full Story	Top
Springsteen challenges his band with request orgy  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 08:54 AM PDT By Erik Kirschbaum LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen jumped off the stage and into a frenzied German crowd of 45,000 fans on Sunday in Leipzig to pluck a sign with a hand-written request scrawled on it - as he has been doing all summer on his popular tour across Europe. But when Springsteen whirled around and held up the name of the song for his band to see, jaws dropped and a frightened look crossed their faces. The sign read "You never can tell" by Chuck Berry, a 1964 tune made popular in the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction. ... Full Story	Top
Queen's granddaughter, Zara Phillips and husband expecting baby  Monday, Jul 08, 2013 04:41 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen's granddaughter, Zara Phillips and her husband, rugby player, Mike Tindall are expecting their first baby in the New Year, Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Monday. Phillips' mother, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, her father Captain Mark Phillips and other family members are delighted at the news, the statement added. ... Full Story	Top

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