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Now You See Me 2: Will Eisenberg and Ruffalo Return?

Now You See Me 2: Will Eisenberg and Ruffalo Return?

By Kit Simpson Browne for Moviepilot..

It may well be, as Now You See Me argued, that “the closer you look, the less you’ll see.” In this instance, though, no matter how close you look, you’ll see more or less the same thing: Now You See Me 2 is on its way, and it’s reportedly set to be directed by G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s Jon M. Chu.

According to The Wrap, the three-time Step Up sequel director is set to follow up his recent work on Jem and the Holograms with the sequel to 2013’s surprise sleeper hit. Now You See Me grossed more than $350 million worldwide on its original release, which evidently more than made up for the middling reviews it received – at least in the eyes of producers.

The big question now, though, is whether the original movie’s all star cast will return…

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How Magic Can Help Underprivileged Israeli Teenagers Get Ahead..

How Magic Can Help Underprivileged Israeli Teenagers Get Ahead..

Iris Mansour for The Tablet..

Ophir Samson was sitting with a friend last year at one of his favorite restaurants in Jaffa when a young waiter approached the table, reached behind Samson’s ear, and pulled out a gold coin. After a brief moment of confusion, Samson smiled as he managed to place him: Over eight weeks in early 2012, Samson had taught magic tricks to a group of 15 teenagers at Jaffa’s Arab-Jewish Community Center. More than a year had passed, but this former student clearly remembered what he’d been taught.

The kids at the Community Center, Samson said, were typical teenagers: hard to control but energetic and engaging. They’d call their British-born teacher “Harry Potter” but would quiet down at the chance to learn a trick and the subtle steps and technical skills—practiced for hours, yet unnoticed by an audience—that turn a rusty amateur into a confident magician.

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TED Talks About Magic – videos

TED Talks About Magic – videos

 TED has earned a spot both in our culture and in our craft. I ran across a page recently that provided links to 14 TED videos.. all related to magic in one form or another. You may have seen the majority of these, but if you’ve missed one or two it’ll be worth your time to visit… Included are:

– And for my next trick, a robot
– The magic of Fibonacci numbers
– A cyber-magic card trick like no other
– The levitating superconductor
– The journey across the high wire
– A magical tale (with augmented reality)
– Augmented reality, techno-magic
– The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
– Homeopathy, quackery and fraud
– The magic of the placebo
– How I held my breath for 17 minutes
– Close-up card magic with a twist
– Brain magic
– A performance of “Mathemagic”

Plus, look for a short inclusion by David Blaine where he lists his seven favorite TED videos.. most which are not related to magic. I haven’t had time to watch any of David’s selections, but I trust there’s something interesting about each to have been picked as his favorites.

http://www.ted.com/watch/topics/magic

Good magic, bad magic: ‘America’s Got Talent’ casts its spell..

Good magic, bad magic: ‘America’s Got Talent’ casts its spell..

By Lawrence Specker for AL.com

If I could only pass along one lesson from Tuesday’s episode of “America’s Got Talent,” it would be this: Out of all the places a magician can go with traditional card tricks, his own posterior cleavage should not be one of them.

No, really. It happened. “Mad Jack” invited Howard Stern to pick a card, then dropped the deck down his backside, shook it out the leg of his pants … then dropped his waistband and asked Stern to see if that was his card, you know, back there. It probably works great in bars, which Mad Jack described as his normal habitat, but in this context it earned him the hook. Show host Nick Cannon praised the censor who spared viewers a graphic view of the situation…

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