Photos: Jessica Alba's Dear Eleanor pic diary as film wraps in Colorado

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Last month, we shared photos and more about Dear Eleanor, a Leonardo DiCaprio production that was shooting in Niwot and other area locations.

Now, the movie has wrapped in Colorado -- but its star, Jessica Alba, shared plenty of images of what happened via Twitter and Instagram.

Shots range from looks at her in full makeup to an image of her on an airport shuttle. Check them out below.

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Hemp documentary Bringing It Home to be screened in Boulder tomorrow night

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Bringing It Home, a new documentary about industrial hemp inspired by North Carolina eco-conscious home builder Anthony Brenner's first hemp house, will be screening in Boulder tomorrow night as part of the fourth annual nationwide Hemp History Week. The film "explores the question of why a crop with so many widespread benefits cannot be farmed in the United States by illustrating its history, current industries and talking to both opponents and proponents of the industrial hemp farming legalization effort." Get more details and watch the trailer below.

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Photos: Ten movies with Colorado in the title but not onscreen

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We've been digging into our state's movie history via posts like the best movies filmed in Colorado, the most awesomely cheesy Colorado movies, the biggest movie misses filmed in Colorado and ten hit movies filmed in Colorado. But after compiling our list of memorable movies set in Colorado but not filmed here, we realized that we'd overlooked an even bigger irony: movies with the name of the state or a Colorado city that didn't include a frame of film from here. Look below to see our top ten picks, including posters, actual locations and synopses from linked sites.

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Photos: Ten hit movies filmed in Colorado

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Yesterday, as part of our continuing look at Hollywood-Colorado connections (including posts featuring the ten best movies filmed in Colorado and ten memorable flicks set in Colorado but not filmed here), we compiled ten Hollywood movie misses filmed in our fair state. Today, we've flipped the script to spotlight ten smashes at least partially shot in Colorado and touted by FilmInColorado.com. Look below to count down our latest top ten, complete with posters and descriptions from the film office.

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Photos: Ten biggest Hollywood movie misses filmed in Colorado

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We've been surveying Hollywood's relationship with our fair state via picks for the ten best movies filmed in Colorado, plus ten memorable movies set in Colorado but not filmed here and the ten most awesomely cheesy Colorado movies. Today, it's the ten biggest Hollywood movie misses shot in Colorado -- flicks touted by FilmInColorado.com from big studios or featuring major stars that failed to connect at the box office, usually because they were mediocre or worse. Below, count down our top ten, complete with posters and film-office descriptions.

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Photos: Ten most awesomely cheesy movies set in Colorado

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We've highlighted a lot of quality flicks in our countdowns of the top ten movies filmed in Colorado and ten memorable movies set in Colorado but not filmed here.

Today, however, we're focusing on cheese -- the most awesomely awful- and/or amazing-looking films featured on this list of movies set in Colorado, complete with posters and descriptions courtesy of IMDB. Check out the cinematic craziness below.

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Photos: Ten memorable movies set in Colorado but not filmed here

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Yesterday, we shared our picks for the ten best movies filmed in Colorado. Today, we have a twist -- a top-ten countdown of movies set at least partly in Colorado, but not filmed here. At all.

We're using the word "memorable" instead of "best" for a reason: While some of these flicks are great, others range from "Meh" to "Damn my eyes!" But all of them will stick in your mind, even if the supposedly local scenery isn't so local. Check out all ten below, complete with posters, actual locations and descriptions courtesy of IMDB.

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Photos: Top ten movies filmed in Colorado

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Our Melanie Asmar has been reporting about efforts to attract more moviemakers to Colorado -- and one great selling point is to check out the classics that have been partly filmed here over the years.

Below, count down our ten favorites, as culled from the flicks listed on the FilmInColorado.com website, including vintage posters, the Colorado locations included and the film office's description of each. Check them out here.

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Colorado film office soliciting entries for database of local crew, filming locations

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In order to make a movie, you need a crew.

To that end, the Colorado Office of Film, Television & Media has launched an online tool called Colorado Reel-Crew, which will "enable the state's film industry workforce and support service companies to showcase their skills and services to producers considering filming in the state." Colorado Reel-Crew is part of a platform called Reel-Scout, which allows the film office to catalog and promote Colorado locations suitable for filming. Now, it'll be able to do so with local crew, too.

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Fracking documentaries square off in Boulder tonight

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Filmmakers Josh Fox and Phelim McAleer are having quite an argument, but mostly on film and not in the same room. Both men will be in Boulder tonight at the same time to present documentaries that claim to expose the truth about using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in natural gas drilling. But the events are scheduled in different venues, and undecided moviegoers should be advised that the two films have contrary ideas of what the underlying "truth" about fracking might be.

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