Kat Dennings, who stars in "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," which bowed in theaters this weekend, is in negotiations to join Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh in "Defendor."
The principals behind DreamWorks SKG and Paramount Pictures sealed their parting of ways on Sunday, allowing the DreamWorks studio to tie up with Reliance ADA Group of India to start a new film company.
There is no slick soundtrack and no Hollywood stars playing criminals, but Italian director Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah," which won the Cannes Film Festival's grand prize, and is currently screening at the New York Film Festival, is nothing short of riveting, and sadly - real. Over the last thirty years, the Comorra crime syndicate has murdered 4,000 people in Italy's Naples and Caserta provinces. That number tops assasinations by the IRA, ETA and other European terrorist organizations...
The financial bailout bill signed into law last Friday included several tax credits for movies and TV, but Wall Street did not show its appreciation where prices for media stocks were concerned.
Following are the top 10 films at the North American box office for the three-day weekend beginning on October 3, led by the new release "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," according to studio estimates compiled on Sunday by Reuters.
As the Reykjavik International Film Festival wrapped up this past Sunday, the Icelandic fest celebrated artistic achievement by honoring Costa-Gavras and Shirin Neshat earlier in the week. Iranian artist Shirin Neshat was honored with the Creative Excellency Award and also had an exhibit of her video and photography work on display at The National Gallery of Iceland. Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his body of politically charged films.
Canine comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was top dog at the North American box offices, digging up $29 million in ticket sales in its first weekend in theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
"Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was barking up the right tree with movie-goers, who put the Disney comedy at No. 1 for the weekend with a $29 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
In a little more than a year, Michael Cera has built a movie career and loyal fan base playing geeky high school heroes -- zits and all -- who somehow get the girls. So it must feel good, being a sexy leading man in Hollywood -- especially when you're really kind of geeky.
In another sign of Hollywood's growing interest in the Indian film industry, the Walt Disney Company India is planning a quartet of live-action features under its local banner, Walt Disney Pictures India.
"I suppose that there are writers that say, 'I write what I write and if people get it, great, if they don't, whatever,'" "Rachel Getting Married" screenwriter Jenny Lumet told indieWIRE earlier this week. "But I don't feel that way. I feel very passionate about making connections with people. I want very much to be heard." That aspiration is about to be realized. "Married," directed by Jonathan Demme and featuring a heavily lauded performance from Anne Hathaway, opens in theaters today after...
Hollywood is always looking for fresh faces -- even if they belong to dogs -- and the tiny four-legged star of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" has a rags-to-riches story to match any new arrival on silver screens.
It's looking like a dog of a weekend at the box office. Disney's dog, to be exact, as the Burbank studio unspools its PG comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" amid expectations that the live-action with talking dogs feature could fetch up to $30 million during its opening weekend.
Julia Ormond, David Strathairn and Catherine O'Hara have joined the cast of a feature film about Temple Grandin, author of "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior."
James Earl Jones, whose booming voice gave the world the villainous Darth Vader in "Star Wars", will receive the 2008 life achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.
Sony Corp on Thursday said it reached a deal for three studios to back its cinema technology in the latest example of Hollywood's ramped up efforts to switch to digital projection.
Clint Eastwood spends more time behind the camera these days directing films. But anyone who believed him a few years ago when he said he had given up on acting, can think again. Clint has changed his mind.
It was movie stars celebrating movies, as Sean Connery, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Jodie Foster, Dustin Hoffman and a host of others gathered in Hollywood for the American Film Institute's annual night at the movies.
After "The Devil Wears Prada" detailed an up-and-comer at Vogue magazine, "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" attempts to do the same with Vanity Fair. Cross your fingers that Hollywood eventually gets to Field & Stream.
"I used to think going to the mall and hollering at girls (was) more important. But in reality, we are in a different time now. My focus now is to take it a step further to make a change and vote." Bow Wow.
Wednesday afternoon at the Walter Reade Theatre in New York marked a big day for the 46th New York Film Festival. "The Wrestler" Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei and producer Scott Franklin joined director Darren Aronofsky to discuss the film after its first screening for New York press and industry. The movie, acquired shortly after its North American debut last month at the Toronto fest, will close the NYFF on October 12th. Meanwhile, Ari Folman's acclaimed animated documentary, "Waltz With...
Josh Safdie doesn't look like the kind of guy who would make an advertisement. Hiding behind an untrimmed beard while discussing his abstract cinematic ambitions, the twenty-four-year-old filmmaker radiates an endearing scrappy artist vibe. However, Safdie's first feature, a surreal romp called "The Pleasure of Being Robbed" that opens this week at the IFC Center and becomes available through the company's video-on-demand service later this month, originally took root as a commercial.
English director Mike Leigh has been praised for his award-winning films that cast a critical and realistic eye on British society through gritty, heartbreaking characters.
Watching Jay Leno chat a few nights ago on The Tonight Show with old school Hollywood legend Robert Wagner was another reminder that the 58-year-old comedian could be the perfect host for the 2008 Academy Awards. Harkening back at various points to the 1950’s to tease Wagner about the wig the actor wore for the Medieval action adventure Prince Valiant and the Elvis-like moves he adopted for a TV performance of the song “Honeycomb”, Leno laid down essentially a blueprint for the kind of good...
Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years.
Film and television actors ratcheted up pressure on Hollywood's major studios on Wednesday when negotiators, stalled in labor talks with producers, sought backing to put a strike authorization vote to guild members.
One of South Korea's most popular actresses was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide after suffering from post-divorce depression and harassment by online rumors about her allegedly irregular financial dealings, police said.
Taiwan-born film director Ang Lee, known for such box office hits as "Lust, Caution" and "Brokeback Mountain," is filming a comedy about Woodstock ahead of the landmark countercultural event's 40th anniversary, his spokesman said.
Panda-ing to fans, DreamWorks Animation has officially confirmed that a sequel to its animated hit "Kung Fu Panda" is in the works and has set a release date of June 3, 2011.
A photographer who called 911 to report Heather Locklear allegedly driving erratically runs a paparazzi agency and profited from images she took of the actress's subsequent arrest, the woman's attorney said Wednesday.
The Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break stalled contract talks with Hollywood studios.
The Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break stalled contract talks with Hollywood studios.
As a comedy routine about the absurdity of religious fundamentalism, Bill Maher's "Religulous" is very, very funny. As a serious discussion of religion and spirituality, the film is, well, very, very funny.
"Sex" sells -- and rents too. "Sex and the City: The Movie," debuted at No. 1 on all three DVD charts in the week ended September 28, officially kicking off the frenzied fourth-quarter selling season.
The Sundance Film Festival has ended its relationship with new media aggregator Mediastile Inc. after the company repeatedly failed to send royalty payments and traffic reports to Sundance directors who screened films online via iTunes, Netflix and XBox LIVE. Over the weekend, Sundance organizers e-mailed filmmakers to confirm the shift, leaving them to resolve their individual situations with Mediastile, which controls digital rights to their work. The decision affects at least 45 filmmakers who...
With a fourth Hollywood adaptation hitting screens this past weekend and a fifth on the way in 2009, author Nicholas Sparks appears set to add two more critically panned and commercially successful films to his name.
A lawyer for two photography professionals says seven nude and seminude Marilyn Monroe photos that are the subject of a lawsuit were found in curbside garbage nearly 35 years ago.
Robert Downey Jr. is to play Victorian super sleuth Sherlock Holmes in an upcoming blockbuster that studio Warner Bros. hopes will become a lucrative new franchise.
Superman's home planet Krypton was destroyed, but his house on Earth will live on thanks to loyal fans and an online auction that raised $100,000 to restore the rotting home where the Man of Steel was created.
An Italian love drama starring Monica Bellucci will open this year's Rome film festival, which will have a distinctly domestic flavor and feature a lighter Hollywood presence, organizers said Wednesday.
Blackstone Group LP and JPMorgan Chase & Co are advising and helping a consortium raise money to fund the conversion of 20,000 U.S. cinema screens to digital technology, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
More than 100,000 Bollywood and television workers began an indefinite strike on Wednesday, protesting irregular pay and the hiring of non-union members, a move that could delay major releases for India's festival season.
"Flash of Genius" may not be the sexiest film to debut this fall, but its true tale of the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers poses a timely question of values and ethics in the current economic crisis.
Michael Cera always seems to be pining for something: booze and a popular classmate in "Superbad"; the sly soul mate he impregnated in "Juno"; a lovely but forbidden cousin in TV's "Arrested Development."
Chris O'Donnell, last seen onscreen in "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," and Jack McBrayer, best known for playing Kenneth the page on "30 Rock," are the live-action stars of the CGI-blended movie "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore."
Steven Soderbergh's 4-hour Ernesto 'Che' Guevara biopic, "Che" and Mike Leigh's much shorter "anti-miserablist" film, "Happy-Go-Lucky," were among the films screened for the press in the past few days at the 46th Annual New York Film Festival. Both screenings were followed by press conferences featuring the directors, and in "Lucky"'s case, its star Sally Hawkins. indieWIRE was in attendance, and has the highlights.
The Vancouver International Film Festival is probably one of the only regional film fests in North America that plays host to three international regions. Layered in the festival's large and lengthy program is a separate but equal focus of films from Canada, the U.S., and Asia. The Western Canadian city is a diverse destination all year long, but VIFF is the annual cinematic expression of Vancouver's unique spot on the cultural map.
Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario as shown in the movie "Blindness" is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society.
Five years on, the insurgency in Thailand's mainly Muslim south continues to defy attempts to placate it and a new Thai documentary uses the brutal death of a young Buddhist art teacher to examine why.
Much like Away from Her, the exquisite 2007 pairing of first-time director Sarah Polley with veteran actress Julie Christie, the tandem of French-novelist-turned-filmmaker Philippe Claudel and bilingual beauty Kristin Scott Thomas has produced in I’ve Loved You So Long a work of uncommon subtlety and emotional resonance. And just as was the case with Polley’s effort, it’s hard to decide which is more breathtaking – the rookie’s ridiculously assured touch or the marquee actress’ return...
Marvel Entertainment Inc raised its film unit's 2008 revenue outlook following initial payments of $60 million from Viacom's Paramount Pictures -- the distributor of the comic book publisher's "Iron Man" movie.
Movie-goers put "Eagle Eye" under surveillance, lifting the conspiracy thriller starring Shia LaBeouf to the No. 1 spot with $29.2 million over opening weekend.
PC manufacturer Dell and Paramount Pictures are opening a new front in digital distribution with an offering allowing consumers to order "Iron Man" preloaded into newly purchased computers.
Visitors arriving in Reykjavik on Thursday morning were greeted with a wall of brutal cold rain and wind which then miraculously broke minutes later to reveal intense rainbows that appeared as if from a child's kindergarten finger-painting, thus summing up the experience of Iceland. Isolated in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with vast empty spaces and a small population of 320,000, yet revealing an artistry that is enamoring and without precedent, Iceland has somehow managed to be one of the...
Thomas Dekker, the star of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," is in talks to take a lead role in MGM's remake of the 1980 musical "Fame."
Danielle Panabaker, who starred on TV's "Shark" and appeared on the big screen in "Mr. Brooks," has been cast as the female lead in the sci-fi action film "Prodigy."
"I can't talk about the 'crisis' of the indie film industry. There is no crisis," began Ted Hope's Saturday morning Film Independent Filmmaker Forum keynote speech at the DGA in Los Angeles. With those words, Hope acknowledged the elephant in the room, then proceeded to have it forcefully escorted from the auditorium.
As the 56th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival in the north of Spain came to a close, French comedy "Louise Michel," a third feature by Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, the comic duo behind "Avida" (2006), captured much of the buzz here. Produced by Matthieu Kassowitz, "Louise Michel" is roughly a crazy assassination plot in an absurdist (and actually cross-dressing) comedy about working class mishaps.
The cool, wet misty plains of the Mississippi Delta offer little comfort to the three protagonists of art-director Lance Hammer's bracing feature debut "Ballast." In fact, the desolate surroundings--yards with broken cars, fields with no harvest, decrepit gas stations--only further reflect their downtrodden condition. But by the time this remarkably sure-footed first film is finished, a slight glimmer of hopefulness arises among the psychological and physical turmoil.
A former attorney for Heath Ledger is suing over a $10 million life insurance policy he claims has gone unpaid since the actor's death earlier this year.
Los Angeles (Leslie Gornstein/E! Online) - I'm confused by Hollywood's habit of using Catholic symbols either in an overly generic way or in a way that any reasonably well informed person knows isn't accurate. Case in point: Lost. The whole Mr. Eko thing just had my skin crawling because of the stuff that was wrong. You don't baptize a baby by making the sign of the cross ; you aren't a priest just because you sign a letter.* —Shane
Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds did a little rushing into it after all. The couple married this weekend, according to publicist Meredith O'Sullivan. She did not provide details.
What if the current financial crisis in the U.S. becomes so severe that Americans start to flee the country? Welcome to "Americatown," a Chinatown-like enclave of U.S. immigrants in cities around the world.
A consortium of the nation's top movie-theater chains will announce within two weeks a $1 billion-plus financing agreement with four major studios to equip more than 15,000 screens nationwide with digital-projection systems during the next three years.
"War Heroes," the latest comic-book series by Mark Millar and Tony Harris, is headed for the big screen, with Michael De Luca ("21") producing for Sony's Columbia Pictures.
Paul Newman broached the subject of his philanthropic legacy several years ago while fishing with friends Robert Forrester and David Horvitz off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Heather Locklear was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance in the upscale Santa Barbara area, authorities said Sunday.
It's hardly a surprise that the U.S. presidential race was a hot topic on Friday night as the New York Film Festival kicked off in Manhattan with its traditional bash. With fewer than 40 days before the American general election, the opening night screening of Laurent Cantet's "The Class" took place at the same time as the first televised debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. Heavy mist dampened the post-screening party at Tavern on the Green in Central Park where guests seemed...
Thriller "Eagle Eye" soared to the top of North American box offices, taking in $29 million in its first weekend in theaters on the wings of rising star Shia LaBeouf, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
Paul Newman’s last great performance onscreen was as “rascally ne’er-do-well” Sully Sullivan in Robert Benton’s 1994 drama Nobody’s Fool. It brought the actor his eighth Best Actor Academy Award nomination, a prize he had finally claimed via his seventh nod for 1987’s The Color of Money. Newman would go on to earn one more Oscar nomination for 2002’s The Road to Perdition, his first as Best Supporting Actor.
Paul Newman wanted to be a great athlete he just never found a sport in which he could excel. Then, while filming the movie "Winning" in 1969 at age 43, he discovered auto racing.
Paul Newman never much cared for what he once called the "rubbish" of Hollywood, choosing to live in a quiet community on the opposite corner of the U.S. map, staying with his wife of many years and long after he became bored with acting pursuing his dual passions of philanthropy and race cars.
This morning, Saturday September 27th in Los Angeles, producer Ted Hope gave the keynote speech at Film Independent's Filmmaker Forum "There is no crisis," Hope proclaimed in his opening comments. How can there be a "Death Of Indie" when Indie -- real Indie, True Indie -- has yet to even live?" he asks. Creativity is not a victim of a distribution meltdown. Hope notes that the moment when the constraints of traditional models are changed for the collective good is now. His complete prepared...
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" followed by a second act as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario has died. He was 83.
My managing editor at the Westport (Conn.) News in the summer of 1979 had but one goal talking to Paul Newman but when the time came, she was woefully unprepared.
Jovie Baclayon Los Angeles (E! Online) - With his passing on Friday, Paul Newman leaves behind an inspirational, 83-year legacy of talent, love and compassion. This morning family, friends and colleagues are paying tribute to the prolific film star, race-car aficionado and passionate philanthropist.
When I was a kid, I never understood why my older sister got so giddy whenever we saw this middle-aged guy in tight jeans and a white T-shirt zipping around town on a bright blue motorcycle.
Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario has died. He was 83.
Dave Matthews has acted in a few films, but the Grammy-winning musician has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in Hollywood of late that of film producer.
The Hamptons International Film Festival unveiled its slate Friday afternoon, for its 16th annual event taking place October 15 - 19 on Long Island, New York's east end. Highlighting this year's roster of 122 films are 14 world, 23 North American and 18 U.S. premieres in addition to 15 East Coast and 15 New York debuts. Matt Tyrnauer's Toronto Film Festival doc "Valentino: The Last Emperor," about the Italian designer of the same name, will open the event, while the U.S. premiere of Charlie...
Icelandic director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson's "The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela" is an 85 minute drama which chronicles the story of a naive but street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute named Raquela who decides to travel in order to find her prince charming. Like many Transsexuals (often known as "Ladyboys") in the Philippines, Raquela dreams of marrying a heterosexual man from the West. She spends much of her time on the Internet looking for men who can come and rescue her. They...
Hillary Clinton is the same age as Glenn Close, while Sarah Palin clocks in alongside Mary-Louise Parker. Lucky for them they chose the gentler field of politics.
A hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money for an aspiring filmmaker, which perhaps explains why newly minted Doorpost Film Project champ John Gray has a vocal detractor.
The legal crusader portrayed by Julia Roberts in the Oscar-winning film "Erin Brockovich" is now working for a Manhattan personal injury law firm that specializes in asbestos cases.
North Korea and erstwhile friend China may not be as close as "lips and teeth" anymore following Pyongyang's 2006 nuclear test, but a Chinese film has won best picture title at a festival in the reclusive Communist state.
Chai Vasarhelyi's doc about Senegalese musician Youssou NDour and his struggle to release his controversial "Egypt" album has been acquired by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Pictures. Fresh from the Telluride and Toronto film festivals where the documentary debuted in conjunction with live concert events, "Youssou NDour: I Bring What I Love" will be released in theaters early next summer.
Joal Ryan Los Angeles (E! Online) - Shia LaBeouf has starred in three straight No. 1 movies. Kirk Cameron hasn't seen his face on a multiplex screen in seven years. Guess who's the hottest ticket heading into the weekend?
Jennifer Cady Los Angeles (E! Online) - Leo DiCaprio had a Hills run-in that will sadly never make it to MTV. (How weird would it be to see a real-life star on The Hills?!)
Musicians will.i.am and Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson helped launch a new campaign Thursday to cut global poverty in half by 2015.
DreamWorks has extended a previously held option for the film rights to the science fiction novel "Chocky" from Pollinger Ltd., the U.K. agency that handles the literary estate of the late author John Wyndham.
(Corrects statement that DreamWorks "has aquired the dramatic rights" -- the studio extended a previously held option. Clarifies that Spielberg is not attached to the project.)
Big Brother keeps awfully busy in "Eagle Eye," a shrill, far-fetched thriller about a slacker whose every move is suddenly choreographed by high-tech forces beyond his control.
Shia LaBeouf will not be charged with drunken driving for his involvement in a traffic accident that badly injured his hand, but could have his license suspended because sheriff's officials said he refused a breathalyzer test.
It has a decidedly French twist. For one thing, 18 of the 28 features in this edition of the New York Film Festival bowed in Cannes in May. Four "fully" French movies and eight co-pros with French backing are being screened. Given the weight of place, of site, in this year's crop, the latter frequently translates into product placement, aka "embedded marketing," not of Converse or Nike but of France itself--more economic exchange than organic inclusion.
Walt Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal are soon expected to announce a long-sought $1.1 billion digital cinema deal that Hollywood hopes will boost attendance, cut costs and enable more 3-D viewing, sources close to the deal said on Thursday.
A judge has barred the estate of "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien from seeking punitive damages against the studio that brought the trilogy to the big screen.
A massive indoor water tank for filmmakers to shoot underwater shots, said to be among only three in North America, will become part of a North Carolina studio that also will soon include the largest sound stage built east of California.
A year after best pal John Cusack grossed a total of $50,899 domestically with the Iraq War derived stateside road movie Grace is Gone, along comes Tim Robbins with one of his own, The Lucky Ones. Inevitably now, with each new bit of Middle Eastern conflict connected cinema, the question ahead of release - Lionsgate has The Lucky Ones opening this Friday in 400 theaters – is, ‘Will anyone bother to go and see it?’
Kicking off this year's awards season coverage in indieWIRE, editor-in-chief Eugene Hernandez and assistant editor Peter Knegt chatted yesterday via instant message about the opening moments of awards race. Topics for this first installment include a look at what we've learned from the film festivals, and speculation about some of the season's frontrunners and dark horse contenders.
In entertainment journalism, the purpose of the lunch interview is twofold: to help the reporter feel like a normal, social being, and to have an excuse to talk with food in one's mouth.
Warner Bros . is ramping up development on a prequel to the 2007 smash I Am Legend , which will see Will Smith reprising his role as one of the lone survivors on a zombified Earth.
Ben Lyons Los Angeles (E! Online) - The boy Shia is a beast at the box office. His last two flicks were Indy Jones and Transformers, both massive hits (and, yes, would have been even if LaBeouf hadn't starred alongside Harrison Ford and Optimus Prime). Before that, though, Shia fronted a little movie called Disturbia which, despite being produced by Steven Spielberg, shocked the industry by holding the No. 1 box-office spot three weekends in a row.
In a gala adorned with Hollywood stars, The Walt Disney Co. wowed an industry crowd in a showcase of its upcoming films that included a sequel to its 1982 sci-fi flick "Tron" and a "Lone Ranger" remake with Johnny Depp as Tonto.
Johnny Depp is becoming the new face of Walt Disney Studios. The actor will preside over the manic tea party in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" as the Mad Hatter and will play Tonto in "The Lone Ranger," whose latest screen incarnation is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
"Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del Toro is collaborating with crime author Chuck Hogan on a trilogy of vampire novels, starting next summer with "The Strain."
Actress Anne Hathaway will star in "The Opposite of Love," portraying a commitment-phobic attorney who finds her well-constructed life coming apart when she rejects her ready-for-marriage boyfriend.
Michael Douglas had to field questions Wednesday about the financial turmoil shaking world markets from reporters recalling his role in the 1987 film "Wall Street."
Matt Wolf makes his feature directorial debut with the documentary "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell." The film celebrates Arthur Russell, an important figure from New York's downtown music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. The film features commentary from people such as Allen Ginsberg, ex-Modern Lover Ernie Brooks, composer Philip Glass, and Arthur's parents. The film screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, and begins its American theatrical release this Friday...
North American rights to Prachya Pinkaew's "Chocolate" have been acquired by Magnet Releasing. The film, which premiered in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival and just won the Audience Award runner-up prize at Fantastic Fest, will be released theatrically in 2009. Pinkaew is best known for his 2005 release "Onk Bak: The Thai Warrior."
In a Fantastic Fest opening night Q&A for the US Premiere of his new comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" in Austin's downtown Paramount Theater last Thursday, director Kevin Smith reminisced about the first time he decided he wanted to make films. "It was actually when I saw Richard Linklater's 'Slacker.' I said, 'if this counts as a movie and this guy can do that in fucking Nowheresville, USA," Smith joked ironically, "then I can do that.'"
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman said swimming in Australian Outback waterfalls may promote fertility and might have contributed to her unexpected pregnancy over the past year.
Leslie Gornstein Los Angeles (E! Online) - Jennifer Aniston is so finished! Why doesn't she stop smoking, have a baby (anybody's baby) and give it up already?!
Ford Motor Co on Wednesday will run an ad featuring a short film that won an online competition, reflecting how companies are seeking to cut costs while boosting their brand awareness.
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to the domestic drama "Tokyo Sonata," by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who is better known for J-horror genre films like "Pulse."
A film about the murders in December of two young policemen by Basque separatists ETA won boos and applause at its screening at a Spanish festival, hours after ETA killed a soldier with a car bomb.
Actor Alessandro Nivola has arrived in the City of Lights, where he hopes his porn star mustache and decent French accent will be enough to play the love of a fashion icon's life.
An award-winning film shot in near-documentary style brings life in a difficult Paris high school to the screen and throws the spotlight on a French education system facing mounting pressure to reform.
When romantic thriller "Unfaithful" debuted in theaters in May 2002, odds were that it would be quickly forgotten because it opened in the summer season against action-filled competitors such as "Spider-Man"
A Roman Catholic priest in Atlantic City, N.J., has told officials that he was a victim of a scam by an Italian businessman who also was actress Anne Hathaway's boyfriend.
Every summer the three biggest short film festivals in North America open the doors of their air-conditioned movie theaters and entertain hordes of festival goers eager to check out the best short films the world has to offer. In Toronto, the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival exhibited 268 films during its June 10 - 15, 2008 run. In Los Angeles, LA Shorts Fest screened 201 shorts and 42 noteworthy commercials/music videos from August 15 -21, 2008 at the Laemmle's Sunset 5. The Palm Springs...
Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
An Indian court has cleared a Bollywood film accused of plagiarizing the "Harry Potter" brand, saying viewers would not confuse the international film and book series with "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors."
Soldiers might be clamoring to re-enlist if they all saw as much action in their homecoming as the threesome in "The Lucky Ones." Returning to combat could seem like a picnic in comparison with the tumult these three endure once back on U.S. soil.
They may not be the Coen Bros. or even the Weinsteins -- yet -- but the way two Canadian brothers, Matt and Jeff Campagna, turned their idea for a new age Western into a movie would do any indie filmmaker proud.
Judging from the part of the ad that says, ". . . from the author of 'The Notebook,'" you might suspect that this particular Richard Gere-Diane Lane reunion isn't going to be the torrid affair that was 2002's "Unfaithful," and of course you'd be quite right.
In 2007, "Hounddog" went to the Sundance Film Festival carrying a controversy that made it the hottest ticket in town, but it left that January after getting a cold shoulder from film distributors and critics.
Miramax has signed on for "Muchas Gracias, Bob Oppenheimer," a period romantic drama inspired by the potentially catastrophic crash of an American B-52 bomber in 1966.
With a scorching $27,204 per-theatre-average, Saul Dibb's "The Duchess" found 2008's second highest specialty average (behind arguable inclusion "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl") and gave the competitive fall season a royal beginning. In 7 locations, the Paramount Vantage release grossed $190,426. A slew of other, lower-profile films also found decent numbers, including a Texas screening of Chris Eska's "August Evening," the debut of Stuart Townsend's "Battle in Seattle" and the second weekend...
Cutely, and accutely, billed as the "Gothic Rio de Janeiro of Spain," the capital of the Basque region is the perfect place not to be in the cinemas. With its majestic beaches, picturesque surrounding mountains, a Jesus statue on the hilltop, small cobblestone alleys in the old town, and massive stone structures of centuries-old buildings that appear like movie sets, San Sebastian offers plenty of distraction from the silver screen.
Keanu Reeves may have pulled off some daredevil stunts on-screen with a speeding bus, but a judge ruled Monday that his driving didn't warrant assault and battery claims by a photographer.
Audiences paid up to see Samuel L. Jackson go nuts on his new neighbors in the thriller "Lakeview Terrace," which debuted as the weekend's No. 1 movie with $15 million.
A colleague of mine once journeyed to the Hollywood hilltop home of the one and only Liberace to discuss a possible business project. After complimenting the entertainer on his spectacular view of the twinkling L.A. lights below, the latter deadpanned, ‘Yes… I’m thinking of having it all redone.’
Malcolm McDowell, who starred in the 1971 film classic "A Clockwork Orange," will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 11th annual Savannah Film Festival.
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