"Sex and the City" girls flabby on big screen
(Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 06:50:08 GMT
Reuters - Big is not necessarily
better for the highly anticipated "Sex and the City" movie,
which reaches theaters on May 30.
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"Prince Caspian" set for box office crown
(Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 06:22:38 GMT
Reuters - Two weeks after "Iron
Man" opened to $99 million at the North American box office,
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" will likely earn
almost as much this weekend. |
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Filmmaker Salles focuses on Brazil in new movie
(Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 06:15:04 GMT
Reuters - Brazilian filmmaker Walter
Salles' career has been characterized by implausibilities.
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Documentary revives debate about religious satire
(Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 05:32:27 GMT
Reuters - Do we have the right to
caricature God? This and other questions involving religion and
freedom of speech raised by the controversial Danish cartoons
depicting the prophet Mohammed are examined by "It's Tough
Being Loved by Jerks."
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Cannes balances glamor with `Blindness'
(AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 04:54:50 GMT
AP - CANNES, France (AP) ? Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in "City of God" and murderous corporations in "The Constant Gardener." With "Blindness," the opening night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian director exposes the world's ultimate savages: your friends and neighbors.
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Actor John Phillip Law, angel in 'Barbarella,' dies at 70
(AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 03:40:00 GMT
AP - John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.
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Rome movie festival warms to Brazil
(Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 02:20:16 GMT
Reuters - Brazil will be the country of
focus at Rome's fledgling film festival in October, complete
with a carnival-style opening in the city's historic center and
screenings of 10 films from Brazilian directors. |
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Celebrity cast in Hollywood wiretapping case
(AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:58:13 GMT
AP - Seven famous faces associated with Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano's racketeering case:
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Sony Pictures gets "Goosebumps"
(Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 00:48:50 GMT
Reuters - Columbia Pictures has acquired the
rights from Scholastic Media to adapt R.L. Stine's best-selling
"Goosebumps" book series for the big screen, the studio said on
Thursday. |
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Super publicist Warren Cowan dies in Los Angeles
(AP) Thu, 15 May 2008 23:24:41 GMT
AP - Warren Cowan, one of the last of the super publicists who helped make Hollywood the glamour capital of the world, has died. He was 87.
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Aniston's New Movie: Did They Really Call Wrap?
(E! Online) Thu, 15 May 2008 21:11:48 GMT
E! Online - Update: According to a Fox studio rep, Miami was the official wrap party for Marley & Me, but several weeks of shooting are left to finish in Pennsylvania. As for the reports that John Mayer performed? Never happened, says the rep. "That was a total rumor!"
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"Kung Fu Panda" gives Cannes an animated kick
(Reuters) Thu, 15 May 2008 17:24:29 GMT
Reuters - Who needs movie superheroes like Iron
Man when audiences can rely on a panda named Po with a sick
kung fu kick? Not Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black or
any of the stars of "Kung Fu Panda."
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Kate and Owen's Bad Break
(E! Online) Thu, 15 May 2008 20:53:30 GMT
E! Online - We hear things didn't end well between Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson.
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Ding-a-Ling: Why Is Bai Holding On to This Tree?
(E! Online) Thu, 15 May 2008 19:44:23 GMT
E! Online - Say what you will about the antics of attention-starved Bai Ling, and trust us, we say a lot, but the woman does know how to attract the attention of cameras in the vicinity.
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One Less Crash Casualty On the Books
(E! Online) Thu, 15 May 2008 18:15:56 GMT
E! Online - It's really hard to keep track of all the lawsuits that sprung from the loins of Crash, the 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture, but at least another one has been relegated to the annals of Hollywood history.
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Burning Q's: Nick's Chicks & Overpaid Hotties
(E! Online) Thu, 15 May 2008 16:52:59 GMT
E! Online - Please mail me a list of Nick Cannon's exes.
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Cannes: animated documentary recounts war horrors
(AP) Thu, 15 May 2008 22:25:46 GMT
AP - It's an animated documentary ? which is perhaps a contradiction in terms.
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Brangelina Does the Cannes Cannes Carpet
(E! Online) Thu, 15 May 2008 13:27:39 GMT
E! Online - While an expecting Angelina's been busy doing interviews, photocalls and junkets in Cannes, Brad's been on daddy duty.
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Frank Israeli film examines 1982 Beirut massacres
(Reuters) Thu, 15 May 2008 15:47:07 GMT
Reuters - A daring new animated
documentary follows Israeli director Ari Folman as he tries to
piece together memories of the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in
Beirut's Sabra and Shatila camps.
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Fur flies at `Kung Fu Panda' premiere at Cannes
(AP) Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:25 GMT
AP - CANNES, France (AP) ? Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.
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