Diane English has penned and is set to direct a remake of George Cukor’s 1939 all-female classic comedy The Women. Meg Ryan to head cast.
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Ed Wood’s groundbreaking, long-thought (partially) lost, sexually explicit film Necromania has been found. Ric Lutze and Rene Bond star.
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The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen ‘disaster’ hit The High and the Mighty.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes, as the Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance.
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan asserts that the historical biopic Mangal Pandey: The Rising is not anti-British. Ketan Mehta directed.
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Iranian filmmaker Abolhassan Davoodi has been hospitalized after being arrested by Islamic police. Also: Kushner rewriting Spielberg terror drama.
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Director George Stevens is the focus of four news DVDs, including a tribute to British colonialism and a documentary featuring rare WWII color footage.
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Will The Aviator star Leonardo DiCaprio be playing a 1930s gangster or an FBI agent in Michael Mann’s next project?
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The new Claude Lelouch film The Parisians is a critical and box office bomb. As a result, the veteran director is resorting to radical measures.
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Toronto Film Festival controversies: Contentious topics include a nonfiction film about the military service of U.S. presidential contender John Kerry.
Three quotes by U.S. filmmakers: Michael Moore and John Sayles denounce the Iraq War; Oliver Stone attacks Hollywood’s warmongering.
French film stars Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau and Juliette Binoche are among the celebrities offering support for hostages being held in Iraq.
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro: Biography of the tragic gay actor and major MGM star (Ben-Hur).