Sarah Palin: ‘The Undefeated’ star to be featured in ‘Carrie’ remake. Sarah Palin to star in ‘Carrie’ remake On April 1, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced that former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah…
Serbian gay movie hit: Srdjan Dragojevic’s The Parade Srdjan Dragojevic’s black comedy Parada / The Parade has become the biggest box office hit “in the former Yugoslavia in years,” according…
The Muppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London’s May Fair Hotel this past Jan.…
Rick Santorum puts choir kids to sleep: Far-right Republican presidential candidate was in Florida. Mia Farrow: ‘Gem’ picture of Rick Santorum boring whole choir to sleep Mia Farrow is a…
Clint Eastwood on the J. Edgar set with star Leonardo DiCaprio (as longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover) and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. One of the great cinematic hopes of…
Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best…
Nov. 13 update: At no. 5 on the domestic box office chart this weekend, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar raked in $11.47 million – at the very lower end of expectations…
Justin Bieber Justin Bieber going to jail? Not so fast Justin Bieber, pop icon and the star of the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (right), has come out against…
Glenn Close: Palm Springs Film Festival Career Achievement Award Glenn Close’s publicists must have been working round the clock these last few months. A highly likely Best Actress Oscar contender…
Another Sarah Palin movie bombs: Nick Broomfield’s Sarah Palin - You Betcha! Sarah Palin - You Betcha! is the second Sarah Palin movie to bomb this year. Directed by sometime collaborators…
Dominic Cooper as Uday Hussein or Latif Yahia in Lee Tamahori’s The Devil’s Double July 31 update: The Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated plummeted once again at the North American…
Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde in Basil Dearden’s Victim. 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan is in the news today because of viciously anti-gay remarks he made while performing a comedy routine in…
Marlon Brando Jor-El salary: Superman wages reportedly broke record. Marlon Brando Jor-El salary: ‘Record-Breaking’ ‘Superman’ wages Long before Russell Crowe made his first film, Marlon Brando pocketed a reported $3.7…
This probably isn’t the last of Lars von Trier – according to him, his project with Martin Scorsese is still a go – but the ‘persona non grata’ filmmaker has…
Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, Unlawful Killing. Screened at Cannes on Friday, Keith Allen’s documentary about the British royal family, Unlawful Killing, will likely fail to find the popular reception accorded…
Grant Bowler, Taylor Schilling, Atlas Shrugged: Part I. May 8 update: The first installment of a planned trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part I had one…
Peter Mensah in Zack Snyder’s 300. Jack Fisk & Nathan Crowley Production Design Seminar The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-evening seminar series “Evolution or Revolution? Production Design…
The Queen with Helen Mirren and James Cromwell. A more sober tone would have made Stephen Frears’ filmization of Peter Morgan’s The Queen screenplay less appealing to a mass audience.…
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days with Julia Jentsch and Fabian Hinrichs. Directed with clenched fists by Berlin Film Festival winner Marc Rothemund, who seems to have been at least partly…
Black Swan definition: Sleeper blockbuster starring Natalie Portman as a psychologically fractured ballerina. ‘Black Swan’ definition: Sleeper blockbuster as Natalie Portman drama passes $200 million mark Darren Aronofsky’s $13 million-budget…
Wikileaks cables focusing on Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 have raised eyebrows, much like Britney Spears’ appearance in that 2004 nonfiction blockbuster. In Moore’s own words, these latest Wikileaks cables…
Top Gun movie remake or sequel? Tom Cruise as Maverick in Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster. Paramount Pictures, the studio that brought you (or your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents) Cecil B.…
Oliver Stone and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez: South of the Border Oliver Stone Rebuffs ‘New York Times’ ‘South of the Border’ Criticisms The letter below was posted at the Center…
Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King…
Outside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law…
A hammy Andy Griffith + Budd Schulberg’s didactic screenplay hinder Elia Kazan’s 1957 sociopolitical drama A Face in the Crowd costarring Patricia Neal.
Vanessa Redgrave The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the career of Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave, one of the most distinguished performers of the second half of…
Bin Laden movie & Obama Administration connection: Republican congressman wants investigation The Hurt Locker‘s Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama…
Weird stuff happened at the most recent MTV Movie Awards ceremony: Justin Timberlake grabbed Mila Kunis’ breasts, Mila Kunis grabbed Justin Timberlake’s crotch, Robert Pattinson kissed Taylor Lautner instead of…
Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger: Restrepo co-directors. Photojournalist Tim Hetherington killed in Libya: Oscar-nominated ‘Restrepo’ co-director Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who co-directed with Sebastian Junger the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Restrepo, was…
“Apostle of degradation” Ingrid Bergman and co-star Bing Crosby in Leo McCarey’s The Bells St. Mary’s Natalie Portman made history last Sunday as the first unmarried, pregnant individual to win…
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib. Home movies of scary folk such as Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Nixon (and of some non-scary celebrities and non-celebrities as well),…