Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg War of the Worlds 2005 movie: H.G. Wells’ sci-fier for the 21st-century U.S. “Aren’t you afraid that audiences in some parts of the world may…
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Sikh protests and 2 as-yet-unclaimed bomb attacks at Delhi film theaters have followed the release of a Bollywood action comedy starring Sunny Deol.
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Submission: Part 1 controversies continue: Clip from Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s anti-Islam short film to be broadcast on Italian television.
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The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.
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Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.
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Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits - comedies and musicals - and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.
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Go West: Gay movie about Romeo and Romeo romance directed by a European Film Award winner has sparked religious and nationalist outrage in Bosnia.
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In 2004, the domestic box office topped $9 billion for the third consecutive year. PG-rated movies beat R-rated ones for the first time in two decades.
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Creationist fanatics are going after IMAX theaters’ nature documentaries. Why? Anti-science Christians are enraged by evolution being presented as an empirical fact.
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Lord of the Rings lawsuit: Former professional partners fight over TLOTR profits as Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films sues ‘wanton’ New Line Cinema.
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Michael Winterbottom’s sexually explicit movie 9 Songs has been approved for release in Australia - uncut. Kieran O’Brien and Margot Stilley play lovers and rock concert aficionados.
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The controversy surrounding the Meera Nazar kiss has the Pakistani actress vs. that country’s Ministry of Culture. Ashmit Patel is her Bollywood costar.
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Is Hollywood anti-Christian? Awards season indicates ‘Not so much’ as controversial and blood-soaked Jesus biopic has been shortlisted in several categories.
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A few Joan Collins and Lauren Bacall quotes as the veteran actresses ponder: Best Actress Oscar win or no, how much of a movie legend - if one at all - is Birth star Nicole Kidman?
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An award-winning Iraq War drama is getting U.S. distribution + Oscar winner Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker) has been hospitalized + Antarctica is getting its first film house.
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A Muslim radical has killed contentious Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh’s great-grandnephew known for several polemical movies.
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Two Susan Sarandon quotes: The Oscar winner discusses the need for liberal political activism in our troubled times and her appeal as a sexy older woman capable of seducing younger men.
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9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the British Board of Film Classification from granting Michael Winterbottom’s romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating. Some are outraged.
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Diane English has penned and will direct The Women remake, as the 1939 all-female classic comedy is finally getting a 21st-century facelift. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening are slated to star.
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The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster The High and the Mighty.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan asserts that his latest movie - the historical political and biographical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising - is not anti-British. Ketan Mehta directed.
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Is The Aviator star Leonardo DiCaprio going to play a 1930s gangster or an FBI agent in Michael Mann’s planned crime drama based on the book Public Enemies?
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The new Claude Lelouch film The Parisians is a critical and box office bomb. The director is resorting to radical measures, but fellow veteran Philippe de Broca thinks that won’t work.
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Mel Gibson’s contentious Jesus movie The Passion of the Christ has become a top - but not the actual no. 1 - DVD seller in the United States. Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci star.
The WWII-era Katyn massacre is the topic of Andrzej Wajda’s next project + Criterion’s ‘3 War Films’ DVD includes the classic Ashes and Diamonds.
What’s the highest grossing comedy ever? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures, how you interpret them + how you define ‘comedy.’
Marie Antoinette Versailles shoot: Sofia Coppola project about doomed Austrian-born French queen will be adding some local color around star Kirsten Dunst.
Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach Film Society has had to fight (anti-gay?) puritanism, as a complaint about big-screen ‘explicit sex’ has led to a police investigation.
U.S. President George W. Bush – 1 of the orchestrators of the Iraq War and a key figure in the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 – has been named the year’s scariest movie villain.
Starring Robert Mitchum, William A. Wellman’s 1954 cult classic Track of the Cat is one of five new DVDs of long-unseen movies with a little-known John Wayne connection.
One of Germany’s costliest and most controversial movies ever made, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Adolf Hitler drama Downfall is a major box office hit as well. Bruno Ganz stars.