About a Boy movie with bon vivant Hugh Grant and Baby: ‘No man has the right to be an island’ message. ‘About a Boy’ movie review: Some men should remain islands On the surface, Chris and…
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‘Idol’s Eye’ would-be co-star Robert Pattinson. ‘Idol’s Eye’ production shut down: Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz to have starred in Olivier Assayas’ action-thriller Production on screenwriter-director Olivier Assayas’ action-thriller Idol’s Eye, which…
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Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica Chastain. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for – and eventual assassination of – Osama bin Laden, has already stirred quite a bit of controversy even though…
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Disney employees Darth Vader and Princess Leia as Lucasfilm now belongs to the Disney Enterprises realm. Lucasfilm now part of the (infinite) Disney Universe Disney has just gobbled up – for a reported $4.05 billion…
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‘The Bourne Legacy’ with Jeremy Renner. ‘The Bourne Legacy’ box office: Jeremy Renner thriller tops chart, but below expectations Aug. 13, ’12, update: Directed by regular Bourne franchise screenwriter Tony Gilroy and starring Jeremy Renner,…
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Sal Mineo biopic actor Val Lauren. James Franco has cast Val Lauren in Sal, Franco’s planned biopic of two-time Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Sal Mineo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Based on Michael Gregg…
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Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 (top); Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis in Michael Patrick King’s Sex and the City 2 (upper middle); Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf in…
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Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Jordi Mollà in El cónsul de Sodoma (Steinweg Emotion Pictures) (bottom). In the Spanish-language website Filmin, “questions…
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Betty White, Sandra Bullock in The Proposal (Kerry Hayes / Touchstone). Sandra Bullock, up for a best actress SAG Award for The Blind Side, will present the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award to Betty…
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Laura Neiva in Adrift. Cannes review snippets At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: “I think I stumbled across a big Cannes…
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Crash with Shaun Toub and Michael Peña. Directed by Paul Haggis from a screenplay by Haggis and Bobby Moresco, the Los Angeles-set race-focused drama Crash was the 2006 SAG Awards’ surprise Best Cast winner. The…
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The Constant Gardener with Ralph Fiennes. All but ignored this awards season in the U.S., two-time Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes (as Best Supporting Actor for Schindler’s List, 1993; as Best Actor for The English Patient,…
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What’s “European”? The Constant Gardener with Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Oscar-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (City of God, 2003) and mostly set in Kenya, The Constant Gardener was partly financed with British…