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 Paul Weitz’s 2002 movie About…
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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 was to have starred two-time…
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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 it has yet to open…
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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 in cash and stock –…
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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, The Bourne Legacy ended up…
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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 Michaud’s Sal Mineo: A Biography,…
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‘Killers’ Ashton Kutcher-Katherine Heigl Bombs & Audiences Truly Tired of Unoriginal Fare?
by Zac G.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 Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of…
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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 without answers” are asked about…
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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 White at the 2010 Screen…
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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 sleeper hit. From the beaches…
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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 all-star ensemble includes Shaun Taub…
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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, 1996) is a Best Actor…