The Great Gatsby characters: Leonardo DiCaprio is the latest incarnation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby. ‘The Great Gatsby’ characters still popular after all these years: Leonardo DiCaprio’s second-biggest opening ever? May 13 update: The Great Gatsby movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel…
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Salma Hayek: Legion d’Honneur controversy. Salma Hayek: Legion d’Honneur controversy There hasn’t been much buzz about Marthe Keller’s induction into France’s Legion of Honor. Or the induction of actresses Dominique Blanc and Anny Duperey. Hardly a surprise, since the only film people that matter in…
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Wonder Boys with Tobey Maguire and Michael Douglas. A brilliant young writer (Tobey Maguire) who happens to be both a pathological liar – probably not a coincidence – and obsessed with celebrity suicides. A flamboyant bisexual literary editor (Robert Downey Jr.) who can’t tell the…
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Julianne Moore (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA) Four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore was in the running for a best supporting actress Golden Globe for her performance in A Single Man, Tom Ford’s drama starring Venice Film Festival best actor winner Colin Firth. In the…
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Spider-Man reboot getting new actor and director. Pictured: Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3. Star Tobey Maguire (above, in Spider-Man 3) and director Sam Raimi will not be back for the next installment of the Spider-Man franchise. Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have announced that the…
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Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Tobey Maguire in Spider Man 3 (bottom) “When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies” is the title of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council’s program about the physics behind some of Hollywood’s best-known action and science-fiction scenes. “When…
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The Cider House Rules movie with Tobey Maguire. Lasse Hallström’s 1999 Best Picture nominee The Cider House Rules will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. The somewhat controversial drama will be screened on…
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Spider-Man 3: Spider-Man punches the Sandman with such violence, that the digested spaghetti in the villain’s stomach is splattered all over the place. Spidey seems a little tired after five years serving your neighborhood movie theater. Although the third installment of the ultra-popular Spider-Man franchise offers…