George W. Bush's ascent to the presidency was "bigger than fiction," director Oliver Stone told "Larry King Live" Monday night, describing his soon-to-be released biopic, "W."
Michael Cera always seems to be pining for something: booze and a popular classmate in "Superbad"; the sly soul mate he impregnated in "Juno"; a lovely but forbidden cousin in TV's "Arrested Development."
Keira Knightley is happy to reign as Hollywood's current queen of the costume drama. She just wishes that playing dress-up in period outfits could be a bit more comfortable.
"Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was barking up the right tree with movie-goers, who put the Disney comedy at No. 1 for the weekend with a $29 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Remember when actresses really lit up the screen? Anne Hathaway rekindles memories of Bette Davis and "Klute"-era Jane Fonda in Jonathan Demme's new film: barely a scene goes by without her pulling on a cigarette.
It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.
Who watched some of "Watchmen"? Select members of the press. That's who.
The marvelous, magical boy-meets-girl-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps romantic comedy "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is a revolutionary movie disguised as a familiar story.
British filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright, Mike Leigh has been in the movie business for over 35 years.
Bill Maher has taken his crusade against religion to the big screen.
George W. Bush's ascent to the presidency was "bigger than fiction," director Oliver Stone told "Larry King Live" Monday night, describing his soon-to-be released biopic, "W."
Michael Cera always seems to be pining for something: booze and a popular classmate in "Superbad"; the sly soul mate he impregnated in "Juno"; a lovely but forbidden cousin in TV's "Arrested Development."
Keira Knightley is happy to reign as Hollywood's current queen of the costume drama. She just wishes that playing dress-up in period outfits could be a bit more comfortable.
"Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was barking up the right tree with movie-goers, who put the Disney comedy at No. 1 for the weekend with a $29 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Remember when actresses really lit up the screen? Anne Hathaway rekindles memories of Bette Davis and "Klute"-era Jane Fonda in Jonathan Demme's new film: barely a scene goes by without her pulling on a cigarette.
It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. For that matter, it's not much of a genre at all.
Who watched some of "Watchmen"? Select members of the press. That's who.
The marvelous, magical boy-meets-girl-in-the-city-that-never-sleeps romantic comedy "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is a revolutionary movie disguised as a familiar story.
British filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright, Mike Leigh has been in the movie business for over 35 years.
Bill Maher has taken his crusade against religion to the big screen.
Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food.
"Oops -- missed a giant here, guys! How could you NOT include Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' ('Shichinin No Samurai'). This is a granddaddy in the genre!" scolded Mary Ann.
A trustee for Heath Ledger's daughter has sued an insurance company over a $10 million policy the actor took out seven months before his death in January from a drug overdose.
Sheila Oppenheimer was only a day away from giving birth, and she was worried. "I was on the fetal monitor, and I was very scared." She looked out a window and saw a blue-eyed man, Paul Newman, walking by. Then, she knew everything would be all right.
Paul Newman broached the subject of his philanthropic legacy several years ago while fishing with friends Robert Forrester and David Horvitz off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Shia LaBeouf's conspiracy thriller "Eagle Eye" debuted at the top of the weekend box office with $29.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts, has died of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 83.
Legendary actor Paul Newman died of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut, at the age of 83.
The news of his death came on Saturday.
Spike Lee's last film, the gratifyingly tense and tricky "Inside Man," was celebrated -- rightly -- for the way that Lee finally jumped, feet first, into the studio-genre-movie game.
We can laugh about it now. Last year's Iraq movies -- "Grace is Gone," "Lions for Lambs," "Redacted," "In the Valley of Elah" -- were conflicted, anguished, and disillusioned. Which must have been how the filmmakers felt when the public shrugged and went to "Transformers" instead.
Lindsay Lohan has confirmed what the world has guessed: She's been dating Samantha Ronson "a very long time."
Viggo Mortensen follows a classic cowboy code in the Western "Appaloosa": Speak softly and carry a big honkin' gun.
In a gala adorned with Hollywood stars, The Walt Disney Co. wowed an industry crowd Wednesday in a showcase of its upcoming films that included a sequel to its 1982 sci-fi flick "Tron" and a "Lone Ranger" remake with Johnny Depp as Tonto.
Over the last few weeks, there has been a definite Italian flavor pervading "The Screening Room" offices.
Asia: Spread over one third of the world's surface, it is home to something like four billion people in 70 countries. It also produces half of the world's film.
When director Darren Aronofsky approached Mickey Rourke about starring in "The Wrestler," Rourke was understandably apprehensive.
"The Godfather" was supposed to be terrible.
Conjoined twin. Hamburger promoter. Haunted TV star. Pestering ghost.
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman said swimming in Australian Outback waterfalls may promote fertility and might have contributed to her unexpected pregnancy over the past year.
Abe Vigoda found out he was dead in 1982. He was doing a play in Calgary, Alberta, while a People magazine writer visited the "Barney Miller" wrap party in Los Angeles, California.
It all began in Rome in 2004.
Movie-goers welcomed Samuel L. Jackson to the neighborhood, lifting his thriller "Lakeview Terrace" to the top spot at the weekend box office with $15.6 million in sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Is Ricky Gervais movie star material?
In real life, Ricky Gervais does not believe in ghosts. Put them on the big-screen, however, and he's more than game to see dead people.
Paris Hilton's new reality show, the documentary "Paris, Not France," reveals a not-so-simple life in which the dumb blonde of her TV infamy is scarcely to be found.
Mickey Rourke's character in "The Wrestler" describes himself as a broken-down slab of meat, a man who's alone and deserves to be.
Elizabeth Banks has what it takes to be a porn star or first lady. And she'll be strutting her stuff as both on the big-screen within a two-week span.
Megan Fox has nothing to hide.
Daniel Radcliffe is talking about Alan Strang, the troubled young man he plays in "Equus," the Peter Shaffer drama now being revived on Broadway.
Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
After the exceptionally hard-hitting "No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers have flipped back to their default mode -- screwball farce -- in this disappointing return to the indifferent form that has plagued them over the past 10 years.
Venice and Toronto Film Festivals
After a slow start, the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival kicked into life about 6:20 p.m. Sunday when a little Indian boy took a deep breath and plunged into an outdoor cesspit to secure the autograph of his favorite movie star.
Prosecutors have brought additional charges against a Hollywood actor accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 20 times.
Before there was Hollywood, there was Jacksonville.
A New York judge has tossed out lawsuits brought by a driving instructor and two etiquette school teachers who said the makers of the movie "Borat" deceived them.
Crime just never stops paying for Guy Ritchie.
There is much to admire in the operatic version of "The Fly."
The last time a movie topped a half-billion dollars at the domestic box office, it sailed away with most of the Oscars.
A jury should decide whether silent film star Mary Pickford signed away rights to sell two Oscars she was awarded, a judge ruled Monday.
The Nicolas Cage action-thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" needed just $7.8 million to take the top spot at the box office in what was the slowest movie weekend in five years, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
All Seth Rogen really wanted when he came to Hollywood was to make a movie with Kevin Smith.
Since receiving the Ivor Novello award for best film theme for his work on Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V" in 1989, Patrick Doyle's compositions have been a sought after commodity in the film world.
Alan Ball likes to get under people's skin.
A mere film festival cannot compete with the Academy Awards' grip on the public imagination, but the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (which begins Thursday) comes pretty close -- in part because it has become the first important bellwether for the onslaught of Oscar hopefuls.
Don LaFontaine, the voiceover king whose "In a world ..." phrase on movie trailers was much copied -- and much parodied -- has died, according to media reports. He was 68.
Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki foregoes computer graphics and returns to the pencil and crayon for his latest film, an East-meets-West nod to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid."
"The Dark Knight" on Sunday became the second movie in Hollywood history to top $500 million at the domestic box office, raising its total to $502.4 million, according to estimates from distributor Warner Bros.
Lindsay Lohan had words for her father on her blog.
Carmen Electra, in a low-cut gold minidress, captures every photographer's attention as she steps out on a patio overlooking the Pacific. Her hair catches the ocean breeze as if on cue. Even her fiance is transfixed. He snaps a few photos with his cell phone. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian, wearing a tight tank top and slim-fitting skirt, waits in the wings for the cameras to point her way.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt: Bachelor and family man.
Kevin Smith likes to watch porn online, not to get his jollies but to marvel at how extreme the art of exhibitionist sex can be.
Let's see Hari Puttar get out of this one.
Fred Crane, the one-time actor whose Southern accent won him a slot as one of Scarlett O'Hara's beaux and the opening line in "Gone With the Wind," has died.
Think of a bullwhip and fedora and one man immediately springs to mind: Indiana Jones, the sardonic archeologist played by Harrison Ford in Steven Spielberg's '80s trilogy which started with "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
As the saying goes, "Pain is temporary, film is forever" and noone in the movie business knows this better than stuntmen.
"Rock Me Sexy Jesus." "You're As Gay As the Day is Long." "Raped in the Face."
The action comedy "Tropic Thunder" weathered a rush of new movies to remain No. 1 for a second-straight weekend with $16.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
In a world of celluloid action stuffed with CGI fights and sci-fi gadgetry, thank heavens for Jason Bourne, the amnesiac assassin who's so lethal that he can turn a hardback book into a weapon.
Just in time for back-to-school comes "The House Bunny," which won't teach you anything new or useful, but it will prepare you for sorority rush.
"Hamlet 2." Are you laughing yet?
The catastrophe looming in the documentary "I.O.U.S.A." isn't romantic like the doomed young love in "Titanic," but billionaires Warren Buffett and Pete Peterson warn it could break many more hearts.
It's not easy being Bond.
There's a certain kind of lamely domesticated, corporate, lit-like-a-floor-wax-commercial rock 'n' roll comedy that makes you feel faintly embarrassed for the people who made it.
There is a man. He carries a can, and inside it is a weird, blood-red hunk of goo the size and consistency of a generous bowl of lumpy raspberry Jell-O.
Maybe Harry Potter should have brought a note from his parents saying he would be missing school.
It took four of Hollywood's biggest stars to take down Batman.
As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago's South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was "still the hottest ticket in town."
When Scarlett Johansson was hired by Woody Allen for the film "Match Point" in 2005, she was a last-minute replacement.
It is hard to imagine that DreamWorks and Paramount, the companies behind "Tropic Thunder," did not foresee some sort of reaction from activist groups.
I am so proud of everyone who turned out to Monday's premiere of the film "Tropic Thunder" to protest its unfortunate and humiliating portrayal of people with intellectual disabilities.
Truly, it's been a summer for jokers -- and I'm not just talking about "The Dark Knight."
An actor who appeared in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was charged with attempted murder Tuesday after police said he stabbed his former girlfriend more than 20 times.
"Tropic Thunder" is pushing the envelope too far for groups representing the mentally disabled.
There's no question "Tropic Thunder" takes chances.
Batman was higher than Hollywood's newest pot heads.
Comedian Bernie Mac's family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said Sunday.
Stoners are riding high nowadays. Fans are buzzing about the reunion of Cheech and Chong after a long feud, and a couple of tokers are lighting up the box office with "Pineapple Express."
Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50.
Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50.
Morgan Freeman was discharged Thursday from a Tennessee hospital after the Oscar-winning actor was treated for broken bones and other injuries sustained in a weekend car crash in Mississippi.
Katie Holmes just keeps taking it off.
A spokeswoman for Bernie Mac says the actor is responding well to treatment for pneumonia and hopes to be released in the next few weeks.
The parents of an assistant propmaster killed in an accident during the filming of "The Kingdom" have sued director Peter Berg, seeking reimbursement of funeral expenses and other damages.
George Lucas says he's already identified the one person who can keep the "Indiana Jones" franchise going: Harrison Ford.
Morgan Freeman's lawyer says the actor and his wife of 24 years are getting a divorce.
