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LOS ANGELES – Sony thinks its new Michael Jackson documentary could be a contender for best picture. Spokesman Steve Elzer said Thursday that the studio will submit "Michael Jackson's This Is It" for Academy Awards consideration this year. It missed the deadline to be considered for a 2009 documentary Oscar, but the film about the late King of Pop's preparations for a series of comeback
Despicable Me Second trailer for this 3D animated comedy, and this time it's focusing on arch villain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) trying to break into the headquarters of a rival bad guy. This looks like fun and the bit with the shark had me howling. Check it out on July 9. Sherlock Holmes A second trailer for the new Holmes fllck with Robert Downey Jr. in the title role aided by Jude Law as Watson....
Walt Disney Studios' big-budget holiday bet "A Christmas Carol" got off to a soft start Friday, selling a studio-estimated $9 million in the US and Canada.
Looks like they are actually going through with this "Shrek" spin-off. Zach Galifianakis has had a great fall. Following his big splash with summer's $461 million grosser "The Hangover," Galifianakis has scooped up a batch of film roles. Now, he's entered negotiations to voice the Humpty Dumpty character in "Shrek" spinoff "Puss in Boots." Tom Wheeler is writing...
Batman first appeared in Detective Comics in 1939 and was little more than detective who wore a superhero costume. Batman's powers evolved along with the character through the years, eventually ending up on prime-time tv on the ultra-campy BATMAN (1966) tv show starring Adam West and Burt Ward. The popularity of this show eventually led to the creation of the first animated Batman series, Filmation's...
I am baffled by the release plan for the highly anticipated stop-action animation version of Fantastic Mr. Fox. I don’t get why Fox Searchlight has opted for a limited release two weeks (New York gets it this Friday) prior to opening nationwide on November 25? A family movie with names like Clooney and Streep – treat as a potential blockbuster. Picturehouse/New Line did this with Kit Kittridge:...
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong Starring Phakpoom Surapongsanurak, Arkaney Cherkham, Paramej Noieam Opening film of the 7th World Film Festival of Bangkok, November 6, 2009 Wise Kwai's rating: 5/5 Like a jazz saxophone solo, Mundane History wails. It circles around, repeats patterns and doubles back on itself. It starts and stops yet also flows. It reaches highs that zoom into outer space, all the...
Seriously I think Latoya Jackson is a bigger nut then Bruno and Bruno isnt even a real person. Below is a deleted scene from the DVD where Latoya Jackson decides to sit on the Mexican Furniture and have some sushi off a naked Mexican piece of Furniture. I thought Paula Abdul was a nut but Latoya takes the cake. The deleted scene is actually quite funny watch it below. BRUNO will be on DVD & November...
Obituary: Former exec had served for more than 50 yrs. at studio -- Sergio "Gino" Campagnola, who served for more than 50 years with Paramount Pictures, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 76.
Two of these stars below are tied for suffering the most Oscar snubs among actresses: six defeats, no wins. Can you name them? To see the answer, click the "Continue Reading" link underneath the photos. ANSWER: Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter. Oscarless Rosalind Russell and Barbara Stanwyck lost four times each, Liv Ullmann twice. Two male stars lost more times than all of these women: Peter...
Exactly 30 years after militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and began a 444-day hostage crisis that affected U.S. and global politics, HBO Films made a deal to turn the incident into a film. On Wednesday, HBO acquired "Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam," by "Black Hawk Down" author Mark Bowden....
We hope he'll be worth that kind of paycheck. Ali G Sacha Baron Cohen has just gotten himself signed onto a really sweet deal. Columbia Pictures has just beat out two other studios for the rights to back Borat's Sacha's next two films. The final price tag had seven digits! Yowza! But don't expect Bruno Sacha to add [...]
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is continuing his Hollywood hot streak as he signs up to star in and produce two high-profile new films. The actor, who had back-to-back hits with Borat and Bruno, has now set up his own production house and already created a bidding war with its first project. The unnamed picture, written by the same team as his last two and set to star Cohen, landed his outfit...
Aww shit dawg! Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers, will star in Shady Talez, his first feature film in seven years (though he did appear briefly in Judd Apatow's Funny People earlier this year). The project, with a style described as "The Twilight Zone meets Creepshow," is a new 3D anthology horror film. Marvel will be publishing a four-issue comic book series based on Shady Talez in 2010 as well....
Celebrity-friendly restaurant Orso Los Angeles becomes the latest restaurant to close. Orso opened in 1989 and its location near Robertson Blvd. and the tree-shrouded smoking-friendly patio have made it a popular film industry haunt. But the NY Times reports that the Italian trattoria serving fare priced at around $25 per entree will close by November 21. Orso restaurants in New York and London will...
LOS ANGELES – Sony thinks its new Michael Jackson documentary could be a contender for best picture. Spokesman Steve Elzer said Thursday that the studio will submit "Michael Jackson's This Is It" for Academy Awards consideration this year. It missed the deadline to be considered for a 2009 documentary Oscar, but the film about the late King of Pop's preparations for a series of comeback concerts will...
Walt Disney Studios' big-budget holiday bet "A Christmas Carol" got off to a soft start Friday, selling a studio-estimated $9 million in the US and Canada.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Michael Jackson concert movie "This Is It" saw opening weekend ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada rise by 9 percent from initial estimates to a total $23.2 million, according to final studio figures on Monday. The movie has made another $69.5 million internationally since its Wednesday opening, up from an original box office estimate of $68.5 million, film studio Columbia Pictures...