Reuters – The Actors’ Equity Association on Tuesday gave its blessing to the proposed merger between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Reuters – The Actors’ Equity Association on Tuesday gave its blessing to the proposed merger between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Reuters – Fifteen Oscar statuettes are to be auctioned off next week in what organizers said on Tuesday is the largest collection of Academy Awards ever to go under the hammer.
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AP – Navy SEALs never expected the film “Act of Valor,” starring real, active-duty Navy SEALs, to be this big.
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Reuters – The movie studio that controls the rights to “The Godfather” has sued the estate of its creator Mario Puzo, accusing his heirs of wrongfully authorizing new book sequels to the fictional mafia family’s story.
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Reuters – Big films. Big stars. Big Fashion. When the red carpet rolls out for the Oscars Sunday night, it won’t only be the biggest night in Hollywood, it will be a major night for celebrity designers.
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AP – The North London band Bombay Bicycle Club says being in the latest “Twilight” movie wasn’t quite the high profile leg-up the band was hoping for.
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AP – A film about one woman’s efforts to rescue orangutans and return them to Indonesia’s rapidly disappearing jungles has made its way home.
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Reuters – Two-time Oscar-winner Michael Douglas is the latest presenter announced for the 84th Academy Awards ceremony.
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Reuters – The weekend box office title landed securely in Denzel Washington’s hands as his thriller, “Safe House,” beat love story “The Vow” over a long U.S. holiday weekend.
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AP – Few would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland, but Hollywood doesn’t want anyone else handing out Oscars.
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AP – Paul Sorvino might finally be over his trouble with “The Trouble with Cali.”
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AP – Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris” and Alexander Payne’s family drama “The Descendants” have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.
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Reuters – U.S. film and television writers gave their top two movie awards on Sunday to romance “Midnight in Paris” and drama “The Descendants” in the final Hollywood guild awards show before next week’s Oscars.
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Reuters – From “The King’s Speech” to “The Blind Side,” Hollywood loves an incredible true story.
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AP – Lindsay Lohan’s comeback trail is leading her to “Saturday Night Live.”
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AP – The President’s Day weekend box office was too close to call as the action tale “Safe House” and the love story “The Vow” competed for the No. 1 spot.
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Reuters – Denzel Washington thriller “Safe House” rose to the No. 1 spot at movie box offices through Sunday, narrowly leading love story “The Vow” over a long holiday weekend in the United States.
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AP – The President’s Day weekend box office is too close to call as the action tale “Safe House” and the love story “The Vow” compete for the No. 1 spot.
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Reuters – Actor Kevin Costner gave an emotional tribute to singer Whitney Houston at her funeral on Saturday, revealing insights into the singing sensation who died suddenly last week and hit film “The Bodyguard” they made together.
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AP – Italian documentary “Caesar Must Die,” showing inmates of a high-security prison staging Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” was awarded the Berlin film festival’s top award Saturday.
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Reuters – “Caesar Must Die,” a docu-drama in which murderers and mafiosi act out a Shakespearean tragedy in a high-security Italian jail, won the Golden Bear award for best picture at the Berlin film festival on Saturday.
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Reuters – Oscar-winning British actress Judi Dench has lost part of her eyesight and struggles to read film scripts or see people sitting directly in front of her.
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Reuters – The Berlin film festival lived up to its reputation as a champion of world cinema in 2012, bringing tragic tales from China, France, the Philippines and beyond to the big screen.
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AP – Actress Judi Dench is battling to save her sight.
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Reuters – China agreed on Friday to open its market to more American movies, in a dramatic Hollywood ending to a week-long visit by China’s leader-in-waiting that produced billions of dollars in business deals.
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Newsarama.com – Hell hath no fury like a good comic book character scorned. If you were expecting Ghost Rider to receive a more dignified cinematic treatment the second time around, well… you got played. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance isn’t as big a fiasco as say, Punisher: War...
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AP – Nick Cannon has stepped down from his New York City radio show.
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Reuters – “The Help,” which chronicled the experiences of black maids in the 1960s, and the comedy “Jumping the Broom” were honored at the NAACP Image Awards on Friday, and the life and career of Whitney Houston was celebrated with rousing gospel songs a week after the singer’s...
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AP – Some tiny people are making a big impression, with “The Secret World of Arrietty” earning rave reviews in its opening weekend.
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Reuters – With media splintering more each passing year, movie review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have grown in popularity, regularly popping up in studio marketing materials and box office reporting.
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Reuters – Cirque du Soleil will be returning to the Academy Awards, just in time to mark the 10th anniversary of the time they set the Oscar stage on fire.
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AP – Aerialists, acrobats and contortionists from Cirque du Soleil are among the guests at this year’s Academy Awards.
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AP – The distributor in Serbia of Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut — a love story set in the Bosnian war — says the movie will start showing here next week, but without the red-carpet premiere it had in Bosnia.
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Reuters – Miyazaki, a household name to Japanese animation fans, will again be the draw at Belgium’s 31st Anima festival, but it will not be the acclaimed director Hayao but his son Goro aiming to keep the family name alive in Europe.
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AP – They foiled plots and cracked Nazi codes, but Britain’s spies were unable to solve the mystery of Charlie Chaplin’s birth.
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AP – “This Means War” may not be Reese Witherspoon’s finest hour — it’s a glossy, noisy, love-triangle-slash-spy-romp — but it’s fun and it allows her once again to demonstrate her radiant likability. It also allows us the opportunity to look back at her career and ponder five...
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Reuters – In just a few short years, Bridgit Mendler has risen to become one of the Disney Channel’s most popular stars thanks to the success of her series “Good Luck Charlie” and the Disney Channel original movie “Lemonade Mouth.”
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BERLIN – The director of a Hungarian film which focuses on the lives of a family of Roma as their community faces a series of deadly attacks says he hopes it will help tackle discrimination.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A non-professional cast of Roma actors portray a family struggling to survive in “Just the Wind,” a gritty drama inspired by real-life attacks against Hungary’s Roma community which premieres on Thursday at the Berlin Film Festival.
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LOS ANGELES – From around 1910 to the late 1920s, the silent film industry dominated Los Angeles. The movies were filmed everywhere, from Hollywood to bustling downtown to what was then a nearly barren valley area, on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. Without permits, unions or worries about sound, filmmakers could just...
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NEW YORK – A-listers, place your orders. Marchesa is now accepting gown requests for the Oscars.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Jon Voight helped his son James Haven on Wednesday to promote a new inspirational film about a Texan who lost everything because of alcoholism, but eventually redeemed himself, built a successful business and now dedicates himself to promoting education.
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One big name that likely won’t be at this year’s Oscars: Kodak. The Eastman Kodak Co. received court approval Wednesday to end its sponsorship deal with the Hollywood theater that is the venue for the Academy Awards.
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LOS ANGELES – For Bishop T.D. Jakes, watching Whitney Houston sing a classic gospel hymn two months ago made him sure the long-struggling singer was poised for a comeback.
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NEWARK, N.J. – In Whitney Houston’s hometown, her family plans a private church service, with no public memorial set. In Los Angeles, where she died, there’s not even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for fans to pile flowers. So for the legion of music lovers mourning a global superstar, where do...
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AUSTIN, Texas – Jon Voight was in Austin to help his son James Haven promote a new inspirational film about a Texan who lost everything because of alcoholism, but eventually redeemed himself.
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Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a house seems almost normal.
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Having great-looking stars who have the added bonus of actually being able to act makes the noisy romp “This Means War” more tolerable that it ought to be.
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LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston’s life of glorious song and unnerving self-destruction apparently ended in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Grammy weekend, but it could be weeks before investigators know exactly why she died.
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With an opening prayer and a moving tribute from Jennifer Hudson, the Grammy Awards played the part of impromptu memorial for Whitney Houston just a day after the six-time Grammy winner was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 12 (TheWrap.com) – The Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony has been dubbed the nerd Oscars before — but after Saturday night’s show at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, you could also call it the anti-Oscars.
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LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston’s film career was short — just three big-screen releases in her lifetime. But it resulted in one of the few romantic smash hits ever to star a black actress.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Black-and-white turned to gold as silent movie “The Artist” won seven BAFTA awards including best film at a ceremony in London on Sunday, raising expectations of a strong showing at the Academy Awards.
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LONDON – Silent movie “The Artist” had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards.
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LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Finnish sci-fi spoof “Iron Sky” takes viewers on a wild ride to the dark side of the moon, where Nazis who survived World War Two have built a military base and are planning a “Meteorblitzkrieg” on planet Earth.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Spanish psychological thriller “Dictado” (Childish Games), depicting a man spooked by a little girl who revives a dark secret from his childhood, had viewers also on edge at its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The oppressive world of Communist East Germany was brought back to life in a haunting new film called “Barbara” at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, the first of three German productions in the main competition.
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BERLIN – Angelina Jolie says she’s nervous and excited about the upcoming premiere in Sarajevo of her Bosnian war movie “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”
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NEW YORK – Marlene Dietrich is having a moment. The runways of New York Fashion Week are paying homage to the late star’s sultry, glamorous but sometimes slightly mannish style.
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NEW YORK – The actor who played a son of ranch owner Barbara Stanwyck on the 1960s Western “The Big Valley,” has died. Peter Breck was 82.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Jersey Shore” star Snooki and Charlie Sheen have topped a poll of nightmare celebrity Valentine dates, and few people want to cuddle up with Ashton Kutcher on February 14 — at least, not on film.
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NEW YORK – The actor who played the father on the 1970s comedy series “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” has died. Philip Bruns was 80.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – “Tey,” a Senegalese modern fairy-tale which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, depicts a young man who wakes up inexplicably knowing today is the last day of his life.
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BERLIN – Director Stephen Daldry has brought Sept. 11 drama “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” to the Berlin International Film Festival, saying the film was sensitive to make.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The owner of Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre is challenging bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.’s effort to end its sponsorship agreement and have the company’s name removed from the Academy Awards venue.
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LOS ANGELES – Michael Rapaport clearly loves music. It’s evident in every moment of his documentary, “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest,” the actor’s directing debut about the influential hip-hop group. The film includes the rift that divided the Tribe as well as the tensions that linger today, but...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China are discussing the possible elimination of Chinese barriers to American films in the run up to Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s U.S. visit next week, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES – The Oscars aren’t until Feb. 26, but winners of the Pawscars are already celebrating.
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LOS ANGELES – Passengers on United Airlines Flight 531 from Chicago to Los Angeles didn’t just get to travel with a world-famous celebrity, they had their picture taken with him.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Legendary Pictures has shut down production on “Paradise Lost,” an individual close to the film confirmed to TheWrap.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Eat your heart out, Madonna. When it comes to career reinvention, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wins hands-down.
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“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” — There’s little mystery to this island. This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dollars purpose with pride, delivering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless. Again poking Jules Verne’s remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit “Journey...
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“If you want to steal cars, maybe don’t dress like a car thief!” That line, uttered by Spider-Man in the Amazing Spider-Man footage shown Monday at an international promotional event, showed that the new film looks to have a good handle on the title character’s trademark wisecracks. Nearly five months away from the July...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Eight years ago, Rachel McAdams hit Hollywood’s map in teary, romantic drama “The Notebook.” Since then, she has broadened her range of work to include laugh-out-loud comedies such as “Wedding Crashers,” adventure films like “Sherlock Holmes” and recently, the Woody Allen movie “Midnight in Paris.”
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan and China may be drawing ever closer after decades of estrangement, but a pair of star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of the Taiwan Strait encounter huge difficulties in communicating with each other in a new Taiwanese film.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Disney officials say a new area called Cars Land will open in June at Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim.
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LOS ANGELES – Testimony concluded Tuesday in a trial that will decide whether the Golden Globe Awards remain on NBC through 2018 with a federal judge strongly urging both sides to settle before a ruling is necessary.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 7 (TheWrap.com) – If Daniel Radcliffe boasted the magical powers of his fictional Harry Potter character, he would probably turn the members of the Academy into toads.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 7 (TheWrap.com) – Wolfe Releasing has picked up North American rights to “Mosquita y Mari,” a coming-of-age tale that focuses on a love between two Latinas in Los Angeles, Wolfe said Tuesday.
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LONDON – From heady foreign climes to the English winter: “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is set in India but having its world premiere in chilly London.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – George Clooney says the best thing about Academy Awards nominations is not necessarily the prizes. It’s hanging with old and new friends.
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LOS ANGELES – “The Amazing Spider-Man” dropped in on hundreds of fans Monday.
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(Reuters) – Move over, Cannes. Maine will be playing host to its first-ever international mustache film festival, part of its annual pageant that celebrates the bristly facial hair.
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SYDNEY – Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) – Two award-winning filmmakers working on a documentary with renowned Hollywood director James Cameron were killed in a helicopter crash in Australia on Saturday, according to National Geographic.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 (TheWrap.com) – Two producers of Tom Cruise’s upcoming thriller “One Shot” were slapped by a breach of contract suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday by a former producer on the project.
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INDIANAPOLIS – John Travolta had the Super Bowl score wrong — but his prediction was right.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 (TheWrap.com) – “Hugo,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” have won the top prizes from the Art Directors Guild, which handed out its annual awards for film and television work on Saturday night.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Teen boys with superpowers helped lift the movie box office to unexpected heights over Super Bowl weekend as thriller “Chronicle” edged “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe’s haunted house movie “The Woman in Black.”
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LOS ANGELES – Mike deGruy, an award-winning cinematographer who spent three decades making documentary films about the ocean, has been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia. He was 60.
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SYDNEY – Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday.
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NEW YORK – Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and the film “The Big Lebowski,” has died at age 81.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the “Harry Potter” movies during a period in his life where he was drinking “nightly,” the young star said in an interview.
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NEW YORK – Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and the film “The Big Lebowski,” has died at age 81.
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LOS ANGELES – Actor and filmmaker Zalman King, who became known for his erotic work after writing and producing his breakthrough film “9 1/2 Weeks,” has died. He was 70.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (TheWrap.com) – Last year was a banner year for production in the nation’s capital — more than a dozen high-budget film and television projects ranging from “Bourne Identity 4 to “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss ‘Obese’ Season 2″ spent time in the city — but its future as a film location may...
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