Movie News
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"Precious" director hires Brit to play MLK (Reuters)
Lee Daniels is firming up the cast of "Selma," his civil-rights follow-up to "Precious," even as its funding is on shaky ground. -
Sigourney Weaver the queen in horror-comedy Vamps (Reuters)
Sigourney Weaver, who fought a monster queen in "Aliens," will now act as a vampire queen in "Vamps." -
"Smallville" duo bring "Existence 2.0" to screen (Reuters)
Paramount has picked up rights to the comic book "Existence 2.0," with the duo behind "Smallville" attached to adapt. -
Film goes behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live (Reuters)
"Saturday Night" seems like such a natural idea for a documentary -- charting the week of writing and preparation that go into an episode of "Saturday Night Live" -- that it's hard to believe it hasn't been made before. James Franco got the idea after hosting the show in September 2008, and exec producer Lorne Michaels gave him the go-ahead to bring in cameras and record an entire week. -
Teen angst revived, again, in "American Sleepover" (Reuters)
It takes either courage or ignorance for a first-time director to tell the kind of story John Hughes, Richard Linklater, Judd Apatow and George Lucas have already done so well, but David Robert Mitchell nearly pulls it off in "The Myth of the American Sleepover." -
Spoof "MacGruber" does its best with thin material (Reuters)
Utterly disposable but diverting, "MacGruber" manages to spin feature-length product out of an idea that few would try expanding beyond a "Saturday Night Live" skit. -
911 tape released in actor Corey Haim's death (Reuters)
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Canadian gets prison time for movie pirating (Reuters)
A Montreal man that police described as one of Canada's biggest movie pirates was sentenced to two and a half months in prison on Tuesday for distributing copies of films he secretly recorded in theaters. -
Fox to mine "Avatar" DVD release three times (Reuters)
Twentieth Century Fox on Tuesday set Earth Day, April 22, for the DVD and Blu-ray release of "Avatar". But fans will have to wait until November for another disc with all the usual extras, and even longer for a 3-D version.
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`Toy Story' creator Pixar earns theater award (AP)
The makers of "Up," "WALL-E" and other Academy Award-winning cartoons have taken home a new prize.
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`Avatar' to be released on DVD, but not in 3-D (AP)
"Avatar" is coming to DVD, but not yet in 3-D.
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'Alice' sparks debate over quick DVD releases (AP)
Disney's plan to quickly release the blockbuster "Alice in Wonderland" on DVD is sparking new heat in a debate between Hollywood studios and movie theaters over how quickly films move from the big screen to people's living rooms.
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Review: Stewart, Fanning glam it up in `Runaways' (AP)
The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have degenerated into a movie-length music video, with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning merely glam-rock poseurs.
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NYS film tax credit key economic driver: comptroller (Reuters)
New York state's film tax credit has generated about $7 billion in economic activity since 2004 and become a key economic driver, the state's comptroller said on Tuesday. -
MPAA boss Glickman says goodbye to Hollywood (AP)
Dan Glickman spent his Hollywood years aiming to improve the ratings system that tells Americans what to expect in a movie — and fighting pirates.
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Channing Tatum approached for "Captain America" (Reuters)
Add Channing Tatum to the list of actors being considered for the role of Captain America. -
Jason Segel to star in Muppets movie (Reuters)
Jason Segel has found his rainbow connection with Disney's Muppets movie, signing to star as the human lead.
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Review: Stiller reveals new depth in `Greenberg' (AP)
The lesson Ben Stiller's praise-hungry actor learned in "Tropic Thunder" was that "you never go full retard" when playing a simpleton in hopes of snaring an Academy Award. -
British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband (AP)
British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm said Monday.
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'Alice in Wonderland' keeps hopping with $62.7M (AP)
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" still reigns at the box office, pulling in $62.7 million in its second weekend and becoming the first film released in 2010 to top the $200 million mark.
