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(Monday, 15 March 2010 21:41)
Film News: Organization set up to fight runaway production -- In a bid to stanch the outflow of film and TV jobs from California, advocates have set up an organization to educate voters and help foster a political climate more conducive to enacting additional government incentives to retain production.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/B41pRHK01i0" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 21:00)
Film News: Thriller turns on kidnapping plot -- Mabrouk El Mechri ("JCVD") will direct Summit Entertainment and Intrepid Pictures' thriller "The Cold Light of Day."img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/Y3ijmJbV5hc" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell join romantic thriller -- Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell have joined the cast of romantic thriller "The Tourist."img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/vLW10QD0MrE" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Festival takes place June 7 -14 -- Exclusive images of Luc Besson's passion project "The Mechanics of the Heart" will be unveiled at the 50th Annecy Intl. Animation Festival, set to take place June 7-14.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/eAYMFUmqQms" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Jennifer Garner stars and produces comedy -- The Weinstein Co. has come on board the comedy "Butter" with Jennifer Garner starring and producing along with Mike Deluca.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/SXDdPq2DJ3g" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Seyfried, Rhys Meyers, Bloom board Glenn Close project -- Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Orlando Bloom have joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia's "Albert Nobbs," which sees Glenn Close reprise her award-winning stage role as a woman who must pass as a man to survive life in 19th century Ireland.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/7Zheo1KVNzA" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 20:47)
Film News: Guild sets Jan. 30 for next year's ceremony -- The Screen Actors Guild Awards will return to a Sunday next year.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/XHAYoIs83Es" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 20:44)
Film News: 'Runaways' premiere draws eclectic crowd -- It was a case of Sundance/indie (low-budget film with packed after-party) meeting punk/nostalgia (black leather pants on 50ish women) when the Joan Jett biopic "The Runaways" bowed Thursday at the ArcLight.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/PDdI6zIXD7U" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 20:38)
Film News: Musician-actor in joint venture that aims to make up to five pics a year -- Musician-actor Willie Nelson has launched a film production shingle dubbed Luck Films, based in Luck, Texas.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/CNNmJAnsNCM" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 20:37)
Film News: Monique Eclavissat adds Latin America to distribution duties -- Monique Esclavissat, who has overseen European distribution for Warner Bros. Pictures Intl., has been tapped to relocate to the studio's worldwide headquarters in Burbank and take on the additional Latin American distribution operations.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/9HHLeOWTnCg" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 20:32)
Film News: Disney to drive first project in its deal with DreamWorks -- Dakota Goyo will play Hugh Jackman's son in "Real Steel," the DreamWorks film that Shawn Levy is directing.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/gUtJwimvNMA" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 19:41)
Film News: Cinema Management Group to sell outside North America -- Cinema Management Group has picked up sales rights outside North America for director Will Canon's college fraternity thriller "Brotherhood."img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/7a4W_Um4zas" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 17:31)
Film News: Cinematographer takes risks in Greengrass pic -- Green Zone" and "The Hurt Locker" -- critically praised Iraq War pictures whose box office take falls short of their positive reviews -- have their differences.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/NS_kHq8FtLo" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 17:01)
Film News: Event will take place Dec. 12 to Dec. 19 -- The Dubai Intl. Film Festival, covering the Arab world, Asia and Africa, has announced that its seventh edition will unspool Dec. 12 to 19.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/iknQubhun9w" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 16:12)
Film News: Event to take place April 23 -- Hong Kong helmer Pang Ho-cheung's slasher "Dream Home" will open Italy's 12th Udine Far East Festival on April 23.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/AdwmhZm7JGI" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 15:48)
Film News: Lynton talks theatrical windows, digital conversion -- Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Michael Lynton kicked off ShoWest on Monday with a call to arms for healthier snacks.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/9iJg2Iuuyb0" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 10:20)
Film News: ShoWester shines at confab -- William J. Stembler isn't kidding when he says "exhibition's in my blood."img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/MVIkM9xVLQs" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 10:17)
Film News: Company to receive Big 10 Award -- How good a year was 2009 for Pixar? "Up" was the fourth-biggest release (with $293 million), one of the best reviewed of the year and it scored five Oscar noms.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/yEKWE2_qjYY" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 09:41)
Film News: Pic is third film from director Mia Hansen-Love -- Paris-based Les Films Pelleas is teaming with Berlin's Razor Film Produktion to produce first-love drama "Un amour de jeunesse," the upcoming film from France's Mia Hansen-Love ("The Father of My Children").img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/hBFg5DpwfcM" height="1" width="1"/
(Monday, 15 March 2010 09:27)
Film News: Distrib builds profile through partnerships -- Barcelona-based indie distributor Savor has inked with Paramount Vantage on all Spanish rights to "The Crazies," the remake of George A. Romero's 1973 chiller.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/bIVanCGybpw" height="1" width="1"/
Upcoming Movies.
(Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:05)
In Clash of the Titans, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods.
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE follows a group of best friends whove become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who cant find the party; Nicks (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) wont leave his basement.
From the studio that brought you Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda comes How to Train Your Dragon. Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesnt exactly fit in with his tribes longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers.
Reuniting the same charismatic cast and characters from his hit comedy/drama, WHY DID I GET MARRIED, Tyler Perry brings us the next chapter in the lives of eight college friends struggling with the challenges of marital life in WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO.
Synopsis: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways.
Reviews and previews of movies from print, online, and broadcast critics.
A tense and gripping spectacular piece of snow-bound historical German film-making.
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass return to the propulsive action and visceral editing of the Bourne films -- but a cliched script and stock characters keep those methods from being as effective this time around.
Shes Out of My League has moments of humor and insight, but its bogged down by excessive vulgarity and cartoonishness.
With the recent assault on Berlusconi in Milan where a man threw a statuette at the prime minister hitting him in the face and causing considerable injury, and the subsequent notice by his administration that the government would seek tighter controls on Facebook and other social networking sites which they claim "instigate" violence against the prime minister, this elucidating probe of Italian mass media and political skullduggery comes to U.S. audiences at a bizarre and critical moment in Italian history.
Its leads are likeable, but Remember Me suffers from an overly maudlin script and a borderline offensive final twist.
One of Filmmaker Magazines "25 New Faces of Independent Film," writer-director Tze Chun makes his feature film debut with one of the most-awarded and best-reviewed films of the year.
It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but Shutter Island's gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained.
Michael Hoffman's script doesn't quite live up to its famous subject, but this Tolstoy biopic benefits from a spellbinding tour de force performance by Helen Mirren.
Meet the kid who made "wimpy" cool, in a family comedy motion picture based on the best-selling illustrated novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, the first in a series that has thus far sold 28 million books.
Replete with quirky indie cliches, Happy Tears wastes some fine performances from Demi Moore, Parker Posey, and Rip Torn on stale formula.
Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). He thinks all that's ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole.
Tim Burton's Alice sacrifices the book's minimal narrative coherence -- and much of its heart -- but it's an undeniable visual treat.
In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union.
Though the costumes are beautiful and the art direction impeccable, what stands out most from this debut by fashion designer Tom Ford is the leading performance by Colin Firth.
This international smash hit from the makers of Gomorrah is an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday.
Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalems ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children.
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan.
Emily Abt`s emotionally powerful feature, Toe To Toe, tells the story of a love/hate relationship between lacrosse mates Tosha and Jesse, two senior girls at a competitive Washington, D.C., prep school.
Writer/director Adam Green has the beginnings of an inventive, frightening yarn in Frozen, but neither the script nor the cast are quite strong enough to truly do it justice.
Work has become an obsession for Detective Tom Adkins (JON HAMM) since the disappearance of his ten-year-old son, Tommy Jr. When an early morning phone call leads him to the mangled remains of a young boy who was brutally murdered 50 years ago, Adkins takes on the case in hopes of finding absolution.
In the summer of 2007, shortly after the release of their 6th album ICKY THUMP, The White Stripes headed north of their hometown of Detroit to embark on an ambitious journey across Canada.
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