Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days,” a stark, trenchant drama about a woman’s experiences receiving an abortion in the waning days of Romania’s communist era, won the Palme d’Or at the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Screened on the fest’s first full day, “4 Months” is one of the few [...]

 
Director Christopher Nolan has made an inventive decision to film four sequences of “The Dark Knight” with Imax cameras. The next installment of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Batman franchise, which again will star Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, is scheduled for a July 18, 2008, day-and-date theatrical release with Imax theaters. 
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THIS is a tale of two scripts, one that sold for a ton of money, one that remains twisting in the wind. Both are beautifully written, but in
Hollywood, while scripts are prized for great writing, they must also give a studio chief enough ammunition to comfortably answer the question: If I spend $100 million on [...]

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Digital cinema is on a roll as more theaters add digital projectors to their screens. This weekend marks another milestone for digital projection as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End becomes the first motion picture to be released on over 1,000 digital cinema screens.   “At World’s End” will be the first feature to [...]

 
New Line Cinema is taking the plunge into fantasy territory with its newest fantasy epic The Golden Compass, due in theaters at the end of the year and starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Already drawing comparisons to the other New Line behemoth – The Lord of the Rings trilogy – The Golden Compass trailer [...]

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Shooting has already started for the The Dark Knight, the follow-up to Batman Begins. Shooting has occurred both in London and over several days in Chicago in late April where a small fire broke out during film in an old post office on the loop area. The production will return to Chicago in June to [...]