Russell Crowe will join Leonardo DiCaprio in “Body of Lies,” the William Monahan-scripted adaptation of the David Ignatius novel that Ridley Scott will direct for Warner Bros. Donald De Line and Scott are producing; pic shoots in the fall.

Media Rights Capital has set Cameron Diaz to star in “The Box,” a PG-13 horror film that […]

The summer movie season is hardly over but Newsweek has picked its 5 breakthrough male stars of the summer. The list is interesting for its lack of brawny male stars and some will debate its merit. At least it is amusing.

Two hot-button issues in Germany — the Nazi era and Scientology — are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country’s most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin. 
Cruise, one of Scientology’s best-known adherents, is to play Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg — the aristocratic army officer executed […]

 
Star appeal, big budgets and swanky foreign locations have all failed to bring cheer to Bollywood, as the world’s biggest film industry struggled to make a profit in the first half of 2007. 
Most entertainment analysts agreed it was almost impossible for Bollywood to repeat the success of 2006 — its best year ever — […]

Go behind the scenes and find out how this panel of successful producers has used networking to build connections, market their businesses and more to become some of the most successful business owners in the entertainment industry. No matter what type of small business you run, you’re sure to get insights, ideas, and insider advice […]

Brett Ratner is set to direct “Playboy,” the Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment film about the life of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. Brian Grazer is producing, and John Hoffman is writing the screenplay. Grazer optioned Hefner’s life rights several years ago.
The producer’s “8 Mile” scribe Scott Silver tried it as a musical, and […]

 
We tend to take for granted any pleasure, however acute, that is offered to us regularly; the gift becomes routine. Only when it’s removed do we realize how precious it was. And if, in some real-life Hollywood ending, the gift is restored, we can again savor the privilege, this time more acutely.  Roger Ebert, who’s […]

Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.  Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts […]

IT’S hard to imagine a better place to meet Dennis Farina than in New York’s Friars Club. Its borscht belt clientele and social-club ambience is old school, like Farina himself.  “A lot of them are in show business in one way or another,” says Farina, surveying the wood-paneled room and its lunchtime customers, some of […]

“His influence is huge today,” says Ryan Fleck, whose own mightily impressive debut feature, Half Nelson (released in April), bears the unmistakable Altman imprint. “Everyone I know loves his work.” Of all Altman’s films, Fleck picks out McCabe & Mrs Miller as his favourite. “It’s perfect for me: perfect in its imperfections,” he says. 
McCabe, played by […]