A year to the day after “Once” premiered at Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh, writer-director John Carney was trying to explain how he pulled it off.
How did he turn E130,000 (approximately $160,000 at the time) into a film that has earned more than $5 million in
U.S. release? How did he parlay an average filmmaker’s […]

WE had only just met, but John Travolta, big and handsome and hypnotic, was fondling the lapel of my navy blue blazer. “Ooh, what a great idea to match this with a cobalt blue shirt,” he cooed. “I wouldn’t have thought of that.”   Disarming, but doubtful. When it comes to appearances, Mr. Travolta seems […]

 
MoviesOnline sat down with producers David Heyman and David Barron, director David Yates, screenwriter Michael Goldenberg, and actor Imelda Staunton at the Los Angeles press day to talk about their new film, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” In this latest installment of the Potter franchise, Harry returns for his fifth year of […]

 
Giovanni Ribisi called me. Burt Reynolds asked me to call him at home. The director Joel Schumacher called me from Romania between takes for his next movie. Anne Archer and I played phone tag for two weeks. A-list, B-list, stars of stage, stars of screen, they were all eager to talk. The Tony winners John Glover […]

Despite competition from Internet-based movie delivery, cable and satellite on-demand, and digital cinema, DVD continues to attract the majority of consumer spending on movies, according to the 2007 Annual Report on the Home Entertainment Industry, which was released today.  
Relying on data from industry sources, the report states that consumers spent $23.0 billion on DVD […]

When Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The 11th Hour” trailer went up on his MySpace page, the site got overloaded with so many trailer views that the stat counter started going backwards. 
When Bruce Willis jumped into an Aint it Cool News chat to defend “Live Free or Die Hard,” the fanboys flamed him until he turned on his […]

“I don’t care if people are Democrats or Republicans, communists or anti-communists,” says director Milos Forman. “I divide people between those I am afraid of and those I am not. Once you have lived under the Nazis and the Communists, you learn these kinds of things.” The official portraitist of “Amadeus” and “The People vs. Larry […]

 
Summer 2007 is just a little more than half over, but studio chiefs are already anxious about their plans for another season of eye-popping tentpoles. We’re not talking about next summer; we’re talking 2009.  With demands for ever-more-elaborate special effects, the expectation of bigger and better megapic events and the threat of a crippling strike, […]

Charlize Theron will star in “The Burning Plain,” a drama that marks the feature directing debut of “Babel” screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. Financed by 2929 Productions, the drama will shoot in November.

Jim Carrey will star in a Robert Zemeckis adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” playing Scrooge, the ghost of Christmas past, the ghost of Christmas present […]

 
With the year already half over, only four films have managed thus far to join Hollywood’s $200 Million Club. 
Three of them, which are easy to guess, are the blockbuster franchise three-quels that blossomed in May. “Transformers,” which just opened July 3, has already done around $175 million and before long will be joining the […]