Eight weeks into the movie awards season, the half-year regarded here as show-prep for the Oscars, Hollywood is already littered with smoking ruins.  While Malibu was burning last weekend, Ben Affleck and Miramax Films watched “Gone Baby Gone” do the same.
The crime drama opened sixth at the box office with $5.5 million in domestic [...]

“Juno,” the story of an American teenager faced with an unplanned pregnancy, won the top prize at the Rome film festival on Saturday. The film is directed by 30-year-old Canadian-born Jason Reitman, whose 2005 comedy “Thank you for Smoking” scooped a string of awards and was nominated for two Golden Globes. 
“It’s terrifying to bring your [...]

Dan in Real Life   

Director: Peter Hedges
Stars: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures 
The Plot: While advice columnist and single dad Dan Burns (Carell) attends his family reunion, he meets, and falls for, Beth (Binoche), a funny, smart, beautiful woman — who just happens to be in a relationship with [...]

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam early next year on “Shutter Island,” a Laeta Kalogridis-scripted adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel. Pic is coming together quickly as a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures, with production starting in March.
Paramount will supervise production and distribute domestically while Columbia is looking to distribute internationally.  The [...]

Can’t wait to see what Beowulf can do next month? In the meantime, get your action fix with our list of butt-kickers, from Antonio Banderas’ El Mariachi to Uma Thurman’s Bride and more. 
(Source: EW)

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At first glance, the new TV season looks less than heroic. There’s been no water-cooler hit akin to last year’s “Heroes,” although two newcomers, “Pushing Daisies” and “Private Practice,” hold promise. And after a spring audience exodus, network viewership compared with last fall is down as much as 10 percent by one measurement. 
Broadcasters have no one [...]

With less than a week to go before a presumed strike deadline, Hollywood studio executives sought to break a deadlock in contract talks with screenwriters by offering a newly condensed package of proposals. 
Initial reaction by the Writers Guild of America was chilly, with the chairman of the union’s negotiating committee saying the studios’ latest offer [...]

It’s a sad day for fans of the TV musical, the TV murder mystery and the TV casino drama. All three of them.  Viva Laughlin, CBS’ first foray into the multihyphenate genre, has been yanked after just two airings, joining CW’s Online Nation and Fox’s Nashville in the fall season’s discard pile. A repeat of CSI [...]

Kristin Chenoweth is a woman of many talents.  She’s an actress, a singer, has appeared in film, on TV, and on Broadway.  Perhaps best known for her work on The West Wing, Chenoweth now finds herself on Pushing Daisies, the fall’s most interesting and well-received new series.

Kristin plays Olive Snook, an employee of The Pie [...]