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Julian Schnabel sat down with us at the Los Angeles press day to talk about his new film, “The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.” Winner of the Best Director’s award at Cannes 2007, Schnabel (“Before Night Falls,” “Basquiat”) has crafted another remarkable film that pays tribute to the spirit of the imagination and its ability […]

High definition movie DVDs in the Blu-ray format have outsold the rival HD DVD standard in Europe this year, breaking the 1 million barrier and constituting 73 percent of all HD movie discs sold.
Citing industry sales data, the Blu-ray disc association said in a statement on Tuesday Blu-ray movie disc sales had topped 1 million […]

 
Film Independent supports moviemakers working outside Hollywood’s major studios or within the studios’ specialty film divisions. The awards have become an important barometer for which low-budget and art films might compete for Oscars, Golden Globes or other honors in Hollywood’s annual awards season.
Angelina Jolie was nominated for best leading actress playing Pearl’s wife in “Mighty […]

 
It’s high season for Oscar bait, and multiplexes are filled with literary adaptations, including the Coen brothers’ bloody take on Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” and Mike Newell’s film of Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera.” Coming later this fall are big-screen versions of Ian McEwan’s “Atonement,” Philip Pullman’s “Golden […]

 
Their faces covered with elaborate tattoos, the Gyptians look fierce and deadly. Their sleeves bulge with muscles; their belts sag under the weight of their swords. Huddled in a tight formation, they wolf down bowls of rhubarb crumble.
The fantastic and the realistic brush against each other on many movie sets, but at the lunch canteen […]

Five-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins is grabbing a lot of attention these days, having served as director of photography on three recent high-profile features: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “No Country for Old Men,” Paul Haggis’ “In the Valley of Elah” and Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”Like most studio […]

An accident on the set of Adam Sandler’s latest comedy burned two stuntmen, officials said Monday.
One person was burned on his hands and legs and another on his back during filming on the Universal Studios back lot, said Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Sam Padilla. Both victims, whose identities were not released, were taken to […]

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He’s taken on the Soup Nazi, an annoying Chinese maitre d’ and even an uncooperative puffy shirt, so when comedian Jerry Seinfeld faced the Israeli media Sunday in Tel Aviv, he was ready - ready with some one-liners and even a promise that the man from the show about nothing could perhaps even do something […]