Archive for February, 2008

Ridley Scott plans movie about Ronald Reagan »

Sir Ridley Scott is to make a film about late US president Ronald Reagan’s dealings with ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, according to reports.
The still untitled project will focus on the 1986 arms control summit that took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
“I want to show who they were and why they did what they did,” Sir Ridley [...]

Researchers: That pricey popcorn subsidizes cost of movie ticket »

What’s a movie without popcorn?
According to a new economic analysis, a lot.
As one price goes up, the other comes down. So rather than cursing the cost of your next bag, take comfort in the fact that it subsidizes your ticket - and helps fill seats, according to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz [...]

Matt Damon returns for fourth Bourne movie »

Jason Bourne will return for one last job after Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon signed up to make a fourth film in the hit franchise.
The actor and director at the heart of the series’ two most recent films had previously played down the idea of a third sequel, saying that they would only consider it [...]

The changing face of the Bollywood movie-making business »

 
They are all over Bollywood – in their dark glasses and business casuals, making offers you cannot refuse.
Not the new mafia, they are Bollywood’s new corporate honchos, the new age producers transforming the movie industry. And from two opposite ends of the city, two men are watching.
Over three decades, Mahesh Bhatt, Bollywood’s master of reinvention [...]

BEHIND THE SCENES TV: Jimmy Kimmel says ‘I’m F***ing Ben Affleck’ with all-star supporting cast »

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The Oscars: A dark view on dark times »

 
It used to be that violence, even more than comedy, was the kiss of death for Oscar movies. Then came blood-saturated films like “Crash” and “The Departed,” which overturned some of those rules.
But perhaps no movie exemplifies how the Oscars have changed than this year’s best picture winner, “No Country for Old Men,” a dark, disturbing [...]

INTERVIEW: Director Michel Gondry on his latest ‘Be Kind, Rewind’ »

 
Michel Gondry started his career making handmade fantasies for popular performers: As an in-demand video director, he worked with everyone from Björk to The White Stripes to Beck to The Rolling Stones. He made the move to features in 2001 with the underrated, barely released Human Nature, scripted by Charlie Kaufman. They collaborated again, to [...]

NBC’s ‘quarterlife’ brings Internet to television »

When NBC’s new hour-long drama “quarterlife” debuts Tuesday, it will be a relatively groundbreaking event. For the first time, a broadcast network will air a series that was first introduced on the Internet. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
The network is taking the show’s 36 “webisodes,” which are airing online at [...]

Uma Thurman, star producer »

 
”It’s funny,” beams Uma Thurman, “but in Hollywood, you don’t hear the word ‘bitch’ as much as you used to. Up until recently, if ever a woman was doing well or achieving something, that term was liberally applied. Women were called all sorts of names.” Sitting in the comfortable confines of London’s Dorchester hotel, looking [...]

BEHIND THE SCENES TV: George Clooney presents 80 years of Oscars »

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