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Movie stars turn to comedy on the web »

 

The Internet is already filled with cheap laughs — YouTube alone offers a lifetime’s supply of home videos (some funny, most not). But now many experienced comedians, talent agents and financiers are seeing the Web as a way to showcase talent while trying to turn a profit. In January, Turner Broadcasting began SuperDeluxe.com, which features [...]

First Look: Speed Racer »

Emile Hirsch was 6 years old when he saw his first episode of the cartoon Speed Racer and, more important, caught a glimpse of the Mach 5. “It was one of the coolest things I’d ever seen,” Hirsch says by phone from Germany , where filming will begin next week on the movie adaptation. “That’s when I started thinking [...]

INTERVIEW: Christian Bale talks ‘The Dark Knight’, the sequel to ‘Batman Begins’ »

 
Shooting has already started for the The Dark Knight, the follow-up to Batman Begins. Shooting has occurred both in London and over several days in Chicago in late April where a small fire broke out during film in an old post office on the loop area. The production will return to Chicago in June to [...]

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson team up to make ‘Tintin’ »

 
Dreamworks has just announced that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson will team up to direct a trilogy of films based on the popular Tintin comic books. The series of comic books by Belgian artist Herge (real name Georges Hemi) is about an intrepid boy reporter, Tintin, whose adventures around the world put him in grave [...]