Celebrated French-Swiss “New Wave” film director Jean-Luc Godard was persuaded out of retirement to direct a publicity trailer for Vienna’s international film festival, the event’s director said.
In an interview with the Austrian magazine Profile to be published on Monday, Hans Hurch said he had been “trying hard for 10 years” to get the 78-year-old to [...]

It’s a big month for Alan Ball. The Oscar-winning writer of “American Beauty” and creator of “Six Feet Under” is enjoying the recent premiere of a new series, “True Blood,” on HBO. And ” Towelhead,” his feature film directorial debut, hit theaters on Friday.
On the surface, the two projects couldn’t be more different. Based on [...]

They’ve written every sort of bonehead, nitwit and lamebrain imaginable in both comic and tragic form in such films as “Raising Arizona,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Yet they may have topped themselves for siring simpletons with the dark comedy “Burn After Reading,” which stars usual Coen suspects George Clooney, Frances [...]

Tyler Perry fans were already pumped as they arrived at a local theater for a free preview screening of “Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys.” They didn’t expect to also get Tyler Perry himself.
The tall author, playwright and director, relaxed in a Yankees baseball cap, joked and took questions from the audience. 
“The critics have never [...]

TAKEHOLLYWOOD.COM asks five questions to blockbuster director Jon Turteltaub whose credits include Instinct, Phenomenon and National Treasure I & II.
In this raw and highly entertaining interview, Mr. Turteltaub lays out the difficult and beautiful relationship between actor and director as well as truly invaluable advice for young actors about breaking into the business.
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Mathieu Kassovitz is pissed off. The French auteur, who first made waves in 1995 with La Haine, is supposed to be celebrating the passion project he’s been nursing for the past five years. Instead — the week before Babylon A.D. hits theaters — he is nursing a grudge. “I’m very unhappy with the film,” he says. “I never [...]

The creator of “The West Wing” is to make a film about the founders of social networking Web site Facebook.
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the Tom Hanks movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” has opened an account on the site to aid his research.
Sorkin writes on his Web page, “I figured a good first step in my [...]

A good interview, from the filmmakers’ point of view, is one where the press walks away more interested in the project than when they came in. While I’m not planning to be first in line for the videogame adaptation Max Payne when it opens in October, I’m definitely curious. Part of that comes from the charisma of [...]

It’s a year of milestones for Kevin Bacon: The actor turned 50 (!) on July 8, he celebrates his 20th wedding anniversary with Kyra Sedgwick in September, and it’s been 30 years since the release of his first movie, Animal House. Tonight, he sits in the director’s chair for a third time on Sedgwick’s hit series The Closer (Mondays at [...]

The twins Danny and Oxide Pang were born in Hong Kong, directed their first movie together in Thailand and now work in English, but it’s hard to think of filmmakers for whom language is more profoundly beside the point.
Their new movie, “Bangkok Dangerous,” opening Sept. 5, is a remake of their 1999 Thai-language debut, which was about [...]