The first images of Angelina Jolie on the set of The Tourist have already hit the net.  The movie literally starting filming yesterday in Paris, so that didn’t take long.  But when you put Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in a movie together, you’re going to get a lot of paparazzi.  If you haven’t heard of the movie, The Tourist [...]

Money indeed never sleeps. Real money that is.
Can it be? Can it really be more than 20 years since Gordon Gekko ruled Wall Street, since greed was good, since Oliver Stone and his camera first ventured deep into the canyons of Lower Manhattan? Today, with the markets still recovering from their recent free fall and [...]

Director Chris Nolan has wrapped shooting of his new mind-game thriller called ‘Inception’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It will be released this summer. Mystery surrounding the plot has remained and studied on the internet despite a trailer that doesn’t reveal much.
So what exactly is “Inception”? That’s a popular question after a visually dazzling but enigmatic trailer was [...]

Hundreds of relatives of prisoners in a Mexican jail have protested the expected transfer of inmates to make way for a film shoot with US-Australian actor and director Mel Gibson next year.
The Veracruz state governor, Fidel Herrera Beltran, said earlier this month that the Hollywood star would clear out the Allende prison for scenes for his second [...]

Seven bulls being used on the set of a film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have broken free in Spain and slightly injured two people.
Cruise and Diaz were not at Sunday’s rehearsal. The actors are scheduled to arrive in the city of Cadiz in southwest Spain for the filming of the “Knight & Day” movie next weekend.
Two unidentified [...]

Variety recently conducted an online poll among several hundred location managers, unit production managers, cinematographers, directors and assistant directors asking them to rate their favorite locations according to visual appeal, incentives, film-office support, production resources, and ability to substitute for another location.
 
The top five North American locations and the top five international locations, ranked here by [...]

Hollywood is coming down with the Twitter jitters.
There’s a growing number of studio deals with new language aimed specifically at curbing usage of social-media outlets by actors, execs and other creatives. The goal: plugging leaks of disparaging or confidential information about productions via the likes of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  

A recent talent contract from [...]

Brett Ratner, an action film director dipping a toe in romantic comedy, had it all figured out: a pair of young lovers, an enchanted night near the Central Park reservoir, an unexpected moment of passion. It sounded like something out of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
But there were a few problems. It was March, and temperatures had [...]

By some, he was called “The Perfect Horse.” Secretariat was a racing legend that won the Triple Crown back in 1973. For the past five days, filmmakers have been in Louisville shooting the Disney movie “Secretariat.” Thursday, we were allowed to speak to some of the stars.
“The country needed a hero,” said Mark Ciardi, the [...]

Julia Roberts, the Hollywood actress, has angered Hindu villagers in India who were barred from celebrating one of their most important religious festivals while she shot scenes from her new film in their temple.
Villagers hoping to celebrate the beginning of Navratri, nine days of worship of their Goddess Durga at Ashram Hari Mandir, close to [...]