There have been numerous movie and TV ideas about lottery tickets which mostly center around lovable losers. Anyone remember 29th Street?
In the comedy Lottery Ticket, Kevin Carson s a young man living in the projects and working at a local Foot Locker, until he wins $370 million in the lottery, causing everyone to [...]

Luke Wilson’s presence in American film is as constant and reliable as it is unlikely.  The 39-year-old Dallas native can be seen on-screen this week in “Middle Men,” a drama by filmmaker George Gallo (screenwriter of “Midnight Run”) about the creation of the Internet porn industry, centered on a fictional character named Jack Harris (based on the movie’s [...]

In the new movie “The Kids Are All Right” actress Julianne Moore plays half of a lesbian couple whose teenage children decide to track down the sperm donor who fathered them. The indie comedy-drama about love, family and responsibility, directed by Lisa Cholodenko (”High Art”) and co-starring Annette Bening, is an [...]

It only took 25 years after their first, small collaboration, but director Taylor Hackford finally found the right film to make with his wife Helen Mirren. And to think: Love Ranch, which opens next week, almost didn’t open at all. The fictionalized story of the first legal brothel in the U.S. — and the crimes of passion [...]

The first decade of the 21st century, which is about to draw to a close, is in serious danger of being remembered as the time when fame was measured in pokes, tweets, and the ability to parlay a death-defying (and sometimes not so death-defying) degree of persona recklessness into a reality-television deal. But just as [...]

It took Michael Caine years of hard work to get out of his South London neighborhood.
It took one movie to get him back.
“Harry Brown,” which opened Friday in New York, features the actor living in a dismal housing project (not “500 yards from where I grew up,” he says). And living in fear, surrounded by [...]

Director Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 recently held a press conference interview at a Los Angeles press junket.  While some press junkets feature roundtable interviews with the cast, for today’s junket, Paramount gave the domestic press a 35 minute press conference with Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, director Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, screenwriter Justin [...]

The idea of Australia’s Joel Edgerton being an actor on the rise has been brewing for many years, but it probably couldn’t have been clearer than on Tuesday, when he received his very own Star Bond on the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Before that, Edgerton had already appeared in two of the “Star Wars” prequels, Joe Carnahan’s Smokin’ Aces, [...]

For a while, it was nearly impossible to read an article about mumblecore without seeing a picture of Greta Gerwig, usually followed closely by a reference to her as the queen of the ad hoc movement. But as the wave of low-fi realism has fanned out and dispersed, Gerwig has continued to establish her place [...]