In the big-screen adaptation of the ’60s TV show Get Smart, Alan Arkin takes on the role of The Chief, the spymaster originally portrayed by Edward Platt. Bold, resolute, and perpetually frustrated by the efforts and mistakes of the overly-enthusiastic Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), The Chief is an ideal part for someone with Arkin’s slow-burn […]

I called it. When “The Rock” first started making movies, I would ask him if one day he would just be called Dwayne Johnson. He said several times that there was no reason to stop going by The Rock. Everyone knew him as The Rock. Sure enough, his credit is now Dwayne Johnson. In Get […]

Think it’s difficult finding a Father’s Day present for the man in your life? Try being Angelina Jolie.
”Brad is the hardest person to shop for,” she says of her partner, Brad Pitt, while checking out a window display of Corum watches at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat in the south of France. ”He has impeccable design […]

This weekend M. Night Shyamalan returns to theaters with the paranoid thriller The Happening starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo. It is his first film since 2006’s Lady in the Water, which didn’t connect with critics or audience members. As the director of The Sixth Sense his star rose high and in 2002 […]

While speaking with Jason Segel on the set of his latest comedy I Love You, Man, we got him to talk a little bit more about his upcoming Untitled Muppet Movie that he and Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nick Stoller are working on. He also spoke a bit about Judd Apatow’s upcoming directorial project that […]

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Jack Black and producer Melissa Cobb to discuss Kung Fu Panda! Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po (Black) is the biggest fan of kung fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working every day in his family’s noodle shop. When he’s unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an […]

 
Josh Catone over at ReadWriteWeb has an interesting suggestion for Warner Bros. to get folks interested in the upcoming superhero feature, Watchmen: Take a page from Trent Reznor’s book. The Nine Inch Nails front man has been experimenting with innovative distribution and marketing schemes ever since his band said farewell to Universal Music, giving away […]

 
Lucky me. I’ve got an advance copy of the new Woody Allen film, Cassandra’s Dream, so I invite friends rounds for tea and a private screening. We’re all Woody fans, and as usual there is a starry cast, this time including Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. We turn down the lights, and sit back in […]

 
There’s a little known trade secret among entertainment writers that whenever a new movie opens, you always try to interview the actors first, and if that fails, you at least try to talk to the directors. Because of this, screenwriters and producers tend to get a raw deal when they attend their movie junkets even […]

 
Later this month, Oliver Stone will start filming W, a $30 million biopic in which Josh Brolin will star as President George W. Bush. Big shocker: The project is already generating controversy, with some Bush historians (and lots of Republicans) crying foul.
Before production began in Shreveport, La., the 61-year-old three-time Oscar-winning writer/director talked to Entertainment […]