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Twilight: 10 reason why ‘Breaking Dawn should not be made into a movie »

 

While “Twilight” fans begin to debate the issues facing the filming of “New Moon” – the next installment in Stephenie Meyer’steen vampire series involving werewolves and a growth spurt that will require actor Taylor Lautner to appear 6′5″ and 25 years old on screen — an even more urgent problem nags:
The problem with “Breaking Dawn.”
With “Twilight” having banked $70.55 million in its first weekend of [...]

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has the inside track to box-office riches »

It’s the movie Warner Bros. didn’t want to distribute. And now everybody else wishes they had a piece of ” Slumdog Millionaire.”
The Internet is filled with Oscar-obsessed pundits preoccupied by the tiniest bits of awards trivia and Academy Award prognostications. But when discussing the merits of the upcoming slate of contending movies, little consideration is [...]

MOVIE OPENINGS - Nov 28, 2008 »

TRANSPORTER 3

Director: Olivier Megaton 
Stars: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Katia Tchenko 
Studio: Lionsgate
The Plot: Frank Martin (Statham) puts the driving gloves on for a third mission: To deliver Valentina (Rudakova), the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he’ll have to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina’s safe delivery and not [...]

Nicole Kidman returns to ‘Australia’ for a project that let her dress up, crack a whip and demonstrate ‘the pure power of true love »

Nicole Kidman sure knows how to enter a room. The flame-haired Oscar winner, looking regal and yet approachable, virtually floated into a cozy suite at the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel on a recent afternoon.
When asked if she was channeling Lady Sarah Ashley, the aristocratic Englishwoman in her new film “Australia,” Kidman lets out a very [...]

Focus Features hopes that audiences get ‘Milk’ »

If you thought marketing a film about the forbidden love of two cowboys had some challenges, how about one about a gay political activist?
Focus Features, the specialty film division of Universal Pictures, is no stranger to selling movies that touch a nerve with the public. In 2005, it successfully steered “Brokeback Mountain,” a drama about [...]

MOVIE OPENINGS - Nov 21, 2008 »

BOLT

Director: Byron Howard Chris Williams 
Stars: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman 
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The Plot: Bolt (voice of Travolta) is a celebrity dog and the star of a hit TV show where his amazing feats and powers draw big ratings. But when a mail-room mix-up finds him roaming free on the streets of New York City, the wonder dog will [...]

BEHIND THE SCENES TV: The making of ‘Twilight’ »


John Travolta’s ‘Bolt’ is next out of the animation pack »

 

He has been in more than 50 movies, has received two Oscar nominations and has generated $2 billion in ticket sales, but John Travolta did little to impress his 8-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu, until he appeared in a cartoon.
“All this work, and that’s what it took to be a superstar in her eyes,” Travolta says. [...]

DiCaprio on Winslet: ‘She will let me strangle her until she passes out’ »

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet tell a Revolutionary Road screening audience about why they chose the project for their first collaboration since Titanic.

Quantum of Solace: 16 places to learn more about James Bond »

 

You would be hard pressed to go anywhere in the world where people don’t know exactly what you mean when you say, “Bond, James Bond.”  Not surprising seeing as there are 22 movies spanning over a 40 year history; it’s a bit difficult to avoid exposure to the British agent with a license to kill.
The [...]