He desn’t have a script and shooting could be more than a year away, but producer Thom Mount seems optimistic that the original cast could return for a sequel to “Bull Durham,” the movie that made minor league baseball stadiums the place to be on a hot summer night.
Asked Wednesday if he would make the [...]

Tyler Perry unveiled a new multimillion-dollar TV and film studio Saturday on 30 acres in southwest Atlanta.
His renewed commitment to the city came after he once flirted with departing. Perry said he had considered leaving Atlanta for good after neighbors complained about noise and traffic at his old studio in a neighborhood close to downtown.
(Associated [...]

Maid service, please.
Fox’s ”Do Not Disturb” has become the fall TV season’s first official cancellation, officially checking out after just three episodes.
“Disturb” averaged a 1.6 rating and 4 share, and pulled just 4 million viewers in its trio of airings. Writing was already on the wall for the show Thursday, when Fox decided to pre-empted next week’s [...]

Paul Newman, one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars, died Friday at his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 83.
The cause was cancer, said Jeff Sanderson of Chasen & Co., Newman’s publicist.
If Marlon Brando and James Dean defined the defiant American male as a sullen rebel, Paul Newman recreated him as a likable renegade, [...]

Financially lucrative commercial collaborations between tobacco companies and major motion picture studios beginning in the late 1920s are responsible for the smoking imagery so prevalent in “classic” movies, investigators report in the BMJ specialist journal Tobacco Control.
However, nostalgia over smoking scenes in such movies as Casablanca, Now Voyager and Dark Victory is restraining current efforts [...]

Filmmakers have named big-screen classic The Godfather their favourite movie of all time.
The Francis Ford Coppola Mafia film, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, beat the likes of Gone with the Wind and Taxi Driver in the poll.
(Press Association)

Filmmaker Michael Moore released his latest documentary for free on the Internet on Tuesday, marking a first for the maverick director who aims to encourage young people to vote — preferably for Democrats — in November’s U.S. presidential election.
“Slacker Uprising,” a feature-length film documenting Moore’s tour of swing states during the 2004 presidential election year, [...]

Steven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1954 film “Rear Window” in making last year’s “Disturbia,” a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said.
Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom Inc, and Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co’s NBC Universal, are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract for making “Disturbia” without first obtaining [...]

Apparently Jack Bauer needs a little breather: After the completion of episode 18 on Sept. 15, production on Fox’s hit drama 24 will shut down until Oct. 9 while the writers reshape the upcoming season’s creative direction — specifically the transition leading to the end game. “We had a couple of scripts that we weren’t happy with,” 24 exec [...]

Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the catch phrase “In a world where…” and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers, has died. He was 68. LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from complications in the treatment of an ongoing illness, said Vanessa Gilbert, his agent.
LaFontaine made more than 5,000 trailers in his [...]