The MPAA has offered a deal to the Federal Communications Commission that could bring movies to cable and satellite viewers more quickly after their original release. The trade-off, though, is that the movies couldn’t be viewed by some high-definition TVs, nor could they be recorded by stand-alone TiVos. The FCC moved quickly to invite public [...]

OK, so his TV production of The Andromeda Strain didn’t turn out that great — Ridley Scott’s moving on. When the director finishes Nottingham in England, Scott (pictured) will probably be taking on Brave New World.
The man who brought us Alien and Blade Runner didn’t come right out and say it, but when Eclipse [...]

YouTube–that’s the first name in Internet video. Apple’s iTunes might turn up second.
For start-ups in Internet video, it can be a tough sell to prove a new market. But a handful of upstarts tried their hand at an elevator pitch here Tuesday at the Under the Radar Conference, a one-day confab for Web start-ups. Four [...]

LEATHERHEADS
 
Director: George Clooney
Stars: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski
Studio: Universal Pictures
The Plot: An aging football legend (Clooney) and the hot college star he’s drafted for his pro team (Krasinski) fight for the heart of an intrepid up-and-coming journalist (Zellweger). Oh, it all takes place in 1925.
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SHINE A LIGHT
 
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Mick Jagger, [...]

Fandango pollsters report that their filmgoers most want to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dark Knight during the summer of 2008.
Here are the results of Fandango.com’s online nationwide survey, conducted from March 13 to March 30:
Most Anticipated Summer 2008 Movie:
1. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL [...]

 
The 24th annual Sundance Film Festival won’t be remembered for big sales, but it may be remembered as the year that buyers wised up.
At the festival’s halfway mark, the most talked-about titles are ones that came into Park City with neither cast nor buzz. Audiences are raving about “Ballast,” a drama set in the [...]

 
The movie release schedule for next year remains tentative and most of the films are unfinished. So picking the box-office hits of 2008, on a month-by-month basis, is more guesswork at this stage than projection, but here goes.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)

 
“Where do you normally do these?” James Marsden asks. “You probably go to the Ivy or something.”
Well, no, not exactly, although this particular November morning is the first time an interview assignment has brought me to Patys Restaurant in Toluca Lake — a retro diner whose Web site heralds it as a “famous hot spot” [...]

Bollywood stole the spotlight from Tom Cruise’s “Lions for Lambs” at the international box office over the weekend, with a pair of socko launches for Shah Rukh Khan’s “Om Shanti Om” and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Saawariya.”
“Lions for Lambs” launched with a $10.3 million take from 2,681 playdates in 45 foreign markets — but that number [...]

Charlie Wilson’s War is a movie that comes packaged with Oscar pedigree. It stars Tom Hanks as the titular Texas Congressman who for the most part did not have much going for him in Washington except for an active social life revolving around booze and women. However, when he latches on to the mujahideen struggle in [...]