Movies
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Allen blasts SAG’s moderate wing and seeks to circumvent the board
Doug Allen isn’t backing down, blasting the moderate wing of the guild’s national board, which nearly fired him a week ago.
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$33.8 Million for Fat Guy Comedy? A Box Office Surprise
“Paul Blart, Mall Cop” far exceeds expectations with an impressive $33.8 million weekend box office.
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Sundance News: Steady Sales With $3 Million Sony Purchase of Hornby’s “Education”
Sundance began heating up with the Saturday premiere of Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama “Brooklyn’s Finest.”
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Hollywood closes retirement facility? Where’s the Katzenberg telethon?
Am I the only person confused at the embarrassing news that the Motion Picture & Television Fund had run out of money and had to close its long term care and acute care facility in Woodland Hills? This means 100 elderly sick people are being turned out on the street, a third of the staff […]
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Geoff Gilmore Gets Grilled
“Is independent film old hat? The freshness that fuelled independent film doesn’t feel as fresh.”
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Fox wins game of chicken
As a court hearing loomed to potentially block distribution of its film, Warner Bros has settled a lawsuit with Fox over who owns the rights to its $130 million action hero tale “Watchmen.”
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Quiet Sundance Opens in Recession; Redford: “Art Will Find a Way”
Will “Slumdog Millionaire” give the low-key festival a boost?
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Focus Features Creates Global Entity
Focus Features announced Wednesday that it is creating a new international division to boost the foreign sales of its specialty pictures.
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Spielberg Pays $15m for DreamWorks Projects
DreamWorks wrote a check to Paramount for $26.5m for the right to keep 17 films but more than half of that sum came from Steven Spielberg himself.
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Will ‘Slumdog’ Be a Blockbuster in India?
Though “Slumdog Millionaire” has yet to arrive in Indian movie theaters, the country’s people are proudly embracing the film after it took away four prizes at the Golden Globe awards on Sunday.
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WB Eyes Budget Cuts as ‘Watchmen’ Resolution Nears
Warner Bros. is trying to figure out ways to cut its budget by 10 percent as the studio nears a likely settlement with Fox over its “Watchmen” film.
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Will Hollywood Change Lineup Because of Recession?
How will the recession affect the films Hollywood chooses to tell in the coming months?
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Family Fare Pays Off at Box Office
Family-friendly and religion-themed films brought in more return last year than blockbusters like “The Dark Knight,” according to E! Online.
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3-D: Risky Bet for Hollywood?
The initiative to boost 3-D could prove to be the movie industry’s latest misstep, says the New York Times.
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Danny Boyle charms Globe voters
‘Slumdog’ wins four Globes, including Best Picture. Kate Winslet grabs two statues.
