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Carrey, Zemeckis capture 21st century Scrooge
Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens' imagination. Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis' new take on "A Christmas Carol" brings to life the fantasy about miser Ebenezer Scrooge's holiday redemption in a way old Hollywood never could have dre...
Review: `Precious' is great American cinema
As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who's left to make great American movies? For one, the ma...
Chinese movie studio eyes NYSE listing
A third leading Chinese movie studio is aiming for a listing _ this time on the New York Stock Exchange _ as the country's entertainment companies turn to the capital markets to raise funds. Beijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. is aiming to go public...
Mel Gibson and his girlfriend welcome a baby girl
Mel Gibson and his girlfriend are welcoming the birth of the couple's first child _ making the Oscar-winner a father for the eighth time. Gibson's publicist Alan Nierob said Monday that Oksana Grigorieva gave birth to a baby girl named Lucia on Friday ...
Dutch mark 5th anniversary of filmmaker's murder
The Dutch marked the fifth anniversary Monday of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics in the Netherlands. Van Gogh, a distant relative of the famous painter, was shot and stabbed o...
'Precious' makes a 'surreal' premiere in Hollywood
The cast and crew of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" continued their unexpected journey from a scrappy little screening 10 months ago at the Sundance Film Festival to a star-studded gala at the legendary Grauman's Chinese Theatre in H...
Colin Farrell welcomes baby boy Henry
It's another boy for Colin Farrell. A spokeswoman for the 33-year-old actor said Friday that Farrell and actress Alicja Bachleda welcomed son Henry Tadeusz Farrell on Oct. 7. The couple met while filming "Ondine." Farrell has a 6-year-old son, James Pa...
Miramax head Battsek ousted; label headed to L.A.
Miramax Films, a niche movie label being downsized by The Walt Disney Co., is also changing its president. Recently appointed Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross said Friday that Daniel Battsek will leave his post as Miramax president in January by ...
4-legged movie stars vie for 'canine Oscars'
Four-legged screen stars are vying for the Fido Film Awards, billed as the canine equivalent of the Oscars. Nominees announced Friday include the animated dog stars of "Bolt" and "Up," the titular mutt in "Marley and Me" and _ in a rare non-canine choi...
Chavez: Sean Penn may make film in Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may film a movie in Venezuela. Penn may shoot a film based on a novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, which is set largely in the jung...
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