A Year Later: Where Were You When Farrah Fawcett's Death Was Totally Overshadowed?
Just asking! Also lost on this date: Jacques Cousteau (1997) and Michel Foucault (1984). RIP, all. (You too, Michael Jackson.)
New Trailer Imagines Young Barack Obama as Original Karate Kid
This is kind of spellbinding: A filmmaker in Indonesia has co-opted Barack Obama's rough youthful stopover in that country as a launching pad for ripping off The Karate…
Hollywood Ink: Channing Tatum, Fox Shot Into Space
· Channing Tatum and Ridley Scott are attached to seemingly every other project in Hollywood, so it's not quite surprising that their paths should cross on Ion. The…
Attractions: Finally, the Tom Cruise/Adam Sandler Showdown You've Been Waiting For
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy, and faintly smelling of 1998 at the movies. This week, the world watches as…
Potty-Mouthed Shrek Toy Just Latest Sign That Franchise Is Over
Despite a relatively healthy $223 million box-office take to date and some unflagging critical support, most of popular culture is just fine seeing the Shrek franchise…
Moment of Truth: Oliver Stone on Gonzo Docmaking and 'Good Guy' Hugo Chávez
Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from director Oliver Stone about his new documentary South of the…
Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges Keep Hope Alive
Great Hope Springs is not just another marriage-counseling drama. It's a pedigreed, Oscar-baiting marriage-counseling drama that now counts Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges…
Betty White Linked to Oscars, Obviously
Oscar-host discussions will get underway next week, said new Oscarcast co-producer Bruce Cohen, who naturally anticipates a popular front-runner you may have heard of…
Hollywood Ink: Will Matt Damon Be Cameron Crowe's Zoo-Keeper?
· Word on the street has Matt Damon in talks to join We Bought a Zoo, Cameron Crowe's previously reported adaptation of a memoir by a man who spent his family's life…
MPAA Officially Delivers 'R' Rating For The Expendables
The last few weeks have seen a bit of back and forth about how Lionsgate would release The Expendables; to hear producer Avi Lerner tell it, test audiences would have at…
Deadliest Catch Turns Stroke Into Gold
Never mind the earlier question of whether Discovery did the prudent thing airing the immediate aftermath of Deadliest Catch captain Phil Harris's fatal stroke. The…
Kristen Stewart, Rileys Find (Another) Home
Samuel Goldwyn Films will take over the Sundance drama Welcome to the Rileys for Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Group, placing the film in art houses and (hopefully) beyond…
Buzz Break: Waste 15 Minutes of Your Day, Courtesy of Scott Pilgrim
· Wow! I'd always heard that the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Avatar Creator adds 10 pounds, but the finished product remains a little scary. Anyway, here's your…
BREAKING: Robert Pattinson is Upset About This Headline
Look -- I couldn't agree more with Dixon's comments here the other day about sympathizing with Robert Pattinson. I like what little of the guy I've seen onscreen and in…
There Simply Are No Words For the Human Centipede Cat Toy
Or perhaps there are, thanks again to filmmaker Tom Six and one especially effed-up mind at Etsy: "100% medically accurate!" It's sure to go well with your barfy HC…
