Attractions: Kick-Ass Ready to Do Exactly That to Chris Rock
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and pseudo-heroic at the movies. This week, a new comics franchise is born, a…
BREAKING: Weinsteins Buying Back Miramax?
Happy days are here again! Disney has reportedly chosen Harvey and Bob Weinstein's $600 million bid to reclaim Miramax Films, the label they started 31 years ago before…
Where Are All the Women Directors in This Year's Cannes Competition?
Remember 2009? That commercial and critical breakthrough year for women directors including Lone Scherfig, Anne Fletcher, Nora Ephron, Jane Campion and Nancy Meyers…
T-Minus 7 Hours and Counting to Win a Free iPad From Movieline!
You -- yes, you. Stop what you're doing. I mean, whatever it is you're doing besides reading this. You look like could use a shiny new iPad courtesy of Movieline, and…
New Product-Placement Technology Makes Joneses Even Harder to Watch
In an era when money is harder than ever to come by, Hollywood privately knows exactly what will save it. No, not 3-D. Not flop insurance either. I'm talking about…
VIDEO: Eliot Spitzer Plays Himself in Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film
Maybe I overlooked a few things or simply didn't do enough probing to understand that Eliot Spitzer is actually in Alex Gibney's new, untitled documentary about the…
Moment of Truth: Banksy is Selling, But Are You Buying?
Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week, we hear from John Sloss, the veteran sales agent-turned-rookie…
Report: Box-Office Betting is a Go
Wall Street's proposal to launch a futures exchange based on box-office receipts may have haters in Hollywood, but regulators in Washington are said to support the idea…
Blond on Blond: Which Golden-Hued Nicolas Cage Coiffure Do You Prefer?
By now everybody's seen Nicolas's Cage's blond 'do, which he debuted a few weeks ago. "You know, I'm always changing the hair color, and right now I'm doing a movie…
On This Day: An Apatowian Star is Born
Happy April 15, dear reader! Time to join Movieline on another breezy expedition through the historical arcana and milestones that helped shaped the pop culture you know…
Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard (and No Terrence Malick) Among Selections for Cannes 2010
The line-up for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning from Paris, and first things first: There is no Terrence Malick on this list. His Brad Pitt/Sean…
Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva No Longer Making Beautiful, Unlistenable Music Together
Good grief, Hollywood -- enough already with the celebrity bust-ups. Right around the same time today Larry King was croaking "Go ahead, caller" to his divorce attorney…
Iron Man 2: A Rocky III Rip-Off?
Nothing is more fascinating than a vast rip-off conspiracy, which is definitely the way to classify the marvelous parallels drawn today between Iron Man 2 and Rocky III…
Who Should Play Suzy Kolber in Forthcoming Joe Namath Biopic?
Word on the street is that James Mangold is in talks to direct a biopic about the legendary New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. While there appears to be no script as…
Next on the 3-D Bandwagon: Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog will reportedly join Martin Scorsese in the race to become the first internationally recognized auteur to adopt 3-D. More jaw-dropping still: The Bavarian…
