Robert Redford on Sundance Upheaval: 'We Were Beginning to Flatline'
It's Jan. 21 in Park City, where Robert Redford saw his shadow and thus ushered in another in another 10 days of the Sundance Film Festival. The…
Enough, Already, With the Televised Celebrity DNA Testing
Look, everybody knows it's kind of a weird time for television. NBC is in ruin, reality TV is in a battle with scripted TV for the soul of drama, Oprah Winfrey is…
First Buried Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Gets Boxed In
Chosen earlier this week as one of the likeliest subjects of a Sundance 2010 bidding war, Buried has a new trailer featuring pretty much exactly what we expected: Ryan…
Banksy's Filmmaking Debut Nabs Spotlight Surprise at Sundance
Here's one film where the director absolutely won't be doing interviews in Park City: Exit Through the Gift Shop, the feature filmmaking debut of infamously anonymous…
Hollywood Ink: Dimensions! Will! Third!
· This is what people mean when they toss out that abstraction, "Avatar is a game-changer": Warner Bros. is reportedly sorting out the logistics, cost and efficacy of…
Which Shortlisters Will Be This Year's Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees?
The Academy this afternoon narrowed its Best Foreign-Language contenders of 2009 into a convenient list of nine. While a few critical favorites were notably omitted (the…
Noah Baumbach's Latest to Bow in Berlin
The Berlinale announced the rest of its competition slate for next month's 60th annual festival, with Noah Baumbach's comedy Greenberg (starring Ben Stiller) arriving…
Report: Now Everybody Hates Avatar
Golden Globe triumphs notwithstanding, the list of those who've found something to dislike, discredit, disagree with, take offense to or simply hate in Avatar has grown…
Conan O'Brien, NBC Skirmish Again Over Staff
While estimates of NBC's Conan-cutting costs hover in the vague (and vaguely appalling) $30 million-$40 million range, another report that not only is the deal not…
Collapse Director Chris Smith on the Decade's First Great Feel-Bad Film
Imagine the most sincerely encouraging, feel-good movie you've ever seen. Then imagine the 180-degree opposite -- the most sincerely helpless-making, devastating movie…
SHOCKER: Fanboys Preview Scott Pilgrim, Confirm It Is 'Kick-Ass'
Edgar Wright's massively anticipated Scott Pilgrim vs. the World had a preview screening Tuesday night in Las Vegas, soiling a perfectly good multiplex auditorium with…
Hollywood Ink: Santa Coens to Drop True Grit Down Your Chimney
· Joel and Ethan Coen may still be seeking their missing link for the cast of their new True Grit adaptation, but their patrons at Paramount are officially moving…
Is Alfred Hitchcock the Most Overrated Director Ever?
That's the charge of a writer at Big Hollywood, the conservative movie site that counted Hitch, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, David Lynch and Ridley Scott among the most…
The 5 Films Likeliest to Ignite a Sundance Bidding War
Your Movieline crew is preparing to brave the snow, swag and spectacle of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which can mean only one thing: Reckless predictions of this…
Jay Leno's State of the Union Address: The Video
As reported here Monday evening, Jay Leno finally took to the air to address the battle royale that has torn NBC to shreds over the last week. Though a close look at his…
