Usual Suspects Avatar, Hurt Locker, More Rounded Up for PGA Award Nominations
The Producers Guild of America this morning sent word of its 2009 nominations, which look a lot like every other guild and awards body's nominations. On the film side…
Cormac McCarthy's Stirring First Response to The Road: 'I Have to Go to the Restroom'
The screenwriter of The Road today recalled the raw nerves that came along with screening the film for Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning source novelist who'd…
Hollywood Ink: Dune, From the Director of Taken
· Not only Taken, but also John Travolta's forthcoming dip into bazooka-wielding leather-daddy action heroism, From Paris With Love. That's right: Pierre Morel, France's…
Ari Emanuel Ushers in 2010 by Killing Identity-Stealing iPhone App
It's a new decade and a new era for Ari Emanuel: His brother's in the White House, his agency swallowed William Morris in one gulp, and the sky is the limit for the…
Love Guru Felon Finally Nabbed
Pity poor Mischa Wynhausen, a 31-year-old who agreed to plead guilty to uploading the 2008 Mike Myers bomb to the Web the day before it opened in theaters. He'll serve…
James Cameron Fires Back as Anti-Smoking Zealots Hit Avatar
No sooner had I chosen last year's shrill crusade to vilify and/or criminalize smokers in movies as one of my favorite (read: most abjectly infuriating) stories of 2009…
Hurt Locker Scores Hat Trick With National Society of Film Critics
America's leading film critics picked up this year where they left off in 2009, awarding The Hurt Locker its Best Picture, Director and Actor prizes during voting…
Hollywood Ink: POW! Disney Doubles Down on Comics Heroes
· Happy New Year, dear reader! Nothing has changed: Not long after finally closing its pricey deal to buy Marvel Comics, Disney went ahead and threw some additional cash…
6 Favorite Stories of 2009: STV's Picks
While 2009 was by no means an especially slow cultural news year (Michael Jackson and John Hughes died, and Tiger Woods may as well have), the amount of stories that…
The Top 10 Films of 2009: Michelle's Picks
Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze closed out the last decade (and the millennium) with two of that decade's best films; since 1999, the boom in independent filmmaking that…
Ask Anything: The Year in Movieline Interviews
When you publish a few hundred interviews in eight months -- as Movieline did in 2009 -- you're bound to run into some fascinating people with plenty to say. What…
Hollywood Ink: Fox Triumph Commemorated With Photoshop Failure
· For this, the last Hollywood Ink of 2009, it's only fitting that we revel in the little miracles that trade news occasionally tosses our way. But enough about Fox's…
Moon Director Tweets Displeasure With Studio's Oscar Non-Campaign
Obviously Duncan Jones, the director whose excellent debut Moon features an awards-caliber performance by Sam Rockwell, either hasn't read or doesn't share Movieline's…
So How Much Money Can Avatar Make, Anyway?
Avatar may have just missed claiming I Am Legend's December-opening record a few weeks back, but its ungodly opening fortnight is setting James Cameron's epic up for…
Muppets, Michael Jackson Among 25 Invited Into National Film Registry
The National Film Registry at the Library of Congress today announced its inductees for 2009, a group of 25 titles that includes one Best Picture-winner, one zombie…
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