Hobbits Wanted (Eventually)
The Web is atwitter this week with word that The Hobbit is hosting an open casting call for extras. If only it were that easy: A solicitation several weeks ago gave way…
Hollywood Ink: James McAvoy Works on His Ian Fleming Impression
· James McAvoy is reportedly attached to star in a biopic of Ian Fleming, the one-time British intelligence officer and WWII veteran who also happened to create James…
A Modest Proposal For Simplifying Oscar Balloting
If and/or when your little ones ever ask you that embarrassing question about how Oscar nominees are made, you can either do what millions of parents before you have…
9 Characters of the '00s Who Changed Movies Forever
While the '00s -- or the Aughts, or whatever you want to call the decade almost past -- end at midnight Thursday, they leave a spectrum of legacies for us to consider…
Halle Berry Gives Good Globe
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association confirmed another handful of presenters on Monday, adding Halle Berry, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox to a list that already…
Hollywood Ink: Fox, Warners Race to $4 Billion Photo Finish
· Just when Warner Bros. was thought to have an insurmountable lead in the 2009 box-office sweepstakes -- having forecast a record $3.99 billion global haul by the close…
Marlon Wayans Accidentally Involved in Oscar Producer's Twitter Brainstorm
The last time anyone checked in with Adam Shankman's Twitter feed, the choreographer/director/Oscar producer was soliciting (and even hinting at) big changes for the…
Nothing Can Prepare You For the Masterpiece That is the Violent Blue Trailer
Movieline's Two-Minute Verdict has parsed some astoundingly convoluted (or convolutedly astounding?) trailers in 2009, from After Last Season to Perfect Sport. Yet…
Roman Polanski Sends Supporters His House-Arrested Holiday Regards
With his usual, door-to-door caroling routine scuttled by the virtual ball and chain of chatel-arrest, Roman Polanski instead chose the holiday-card route to get his…
Piracy: The Final Frontier
Star Trek has found itself at the top of one of Hollywood's least-desirable year-end lists, emerging as the most pirated film of 2009. With almost 11 million illegal…
The Verge: Portia Doubleday
At least until the Weinstein Company moved its terrific comedy Youth in Revolt to Jan. 8, Portia Doubleday was shaping up to be have one of the biggest breakthroughs of…
Hollywood Ink: Tyler Perry Takes Madea's Show Back On the Road
· There's good news and bad news this morning about Tyler Perry, who announced over the weekend that he will return to the touring-theater circuit next month with his…
Friday Box Office: Holmes For Christmas
There really was something elementary about uncoiling Robert Downey Jr.'s sly, sinewy Sherlock Holmes on Christmas Day, when nearly $25 million worth of holiday…
James Cameron Advances Stealth Avatar Oscar Campaign For Zoe Saldana
It seemed reasonable enough last week to deduce Jim Cameron's motivations behind issuing a new Avatar set photo of Zoe Saldana -- head-rigged, mo-capped and mewling in…
Hollywood Ink: Industry Has its First $10 Billion Year
· Amid anguished cries of poverty from studios, distributors and production companies around Hollywood, the film industry yesterday broke the $10 billion-annual-gross…
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