Attractions: Swing Your Partner! (to the Tune of $100 Million)
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or squeal-icious at the movies. This week, New Moon picks America's pockets…
Hollywood's Leading Financier Will Calculate For Food
A new profile of Hollywood cash wunderkind Ryan Kavanaugh takes folks behind the curtain at Relativity Media, the deep-pocketed enterprise that has a stake in a growing…
That Evening Sun's Hal Holbrook: A Candid, Emotional Movieline Interview
It's time to move Hal Holbrook off the Oscar bubble and into the fold. The 84-year-old actor delivers arguably the performance of his career in That Evening Sun…
9 First Impressions of the Oscars' Documentary Short List
The Academy's shortlist for Best Documentary Feature was issued late Wednesday, containing a robust mix of snubs, surprises and headscratchers. That list, along with a…
Through a Glass, Portly
Movies are the only domain where magicians are encouraged to give away their secrets, and today readers are learning all about how Team Zombieland accomplished its…
Hollywood Ink: Kellan Lutz Capitalizes on Slower-Than-Slow News Day
· So the film business is apparently on some kind of news strike this week, because the most noteworthy industry development of the day seems to be that New Moon-er…
Jaycee Dugard's Inspirational Tale to Get Grindhouse Treatment
On one hand, the inevitable Lifetime adaptation of Jaycee Dugard's story -- kidnapped at age 11, held captive for 18 years by a sex offender to whom she bore two kids…
Mopey, Mute Miley Cyrus Stars in Last Song Trailer
As trailers go, The Last Song's new one has a few disadvantages right from the get-go. For starters, as the second Nicholas Sparks adaptation planned for release in…
Golden Globes Go Ani-Crazy
Following as usual in the conceptual footsteps of the Academy Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday that its Best Animated Feature category…
Hollywood Ink: Jennifer Hudson Takes on the Other Mandela
· While the awards machine waits to see whether or not Morgan Freeman is worth processing as Nelson Mandela in Invictus, a South African production company has enlisted…
Bondmates Sean Connery and Shirley Bassey Reunite for Scottish Delgo
Decades after Dame Shirley Bassey provided the legendary theme songs to Sir Sean Connery's 007 hits Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever, the Welsh chanteuse will once…
MoMA Honoree Tim Burton on Boyhood, Boredom and Beautiful Burbank: VIDEO
When Movieline dropped by the Museum of Modern Art a while back for a preview of the Tim Burton exhibition opening there this weekend, the director offered up a bounty…
Busy, Ballsy Composer Alexandre Desplat Thwacks Quentin Tarantino
There's "in demand" -- like admitted workaholics Willem Dafoe or Tilda Swinton -- and then there's "in demand." Take Alexandre Desplat, for example, the twice-Oscar…
Chris Columbus, Babysitter?
An odd little item at the LAT shares a brief word with Chris Columbus, the director best known for launching the franchises Home Alone, Harry Potter and next year's…
Crazy Heart Trailer Unveils Jeff Bridges' Likely Oscar Performance
Fox Searchlight isn't wasting any time getting over its slumpy fall trifecta of Whip It, Amelia and Gentlemen Broncos, choosing instead to play its ace in the Oscar hole…
