Hurt Locker, Big Fan Lead Gotham Awards Nominations
Generally recognized as the starter pistol for Oscar season, IFP's Gotham Awards spotlighted both heavyweights and underdogs today when announcing its 2009 nominees. As…
'See? It All Works Out': Mad Men Recapped
We've finally reached October on Mad Men, that beloved time of year when temperatures and colors swing radically with the seasons. And that's just referring to Betty…
Roman Polanski Leaves Jail For 'Medical Attention'; Competing Fest Crows
Either Swiss doctors don't make house calls to jail or Roman Polanski needs a little more treatment for something other than depression: The 76-year-old filmmaker was…
Angelina Jolie's Tourist Travels Express to 2011?
· OK, so: About a week after Angelina Jolie was rumored to be considering Charlize Theron's former role in the romantic spy thriller The Tourist, she's suddenly set now…
Where the Wild Things Really Are: First Place
Spike Jonze led his woolly cadre of bandits on a box-office spree this weekend, finally allaying any doubts that his ambitious adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are…
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Week But Were Afraid to Ask
Another week down at Movieline HQ, which means another bulky bundle of warm, lasting memories to take with you into the autumn dusk. Lift with your legs, unwrap them…
X-Men Spinoffs to Incorporate Kung-Fu, Potter Influences
X-Men franchise co-producer Lauren Shuler Donner went on record today about how the vision for upcoming spin-offs is shaping up. On Wolverine 2: "Wolverine will be…
In Theaters: Black Dynamite
Blaxploitation is the cinematic equivalent of blues -- American film's only indigenous genre, created by blacks for blacks and assimilated into white culture just as…
Danny Boyle Has Solution to Piracy
While attending the launch of the National Schools Film Week -- a period of free moviegoing for schoolchildren across the UK -- Danny Boyle offered a modest proposal for…
Will Ferrell Finally Agrees to Go
· Perhaps realizing that a vacation from mega-budget overexposure might be in order, Will Ferrell will downsize both on- and off-screen in the $10 million indie…
Will the Wild Rumpus End Before it Even Begins?
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or overly noxious at the movies. This week, Gerard Butler gets even-ish, Penn…
Dear John: Nothing Can Prepare You For Channing Tatum's Tearjerker Breakthrough
Channing Tatum himself tweeted news this morning of the first trailer for Dear John, his inaugural entry into the world of heart-tugging, lady-ready, three-hanky…
Know Your Ridley Scott Projects That Will Probably Never Happen
"Ridley Scott is attached to direct." It's among the most abused phrases in Hollywood, arising every few months as the nearly 72-year-old filmmaker tacks a new project…
Brad Pitt/Sean Penn/Terrence Malick Combo Tree of Life Scratched From '09
Cross another possible contender off your Oscar '09 ballot: Terrence Malick reportedly won't have his decades-in-the-making The Tree of Life ready to go by the end of…
This Is It Opening = $250 Million?
That's the hilarious five-day number making the rounds thanks to the folks at AEG Live, the concert promoters behind Michael Jackson's swan-song concert doc opening Oct…
