Remembering Barbarella: The Greatest Remake Never Made
As you might have heard, Barbarella is dead. After three years of divorce drama, illicit affairs, creative inertia, studio haggles and aggressive press manipulation…
Jessica Biel: Audiences Won't Get Nailed Any Time Soon
Movieline is now taking wagers on which troubled, star-studded, highly anticipated indie film will be the first to reach audiences: Kenneth Lonergan's triaged mess…
Angels & Demons Dodges Haters at Rome Premiere
With the exception of a 102-year-old bishop who called the film "highly denigrating, defamatory and offensive" to the Catholic Church, Angels & Demons' Vatican nemeses…
Dom DeLuise Dead at 75
Sad reports this morning note that Dom DeLuise passed away in his sleep Monday evening at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 75. His reason for admittance and official cause…
On Bookshelves: Paul Newman: A Life
For the better part of 83 years, Paul Newman made pretty much everything look easy. The iconic roles, the powerful auto-racing interests, the staggering philanthropy…
Roman Polanski to L.A.: Drop Dead
That late-career American renaissance isn't likely to happen after all for Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winning fugitive filmmaker who refused Monday to return for a…
Avoid Swine Flu, Watch Girfriend Experience on Amazon
God only knows the crowd you'll run into by waiting to see Sasha Grey's mainstream breakthrough The Girlfriend Experience in theaters. But if you're so inclined, you can…
Barry Levinson Goes to Washington (By Way of Tribeca)
It feels like a lifetime ago that everywhere my colleagues and I turned, some new collision of politics and pop culture exploded in or around Hollywood. In reality, of…
6 Animated Films That Redefined Box-Office Failure
For the second consecutive year, a C-grade animated film has taken up residency at the bottom of Hollywood's box-office pool. And look who Battle For Terra took with it…
Cheryl Hines Turns Serious With Directorial Debut
By the time Cheryl Hines returned to the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, the worst of the jitters were behind her. But for a while there, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star…
Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro Trailer Slays With Style
As befits the maker of four consecutive American masterpieces in the '70s, nothing can possibly override Francis Ford Coppola's lifetime exemption from irrelevance…
The Wolverine at the Door
So what if half the world has already seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine via bootleg: There's no substitute for the multiplex, where the summer movie season got a head start…
David Bowie and Duncan Jones Lost in Space at Moon Premiere
Duncan Jones's feature directorial debut Moon passed muster at Sundance '09 and received high marks as the inaugural film to face Movieline's Two-Minute Verdict. But…
Tom Cruise Lives! Or Does He?
Last year, just after the 19th release-date change for Valkyrie and just before the dramatic front-office fissures that rocked United Artists, many observers diagnosed…
Racers, Fixers and Exploding Girls Win Big at Tribeca
The Tribeca Film Festival handed out its hardware Thursday night, awarding the year's top prizes to an Oscar-nominated doc maker, an Iranian auteur, and new It-girl Zoe…
