Emily Watson on War Horse, War Goose and Other Recommended Viewing
Never one to let inhibitions stand in the way of a great creative opportunity, Emily Watson put aside her equinophobia for a while to join up with Steven Spielberg's…
Technical Advisory: Comments Restored, Other Work in Progress
A bit of maintenance around Movieline HQ has resulted in some behind-the-scenes improvements -- and a few design/technical quirks on the published site. Please know…

View 50 Key Shots From the Prometheus Trailer, One at a Time
Less than 24 hours after a messy-looking leak made the rounds, the first trailer for Ridley Scott's Prometheus is officially in…
The Cary Grant Gay Factor
"I'm going to suggest something radical: We'll never know whether Grant was or was not gay, and it does not matter. What matters was that his image, for all its…
Oscar Index: Enough About Bridesmaids, Already
Screw Christmas. Forget Hanukkah. To hell with New Year's. There is only one holiday we celebrate in the dank, windowless labs of Movieline's Institute for the Advanced…
Christopher Plummer on Dragon Tattoo, Beginners Luck and Laughing Off Oscar
One week removed from his 82nd birthday, Christopher Plummer is winding up what one could arguably call a career year. And it's been a long career -- more than half a…
David Copperfield Totally Lost Out on Orson Welles's Oscar
Tucked away in this report that Orson's Welles's Citizen Kane Oscar finally sold this week for $861,542, find this depressing revelation: "Underbidder David Copperfield…
Do Scientologists Know it's Christmas?
For those of you who've ever wondered if or how Xenu factors into the more conventional holiday season, along comes this dispatch from the Church of Scientology…
Here is an Awards Podcast Featuring a Certain Movieline Editor
The Hollywood Reporter's resident awards guru and all-around nice guy Scott Feinberg invited me to join him on the latest installment of his "Feinberg and Friends"…
First Hobbit Trailer: Haven't We Met Before?
From the director of The Lovely Bones and the producer of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark comes... this. What can I say? It's a year away and it's going to make a fucking…
Janusz Kaminski on Shooting War Horse, Avoiding 3-D, and Those Spielberg Close-Ups
For most of the last 18 years as Steven Spielberg's go-to cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski has held one of the sweetest creative gigs in Hollywood. The post has netted…
Wim Wenders on Pina, 3-D Epiphanies and Until the End of the World at 20
After more than four decades of creative peaks, valleys, experiments and triumphs that have established him as one of the most eclectic filmmakers of his generation, Wim…
VIDEO: James Franco's NYU-GradeGate Receives Gory, Hard-Hitting News Animation it Deserves
A former New York University film professor made headlines recently for suing the school, which he said fired him for giving barely present graduate student James Franco…
John Logan on Skyfall, Rango, and the Secret of Successful Screenwriting
Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain have each had a well-documented great year, each no fewer than three well-received films -- and all their corresponding buzz -…
Kim Jong-il's Tasteless Cinematic Legacy: In Memoriam
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who died Sunday at age 69, was a tyrant, a thug, a meddler, a menace, a fanatic, a spendthrift, a dilettante, and a…