After a career lull, Julia Roberts hopes she can still rule at the box office
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - The word layoff has an entirely different meaning for a Hollywood movie star than, say, a fired GM worker, but both involve career idleness, apprehension and questions: Is Julia Roberts' new movie, "Duplicity," a thriller or a comedy? More intriguingly, can it restore the woman who ...
Fast chat with ‘The Great Buck Howard' star Colin Hanks
McClatchy Newspapers
3/16/2009, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - Certain online entries about actor Colin Hanks will tell you he has tried to pursue his career outside the shadow of his famous father. "That's a total lie," said the son of Tom Hanks. "I don't know how this stuff gets started. I knew early on it was going to be something that ...
Paul Rudd and Jason Siegel continue their ‘bromance' in ‘I Love You, Man'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/16/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - They met, and as the poets say, the sparks flew. "He and I clicked pretty quickly back when we did 'Knocked Up,'" Paul Rudd recalls, wistfully.
"Truthfully, we crossed paths at a table read for 'Anchor Man,'" corrects Jason Segel.
There was instant chemistry. They ...
Rock on: Nowadays, Dwayne Johnson is singing Disney's tune
McClatchy Newspapers
3/9/2009, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - A funny thing happened on the way to "supporting roles only" in Dwayne Johnson's movie career: Kids.
The struggling action star did "The Game Plan," a comedy for Disney, and all of a sudden he's big box office and every child's best bud. He did "Cory in the House" on ...
Patrick Wilson gets physical in ‘Watchmen'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/5/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers - (MCT) - Patrick Wilson has a close friend who is a die-hard comic book fan. Any time the stage, film and television actor has been sent a script that is remotely connected to the genre, he will call his friend to get a sense of how important the comic book is to fans. "As ...
Horton Foote 1916-2009: Wrote screenplay for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird'
McClatchy Newspapers
3/5/2009, by Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Horton Foote, a generous, genteel American dramatist whose profound human insights were expressed with uncommon empathy for the fears of decent, small-town Americans, died Wednesday at age 92. According to several reports, Foote was in his temporary apartment in Hartford, ...
‘300' director Zack Snyder is ‘Watchmen' hero
McClatchy Newspapers
3/2/2009, by Frank Lovece
Newsday (MCT) - The clock is ticking on "Watchmen" _ finally opening in theaters Friday after more than 20 years of "To Be Continued ..." A comic-book miniseries so ambitious, so culturally complex and so deconstructive of the superhero archetype that Time magazine in 2005 included it on its list ...
2009 Culture of Life Movie Awards
Zenit News Agency
2/26/2009
Auxiliary Bishop César Franco of Madrid, who chaired the judges committee, lauded the good movies as "works of the human spirit that address the human question." MADRID, Spain (Zenit) - This is the week for movie awards, and the results are out for the best picture, actors and screenplay, from the ...
The Oscar acceptance speech you'll never hear
McClatchy Newspapers
2/23/2009, by Barry Koltnow
The Orange County Register (MCT) - I would like to thank the academy. I have always wanted to say that. I practiced saying that in front of the mirror since I was 6 years old. I continued saying it in front of the mirror until I was 18. That may explain why I never had a date in high school.
Now, ...
Japan picks up 2 Oscars; ‘Okuribito' best foreign film, ‘Tsumiki no Ie' animated short
McClatchy Newspapers
2/23/2009, by Takashi Kondo
The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT) - Two Japanese films picked up Oscars at the 81st annual Academy Awards at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Sunday evening. "Okuribito" (Departures) won in the Foreign Language Film category and "Tsumiki no Ie" (La Maison en Petits Cubes) was named Best Animated Short Film. ...
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