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Choose a page number: 1 Entertaining RSS FeedsBedtime Stories - Film Reviews: While the comedy -- about a hotel handyman whose outlandish tales spring to life -- clearly skews to a younger demo, there's enough sophomoric humor here to reassure the Sandler faithful. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com 44 Blue taps producer Lisa Knapp - TV News: Nonfiction shop promotes quartet of execs -- Nonfiction programming shop 44 Blue Prods. has announced the addition of former "The Bachelor" producer Lisa Knapp as head of development while making several key promotions.
... HBO seals deal with Maria Bello - TV News: Actress developing crime series with Lennon -- HBO has sealed a deal with thesp Maria Bello ("The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor") to develop and star in a new series for the pay cabler.
... Burnett deal spurs reality auditions - TV News: Producer pacts to use Studio One's MyStudio -- Mark Burnett has signed a multiyear agreement with Studio One Media to use the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company's new MyStudio service to audition reality show contestants.
... Arcana picks up 'Paradox' - Exclusives: Studio to adapt Gage's comicbook series -- Arcana Studios is developing a feature version of the comicbook series ?Paradox,? which centers on a police detective using unorthodox methods of investigation in a world powered by magic.
... No holiday break for SAG - Business News: Battle over strike authorization continues -- Even with much of the town now on vacation, the feverish battle over the SAG strike authorization vote will continue through the holidays.
... Fox Searchlight finds niche at B.O. - Front Page: Snow can't slow 'Wrestler,' 'Slumdog Millionaire' -- Fox Searchlight wrestled key victories out of the weekend box office for Mickey Rourke starrer "The Wrestler" and awards favorite "Slumdog Millionaire."
... Smokey Joe's Cafe - Legit Reviews: A talented nine-member ensemble put on an energetic revival of the 1995 Broadway revue "Smokey Joe's Cafe," an impressive distillation of the monumental output of tunesmiths Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
... China blocks N.Y. Times' website - Business News: Beijing government defends censorship -- China has blocked access to the New York Times website, days after the Beijing government defended its right to censor online content it considers illegal.
... Stars to orbit Golden Globes - TV News: Rogen, Poehler, Lopez, Hayek will present -- Seth Rogen, Amy Poehler, Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek have been tapped as presenters for the 66th Golden Globe Awards.
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... Overseas audiences seek 'Escape' - International News: 'Earth' stands second at foreign box office -- ?Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa? stampeded to the top spot of the pre-Christmas weekend international box office with $33.5 million at 5,959 playdates in 56 territories.
... RIAA stops piracy lawsuit strategy - Music News: Org to stop targeting individual song swappers -- The Recording Industry Assn. of America said Friday that it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated warnings.
... 'Yes Man' tops weekend box office - Front Page: Bad weather takes toll on frame -- The weekend box office got iced by terrible weather, and the result was anything but a merry start for Jim Carrey laffer ?Yes Man? and Will Smith drama ?Seven Pounds.?
... Marley & Me - Film Reviews: All that really counts for a movie like "Marley & Me" is that the climactic scenes empty the audiences' tear ducts, and in this it succeeds to the point that theater managers may need to mop the floors afterward.
... Getting in the 'Spirit' at premiere - Weekly: Frank Miller film opens in L.A. -- It was as much about comicbooks as it was about cinema when "The Spirit" preemed Dec. 17 at the Chinese Theater.
... 'Yes Man' premieres in L.A. - Weekly: Jim Carrey rolls to screening -- Proving that he will indeed say yes to just about anything, Jim Carrey arrived at the Dec. 17 "Yes Man" premiere inside an 8-foot hamster-like plastic ball that rolled through the streets of Westwood before landing on the red carpet.
... ITV backpedals on pricey 'India' - International News: Sally Hawkins was to have starred in drama -- Cash-strapped British web ITV has canceled its pricey two-part adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel "A Passage to India" as advertising revenues continue to fall.
... Largo Winch - Film Reviews: In a surefire sign of current economic woes, the titular hero of transnational thriller "Largo Winch" seems less concerned with fighting for justice than with preserving his own multibillion-dollar inheritance.
... Dubai favors North African films - International News: 'Masquerades' wins best film award -- North African cinema proved the big winner as the 5th Dubai Intl. Film Fest wrapped Thursday, with Franco-Algerian co-production ?Masquerades? winning the Muhr Award for best film.
... Seven Pounds - Film Reviews: "Seven Pounds" is an endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head.
... The Cripple of Inishmaan - Legit Reviews: Set on the Aran Islands in 1934, the black comedy is slowed down and given somber treatment here, with an impeccable cast that pays close attention to the rhythms of McDonagh's dialogue.
... The Tale of Despereaux - Film Reviews: Kate DiCamillo's delectable novel about rodents, royals and the restorative properties of soup gets the star-laden, CG-animated bigscreen treatment in "The Tale of Despereaux."
... Cadillac Records - Film Reviews: Approaching the blues with the enthusiasm of an overcaffeinated brass band, helmer Darnell Martin nonetheless makes some kind of music with the percolating '50s biopic "Cadillac Records" -- mostly because she mines a righteous, mythic sensibility out of the story of Leonard Chess, Muddy Waters and the birth of the Chicago blues.
... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Film Reviews: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. This odd, epic tale of a man who ages backwards is presented in an impeccable classical manner, every detail tended to with fastidious devotion.
... Bolt - Film Reviews: An "Incredible Journey" or "Homeward Bound" updated for the superhero era, "Bolt" is an OK Disney animated entry enhanced by nifty 3-D projection. The first inhouse feature from Disney Animation since Pixar guru John Lasseter took over the studio's creative reins, this tale of a canine forced to overcome his superdog complex and learn to become a regular pooch bears some telltale signs of Pixar's trademark smarts, but still looks like a mutt compared to the younger company's customary purebreds. While punchy enough to keep parents amused, pic will probably play best to small fry and, especially with Disney star Miley Cyrus onboard, will have no trouble chasing down hefty biz through the holidays.
... Last Chance Harvey - Film Reviews: There's never a doubt that the losers-at-love of British writer-director Joel Hopkins' "Last Chance Harvey" are on intersecting arcs, that they'll meet cute and stroll off into a sooty London sunset. But stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are so disarmingly charming that even the most treacly moments work an emotional magic.
... Frost/Nixon - Film Reviews: "Frost/Nixon" is an effective, straightforward bigscreen version of Peter Morgan's shrewd stage drama about the historic 1977 TV interview in which Richard Nixon brought himself down once again.
... City of Ember - Film Reviews: A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne Duprau's 2003 novel.
... W. - Film Reviews: Oliver Stone?s unusual and inescapably interesting ?W.? feels like a rough draft of a film it might behoove him to remake in 10 or 15 years.
... Painted Skin (Hua pi) - Film Reviews: Dubiously billing itself as "the first Eastern supernatural movie from China" -- what about "The Promise," for starters? -- costumer "Painted Skin" weighs in as an off-the-shelf drama-actioner that would have seemed much better 20 years ago. Assembled by a largely Hong Kong tech crew, but starring mostly Mainland thesps, yarn about a mysterious femme who's actually a flesh-eating fox-devil is the third and weakest pic version of the famous classical short story in the past 40 years. Opening across East Asia in late September, film scored good opening numbers in China but likely will be an ancillary item in Western markets.
... Body of Lies - Film Reviews: Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius can disguise "Body of Lies" as anything other than the contrived phony-baloney it is.
... The Baader Meinhof Complex
(Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) - Film Reviews: An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex."
... Last Stop 174 - Film Reviews: Bruno Barreto?s "Last Stop 174" goes through the motions of depicting a deeply troubled and bereft life but adds little new to the many bigscreen portrayals of poverty and desperation at the bottom of Brazil?s society.
... Zift - Film Reviews: A widescreen black-and-white genre thrill ride navigating a stylized 1960s Sofia underworld, "Zift," from Bulgarian theater vet and first-time helmer Javor Gardev, stakes out a style somewhere between Aki Kaurismaki and Guy Ritchie, making it work through sheer chutzpah. This is an instant midnight fest fave that could see limited specialized action before finding true cult status on homevid.
... Appaloosa - Film Reviews: ?Appaloosa? is a decent Western made in an era when a Western has to be pretty darn good to rope people into a theater to see it.
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