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Box Office

May 6, 2011

Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (U.K.) Opened May 5 Animation, Adventure, Family. Directed by Greg Tiernan. On the Island of Sodor where Thomas lives, a new Search and Rescue Center is being ...
‘Beaver’ director Jodie Foster’s loyalty to Mel Gibson intact

May 6, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― As she has crisscrossed the country tirelessly promoting her latest directorial effort, “The Beaver,” Jodie Foster has been keeping in touch via text with Mel Gibson. When the star of y...
Actor Hemsworth, almost outgrew his costume playing title character in ‘Thor’

May 6, 2011

KANSAS CITY ― Turning your body into that of a god is a weird process. Chris Hemsworth knows. Once he was tapped to play the title character in “Thor,” the Australian actor threw himself into a body...
Int'l film festival in Jeonju closes with award winners

May 6, 2011

An annual international film festival in southern South Korea wrapped its nine-day run Friday after the announcement of additional award winners. The 12th Jeonju International Film Festival closed i...
Dancer-turned-actor Kwok is summer star of Chinese movies

May 5, 2011

HONG KONG (AP) ― May is the month of Aaron Kwok in Chinese movies. The dancer-turned-singer-turned-actor stars in two of the month’s major releases ― Gu Changwei’s romance “Love for Life,” and Oxide...
'Hurt Locker' team plans film on bin Laden hunt

May 3, 2011

The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama ``The Hurt Locker'' are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal h...
This year, summer movies not only about men

May 1, 2011

From its earliest days, Hollywood has been a boy’s club. And summer traditionally is the season of boy movies ― big, loud, rude and not terribly smart. So what are we to make of the summer of 2011 ...
Box Office

Apr 29, 2011

Mao’s last dancer (Australia) Opening April 28 Drama. Directed by Bruce Beresford. A drama based on an autobiography by Li Cunxin. Eleven-year-old Li (Chi Cao) from a poor Chinese village is taken ...
Reese Witherspoon occasionally welcomes disorder in her life

Apr 29, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― As far as tightly wound actresses go, Reese Witherspoon tops the list. She insists upon a strict sense of order in her life. Her production company is called Type A, a moniker her lates...
Universal soups up ‘Fast and Furious’

Apr 29, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― Hoping to transform one of its few successful film series into a top-tier global franchise, Universal Pictures has refueled “Fast and Furious” with an international backdrop, a bigger p...
Jude Law in Austria for ‘360’ film

Apr 27, 2011

VIENNA (AP) ― Hollywood actor Jude Law is among the stars of “360” ― a new movie partly set in the Austrian capital in which the British heartthrob plays a man whose marriage has hit a lull. The fil...
Tribeca documentaries examine bullying, toxicity

Apr 25, 2011
Hollywood’s latest trend reimagines classic childhood tales

Apr 25, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― All grown up, Hansel and Gretel return to the forest to exact revenge on their childhood tormentors. Snow White escapes the Evil Queen and takes up with a group of Shaolin monks. And af...
Emma Watson takes break from Brown University

Apr 24, 2011

Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series, is to put her studying on hold. “I’ve decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on ‘Harry Potter’ … an...
How Sidney Lumet fought showbiz blacklist

Apr 22, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― I’d almost forgotten what an unabashed liberal Sidney Lumet had been until I read an essay by New York Post critic Kyle Smith, an unabashed conservative who has little good to say about...