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Romanian Film About Abortion Wins Palme d'Or

Gus Van Sant wins special Cannes 60th anniversary award

May 28, 07 6:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A disturbing Romanian film about two college coeds trying to get an illegal abortion in the twilight days of the communist regime won this year's Palme d'Or  at the Cannes film festival yesterday. The low-budget  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was a critical favorite at the festival,... More »

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abortion • communism • film • Cannes Film Festival • Palme d'Or • awards • Gus Van Sant • movies

Australia Cuts Stallone Down to Size

Action star draws fine for importing drugs without a prescription

May 21, 07 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Muscle-bound "Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone was hit with nearly $10,000 in fines and court costs today after being convicted of bringing body-building hormones into Australia without proper documentation. Customs officials busted him with human growth hormone and testosterone in February while he was promoting "Rocky Balboa" en... More »

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film • steroids • Australia • Sylvester Stallone • hormones • trial • Rocky • Rambo • human growth hormone • actor • movies

Shrek Beats His Own Record

Green monster smashes expectations on the way to an new animated record

May 21, 07 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's the year of the threequels. With the success of the third Spider-Man and this weekend's triumph of Shrek the Third, all eyes are on the upcoming third Pirates of the Carribean.  Dreamworks bigwigs were cautious leading up to green monster's latest bow, but its $122 million take... More »

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film • Dreamworks • Shrek the Third • Pirates of the Caribbean • box office • movies

De Niro and Pacino Reunite

Producer: "This is an event in world history."

May 18, 07 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - They were both in Godfather II, but never on-screen together. They teamed up for Heat, but only for a few scenes. Now Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally going to tear up the screen together for a whole movie. "This is an event in world history,... More »

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film • Robert De Niro • Al Pacino • Cannes Film Festival • Righteous Kill • Nu Image • Jon Avent • actor • movies

Spielberg and Jackson to Direct Tintin

Duo will begin 3-D trilogy as early as the end of the year

May 14, 07 6:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The men behind Jurassic Park's ferocious dinosaurs and King Kong's gargantuan ape will soon be the men behind a tiny white dog named Snowy. Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to produce and direct a trilogy of movies based on The Adventures of Tintin, George Remi's popular French... More »

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Hollywood • Steven Spielberg • film • Peter Jackson • Tintin • The Adventures of Tintin • 3D • movies

MPAA Snuffs Onscreen Smoking

Flicks with cancer
sticks will draw
tougher rating

May 11, 07 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cigarette and cigar smoking will be considered alongside violence, profanity, nudity, and drug use in assigning ratings, the MPAA announced yesterday. Any film that glamorizes the habit or features lighting up outside of "an historic  or other mitigating context "could face a box-office-busting R.  More »

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film • MPAA • smoking • cigarettes • tobacco • Motion Picture Association of America • audiences • smoking ban • movie industry • movies

Spidey Swings Past Pirates

Spider-Man 3 nets
$148 million, shatters box-office records

May 7, 07 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shy, do-gooder Peter Parker has again done superhero's work: His webbed alter-ego has vaulted the third installment of the Spider-Man franchise past its rivals and predecessors to shatter the opening weekend box-office record, netting  $148 million--over $10 million more than Pirates 2, the previous record holder. More »

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entertainment • film • Spider-Man • Pirates of the Caribbean • movies

Tarantino :
"I'm Proud
Of my Flop"

Undaunted director
will unveil new
version in Cannes

Apr 27, 07 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Grindhouse" may have flopped at box offices, but Quentin Tarantino is still cooler than you. And he's not the least bit chastened. A Telegraph profile tells us that the T-man plans to split the double-bill ode to deliciously bad fifties flicks in half, and give it another shot.   More »

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film • Grindhouse • Quentin Tarantino • Cannes Film Festival • Robert Rodriguez • movies

Longtime Movie Lobbyist Valenti Dead at 85

Hollywood's man in Washington pioneered ratings system

Apr 27, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite being neither movie star nor studio exec, Jack Valenti was one of Hollywood's most influential figures. An era ended Thursday when the longtime president of the film industry's trade association died at his home in Washington. The veteran lobbyist, who also served in the Johnson administration, was 85 and... More »

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Hollywood • film • Jack Valenti • MPAA • Lyndon Johnson • obituary • death • lobbyist • movies

Critic Carries Flag for Cancer Survivors

Roger Ebert maybe mute and bandaged, but he'll be at film festival as always

Apr 25, 07 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roger Ebert will show up at his ninth annual Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana, he writes in the Sun-Times, although he's recovering from cancer surgery that's left him temporarily mute and heavily bandaged. "We spend too much time hiding illness," Ebert writes. "I'm not going to miss... More »

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cancer • film • illness • Overlooked Film Festival • Roger Ebert

Basinger: Don't Look at Me!

Actress says she didn't leak Baldwin voicemail in custody dispute

Apr 24, 07 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kim Basinger says she didn't do it. Contrary to her ex-husband's accusations, the actress claims she wasn't the one who leaked the the furious voicemail Alec Baldwin left for their 11-year-old daughter to the press, inspiring a frency of opprobrium. Her publicist also said the tape wasn't under a court... More »

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entertainment • divorce • film • Alec Baldwin • Kim Basinger • Ireland Baldwin • celebrity • movies

Slasher Gets Life For Horror-ific Attack

Deranged Freddy Krueger wannabe cuts up friend with homemade glove

Apr 5, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - A slasher fan will be locked up in Britain after attacking his buddy with a homemade Freddy Krueger glove. Prosecutors extracted from Jason (!) Moore, a Leicester stonemason, that he’d seen Nightmare on Elm Street more than 20 times (itself somewhat horrifying) before he slashed his friend (passed... More »

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film • prison • Freddy Krueger • violence • weapon • Jason Moore • slasher • Britain • movies

Novelist Gives
Away Movie Rights 

Jonathan Lethem wants to shake up thinking about intellectual property

Mar 26, 07 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jonathan Lethem is giving away the film option and, eventually, all ancillary rights to his new novel, "You Don't Love Me Yet," publicly grappling with issues of intellectual property and copyright law. "What I'm seeking to explore is that incredibly fertile middle ground where people control some... More »

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Jonathan Lethem • copyright law • film • law • publishing • property • copyright • book • movies

Chic Pups Are Channeling
Nic and Leo

Oscar knock-offs now come in teacup sizes

Mar 26, 07 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Knock-offs of Academy Awards gowns—always a brisk business—now come in even-smaller sizes:  An L.A. company has released a new line of Oscar duds for dogs, from Nicole Kidman's red Balenciaga  to Leonardo DiCaprio's Armani tux. Little Lily's, which has been dressing posh pooches since 2002, has... More »

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pets • fashion • Nicole Kidman • Leonardo DiCaprio • Balenciaga • Armani • Academy Awards • film • awards • celebrity • actor • dog • movies • Oscars

Spielberg
Anoints a Star

Shia LaBeouf has two big roles in the can, and could soon be Indiana Jones's son

Mar 23, 07 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wide-eyed child star Shia LaBeouf is making his debut as Hollywood''s next it boy, thanks to Steven Spielberg. The former Disney Channel star has already been cast in Spielberg's upcoming Disturbia and Transformers, and is on the short list to play Harrison Ford's son in the upcoming Indiana Jones revival.... More »

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Hollywood • Shia LaBeouf • Indiana Jones • Steven Spielberg • child actors • young Hollywood • Disney Channel • Michael Bay • film • actor • movies

THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC

Does Barack Obama make white people
feel safe?

Mar 20, 07 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - As if Barack Obama did not face enough obstacles, the junior senator from Illinois with Oval Office aspirations is likened to a "magic negro" by David Ehrenstein. The "magic negro" is a cultural and cinematic racial stereotype exemplified by some of the characters played by Sidney Poitier,... More »

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Barack Obama • Sidney Poitier • Scatman Crothers • Morgan Freeman • Don Cheadle • race • film • politics • Senate • Senate Democrats • stereotypes • Election 2008 • movies

The Super-Rich
Are Rewriting Hollywood Rules

So rich, that is, that  they don't need the studios to distribute their films

Mar 12, 07 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new breed of Hollywood players—so rich they don't need studio money—are   financing and releasing slates of small-budget films on their own. Producers like Sam Nazarian, a 31-year-old scion of a wealthy Persian family, and self-made billionaire Sidney Kimmel, 78, are shouldering the costs of a full... More »

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entertainment • ultra rich • Hollywood • Sam Nazarian • Sidney Kimmel • independent film • Tom Rosenberg • film • business • movies

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