Reuters - As the Cannes film festival hit
halfway on Monday, movie executives from around the world began
tallying the cost of a world economy rocked by a nine-month old
credit crisis and its impact on show business.
Reuters - Indiana Jones returns 19 years
after his last adventure, and early reaction suggests the
majority of Cannes film festival's notoriously picky critics
are happy the whip-wielding archaeologist is back.
AP - You would think Jeffrey Katzenberg had to be one of those kids with movie posters plastering his bedroom walls images of "Pinocchio," "Peter Pan," "Dumbo," all of his favorite animated fantasies. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 12:04:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
AP - "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" dethroned "Iron Man" as ruler at the box office, pulling down $56.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
AP - CANNES, France (AP) Woody Allen's latest film touches on that classic male fantasy, a romantic threesome with two women. Has Allen ever entertained the notion himself?
Reuters - Heavyweight Mike Tyson, one of
the most fearsome and notorious fighters in boxing's history,
said on Saturday it was a miracle he was still alive after the
drugs and violence of his past.
Reuters - The second movie in the "Chronicles
of Narnia" movie series took a commanding early lead at the
weekend box office in North America, but will likely fall short
of industry expectations, according to preliminary data issued
on Saturday.
E! Online - The fourth installment of Indiana Jones doesn't hit theaters until Thursday, but there's already buzz about making a fifth film without Harrison Ford in the lead role.
Reuters - Whip-wielding archaeologist
Indiana Jones rides into Cannes on Sunday, with star Harrison
Ford, director Steven Spielberg and creator George Lucas hoping
to avoid a critical lashing.
AP - CANNES, France (AP) Mike Tyson considers it a miracle that he lived to tell his tale. And he's telling it in graphic detail in a new documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.
Reuters - The Weinstein Company will
produce Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" in a
big-budget adaptation directed by Hollywood star Laurence
Fishburne, Harvey Weinstein announced in Cannes on Sunday.
Reuters - Hollywood executives are out in
force again at the world's biggest film festival but with the
dollar near to record lows against the euro, they are not
spending as freely at the boutiques along the Cannes shoreline. -- read full article
Sun, 18 May 2008 10:58:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
AP - Indiana Jones has been in tight spots before, but he faced one of the biggest hazards of his life as hostile hordes of critics at the Cannes Film Festival prepared to dissect his latest big-screen adventure Sunday.