Reuters - Paramount Pictures has
purchased "Mystery on Fifth Avenue," an article from the New
York Times' Home & Garden section, for a feature film that
"Lost" co-creator J.J. Abrams will produce. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:06:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film Institute's best genre movies.
Reuters - Movies proved over the
weekend that they can hold up to overseas soccer hysteria as
two summer blockbusters topped $30 million, two went over $20
million and two exceeded $10 million.
Reuters - An epic Australian outback movie
starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman
will spearhead a new tourism campaign designed to recapture the
country's "mojo" and lure more visitors Down Under.
AP - The black airmen whose lives will be the basis of a George Lucas movie know the picture will highlight their record of successfully escorting thousands of U.S. bombers in World War II.
AP - Steve Carell did not necessarily see the Maxwell Smart in himself. Everyone else did, including co-star Anne Hathaway and the studio behind the big-screen "Get Smart," which simply called Carell in and offered him the job, no questions asked.