Reuters - Organizers of the New York Film
Festival said on Tuesday they will open this fall's event with
the North American premiere of French director Laurent Cantet's
"Entre les Murs" (The Class), winner of this year's top prize
at Cannes. -- read full article
Reuters - Danny DeVito will direct
Oscar-nominated "Atonement" actress Saoirse Ronan in the family
adventure "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle." -- read full article
Reuters - The Weinstein Co. has
signed an exclusive, seven-year deal to funnel its movies to
premium cable channel Showtime, the companies said Monday.
AP - Lucy Liu had some trouble learning her lines for the hit summer animated film "Kung Fu Panda." But that wasn't her fault — a lot of the time, she said, there weren't any lines to learn.
Reuters - When Chris Nolan took on the job of
directing "The Dark Knight," the highly anticipated sequel to
his 2005 box office smash "Batman Begins," he knew what he was
getting into. After all, he'd done it before.
Reuters - Abba-themed musical "Mamma Mia!"
topped the British box office after its opening three days,
knocking Will Smith off the No.1 spot after just a week,
according to Screen International on Tuesday.
AP - A tight credit market prompted Viacom Inc.'s movie-making subsidiary, Paramount Pictures, to drop a deal for $450 million in financing from Deutsche Bank, the companies said Tuesday.
AP - In some earlier parallel universe of Batman's Gotham City, it might have been Gary Oldman instead of Heath Ledger cackling and conniving as the maniacal Joker.
