AP - Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other "Peanuts" characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91.
Reuters - Anne Hathaway's dark role in "Rachel
Getting Married," which premiered this week in Venice, is
generating early Oscar buzz, with several critics hailing her
departure from fairytale and comic characters.
Reuters - In "The Hurt Locker," the latest film
about the war in Iraq, a bomb disposal expert takes risks
beyond the call of duty as he comes to realize that only one
thing makes him feel truly alive -- dicing with death.
E! Online - Those concerned over Hilary Swank's plummeting weight can rest easy—maybe. The two-time Oscar nabber is next set to pack on the pounds (and a lot of 'em) to play the lead in French Women Don't Get Fat, an adaptation of Mireille Guiliano's best-selling book, which Swank will also produce.
AP - A judge on Wednesday dealt a serious but possibly temporary blow to a lawsuit filed by a celebrity magazine reporter who has accused a paparazzi agency of secretly filming Heath Ledger doing drugs in her hotel room.
Reuters - Jonathan Demme, most recently
at the Venice Film Festival with "The Manchurian Candidate,"
breathes a breath of honest cinema into a lackluster
competition with "Rachel Getting Married," a film whose
lightness of touch rides a wave of family conflict to perfectly
balance smiles and tears. -- read full article
Reuters - Director Jonathan Demme's
family drama "Rachel Getting Married" might not seem like it
has political overtones, but Demme and screenwriter Jenny Lumet
see some ties to the U.S. presidential election. -- read full article
Reuters - "The Little Mermaid:
Ariel's Beginning," a direct-to-video sequel, outperformed a
hit comedy to top the U.S. DVD sales chart for the week ended
August 31. -- read full article
Reuters - The presence of two Japanese
animation movies in competition at the Venice film festival
this year has created a contest within a contest, and brought
to the big screen two strikingly different pictures.
AP - SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other "Peanuts" characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91.
