Reuters - The stars are here but the Oscar hype
is on low volume at the Toronto film festival this year as
major studios hold their promotional fire for movies looking to
win awards until later in the year.
Reuters - Filmmaker Spike Lee was focusing on the
past when he made a movie about oft-forgotten the role of black
soldiers in World War Two, a war film with both blood and
schmaltz set in Tuscany. -- read full article
Reuters - Ricky Gervais sees dead people. And he
has found them to be a demanding bunch in his new movie "Ghost
Town" as they clamor for help and attention from the only man
who knows they're there.
AP - The Nicolas Cage action-thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" needed just $7.8 million to take the top spot at the box office in what was the slowest movie weekend in seven years, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
Reuters - The ABBA-inspired
musical romance "Mamma Mia!" grabbed the No. 1 spot at the
weekend foreign box office for the first time, grossing an
estimated $15 million from 39 markets.
Reuters - Susan Sarandon and Richard
Dreyfuss have signed on to join Edward Norton in "Leaves of
Grass," a comedic thriller from actor-turned-filmmaker Tim
Blake Nelson.
Reuters - Eleven days of red carpet galas, 21
films in competition and countless interviews, photo calls and
parties at the Venice film festival boiled down to just one man
in the end -- Mickey Rourke.
AP - SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller. -- read full article
AP - TORONTO (AP) — The Coen brothers' new movie gave John Malkovich a chance to blow off some steam. Malkovich's seething character in "Burn After Reading" bursts out in perpetual tantrums, a nice exercise in anger management, according to the actor.
