Reuters - We've all seen this film
before -- two hoodlum friends from the tough, violent streets
of South Boston trying to cope with the lure of easy money and
the offsetting threat of jail time -- but we've never seen it
this well done.
Reuters - More than three months after
its underwhelming premiere at the Cannes Film Festival,
director Steven Soderbergh's four-hour "Che" has finally found
a buyer.
Reuters - At the heart of "Me and
Orson Welles" is an uncanny impersonation of the young Orson
Welles by English actor Christian McKay. -- read full article
Reuters - Guy Ritchie is returning to
form. The British filmmaker first made waves in the late 1990s
with a pair of London-set crime capers -- "Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch" -- and made even more when he
married Madonna in 2000.
AP - Two Long Beach men have been charged with the murder of an actor who was gunned down two years ago shortly after he ended filming for "Freedom Writers," authorities said. -- read full article
AP - Twentieth Century Fox said Wednesday it has established an Asian unit specializing in local productions, starting with India, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to venture into the region. -- read full article
AP - Movies about Richard Nixon, George W. Bush and Che Guevara join James Bond's latest adventure in the lineup announced Wednesday for this year's London Film Festival. -- read full article