AP - Judy Davis won more than $8,000 in interest Friday for damages she was awarded from a newspaper that ridiculed her as heartless for opposing a plan to erect floodlights in a park near her Sydney harbor-side home.
AP - Elizabeth Banks has what it takes to be a porn star or first lady. And she'll be strutting her stuff as both on the big-screen within a two-week span.
AP - Film critic Roger Ebert on Thursday confirmed that a fellow critic yelled at him and whacked him on the knee with a program during a movie screening at the Toronto Film Festival last weekend, but said the incident was "blown out of proportion."
Reuters - A week after the box
office sank to its lowest level in five years, sales should
rebound significantly this weekend with five wide openers,
including a thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Reuters - A gangster movie done as a
biopic, "Public Enemy Number One (Part One: The Origins)"
shoves France's most notorious criminal on to the screen with
propulsive action and swagger. -- read full article
Reuters - Warners Bros. has plunked
down a $750,000 advance for "The Karma Coalition," a spec by
rocker-by-day/scribe-by-night Shawn Christensen. -- read full article
Reuters - Matthew McConaughey and
his pals, including co-stars Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson,
probably had a blast making "Surfer, Dude." But they forgot to
provide an equally good time for the audience. -- read full article
Reuters - Two weeks before the New
York Film Festival launches its 46th edition, plans are already
underway for next year's event. -- read full article
