Reuters - A made-in-Germany Nazi satire which parodies 1981 submarine epic "Das Boot" will try to prove the Third Reich is no longer taboo terrain for German comedians. -- read full article
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:30:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
AP - A new film devoted to the violent career of the Red Army Faction has drawn sharp criticism from both the daughter of one of the left-wing German terrorist group's leaders and the daughter of a prominent victim.
E! Online - Truth may be stranger than fiction, but no thriller is scarier than our current economic crisis. At least not according to the suits who run Hollywood.
AP - Robby Benson knows how it sounds. But his reason for making a movie about the life of a young Billy Graham, the director says, is simple: "I wanted to make a movie about goodness."
AP - Hollywood's biggest annual advertisement for itself the Academy Awards broadcast now can carry commercials for movies themselves. -- read full article
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:42:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - On the cusp of its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday, French director Agnes Jaoui's satirical drama "Let it Rain" has been acquired for U.S. distribution by IFC Films. -- read full article
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:20:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - For the first time since the Oscars moved to TV in the early 1950s, studios will be able to advertise movies during the telecast of the Academy Awards next year.
Reuters - The assassination of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez's grape boycott, gay men in China and historian David McCullough are among the subjects of the films vying for Oscar nominations for best documentary short subject.
Reuters - In Bill Maher's new film "Religulous," the comedian says he wants his fellow non-believers to "come out of the closet" to counter what he views as religion's dangerous influence on the world.