Movie News
1. Moore: `Fahrenheit 9/11' follow-up is not a sequel
By DAVID GERMAIN - May 16, 2008
CANNES, France -- With his follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore wants to examine America as an empire, study its standing since the Sept. 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did.But he doesn't want to make a...
2. Sarah Jessica Parker: She's not a slave to fashion
By FRANZISKA SCHEVEN - May 16, 2008
BERLIN -- Sarah Jessica Parker says she's not a slave to fashion like her "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw. "I am a mother, wife and working woman in the first place, clothes do not play such a big role in my life than they do in Carrie's," the 43-year-old...
3. What's Indy up to? Secrecy shrouds `Crystal Skull'
By DAVID GERMAIN - May 16, 2008
CANNES, France -- Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings.Director Steven Spielberg has tried to keep chapter four of the archaeologist's big-screen adventures, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,"...
4. Celebrity cast in Hollywood wiretapping case
By Associated Press - May 15, 2008
Seven famous faces associated with Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano's racketeering case:_ Keith Carradine: The 58-year-old actor's ex-wife, Sandra Will Carradine, pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury in the case and admitted to having an affair with Pellicano. She said she paid Pellicano $...
5. Cannes: animated documentary recounts war horrors
By ANGELA DOLAND - May 15, 2008
CANNES, France -- It's an animated documentary -- which is perhaps a contradiction in terms.Israeli director Ari Folman thought the unusual technique was the only way to tell his story of recovering from long-repressed, nightmarish memories of his time as a young Israeli...
6. Cannes balances glamor with `Blindness'
By DAVID GERMAIN - May 15, 2008
CANNES, France -- Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in "City of God" and murderous corporations in "The Constant Gardener." With "Blindness," the opening night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian director exposes the world's ultimate savages: your...
7. Ford elected to Boston-based archaeological group
By Associated Press - May 15, 2008
BOSTON -- The actor who helped glamorize archaeology on the big screen is lending his star power to the Archaeological Institute of America.Harrison Ford, who portrays the adventure-seeking Indiana Jones, has been elected to the Boston-based organization's board of...
8. Actor John Phillip Law, angel in 'Barbarella,' dies at 70
By Associated Press - May 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.Law died Tuesday at his Los Angeles...
9. Jolie, pregnant with twins, stays cool at Cannes
By ANGELA DOLAND - May 15, 2008
CANNES, France -- Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, has some secrets for staying serene at the Cannes Film Festival: get her partner, Brad Pitt, to baby-sit, and wear comfy shoes on the red carpet.Jolie was at the festival Thursday to promote DreamWorks' animated "...
10. Grant and Hurley win case against photo agencies
By Associated Press - May 15, 2008
LONDON -- Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives. Britain's High Court says The Big Pictures and Eliot Press Sarl agencies...
11. Cannes has a big place in Aishwarya Rai's heart
By Associated Press - May 15, 2008
CANNES, France -- The Cannes Film Festival has a big place in Aishwarya Rai's heart.The Bollywood actress' first time at Cannes was to promote the lavish love story "Devdas" in 2002. The "Bride & Prejudice" star attended last year's French Riviera festival soon after her...
12. Eloise returns to the Plaza Hotel
By ULA ILNYTZKY - May 14, 2008
NEW YORK -- Eloise, the Plaza hotel's most famous fictitious resident, has officially returned to the storied landmark following a $400 million renovation -- with a portrait of the mischievous 6 year old prominently displayed near its famous Palm Court dining room.On...
13. Sean Penn: an unorthodox president of Cannes jury
By ANGELA DOLAND - May 14, 2008
CANNES, France -- Sean Penn may be president of the Cannes Film Festival jury -- but don't expect any buttoned-up presidential behavior from the Hollywood rebel. During a news conference on opening day Wednesday, the actor-director lit up two cigarettes in defiance of...
14. Jack Black spills the beans: Jolie expecting twins
By Associated Press - May 14, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Angelina Jolie is indeed expecting twins, and it was Jack Black who let the news slip with a "Brady Bunch" crack. Long rumored to have two children by Brad Pitt on the way, Jolie confirmed the news during a side-by-side "Today" show interview with Black,...
15. Moore aims for followup on `Fahrenheit 9/11'
By Associated Press - May 14, 2008
CANNES, France -- Michael Moore is taking America's temperature again.Moore, who won the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival with "Fahrenheit 9/11," plans a followup to resume his examination of the nation's status in the world in the years since the Sept. 11...
16. Heston's Ten Commandments to be auctioned
By Associated Press - May 14, 2008
NEW YORK -- Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer.A pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic "The Ten Commandments" is expected to fetch as much as $60,000, said Marc Kruskol, a publicist for the auction...
17. `Wire' actor to shoot students' short film
By Associated Press - May 14, 2008
NEW YORK -- Clark Johnson will direct a short film about masculinity and youth written by nine Manhattan high school students."Misunderstood," by students at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts, won a contest by Scenarios USA, which uses filmmaking to foster...
18. LaBeouf: Cigs run led to Walgreens arrest
By Associated Press - May 13, 2008
NEW YORK -- Turns out it was a nicotine jones that led to Shia LaBeouf's arrest in Chicago. The 21-year-old actor, who stars opposite Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," told the story of his infamous Walgreen's arrest during his...
19. `Jones': Real archaeologists don't have whips
By DAVID GERMAIN - May 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Indiana Jones managed to retrieve the trinket he was after in the opening moments of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." He pretty much wrecked everything else in the ancient South American temple where the little gold idol had rested for millennia.Though he...
20. Drew Barrymore uninjured in hit-and-run accident
By Associated Press - May 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Drew Barrymore was involved in a hit-and-run accident, but instead of staying put, she followed the other driver and took down the license plate number. The 33-year-old actress wasn't injured when her car was rear-ended Monday in West Hollywood, said Los...
21. Fur flies at `Kung Fu Panda' premiere at Cannes
By DAVID GERMAIN - May 13, 2008
CANNES, France -- Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.DreamWorks Animation, whose past Cannes entries include the first...
22. Court lets prosecutor remain on `Alpha Dog' case
By PAUL ELIAS - May 13, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court ruled that a prosecutor who helped in the making of "Alpha Dog" may remain on the death penalty case on which the film is based.In a similar ruling Monday, the court also reinstated a prosecutor who was taken off a rape case...
23. Sex and the City premieres in London
By MEERA SELVA - May 12, 2008
LONDON -- The "Sex and the City" stars lit up London's Leicester Square for the world premiere of the cinematic sequel to their New York adventures, delighting fans with glamorous -- and sometimes quirky -- outfits that helped make the show an international...
24. Actor Farina arrested with gun in luggage at LAX
By Associated Press - May 11, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- Actor Dennis Farina was charged with a felony Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.When the weapon was discovered at a security checkpoint, the 64-year-old actor said he had forgotten the ....
25. Glenn Close's best-known roles belie love of dogs
By JERRY HARKAVY - May 9, 2008
PORTLAND, Maine -- Glenn Close's signature characters have boiled a bunny, plotted the skinning of Dalmatian puppies and, more recently, helped arrange the killing of a pet dog to leverage a balky witness.She suggests that her new business venture is a form of...
