August 8, 2008
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. --
It’s official – Brad Pitt has joined Quentin Tarantino’s WWII film, “Inglorious Bastards,” The Hollywood Reporter reports.
According to the trade, Brad will play Lt. Aldo Raine, a Southern rebel turned Jewish resistance leader, who leads eight Jewish American soldiers on a campaign of vengeance on Nazis in German-occupied France.
Other actors reportedly still in talks to join the cast include Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, B.J. Novak, Eli Roth and Nastassja Kinski.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that, “Pegg would play a British lieutenant. Krumholtz’s part would be that of a member of Pitt’s team.”
More details about the production… inside.
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June 4, 2008
SHANGHAI, China --
The backlash in China against Sharon Stone continued Wednesday as the Shanghai International Film Festival said the American actress was not welcome at this year’s event.
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May 28, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
It appears a Sharon Stone movie marathon won’t be coming to China anytime soon.
The actress is facing a boycott of her films in China after suggesting the May 12 earthquake, which claimed more than 65,000 lives, was a result of “karma,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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May 27, 2008
CANNES, France --
Sharon Stone revealed her outlandish theory about the devastating earthquake in China that has left over 67,000 people dead, along with calling out Diddy at a charity auction.
Find out exactly what she said…. inside!
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May 26, 2008
CANNES, France --
Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong took their romance public this past weekend when they were spotted kissing in Cannes.
Find out where the couple showed some PDA on Friday and where snappers caught them cuddling on Sunday.
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May 25, 2008
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The French film “The Class,” a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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May 23, 2008
CANNES, France --
Actress Lindsay Lohan and her seemingly attached-to-the-hip best friend, DJ Samantha Ronson, were seen being quite intimate with each other at a party on Diddy’s yacht in Cannes Thursday night.
The friends were certainly more physical with each other than they have been in the past. They were captured in stills and video holding hands and sharing pecks on the cheek (which is common in France, as a means of greeting).
The duo has always said that they are nothing more than close friends.
More photos, inside!
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May 23, 2008
CANNES, France --
In her first public appearances since the death of Heath Ledger (the father of her daughter, Matilda), actress Michelle Williams walked the red carpet twice in two days at Cannes.
On Thursday, for the world premiere of her new film, “Wendy and Lucy,” the Oscar-nominee dazzled the crowds in a champagne-colored Chanel gown.
On Friday, Michele had a second world premiere, for “Synedoche, New York,” gracing the red carpet in an equally stunning purple dress by Yves Saint Laurent (pictured here with Samantha Morton [left] and Catherine Keener [right]).
See full-length pictures of her dresses, inside!
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May 24, 2008
CANNES, France --
With all of his Academy Awards and other Hollywood honors, Clint Eastwood is not necessarily in the market for more prizes. He’ll never shy away from a contest, though, including the one at the world’s most prestigious film showcase.
Eastwood’s missing-child drama “Changeling” was among 22 movies in the running for the top honor, the Palme d’Or, on Sunday at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
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May 23, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. --
Madonna’s new film on the impoverished nation of Malawi has wowed another maker of documentaries: Michael Moore.
Moore announced Thursday that Madonna, like himself a Michigan native, will appear for a screening of “I Am Because We Are” during the Traverse City Film Festival on Aug. 2.
“She’s sort of entered my realm,” Moore said. “When I saw it, I thought, ‘Wow, it’s like she’s been making these films for years.’”
Madonna produced and narrated the documentary after traveling to Malawi, where she met the toddler David Banda. She and husband Guy Ritchie are adopting the child.
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May 22, 2008
CANNES, France --
Madonna says criticism of her adoption of a Malawian boy hurt so much, she compared it to giving birth.
“It was painful, and it was a big struggle, and I didn’t understand it,” the 49-year-old singer told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, where her documentary, “I Am Because We Are,” which shows poverty, AIDS and other diseases devastating Malawi’s children, was being shown.
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May 20, 2008
PARIS, France --
Pregnant with twins, Angelina Jolie says the story behind her latest drama hits close to home: the loss of a child.
Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” the true story of a Los Angeles woman who endured horrors at the hands of corrupt police in her crusade to find out what happened to her son after he vanished in 1928.
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May 20, 2008
CANNES, France --
An expecting Angelina Jolie walked the red carpet with husband Brad Pitt for the premiere of Clint Eastwood’s new film, “Changeling.”
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May 19, 2008
CANNES, France --
Now playing at Cannes: ordinary people, modern times, and crimes and misdemeanors.
Escapism is out of style in the French Riviera film festival’s showcase competition. Midway through the 12-day festival, it’s all about tough realities, true stories, documentary-style filming and nonprofessional actors.
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May 18, 2008
CANNES, France --
Indiana Jones received louder applause going in than he did coming out.
His latest adventure, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” earned a respectful — though far from glowing — reception Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, avoiding the sort of thrashing the event’s harsh critics gave to “The Da Vinci Code” two years ago.
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May 17, 2008
CANNES, France --
Sean Penn used his clout as head of the Cannes Film Festival jury to issue a presidential proclamation: See this documentary.
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May 16, 2008
PARIS, France --
Eva Longoria Parker gets to play dress-up at the Cannes Film Festival — and she doesn’t even have to pack her own suitcase.
“My bag is packed when I come because my stylist thinks about every event we have, every interview, every red carpet ---- everything is already planned and dresses are fitted, and I justput on what somebody gives me,” the 33-year-old actress told Associated Press Television.
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May 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Fresh from revealing the news to the “Today” show’s Natalie Morales that she and husband Brad Pitt are expecting twins, Angelina Jolie faced the press in Cannes while promoting her upcoming animated film, “Kung Fu Panda.”
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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 French laws against smoking in public buildings. He used the F-word. And he poked fun at his reputation.
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May 14, 2008
CANNES, France --
It’s twins for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt!
In an interview that took place in Cannes on Wednesday with the “Today” show’s Natalie Morales, airing Wednesday night on Access Hollywood and in full on Thursday on “Today,” Angelina confirmed the baby news that has been rumored for months.
The twins will be the couple’s 5th & 6th children.
Read exactly what Angelina had to say… inside!
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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 attacks.
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May 15, 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.
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May 13, 2008
CANNES, France --
Rounding up a lot of the usual suspects, the Cannes Film Festival presents a lineup from an illustrious if somewhat predictable gang of regulars, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, Woody Allen, Atom Egoyan and Wim Wenders.
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May 12, 2008
PARIS, France --
“Blindness,” a Fernando Meirelles movie starring Julianne Moore, will open this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.
Based on a novel by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, it’s about a city where inhabitants inexplicably go blind, one by one. Moore stars as the sole person to keep her sight during the ordeal. Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal co-star.
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May 14, 2008
CANNES, France --
As the blitz of films, parties and industry schmoozing started Wednesday, the question was whether the independent movies beloved by Cannes critics could hold their own against “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which plays this weekend
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April 23, 2008
PARIS, France --
American directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to headline the streamlined competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which features fewer big-name directors and more emerging voices from across the globe.
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April 25, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
In 2007, the Tribeca Film Festival underwent a modern-day rite of passage: the backlash.
Co-founded by Robert De Niro after Sept. 11 to help heal his Manhattan neighborhood, the festival had previously enjoyed a thankful reception. But as it expanded further into New York and the number of screenings quintupled, some began to resent Tribeca’s growth into the already crowded festival circuit.
“You can’t please everybody,” De Niro said in a recent interview. “If everything’s going nicely, there’s always going to be somebody to say something.”
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February 29, 2008
by Jesse Spero
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Brad sports a new haircut for a new film and will Tom Brady bulge it like Beckham?
Plus, is Nicole Richie going to Broadway? Why is Diablo Cody so blogging mad? And where will the new Indiana Jones film make its debut?
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July 31, 2007
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ROME,Italy(July 30, 2007) — Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, whose depiction of alienation made him a symbol of art-house cinema with movies such as “Blow-Up” and “L’Avventura,” has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday. He was 94.
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July 30, 2007
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (July 30, 2007) — Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest artists in cinema history, died Monday at his home on an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.
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June 28, 2007
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NEW YORK, NY (June 28, 2007) — The New York Film Festival will open with Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited” and honor the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” as its centerpiece in a particularly American slate for the internationally minded festival.
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June 11, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Move over Kool-Aid man. Gus Van Sant is bringing his own bowl of spiked punch to theaters.
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June 5, 2007
LOS ANGELES --
Simpson, 26, and Mayer, 29, were first rumored to be dating back in August 2006, although both have long played coy with the press over their relationship.
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