HOLLYWOOD - Hollywood is gearing for what is certain to be a spectacular five-day 4th of July holiday movie-going period with two strong holdovers and a brand new PG-13-rated superhero picture starring the world’s biggest box office draw.
Early reviews for Hancock (Sony), featuring mega-star Will Smith, are coming in very negative, with just a 31 percent [...]

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A man is torn between two women–one demonic, one angelic. The young and dissolute Ryno de Marigny is betrothed to marry Hermangarde, a virtuous gem of the French aristocracy. But some, who wish the union not to occur, whisper that the young man will never break off his affair with Vellini, which [...]

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Chicago newspaper editor Cooper suffers a debilitating concussion that takes him from the political pages to comic strip detail. Looking for answers, he travels home to rural Missouri where his aging Uncle Rollie is on the verge of losing his home and has memory problems of his own–what doctors call a case [...]

HOLLYWOOD - FRIDAY 9:30 p.m. (Pacific): Warner Bros new action comedy Get Smart has easily won the battle of big studio comedies with $15M on Friday and a likely $40M opening weekend. The movie, adapted from the classic Mel Brooks-Buck Henry late ‘60s TV classic received decent reviews (51 percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and 53 [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage will star in Roman Polanski’s next project, The Ghost, MTV reports.
The film is an adaptation of Richard Harris’ novel about a ghostwriter hired to write the memoirs of an ex-Prime Minister.
Brosnan and Cage will play the British Prime Minister Adam Lang and the unnamed ghostwriter, respectively.
“I’m going to go off and [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have denied plans for an immediate strike against Hollywood studios despite their contract’s expiration on Monday.
Union bosses have been involved in crucial contract talks with film and TV studio bosses to prevent another strike similar to the Writers Guild of America’s walkout, which brought Hollywood to [...]

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A journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw; she is “the real McCoy,” as Jerry Gorovoy, her assistant of 30 years, puts it. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that [...]

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Leslie, a mother of two rambunctious young boys, is barely holding things together while her husband’s National Guard unit is off fighting in Iraq. Desperate for some help, she agrees to let her husband’s brother, Salman, come to act as a make-shift nanny. But Salman’s parenting skills are questionable at best and [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Oscar bosses have changed the rules so that no more than two tunes from any one film can be among the Academy Awards Best Song nominations.
This year, three of the five nominees for Best Song came from the film Enchanted. The winner was “Falling Slowly” from Once.
A spokesperson for the Academy says, “There [...]

The Hobbit, Hellboy II, a lifetime achievement award … it seems Guillermo del Toro is unstoppable. When the Oscar nominated director postponed his Los Angeles Film Festival appearance from Monday to Thursday we couldn’t wait to talk with him about his upcoming projects. Instead Hollywood.com caught up with del Toro at the Saturn Awards where he was [...]