Sony Classics celebrates 'Quinceanera' deal (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed all North American and Latin American rights to recent Sundance Film Festival winner "Quinceanera."
Bird catches mouse cartoon for Pixar (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - "The Incredibles" director Brad Bird will follow up his Oscar-winning film with "Ratatouille," a Pixar cartoon about a skinny mouse who lives in a Parisian restaurant.
Rachmaninoff movie set to take flight (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford has signed a deal to direct "Rhapsody," a movie about Russian classical composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
'Crash' director eyeing timely terrorist thriller (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - Hot off his best picture win for "Crash," Paul Haggis is in final negotiations to direct and produce "Against All Enemies," a project based on Richard A. Clarke's best-selling memoir chronicling the Bush administration's handling of terrorist threats.
Police drummer takes fans behind the music (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - When you think of words to describe the Police, somehow "playful" wouldn't be one of them.
Keaton and cast work cheaply in DeLillo film 'Game 6' (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - Find a movie director with a great script and former "Batman" star Michael Keaton is willing to work for $100 a day.
No Failure in This "Launch" (E! Online)
March 12, 2006
E! Online - Title notwithstanding, Failure to Launch had no trouble
getting off the pad.
A Hanks Family Film (E! Online)
March 12, 2006
E! Online - According to Variety, the two-time Oscar winner and
his actor son, Colin, are linking up for some hocus pocus on the big
screen in the magician comedy The Great Buck Howard.
'Launch' Soars to Win at Box Office (AP)
March 12, 2006
AP - "Failure to Launch," a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker, took off at theaters, debuting as the top weekend movie with $24.6 million.
Goldie Hawn Honored at Comedy Festival (AP)
March 12, 2006AP - Goldie Hawn says she's never doubted herself, even when she made an audience laugh during a production of Romeo and Juliet.
Page Marvels at Her Enduring Popularity (AP)
March 12, 2006
AP - Cult idol Bettie Page is getting more attention now than she did 50 years ago when she posed in thousands of seductive pinup photos that appeared in magazines.
Connery Has Surgery for Kidney Tumor (AP)
March 12, 2006
AP - Sean Connery has undergone surgery for a kidney tumor and is recovering at his home in the Bahamas, his spokesman said Sunday.
'Launch' Soars to Win at Box Office (AP)
March 12, 2006AP - "Failure to Launch," a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker, took off at theaters, debuting as the top weekend movie with $24.6 million.
Moviegoers "Launch" McConaughey comedy to No. 1 (Reuters)
March 12, 2006
Reuters - "Failure to Launch," a widely
panned romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah
Jessica Parker, surprised industry observers by opening at No.
1 at the weekend box office in North America, according to
studio estimates issued on Sunday.
"Thank You for Smoking" takes wry look at lobbying (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - Smug tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor could easily have been the villain of the upcoming movie "Thank You for Smoking." After all, he tells children they should make up their own minds on whether to smoke.
Keaton and cast work cheaply in "Game 6" (Reuters)
March 12, 2006Reuters - Find a movie director with a great script and "Batman" star Michael Keaton is willing to work for $100 a day.
Oscar winners get hero's welcome in S.Africa slum (Reuters)
March 12, 2006
Reuters - Cheering fans thronged the streets
of one of South Africa's toughest slums on Sunday to welcome
home the makers of the country's Oscar-winning film "Tsotsi,"
which depicted the harsh realities of township life.
Page Marvels at Her Enduring Popularity (AP)
March 12, 2006AP - More than half a century after her pinup pictures first appeared in magazines, cult idol Bettie Page is finally earning a good income for her work.