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Alien Attacks, the Debt Ceiling and Hollywood's Broken Escape Machine
Summer movies and escapism have always gone together like popcorn and artificial butter substitute, but this year the dream factory seems to have short-circuited. Instead of serving up soothing...
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Video Discussion: Is 'The Help' Part of the Racial-Equality Solution, or Part...
I saw 'The Help' at a daytime screening two weeks ago, and I've never been more grateful to be in possession of a pair of sunglasses than I was when I left the dark theater and emerged into the light....
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Video: The Real Latif Yahia, Portrayed by Dominic Cooper in 'Devil's Double,'...
The easiest way to describe 'Devil's Double,' Lee Tamahori's disturbing film about Saddam Hussein's sociopathic son Uday and his reluctant (to say the least) body double, Latif Yahia, is to call it...
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Will Arnett Has a Good Reason for Saying He "Can't Speculate" About the...
If an 'Arrested Development' movie actually gets made, it will surely be the most avidly anticipated film adaptation of a cancelled TV series in entertainment history. Series stars Jason Bateman,...
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Why (Some) French Movie Posters Are Better Than Ours
France may be the homeland of Truffaut and Godard, but it's also the place whereJerry Lewis is universally regarded as a cinematic immortal. So I wasn't entirely surprised to see an ad for the...
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TIFF Review: 'Moneyball' Strokes Solid Triple
When Brad Pitt optioned 'Moneyball,' the book's author, Michael Lewis, reportedly told him, "I don't know how you're going to make a movie out of it." It was a fair point. The book, one of the most...
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5 Things I Learned at TIFF: Morbid Laughs, Maniacal Women, Rogue Planets, and...
The Toronto International Film Festival continues through Sunday, but the long opening weekend is always the busiest, starriest segment. Oscar contenders 'Moneyball,' 'Drive', 'The Ides of March,' and...
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'Drive' Unscripted: Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn Answer to Jesus
Is this the worst 'Unscripted' ever? Ryan Gosling is afraid it might be, but Moviefone HQ kind of loves it. The awkwardness starts at the very beginning -- as Gosling and 'Drive' director Nicolas...
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At 50th Anniversary Screening of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', Julie Andrews Says...
The question of whether Holly Golightly -- the irresistibly unattainable city girl played by Audrey Hepburn in 1961's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' -- was a mercenary call girl or simply a free spirit who...
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'50/50' Unscripted: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Does Not Need Therapy, But the Guy...
"I don't think there's anything wrong with Joe. I think Joe is a perfect specimen." That's Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick's response to an awkward question from Marty in Sioux Falls, South Dakota about...
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Look Out, Will Ferrell: Zach Galifianakis Wants to Play Ignatius Reilly
Hollywood has spent nearly 30 years sniffing around 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' the posthumously published novel by John Kennedy Toole about an obese, boasting, blustering crank named Ignatius Reilly...
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Presidents Clinton and Bartlet Watch 'The Way' Together
Last night, a well-to-do crowd of generous New Yorkers enjoyed a rare opportunity to hang out with two presidents of the United States: Bill Clinton and Josiah Bartlet. The occasion was a charity...
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Was Shakespeare a Fraud? 'Anonymous' Screenwriter John Orloff Sure Thinks So
Sony has been promoting Roland Emmerich's upcoming literary thriller 'Anonymous' with the Joker-esque tag line "Was Shakesperare a Fraud?" Which sounds like yet another insulting Hollywood dumb-down...
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Roland Emmerich Says It Was His Idea to Move 'Anonymous' to Limited Release
During an on-the-record lunch with journalists at the Sony Building, in Midtown Manhattan, 'Anonymous' director Roland Emmerich said he agreed with the decision to scale back the movie's theatrical...
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Do Hollywood Celebrities Have a Right to Occupy Wall Street?
In a Sunday 'The New York Times' column titled 'Hollywood on Wall Street,' former food critic Frank Bruni sounds off on the left-leaning celebrities who have expressed solidarity with Occupy Wall...
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Why the 'Heinous' Experience of Going to Movie Theaters Could Kill the Film...
You probably don't know Bob Lefsetz, but if you depended on the decimated music business to make a living, you sure would. His free e-newsletter, The Lefsetz Letter, is required reading for label...
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Yes, 'Like Crazy' Director Drake Doremus Did Have a Doomed Long-Distance...
People tend to react in one of two ways to 'Like Crazy,' the Sundance-approved long-distance-relationship saga that Paramount is billing as something like the second coming of 'Love Story.' ("Love...
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What Do YouTube's New Celebrity Channels Mean for Movies and TV?
Psst! Hey, smart guy, did you get your million-dollar advance from YouTube? If not, why not? According to an announcement made late yesterday, hipsters (Vice magazine, Pitchfork.com), actors (Ashton...
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New Moviefone Homepage: Your Handy Guide to Our Front Page Facelift
By now you've probably noticed that the Moviefone homepage has a fresh new look. (If you came in through the side door and haven't yet seen it, by all means click over and have a look around.) So ......
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Viggo Mortensen: 'A Dangerous Method' Taught Me How to Talk in a Movie
David Cronenberg isn't necessarily the first director you'd expect to make a movie about the war of wills between two trailblazing 19th-century psychoanalysts, although on further reflection the idea...
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Harvey Weinstein: My 'Marilyn' Is Sexy, Beautiful, and Fun to Be Around
In case you haven't noticed, this is Harvey Weinstein's time of year. All year long, he has been hoarding his awards-worthy jewels, and now they're finally being unveiled to the public. First up are...
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Does Hollywood Need a "Rebuilding Year"?
I grew up rooting for the New York Yankees, and even I know that a team can't win the championship every year, no matter how much money it spends. Sure, one should always be skeptical when the front...
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Meryl Streep: 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher Wouldn't Fit In With Today's...
You don't have to admire the political record of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to appreciate Meryl Streep's virtuoso acting performance in "The Iron Lady." Rarely has such an...
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Keira Knightley: 'A Dangerous Method' Was 'the Most Fun' Despite S&M Sex...
Say what you will about 2011, but there sure were a lot of great acting performances by women. So many that, according to the self-appointed prognosticators over at Gold Derby, Rooney Mara, Kirsten...
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The Ultimate Movie Snob Status Symbol
New York City is awash in perks, and those who are talented, shameless and/or craven enough to gain access to them tend to take their privileges for granted after not very much time at all. An...
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Golden Globes Speeches: Ranking the Winners' Oscar-Worthiness (PHOTOS)
The peculiar logic of awards season requires all would-be Oscar winners to prove their Kodak Theater-worthiness by delivering a series of increasingly tasteful, humble, entertaining, and moving...
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Spike Lee 'Red Hook Summer' Q&A: This Is Not A Sequel To 'Do The Right...
Spike Lee had a message for the Sundance festival crowd at tonight's world premiere of his new film, "Red Hook Summer": "Please tell them that this is not a motherfucking sequel to 'Do the Right...
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Alexander Payne "Nebraska" Casting: Bryan Cranston Will Not Star In Film
Bryan Cranston tried out for a role in Alexander Payne's next project, the road-trip movie "Nebraska," but probably won't get the role, the director told The Huffington Post today."He's auditioned...
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Paul Thomas Anderson, 'The Master' Director, On Joaquin Phoenix, Dianetics...
"The Master" is a movie people are going to be talking about for a long time. Paul Thomas Anderson's haunting meditation on friendship, manipulation and man's desperate search for sanity is more...
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