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Brad Pitt looking for new motorcycle after crash
TOKYO -- Brad Pitt says he is in the market for a new motorcycle.
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'Twilight' phenomenon both blessing, curse to Washington town
FORKS, Wash. -- For some reason, Randy Lato's "Vampire Voyages" boat trips just haven't brought in the big tourist bucks yet. He hasn't quite worked out a plausible connection between fishing and the fictional "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer set in this little Olympic Peninsula t…
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Vampire's Sheen: Actor to dazzle audience in 'New Moon'
It's a crisp May morning on the set of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," and Michael Sheen strides into an elaborate reconstruction of an Italianate marble hall in costume as Aro, the head of the Volturi, a menacing group of age-old vampires that metes out justice in the realm of the superna…
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:50 am | Loading…
The Skinny: An Icy Doom for All Mankind!
The end is near: It's just nine days until the rigorously factual disaster movie "2012" arrives in theaters, and many head-in-the-sand types continue to insist that no one should be alarmed because of a silly movie.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:30 am | Loading…
Mo'Nique gets 'Precious' breakout dramatic role
The reviews are so gushy that they'd have to go straight to your head. For the comic actress Mo'Nique, "Precious," opening in theaters across the country in November, has become the classic "big break," that once-in-a-lifetime star turn that changes a career.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Ewan McGregor: 'The Ghost' who stares at 'Amelia'
Ewan McGregor's next films are surrounded by controversy. There's Roman Polanski's unfinished film "The Ghost," a thinly veiled indictment of Tony Blair. The satirical "The Men Who Stare at Goats," featuring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges, alleges that the U.S. military engaged in "psych…
Oct 30, 2009 | 12:30 am | Loading…
Swank shares Earhart's derring-do
NEW YORK -- On screen, Hilary Swank incarnates the larger-than-life Amelia Earhart, pioneering aviatrix, as a towering figure. Yet in life the two-time Oscar winner, 35, is of medium height, slim as a tulip stem.
Oct 30, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Christian crooner pubs her new film at special screening in Orem
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‘This is It’: Michael Jackson concert movie goes global
Michael Jackson fans around the world readied for the singer's last bow Tuesday in a film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer.
Oct 29, 2009 | 1:00 am | Loading…
Anthony Daniels is still 3PO after all these years
Seeing him stroll by, you'd never guess that this slightly built, charmingly demure British actor starred in six of the most successful movies of all time. He isn't mobbed in the lobby. No one does a double take or stares as he walks in for an interview.
Oct 29, 2009 | 1:00 am | Loading…
Capsule Reviews of Films Playing at Local Theaters
REVIEWED THIS WEEK
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Free for Me 10/29
FREE SCREENINGS -- Sundance, 7 p.m. Screening Room, Sundance Resort, Provo Canyon. www.sundanceresort.com. Nov. 17: "Shadow of the Holy Book." Dec. 29: "Beyond Belief."
Oct 29, 2009 | 1:00 am | Loading…
Exceptional lead acting lifts flawed bio of famous flier
Daring and unconventional, spirited and stubborn, aerial pioneer Amelia Earhart would seem to have been anything but a plane Jane. The biggest drag on director Mira Nair's ruggedly gorgeous yet narratively inconsistent "Amelia" is how passively, at times, it engages with its high-flying s…
Oct 29, 2009 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Diva's irksome call was about Jackson film
NEW YORK -- Argentine opera singer Gabriela Pochinki said Monday that she was talking to the organizers of the Las Vegas premiere of Michael Jackson's film "This Is It" when she was arrested at a swank Manhattan restaurant for yelling into her cell phone.
Oct 28, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Sad dad creates robot offspring in animated adventure film
The animated "Astro Boy" is a shiny hodgepodge of "Pinocchio," "WALL-E," "Oliver Twist," "Gladiator" and "Superman," with some obvious visual touches taken from "The Iron Giant." As its own entity, though, it's pretty forgettable.
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
'Thing from Another World' invades BYU
'Keep watching the skies!'
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Bite Night: Vampire movies are making a killing
LOS ANGELES -- Vampires have been an eternal force in Hollywood horror since silent-movie days, yet they have risen to new heights as the "Twilight" franchise, TV's "True Blood" and other incarnations put the bite on viewers.
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Nick Counter, Hollywood studios' negotiator, dies
Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69.
Nov 06, 2009 | 8:30 pm
Actor Woods sues RI hospital in brother's death
Two-time Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has sued a Rhode Island hospital over the 2006 death of his younger brother.
Nov 06, 2009 | 5:15 pm
Matthew Broderick focuses on 'Wonderful World'
Matthew Broderick says he's puzzled by the bashing he's received for his actions during the first New York preview of "The Starry Messenger," a new play by good friend Kenneth Lonergan.
Nov 06, 2009 | 1:55 pm
Brad Pitt looking for new motorcycle after crash
TOKYO -- Brad Pitt says he is in the market for a new motorcycle.
Nov 06, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
'Twilight' phenomenon both blessing, curse to Washington town
FORKS, Wash. -- For some reason, Randy Lato's "Vampire Voyages" boat trips just haven't brought in the big tourist bucks yet. He hasn't quite worked out a plausible connection between fishing and the fictional "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer set in this little Olympic Peninsula t…
Nov 06, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Tom Hanks, others screen 'Beyond All Boundaries'
Actors Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson and James Cromwell walked the red carpet Thursday before a private screening of the Hanks-produced war film "Beyond All Boundaries" held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Nov 05, 2009 | 9:35 pm
Records: Morgan Freeman settles suit on car wreck
Morgan Freeman has settled a lawsuit related to a 2008 car accident that seriously injured him and a passenger, according to court records posted Thursday. Terms of the settlement were not released.
Nov 05, 2009 | 2:50 pm
Capsule reviews: `Precious' and others
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Nov 05, 2009 | 5:00 am
Sundance takes a hike with screenings around US
Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival is going on the road for one night next winter.
Nov 04, 2009 | 5:30 pm
Review: `A Christmas Carol' suffocates in glitz
Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott. Bill Murray. Michael Caine. Mr. Magoo. Scrooge McDuck.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:15 pm
Brad Pitt looking for new motorbike after LA crash
Brad Pitt says he is in the market for a new motorcycle.
Nov 04, 2009 | 10:15 am
Tom Hanks-produced '4-D' film comes to WWII Museum
Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the new film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Friday.
Nov 04, 2009 | 9:25 am
Zhang says 'Blood Simple' has shades of Chow
Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.
Nov 04, 2009 | 3:50 am
Vampire's Sheen: Actor to dazzle audience in 'New Moon'
It's a crisp May morning on the set of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," and Michael Sheen strides into an elaborate reconstruction of an Italianate marble hall in costume as Aro, the head of the Volturi, a menacing group of age-old vampires that metes out justice in the realm of the superna…
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:50 am | Loading…
The Skinny: An Icy Doom for All Mankind!
The end is near: It's just nine days until the rigorously factual disaster movie "2012" arrives in theaters, and many head-in-the-sand types continue to insist that no one should be alarmed because of a silly movie.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:30 am | Loading…
Mo'Nique gets 'Precious' breakout dramatic role
The reviews are so gushy that they'd have to go straight to your head. For the comic actress Mo'Nique, "Precious," opening in theaters across the country in November, has become the classic "big break," that once-in-a-lifetime star turn that changes a career.
Nov 04, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to co-host Oscars
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are taking on the Oscars.
Nov 03, 2009 | 6:55 pm
Stars switch on London's Christmas lights
Jim Carrey, Colin Firth and Bob Hoskins switched on London's Christmas lights on Tuesday and attended the world premiere of the 3-D film "A Christmas Carol."
Nov 03, 2009 | 2:05 pm
Review: `Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: "More of this is true than what you might imagine."
Nov 03, 2009 | 12:45 pm
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