Movie News

Veteran Italian screenwriter Cecchi D'Amico dies (AP) Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:12:52 GMT AP - Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated post-war Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestones as "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard," died Saturday at age 96.
	Terrence Howard to join `Law & Order: Los Angeles' (AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:41:41 GMT AP - "Law & Order: Los Angeles" is getting another big-name prosecutor.
	Gibson's ex-girlfriend urges him `tell the truth' (AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:14:59 GMT AP - Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend says she's the victim of a "smear campaign" and never tried to extort money from the Oscar-winning star.
	Disney selling Miramax to investors for $660M (AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:08:48 GMT AP - The Walt Disney Co. is selling Miramax Films to a group of investors for $660 million, marking a new phase for a studio that helped launch the career of Quentin Tarantino and push independent movies into the mainstream.
Sarajevo becomes biggest regional film market (Reuters) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:27:21 GMT Reuters - Romanian film director Florin Serban was overwhelmed after showing his debut film this week to 2,000 spectators at the Sarajevo film festival, where he had shopped around his script as an unknown three years before.
	Box Office Preview: 'Inception' vs. the 'Schmucks' (AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:41:26 GMT AP - Chris Nolan's "Inception" has been the No. 1 film every day since it opened earlier this month. Yet it could face a formidable challenge from the debuting comedy "Dinner for Schmucks" for the top spot at this weekend's box office.
	Branagh: Shakespeare's superheroes are like `Thor' (AP) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:38:38 GMT AP - Kenneth Branagh is directing "Thor" for Marvel Studios, and some think it's a stretch for him to take on a superhero movie. He's more Shakespearean, having adapted several of the Bard's films for the big screen.
Hugh Hefner: Rebel with a cause (Reuters) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:47:15 GMT Reuters - At 84 years-old, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner embodies the lifestyle of sexual freedom that his men's magazine has espoused since it was founded in 1953, featuring a nude centerfold of Marilyn Monroe.
"Charlie St. Cloud" a silly failure (Reuters) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:32:47 GMT Reuters - Every now and then a brave filmmaker can't resist the temptation to make a metaphysical movie that somehow will manage to portray everlasting love on the screen, that will somehow show a romantic idealism so great that it transcends even the boundaries between the living and dead.
Sid Vicious absolved in erratic documentary (Reuters) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:09:42 GMT Reuters - The title of "Who Killed Nancy" -- a new documentary opening Friday about the death of Nancy Spungen -- is a little misleading.
	Movie tax cuts 'help struggling California economy' (AFP) Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:20:07 GMT AFP - A year-old program granting movie studios tax breaks for filming in California has saved jobs and should yield two billion dollars in direct spending, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.