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.
Two-time Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has sued a Rhode Island hospital over the 2006 death of his younger brother.
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.
First it was books. Now it's DVDs.
Opening Nov. 13:
How do you pad out a six-page short story that strives to be nothing more than a clever little morality tale into a feature-length film? By throwing in lots and lots of stuff - practically everything but zombies. Check that: We've got two hours to fill here. Bring on the zombies, too!
Roland Emmerich has an ongoing project: destroying the world. In 1996's "Independence Day," the German director sent aliens to wipe out the White House. In 1998, he unleashed "Godzilla" to wreak havoc on the streets of New York. In 2004's "The Day After Tomorrow," he froze the planet in a new ice age.
A title card at the beginning of "The Men Who Stare at Goats" announces, "More of this is true than you would believe." Less of it is entertaining than you would wish.
"More of this is true than you would believe," warns a title card at the start of "The Men Who Stare at Goats," although the ever-reliable "I know this sounds crazy, but ..." would have worked just as well.
As Ebenezer Scrooge (not to mention The Grinch), Jim Carrey aims to put a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking and a lump of emotion in the throat. That he fails is not for lack of effort.
You cannot ruin the essence of "A Christmas Carol." The example of a man who learns that wealth is not happiness, but happiness is wealth, is surely eternal.
You've heard about close encounters of the third kind, of course, the extraterrestrial meetings that involve contact, presumably of a benign nature. The fourth kind involves a more invasive sort of contact: alien abduction, possibly including those uncomfortable probes about which the true UFO believers are always so nervous.
1. The original version of "The Box" was a short story by Richard Matheson that was published as "Button, Button" in the June 1970 issue of Playboy.
CHICAGO - You'd never guess it from meeting her on the street, but Gabourey Sidibe makes an incredibly convincing troubled, abused teenager.
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.
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.
MIAMI - Like his old pal Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick may need a day off. The former teen star, 47, is getting slammed for his performance in Broadway's "The Starry Messenger."
Nearly 20 years ago Grant Heslov met fellow struggling actor George Clooney at an audition.
Mo'Nique likes to laugh. A lot.
The Fourth Kind" is a "found footage" horror movie with a few new tweaks, though not enough to escape a certain clunkiness.
Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story "Button, Button" - about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead - came not on the page, but on TV.
TORONTO - In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.
DETROIT - It's a quiet afternoon in downtown Detroit as an invasion is in progress.
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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