By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Movie audiences accepted a proposal from Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who scored the summer’s first big romantic comedy hit.
Bullock and Reynolds’ “The Proposal” took in $34.1 million to open as the weekend’s No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Disney film delivered the biggest [...]
CANNES, France (AP) – Isabel Coixet’s new film, “Map of the Sounds of Tokyo,” has three stars – actors Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez, and the Japanese city itself, a place the Spanish filmmaker says she loves.
Like another Cannes Film Festival contender – Argentina-born director Gaspar Noe’s hallucinatory drug trip “Enter the Void” – the [...]
SYDNEY (AP) – A major Australian cinema chain said Monday that it would resume screenings in Sydney of a gritty movie about Lebanese-Australian gangs with increased security because of audiences’ initial violent reactions.
Greater Union on Sunday suspended screenings of the low-budget Australian-made independent movie “The Combination” in its four Sydney cinemas after violence broke out [...]
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Someday, we may actually get a clue as to what makes the Jonas Brothers tick.
We may get a glimpse into the pop stars’ distinct personalities – because certainly they must have them – and, eventually, even learn about their demons and desires.
But for now, Nick, Joe and [...]
By MIN LEE
AP Entertainment Writer
HONG KONG (AP) – Edison Chen’s new movie will debut next month, the Chinese-Canadian star’s first since his sex photo scandal last year forced him to take a break.
The action thriller “The Sniper” will have its world premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on March 24, according to the [...]
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The producers of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” toiled for 18 years on their strange romantic epic, so simply bringing it to the screen – let alone grabbing a leading 13 Academy Awards nominations – was a victory.
Winning any of those Oscars come Sunday night is [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) – Tom Cruise has arrived in Brazil to promote his latest movie, “Valkyrie.”
Cruise, his wife Katie Holmes and their daughter Suri arrived Friday night at Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Palace Hotel.
The Web site of the O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper says Cruise plans to visit several tourist sites in [...]
Actor Tom Cruise has his photo taken by fans outside the Teatro Real before the Spanish premier of his movie “Valkyrie” in Madrid Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009. In “Valkyrie,” Cruise plays Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic army officer who was among those executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in [...]
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “The Dark Knight” won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best movie stunt ensemble on Sunday, while “Heroes” took the same prize for television.
The honors were announced on the red carpet arrivals area before the SAG Awards, one of Hollywood’s last big ceremonies on the road to [...]
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Slumdog Millionaire” continued its unlikely rise from low-budget underdog to the highest Hollywood heights, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for best cast of a motion picture.
The prize, which is tantamount to best picture from the guild, follows top honors at the Golden Globes and the Producers [...]
