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Movie star Colin Farrell has confirmed he'll be among the stars acting out scenes Heath Ledger never got to shoot in his final film, confessing it'll be an "incredibly painful tribute."
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Filmmaker Terry Gilliam is determined to "salvage" the movie Heath Ledger was midway through making when he died last Tuesday.
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Veteran actor Christopher Plummer suspects London's cold, damp night air contributed to the death of Heath Ledger on Tuesday.
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News, April 14: : The Passion of the Christ Looking for TV Exposure, Ewan McGregor Takes Motorcycle Trip, Ben Affleck Goes on the "Road," Barbara Walters Billy Crystal Dolly Parton Christopher Plummer Queen Latifah Andie MacDowell
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Box office analysis for the weekend of Dec. 29: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Catch Me If You Can Two Weeks Notice Maid in Manhattan Gangs of New York Drumline The Wild Thornberrys Movie Harry Potter and the Chamer of Secrets The Hot Chick Die Another Day
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'Twas the month before Christmas When all through the studios Execs were stirring, with high hopes and fear, Giant posters were hung and trailers rolled out All in hopes that the public would soon be in the movie houses.
Come this December moviegoers can expect Flicks from Kevin Costner, as well as from Mel, But let's not forget there're also Meg and Russell Plus other big names like Hanks and Cage.
So without further ado Here's our list Of all the high-profile films that are coming To accompany you through the month of December.
DEC. 1 No major releases are coming out on the first Friday of the month.
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"Proof of Life": From the set of this movie came the romance between Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. If that's not enough to go see the film, it's about an American hostage negotiator (Crowe) who falls in love with the wife (Ryan) of the man he's
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"Three Kings," David O. Russell's Gulf War actioner, was named Best Picture by the Boston Film Critics Association today.
The film, which also won Russell a Best Director award, follows American soldiers who find a map in the desert leading to an arsenal of stolen gold bullion. As they hunt for the treasure, the trio encounter atrocities of war and face moral dilemmas.
Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube, "Three Kings" grossed about $58 million at the box office and was earlier named one of the National Board of Review's top 10 of the year. It's the second year in a row Clooney has starred in the association's top picture; the 1998 Best Picture was Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight," co-starring Jennifer Lopez.
Hilary Swank picked up her third critics' award of 1999, named Best Actress for "Boys Don't Cry." She plays Brandon Teena, a Nebraska woma
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Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo has been working on a new film entitled Lucky Break for the past four years.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards" easily held on to first place despite tracking studies that had projected Dimension Films' opening of "Reindeer Games" would be the weekend's big winner.
"Reindeer Games " Although the tracking data had pointed to an opening of $10 million to $12 million for "Reindeer," no film managed to crack double digits last weekend. "Reindeer" wound up an embarrassed No. 3 for the weekend with a red face and nose. The weekend's only other wide opening, Paramount's "Wonder Boys," lived up to tracking expectations, finishing out of the Top Five, in seventh place, with a grim estimated $5.85 million.
The best-performing film of the bunch continued to be "Yards," Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures' R-rated comedy. "Yards" continued laughing atop the chart in its second weekend with an estimated $9.61 million
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 10, 2000 -- And the best picture of 1999 according to the National Society of Film Critics is ... a tie.
The period piece "Topsy-Turvy" and the eccentric "Being John Malkovich" shared top honors at the group's awards ceremony Saturday in New York. It's the first time in the society's 34-year history that the best picture vote has been evenly split between two films.
"Topsy-Turvy," a Mike Leigh film about operetta composers Gilbert and Sullivan, had previously been recognized as the top film of '99 by the New York Film Critics Circle. The co-win for "Being John Malkovich" was its first from major critics' group, although screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's victory for best screenplay mirrored previous accolades from the Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto film critics.
"Topsy's" Mike Leigh was tapped best director, besting runners-up David O.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21, 2000 -- The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards is shaping up to be one heck of a testosterone-charged run.
Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic" and Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" have emerged as the frontrunners in this year's race for the Globes, each receiving five nods apiece as nominations for the annual bash were announced this morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, Calif..
Trailing closely behind are Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical rock flick "Almost Famous," "Chocolat," "Wonder Boys" and Soderbergh's "Erin Brockovich," each earning four nominations.
Soderbergh's drug trafficking drama (which has yet to bow in theaters) picked up almost all the prized loot with a nod for best picture (drama), best director, best screenplay for scribe Stephen Gaghan and a best supporting actor and actress (drama) mention for Benecio D
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2001-The race is going be tight this year.
As the TV season winds down and moves into the May sweeps, the major networks are duking it out for those coveted No. 1 spots, especially in the adults 18-49 group that advertisers love and the ego-boosting title of the most-watched network. This kind of tight primetime competition hasn't been seen in the TV arena in many years, but the reality TV explosion has truly changed the landscape and kept network execs on their toes.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22, 2000 -- Santa is not the only big boy coming out to play this Christmas holiday.
Things are certainly looking up in December after Mel Gibson's $34 million-plus record-setting opening last weekend at the box office for "What Women Want."
And judging from the big names, business is only going to be better this weekend as heavily anticipated films such as Tom Hanks' "Cast Away" and Nicolas Cage's "Family Man" bow nationwide today.
"It's going to be a huge weekend this holiday. I can't see how it can't be, with all the hot openings and strong holdovers," Brandon Gray, editor of boxofficemojo.com, told Hollywood.com.
And despite all the new entries breathing down its neck, Gray maintains that Gibson's "What Women Want" might not go quietly down the rankings and that the battle to watch this four-day holiday at the box office will be between
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HOLLYWOOD, June 29, 2000 -- Kevin Smith, he of "Dogma" and "Clerks" fame, has a new gig. He's volunteered to resuscitate "Fletch," the smart-ass investigator played by Chevy Chase in two late 1980s movies. According to Variety, Smith first discussed doing a "Fletch" flick a few years ago with Universal, but since then the film rights to the character (based on Gregory McDonald's mystery novels) were picked up by Smith's friends at Miramax. Smith's version of "Fletch" will be made under his View Askew production banner.
WHO YOU GONNA CALL? Sixteen years after "Ghostbusters," director Ivan Reitman is returning to the sci-fi comedy realm with "Evolution," a film wherein the Earth's entire evolutionary process takes place in one month, according to Variety.
LOVE AND BLOODSUCKING: Omar Epps ("Love & Basketball") will play a professor in the upcoming "Dracula 2000," which also
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 1, 2000 -- Dracula never dies. Not as long as there are filmmakers to rouse his tired bones for yet another big-screen outing. Today's Daily Variety says horrormeister Wes Craven ("Scream") will produce a new vamp flick, appropriately titled "Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000," for Miramax's Dimension Films. Christopher Plummer ("The Insider") will star, but not as Drac. He'll play a London antiques dealer.
ANOTHER CUTE ANIMATED MOVIE (ZZZ ...): Tobey Maguire, Susan Sarandon and Michael Clarke Duncan will supply the voices for "Like Cats and Dogs," a Warner Bros. big-screen toon set for a Summer 2001 release, The Hollywood Reporter says.
CLEARLY, A GIANT: KISS rocker Gene Simmons is set to produce a biopic about the man who founded Casablanca Records -- the key disco (and KISS) label of the 1970s. "The Neil Bogart Story" is a project for Paramou