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A 10-year-old boy who directed a short film starring Kevin Bacon is suing the woman who helped to finance the movie.
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CSI Actor wants CBS to give him another chance, Linda Ronstadt is asked back to the casino, composer Jerry Goldsmith dies, more…
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The Sundance Film Festival, which is backed by actor Robert Redford and his Sundance Institute for movies, comes to an end today in Park City, Utah. Saturday night's awards ceremony saw the sci-fi drama Primer, win the top grand jury prize, while the jurors awarded DIG! the top prize in the documentary category. Debra Grankik took the dramatic directing award for Down to the Bone, about a lower-middle-class wife and mother's struggles with cocaine addiction.
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In an interview airing today at 10 p.m. EST on ABC's 20/20, Michael Jackson's parents said he is innocent and have offered to adopt his children if they're taken away from him. Also: George Clinton Mick Jagger Zooey Deschanel Jake Gyllenhaal David Kohan Jason "Max" Mutchnick Pharrell Williams Luciano Pavarotti Sting Agnes Bruckner Bobby Cannavale
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Sundance Film Festival officials have announced entries for dramatic, documentary and "American Spectrum" categories of the 2004 festival, which runs Jan. 15 through Jan. 25 in Park City, Utah.
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Box Office Analysis, Oct. 12: Kill Bill opens in the top spot followed by School of Rock Intolerable Cruelty Good Boy! Out of Time House of the Dead The Rundown Under the Tuscan Sun Secondhand Lions Lost In Translation Mystic River
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News, July 21 Woody Allen opens Venice Fest, Matt LeBlanc may get spin-off, Everyone Loves Raymond without Ray Romano Nick Nolte Kevin Bacon Jamie Kennedy
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After a four-year hiatus, Chris Rock will return to host the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Also: Mystic River Clint Eastwood New York Film Festival The Hulk Russell Simmons Justin Timberlake Molson Canadian Rocks For Toronto Tyra Banks UPN Top Model Buddy Ebsen Pippen The Punisher Laura Harring
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Two prominent American directors, Clint Eastwood and Gus Van Sant, will compete for the top prize at this year's prestigious Cannes Film Festival, it was announced Wednesday.
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 29 - Sweet Home Alabama The Tuxedo Barbershop My Big Fat Greek Wedding Signs Stealing Harvard Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever One Hour Photo Swimfan
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Box Office Report: Sept. 22
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Josh Randall, who plays Dr. Mike Burton on the NBC TV series Ed, was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly smoking crack cocaine in a Brooklyn park.
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News Roundup for July 1: Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears should move on to new loves. Other celebrities include Ian McKellen Sharon Gless Woody Harrelson Chris Rock Tom Arnold Elle Macpherson Bruce Lee Ed Harris Jessica Lange Angela Bassett Jeff Bridges Sean Penn Kevin Bacon Clint Eastwood George Michael
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"Ren and Stimpy" makes a comeback on TNN. Plus Arnold Scwrazenegger Russell Crowe Hollywood Walk of Fame Honorees Forest Whitaker Selling TimeNBC Miss Teen USA Donald Trump World Wrestling Entertainment Raw Is War Smackdown Oasis
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Director Herbert Ross, director of films such as "Steel Magnolias," "Funny Girl" and "The Turning Point" dies at 74.
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Minnie Driver breaks engagement
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2000 -- The year's first space disaster flick, "Supernova," will blast into the stratosphere this week.
Along with the sci-fi thriller, this week's openers include the family drama "My Dog Skip," Ice Cube's "Next Friday" and the baseball documentary "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg."
Here's a look at the new films hitting theaters - and the films already around going into new release patterns:
WEDNESDAY:
"The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" (Cowboy Booking) -- Portrait of the legendary Bronx-born Jewish baseball player who came close to breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record. Tall, handsome, and uncommonly good-natured, Greenberg was a secular Jew from Bronx who became "the baseball Moses," an icon for everyone from Walter Matthau to Alan Dershowitz. (Limited release)
"My Dog Skip" (Warners) -- Based on the autobi
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Despite all the hype, Madonna came in second best at the weekend box office.
Studio tracking studies predicting a first-place opening for Paramount's "The Next Best Thing," the romantic comedy/drama teaming the Material Girl with Rupert Everett, were wrong. Instead, top honors went for the third consecutive weekend to Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards."
Bruce Willis "Yards," the R-rated hit comedy from Warners, Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures, held strongly in its third weekend with an estimated $7.31 million (-24%) at 2,793 theaters (-117 theaters, $2,617 per theater). Its total is approximately $38.5 million.
Directed by Jonathan Lynn, "Yards" stars Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry.
"Unbelievable," Warner Bros. distribution executive Jeff Goldstein said Sunday morning, delighted with how well "Yards" was ho
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 12, 2000 -- Hollywood found lots of life on "Mars" this weekend as Buena Vista/Touchstone's "Mission to Mars" blasted off to about $23 million. "Mars" landed in 3,054 theaters with an out-of-this-world estimated $23.10 million ($7,559 per theater).
Its per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide release this weekend.
It was a victory as well for studio tracking studies, which had predicted a first-place finish in the mid $20 millions. For the previous three weeks, however, Hollywood pollsters had been overly optimistic about the openings of "Hanging Up," "Reindeer Games" and "The Next Best Thing."
"Our marketing guys (under Marketing President Geoffrey Ammer) did such a fabulous job getting it open," Buena Vista Distribution President Chuck Viane said Sunday morning. "We were sitting here talking this morning, sayi
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With the huge Broadway success of Mel Brooks' The Producers, it looks like you can bring the movies to the stage.
On Monday, Brooks' musical stage adaptation of his classic movie received 15 Tony nominations, including nods for best musical, for stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and for Brooks for best book and score.
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5, 2001 -- Sigourney Weaver is in negotiations to do the fifth installment of the "Alien" series -- for a mere $15 million, as reported by London's Sunday Express.
This time around the story will finally be set on Earth. Weaver's character, Ripley, was last seen heading to Earth as a cloned version of herself in the 1997 "Alien Resurrection." The film is planned to be released 2004, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the original "Alien."
Weaver will also executive produce the flick, written by Joss Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer").
BANDERAS "FEMME" SIDE: Spanish hunk Antonio Banderas has signed on to star in director Brian De Palma's French noir thriller "Femme Fatale." He'll be playing a paparazzo. Despite a four-month search, the female lead has yet to be cast, though a choice is expected soon. Shooting begins March 12, primarily on loc
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., August 2, 2000 -- Predicting this weekend's box office is enough to drive anyone a little "Nutty."
If Eddie Murphy's "Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps" has big legs, it stands to hold on to the top spot. The PG-13-rated comedy sequel from Universal and Imagine Entertainment could drop 50 percent from last weekend's $42.5 million opening and still place first with around $21 million.
Directed by Peter Segal, it stars Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson and Larry Miller.
Columbia's opening of its R-rated sci-fi thriller "Hollow Man" at about 2,800 theaters is shaping up as the most solid competition "Nutty" faces. But there also will be high-profile openings for Buena Vista/Touchstone's PG-13-rated romantic comedy "Coyote Ugly" at 2,650-plus theaters and Warner Bros. PG-13 sci-fi action adventure "Space Cowboys" at 2,700-plus theaters.
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Elisabeth Shue, Oscar-nominated for Leaving Las Vegas, and Amy Brenneman, star of CBS'Judging Amy, embraced motherhood this week.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19, 2000 -- Is the big SAG and AFTRA strike coming to an end? Possibly. Supporters from the actors' unions, including some recognizable stars such as Richard Dreyfuss and Olympia Dukakis, said talks with the advertising industry reps are proceeding well and they are cautiously optimistic.
Commercial actors have been striking for five months. Negotiators for the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists continue to meet today in New York, their fifth consecutive day of talks.
Things got a little heavy Monday, when supporters of the actors' unions waged a silent protest, encircling the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Some faces in the crowd reportedly included Kevin Bacon, Alec and Billy Baldwin, and F. Murray Abraham.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2000 -- Hollywood was suffering from the box office blahs over the weekend, just as Hollywood insiders anticipated. For the first time since Oct. 22, no films cracked double-digits.
Miramax's PG-13-rated teen-appeal romantic comedy "Down To You" managed to top the chart with only an estimated $8.30 million at 1,971 theaters ($4,211 per theater).
Written and directed by Kris Isacsson, it stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles.
"I think it's great," Miramax Senior Vice President, Marketing, David Kaminow said Sunday morning. "Freddie Prinze Jr. cannot deny the fact that he has a following. He really can do a great job of opening a picture.
"I think our (marketing) materials were good, and it just looked like a fun movie for its core audience of young girls. There hasn't been anything for them for a while.
"The PG-13
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HOLLYWOOD, June 30, 2000 -- If only there was a new "Star Wars" movie every summer, then maybe Hollywood might have something to celebrate.
Instead, box office grosses are lagging about 6 percent behind last year's figures, which were buoyed by the gargantuan success of "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" and its $431.1 million-grossing theatrical run.
Through Sunday, domestic summer movie ticket sales amounted to $774 million; during the same period in 1999, that figure was $820 million. (The summer movie season, by the way, runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day, according to movie industry watchers.)
The studios are banking on this holiday weekend, with two so-called "event movies" ("The Patriot" and "The Perfect Storm") going head to head, to resuscitate the summer cash flow.
But Brandon Gray, editor of Boxofficemojo.com, says it might not be eno