Movies - Page 11

Reuters - Consider this weekend at the box office a kind of last call before the bar closes.

Movie News

Reuters - The dislike of Canada's biggest city, Toronto, in the rest of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about it.

Reuters - The "Spider-Man" movies already are among of the biggest box office hits ever and, with "Spider-Man 3" opening in May, Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures is pulling out all the stops to make sure the films stay on top.

AP - Secretly videotaping movies in a New York City theater for illegal sale on the street would be a misdemeanor, with penalties including possible jail time, under a bill approved by the City Council on Thursday. More Info...  

AP - When Marco Williams traveled to a small Arkansas town that banished black residents a century ago, the documentary filmmaker discovered that for some, that history was still a selling point.

AP - Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora are officially divorced.

AP - Hollywood art director George Jenkins, who won an Oscar for his work on the 1976 film "All the President's Men," has died. He was 98. More Info...  

AP - Now that Will Ferrell has ice skating down, he's hitting the pool.

Reuters - Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to join fellow Oscar laureate Denzel Washington in the period drama "The Great Debaters."

Reuters - Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper and Deborah Harry are joining the cast of an untitled film based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novella "Dying Animal."

Reuters - Rachel Weisz has dropped out of "The Mummy 3," the latest installment of the blockbuster action franchise. More Info...  

AP - MUMBAI, India (AP) — Two of India's hottest movie stars, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, have sent invitations to their private wedding this month, a newspaper reported Thursday, adding to the hype over nuptials that have been kept strictly under wraps.

Reuters - If movies do in fact influence pop culture, then we might well be looking at the summer of the eyepatch.

Reuters - Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are in final negotiations to reunite for a prequel to the worldwide smash "The Da Vinci Code," sources said.

Movie News Reuters - The Oscar-winning cartoon "Happy Feet" remained the top-selling DVD in the country for the second consecutive week, and surpassed "The Departed" to become the No. 1 seller so far this year. More Info...  

Reuters - Singer, dancer and one-time Playboy magazine model Willa Ford will star as the late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in a biographical film about the billionaire's widow that starts shooting next week.

AP - Rip Torn wants a nonjury trial on a charge of driving while intoxicated, a county clerk said.

AP - Drew Barrymore grew up with tear sheets of models such as Cheryl Tiegs, Rachel Hunter and Christie Brinkley plastered on her bedroom wall like wallpaper. Come January, another young girl can do the same with Barrymore's photo.

AP - "Perfect Stranger" is one of those movies in which nothing and no one turns out the way they originally seemed. And, maddeningly, that's true of the movie itself, as well.

AP - A Chinese science fiction writer has sued 20th Century Fox and five Chinese companies alleging his story idea was stolen and used for the 2004 movie "The Day After Tomorrow," state media reported Wednesday. More Info...