Movies - Page 24

E! Online - So much for maternity leave.

Less than a week after Angelina Jolie said she would take time off from work to focus on new son Pax Thien, the Oscar winner has signed on to star in an action flick that's set to go into production this spring.

Reuters - In the wake of a public outcry against Los Angeles billboards and New York taxicab tops advertising the upcoming movie "Captivity" with images of the abduction, torture and death of a young woman, the film's producer said it will take down the offending ads Tuesday.

Reuters - George Clooney's plans to bring John Grisham's nonfiction book "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town" to the big screen are moving ahead with indie filmmaker David Gordon Green in final negotiations to write and direct the movie.

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Reuters - Television and film director Stuart Rosenberg, whose best-known movies include the prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and hit chiller "The Amityville Horror," has died of a heart attack at age 79, his family said on Monday.

Reuters - The French production company that helped bring "The Queen" to the big screen is turning its attention to another British female icon: Margaret Thatcher.

E! Online - Once lauded as the second coming of Orson Welles in the 1970s, Peter Bogdanovich's career as one of Hollywood's most esteemed auteurs was derailed by negative reviews and a scandal-plagued personal life.

E! Online - Katherine Heigl will be trading in her scrubs for Dresses this summer.

AP - Stuart Rosenberg, a prolific director of series television and theatrical films who partnered with Paul Newman on the widely popular prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and several other movies, has died at 79.

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AP - Angelina Jolie arrived in Hanoi on Monday to complete the procedures necessary to take her adopted son Pax Thien Jolie to his new home in the United States.

AP - Friends and fans of the Dutch filmmaker found dead with a note pinned to his chest with a knife unveiled a memorial sculpture that depicts him screaming near the spot where he was murdered by an Islamic extremist.

E! Online - Stuart Rosenberg wasn't a household name.

AP - Lonelygirl15, OK Go and other YouTube sensations will get an opportunity to walk down a virtual red carpet.

Reuters - The 1975 "blaxploitation" action comedy "Dolemite" will get to fight another day. More Info...  

Reuters - Director Michael Bay and the writers of his upcoming film "Transformers" are reuniting to bring sci-fi author's Whitley Strieber forthcoming novel "2012: The War for Souls" to the big screen.

Reuters - Chart-topping R&B artist Robin Thicke is in negotiations to write his first film score for the urban drama "This Wednesday," with wife Paula Patton attached to star as a female pimp.

AP - Emmy Award-winning writer Steven Bochco has become the latest Hollywood leader to embrace the Internet, teaming with a video site to produce a series of confessional short videos on such topics as "my first time" and "my weird family."

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AP - Spartans continued to fend off the box-office competition as the battle epic "300" took the No. 1 spot for the second-straight weekend with $31.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Reuters - The brave Spartan soldiers of "300" enjoyed a one-sided victory at the North American box office for a second weekend, making light work of critically lambasted new challenges from Sandra Bullock and Chris Rock.

Reuters - If the sights, sounds and smells of the ShoWest exhibition floor are any indication, then theaters of the future will be digitized complexes with LED signs, ATM machines that dispense money and movie tickets and concessions selling everything from pizza to steak taquitos.