Movies - Page 14

AP - Shooting for a new Will Ferrell sports comedy begins in Michigan later this month.

Reuters - You can smell the brine in "Diggers," a thoughtful, detailed, Polaroid snapshot circa 1976 of a tightly knit village of clam-diggers on Long Island's South Shore that's rich in evocative period touches. More Info...  

Reuters - The double-feature package "Grindhouse" was no match for the one-two punch of "Blades of Glory" and "Meet the Robinsons" during its first day at the box office, coming in at a disappointing No. 4.

AP - Like the rest of her work, Inge Morath's photographs of Marilyn Monroe, shot in 1960, go right to the heart of her subject. Monroe may be smiling on the outside, but her vulnerability is also revealed.

AP - Jackie Chan on Saturday launched a Chinese TV competition aimed at scouting out new action movie talent, saying more than 100,000 people have already signed up for a shot at kung fu stardom.

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AP - A driver arrested after the crash that killed "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark and his son pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

AP - A driver arrested after the crash that killed "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark and his son pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

AP - Kate Beckinsale says what's considered the ideal look in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world.

E! Online - Not only shouldn't the man arrested for the car crash that killed director Bob Clark have been behind the wheel, authorities say, he shouldn't have been in the country.

AP - A movie starring Nicolas Cage as a soldier-turned-mystic bent on revenge will be shot in India early next year, an executive of the film's producer, Virgin Comics, said Friday.

Reuters - Film-maker Luigi Comencini, one of the fathers of the popular comedy genre that marked the golden age of Italian postwar cinema, died on Friday aged 90, officials said. More Info...  

E! Online - Porky's and A Christmas Story don't have much in common.

AP - BEIJING (AP) — China has extended criminal penalties for music and movie piracy to people caught with smaller amounts of DVDs or CDs, a state news agency said Friday, after foreign complaints that enforcement was too lenient.

AP - Take Hugh Hefner out of the running.

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AP - Kevin Costner has sued a music promoter, claiming the company reneged on a contract to back the actor's fledgling music career.

AP - Al Gore will host the opening night gala of the Tribeca Film Festival, which will begin with a series of short films on global warming.

Reuters - Her beauty trumps many a starlet in youth-obsessed Hollywood but Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, at age 40, is preparing to go where few top actresses would dare.

AP - Did Scarlett Johansson have a fling with Justin Timberlake? She's not saying.

Reuters - Director Quentin Tarantino has always been a huge fan of B-movies, that juicy layer of popular culture dominated by zombies, psychotic killers, violent car chases and buckets of gore.

E! Online - In his next film, Mr. Brooks, Kevin Costner has a murderous alter ego.