Movies - Page 23

E! Online - Tom Cruise is ready to fight the good fight.

E! Online - One of The Original Kings of Comedy is relinquishing his throne.

AP - Angelina Jolie and her newly adopted 3-year-old son left Vietnam in a private jet on Wednesday, en route to the boy's new home in the United States.

Reuters - Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron, fresh off a raft of awards season accolades, have met with Mexico's new president to urge more support for the struggling national film industry.

Reuters - New Line Cinema has acquired the film rights to the hit video game "Gears of War," which overtook "Halo 2" to become the most popular title on the Xbox Live service following its release last November.

Reuters - Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and Elijah Wood will voice the roles of rag dolls from a parallel universe in the animated sci-fi feature "9."

Reuters - Emile Hirsch is in talks to star in "Speed Racer," the live-action version of the anime cartoon being directed by the creators of "The Matrix."

Reuters - Emily Blunt is donning the crown for "The Young Victoria," a period biopic of the 19th century monarch.

Movie News Reuters - Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein tighten the narrative focus in following up their celebrated "Gunner Palace," telling the story of a single Iraqi whose life was upended by the American military. More Info...  

Reuters - A new film about the British abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago has been criticized for "writing blacks out of history," but its director said he deliberately focused on one Englishman's political battle.

Reuters - After portraying headstrong women caught up in the European battlefields of World War Two and the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, Juliette Binoche has thrown herself into the Middle East conflict.

AP - Vilma Ebsen, who danced in the film "Broadway Melody of 1936" with her brother Buddy long before he became famous on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. She was 96.

AP - Keanu Reeves was behind the wheel of a Porsche that allegedly grazed a celebrity photographer standing in the path of the sports car, investigators said Tuesday.

Reuters - The Green Hornet, a classic crime-fighting hero from radio, TV and comic books, may fly again on the big screen. More Info...  

AP - The name of the movie is "Shooter," and for a while director Antoine Fuqua is right on target with this claustrophobic tale of conspiracies, lies and double-crosses.

AP - Bernie Mac says he plans to bring down the curtain on his standup comedy act after 30 years.

E! Online - Pamela Anderson has enough men in her life for now.

AP - Even though he's in his early 40s now, Adam Sandler easily could have continued playing Happy Gilmore or Little Nicky or any of the other characters in his arsenal of arrested development. That's what made him famous — that's what made him popular. More Info...  

E! Online - How do you advertise a horror movie? Apparently, without the horror.

Reuters - South Korean horror film "The Host" picked up four awards, including best picture, at Hong Kong's inaugural Asian film awards on Tuesday night in a glitzy ceremony aimed at recognizing the region's nascent film talent.