Movies - Page 26

AP - Israeli police said Thursday they were deciding whether to charge two bodyguards in a scuffle with photographers during Leonardo DiCaprio's visit to the Western Wall earlier this week.

Reuters - A leading Egyptian director is preparing to produce a movie about the rise of al Qaeda, and he promises to pull no punches in what would probably be the first Arab film about the militant Islamist group. More Info...  

AP - John Travolta fans finally have their two big wishes: His return to movie musicals after almost 30 years and his first role as a plump Baltimore housewife.

E! Online - Although Leonardo DiCaprio has since departed Israel, his memory lingers.

Reuters - After years as a cult filmmaker specializing in all things tasteless and weird, John Waters has edged closer to the mainstream with two recent projects -- a children's film and starring role in a TV drama.

E! Online - Some movies draw protests. 300 is also drawing drawings.

AP - Thirty years ago, in theaters near and far, far away, a movie opened the imaginations of millions, combining the magic of mythology and special effects to launch the "Star Wars" phenomenon.

AP - Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance whose dramatic life story became a hit film, has died. She was 94.

Reuters - Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan will return to his provocative, dark Hitchcockian style with "The Happening," a thriller about a natural calamity that threatens to wipe out humanity.

Reuters - Director Marshall Curry is following up his Oscar-nominated documentary "Street Fight" with two new nonfiction features: the aspiring NASCAR driver chronicle "Racing Dreams" and the true tale of an environmental arsonist, "If a Tree Falls."

Reuters - James Bond star Daniel Craig is in talks to join Julianne Moore in "Blindness," a drama based on Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago's acclaimed novel.

Reuters - Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ray Liotta are answering the call for "Hero Wanted."

Movie News Reuters - On paper, it sounds like the polar opposite of a box office sensation -- a three-hour ode to the Z-grade cinema of the 1970s, shot in the style of the time with enough sex and violence to satiate any exploitation junkie. But when the creative masterminds behind such a project turn out to be Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, suddenly, it seems like a Hollywood gold mine. More Info...  

Reuters - Unlike the majority of often shoddy and questionably motivated deconstructions of Michael Moore, "Manufacturing Dissent" comes from filmmakers sharing his political bent, and it labors to present the pro and the con on the divisive figure. In a documentary arena overshadowed by Moore, it has an obvious draw. Many will embrace it for cutting through the smoke both its subject and his attackers have created. More Info...  

Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- Throughout the history of American cinema, French characters have served as the butt of many onscreen jokes. More Info...  

Reuters - Score another one for the pride of Kazakhstan.

Reuters - Reports of Rider Strong's death in the horror film "Cabin Fever" have been exaggerated. Strong's character, Paul, is alive and well and living in fear of his life in the sequel, "Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever." More Info...  

AP - The estranged father of actress Lindsay Lohan has been released from a New York state prison after serving almost two years for driving while intoxicated and other charges.

AP - Angelina Jolie arrived in Vietnam late Wednesday night, where she plans to adopt a 3-year-old boy.

E! Online - Johnny Depp is trading in Fleet Street for Recovery Row.