Movies - Page 31

E! Online - John Lennon fans will have to settle for just "A Day in the Life" for now.

AP - Angelina Jolie plans to adopt a young Vietnamese boy and he probably will be moving to the United States in no more than three months, Vietnam's top adoption official said Wednesday.

AP - Borat, that crass chronicler of the American condition, has been singled out by the State Department as a victim of suppression in his own homeland.

Reuters - The suicide comedy "Wristcutters: A Love Story" will be released in August, with a marketing campaign featuring cardboard cutouts of characters jumping off a bridge, electrocuting and hanging themselves. More Info...  

E! Online - Apparently the U.S. government appreciated Borat Sagdiyev's vocal support for its war of terror.

E! Online - Disco is dead. Captain America is only dead-ish.

AP - Mumbai residents had a message for newlyweds Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar — get off our beach. City hall agreed, demolishing a wooden deck that had been built for a party to honor the couple.

AP - A judge has moved to break a legal logjam in the Hollywood wiretapping case by ruling that no new defendants can be added to the 13 civil lawsuits already filed against private eye Anthony Pellicano and others. More Info...  

Reuters - Emboldened by his acclaimed box office hit "The Pursuit of Happyness," Will Smith will revisit the rags-to-redemption motif.

Reuters - Indie distributor Picture This! Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the Taiwanese gay-themed drama "Eternal Summer." More Info...  

Reuters - "Lost" actor Dominic Monaghan and "Hellboy" superhero Ron Perlman are set to star in "I Sell the Dead," an indie horror film about 18th-century corpse traders.

Movie News

Reuters - He is a watchdog of black American culture who might have directed any movie he wanted, but when it came to his first film, Nelson George tapped into subjects that hit close to home -- drugs, AIDS and his sister.

AP - The world premiere of "Three Days in the Life," a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.

AP - An update of the classic Asian monster movies of yore, "The Host" boasts a wicked sense of humor and vastly improved special effects. (Not once do you see a zipper up the back of a rubber suit.) More Info...  

AP - Since being booted from "American Idol," Jennifer Hudson has won a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild prize and an Academy Award for best supporting actress. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old star of the movie "Dreamgirls" added one more award to the collection — she got her own day in her hometown.

AP - Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi is shutting down the U.S. edition of its movie magazine Premiere. More Info...  

AP - The brown hooded cloak worn by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" films — and then forgotten for years in a warehouse — sold for $104,000 to an anonymous telephone bidder Tuesday at an auction of movie and TV memorabilia.

Reuters - Ticket sales at the U.S. box office jumped 5.5 percent to $9.49 billion in 2006, while the number of tickets sold ended a three-year decline, according to data issued Tuesday by the Motion Picture Assn. of America.

Reuters - While Martin Scorsese is feted by Hollywood for his Oscar-winning film "The Departed," relatives of people killed or tortured by the real-life Boston Irish mobster on which the movie is based are not applauding.

AP - For most visitors, all it takes is a plane ticket and then a quick cab ride to reach Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. But Zack Snyder did some time-traveling to end up there on Monday night.