Movies - Page 34

Reuters - Carl Franklin is in negotiations to direct Halle Berry in "Tulia," a long-gestating project about a lawyer investigating an infamous Texas drug bust.

Reuters - Todd Graff, the writer-director of the indie film "Camp," will further investigate the pathos of adolescence in the comedy-drama "Will." More Info...  

Reuters - Oh, to be 27 and running a rising film festival! Nothing makes Matt Dentler happier than hearing audiences at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin applaud a movie that he discovered. Although lucrative industry job offers keep coming, the tireless film booster is having too much fun programing his own show. More Info...  

Movie News

AP - Robert Redford has a film festival, and so does cousin Goober.

AP - Robert Redford has a film festival, and so does cousin Goober.

Reuters - British actor Jude Law wowed a female-heavy media crowd Thursday as he picked up an accolade from the French government in London.

AP - So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was ticketed the other day for driving with a suspended license. Not huge news, even by celebrity-gossip standards. Here at The Associated Press, we put out an initial item of some 300 words. But it actually meant more to us than that. It meant the end of our experimental blackout on news about Paris Hilton.

AP - Bambi won't be dining at M. Night Shyamalan's estate anytime soon. Township officials have ruled that "The Sixth Sense" director's 8-foot deer fence can continue to surround his property in the suburban Philadelphia countryside.

AP - Jude Law said he was "speechless" after receiving a prestigious French award for his contribution to film.

AP - What is it like to glimpse into the mind of moviemaker David Lynch? A new exhibition in Paris shows that it is every bit as twisted as a true fan could imagine.

E! Online - Everyone's favorite wall-crawler is getting animated again.

Reuters - Greece's powerful Orthodox Church on Thursday accused the director of the movie "Titanic" of historical ignorance and of trying to damage the Christian faith for claiming he discovered the tomb of Jesus Christ.

E! Online - Perhaps she was hoping for a private tutoring session.

Reuters - British filmmaker Danny Boyle, director of the upcoming sci-fi thriller "Sunshine," will scale "Ponte Tower" for his next project.

Reuters - The Oscar-winning German spy drama "The Lives of Others" is set to be remade as an English-language movie, Daily Variety reported in its Thursday edition.

Reuters - The New Hollywood has become the old guard.

Reuters - NEW YORK/PARIS (Hollywood Reporter)- French directors Michel Gondry and Leos Carax and South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho are turning Japanese. More Info...  

Reuters - Joshua Jackson is set to join Rachael Taylor in the psychological thriller "Shutter," which begins shooting March 12 in Tokyo.

Movie News Reuters - A retired rebel soldier from the jungles of eastern Myanmar has been plucked from obscurity to play a brutal Burmese officer opposite Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone in his latest "Rambo" movie. More Info...  

Reuters - "Flushed Away" bumped best picture Oscar winner "The Departed" from the top spot on the national DVD sales last week, according to data issued Wednesday.