Flour Bomb Lindsay Lohan

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Saturday November 15 9:45 AM ET

Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole.

Animal rights activists showered the 22-year-old actress with flour when she went to the VIP Room Theater in the early hours of Saturday with her friend, disc jockey Samantha Ronson.

The owner of the nightclub helped Lohan dust off her blue sequined dress and black stole before she posed on the red carpet. Ronson went on to spin tracks for a crowd that included reggae rapper Shaggy and "I Kissed a Girl" singer Katy Perry.

The Reader - Movie Trailer

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The Reader

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When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances. Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.

Cast
Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz
Ralph Fiennes as Michael
Karoline Herfurth as Marthe
Hannah Herzsprung as Julia
David Kross as Michael Berg

Detail Info
Directors Stephen Daldry
Writers David Hare
Producers Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Redmond Morris
Editors Claire Simpson
Music Nico Muhly
Release Date Dec 12th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company
Studios The Weinstein Company
Country Berlin, Germany
Language English

Timecrimes - Movie Trailer

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Timecrimes

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A man who travels accidentally back to the past and meets himself there. A naked girl in the midst of the forest. A weird guy with his face covered by a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime.

Cast
Nacho Vigalondo as Boy
Karra Elejalde as Hector
Candela Fernandez as Clara
Juan Inciarte

Detail Info
Director Nacho Vigalondo
Writer Nacho Vigalondo
Producer Eduardo Carneros, Esteban Ibarretxe, Javier Ibarretxe, Santi Camunas, Jordi Rediuc, Norbert Llaras
Editor Jose Luis Romeu
Music Chucky Namanera
Running Time 1 hr. 28 min.
Release Date Dec 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Magnolia Pictures, Magnet

"Twilight" film franchise looks ahead

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Saturday November 15 12:15 AM ET

Ahead of next Friday's release of the eagerly anticipated vampire romance "Twilight," indie studio Summit Entertainment is moving potential future installments in the franchise into the development pipeline.

The company has acquired rights to the next three novels in Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster series, "New Moon," "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn."

It has hired "Twilight" scribe Melissa Rosenberg, a writer/producer on Showtime's "Dexter," to adapt the first two. "Breaking Dawn," has not attached a writer.

"Twilight," which revolves around the relationship between an average teenage girl, Bella, and a vampire, Edward, in a rainy Northwest town, has been generating huge buzz ahead of its November 21 bow.

In "New Moon," Edward leaves Bella, sending Bella into a depression and a friendship with a werewolf. In the third book, "Eclipse," that relationship triangle evolves, while evil empires begin to pursue Bella. "Breaking Dawn" pushes the plot further with a marriage between Bella and Edward.

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Angelina Jolie plans "fade away" from Hollywood

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Friday November 14 3:22 AM ET

With six kids to watch over, "Changeling" star Angelina Jolie told the BBC she plans to fade away from acting to spend more time raising her family, but she stopped short of pledging to quit her craft for good.

"I don't plan to keep acting very long, I'm ready to do a few things now and fade away and get ready to be a grandma one day," Jolie told the British broadcaster in an interview posted on the BBC website on Thursday.

Jolie and her partner actor Brad Pitt have emerged as a Hollywood power couple, and together they have three biological children and three adopted children.

In response to a question about whether she will give herself a "cutoff point" for acting, Jolie, 33, said she would make no pledge to completely stop acting.

Jolie, who stars in the movie "Changeling" from director Clint Eastwood, said she has not worked on a movie for a year. Apart from starting a project in February, she said that she will probably not work again for another year.

"So maybe it will be once a year and then maybe it will be once every three years, and then just naturally -- I like being home a lot these days," Jolie told the BBC.

Jolie, who earned an Oscar for her supporting role in the 1999 movie "Girl, Interrupted," would not be the first actor to talk of walking away from it all at a young age. Last month, "We Own the Night" star Joaquin Phoenix, 34, said that he was retiring from acting to focus on making music.

Sean Penn, 48, has also talked about retiring from acting over the years, but his career continues and he stars in the movie "Milk," which opens on December 5.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

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A womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his former girlfriends at his younger brother's wedding. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Present, and Future take him on a journey through his romantic history (à la Ebenezer Scrooge) to help him come to a realization about his ways with women.

Cast

  • Matthew McConaughey as Connor, a womanizer
  • Jennifer Garner as the best friend of his brother's bride, an old flame of Connor's
  • Emma Stone as the supernatural "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" who guides him through his romantic history
  • Noureen DeWulf as the "Ghost of Girlfriends Present" and also as Connor's assistant
  • Breckin Meyer as Connor's younger brother who is getting married
  • Lacey Chabert as the woman whom he is marrying
  • Anne Archer as the mother of the bride
  • Amanda Walsh as the only bridesmaid Connor hasn't "conquered"
  • Michael Douglas
  • Robert Forster
  • Christina Milian

Detail Info
Directed by Mark Waters
Produced by Brad Epstein, Jonathan Shestack
Written by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) May 1, 2009
Country United States
Language English

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Review: `Quantum of Solace' feels too slight

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Thursday November 13 3:00 PM ET

"Casino Royale" came along just as the James Bond franchise was sinking into a lazy rehash of all that had gone before. It jump-started 007 with its seamless mix of action and emotion, and now "Quantum of Solace" keeps it humming along in a familiar, but forgettable, gear.

The car metaphor is appropriate: "Quantum of Solace" starts out with a thrilling chase through the winding, mountain roads of northern Italy that's one of the film's few highlights. But this is a very slight Bond movie, and it feels especially so compared to "Casino Royale," easily one of the best of the long-running series.

And it's unusual in that it's a sequel that's never happened before. Director Marc Forster's film picks up right where "Casino Royale" left off literally, an hour or so afterward with Daniel Craig's Bond trying to avenge the death of the only woman he ever loved, Vesper Lynd. (The smart and sultry Eva Green, the rare Bond girl who was truly the super-spy's equal, is sorely missed here.)

He's also trying to pin down the mastermind behind a plot to control the water supply of Bolivia, and maybe, someday, the world! Mathieu Amalric, star of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" plays the role of Dominic Greene with a calm, cold-eyed creepiness.

Yes, "Quantum of Solace" is about water and as convoluted as "Chinatown." In theory, it could have had a relevant ecological message. Instead, the water angle feels like an afterthought in the surprisingly thin plot from writers Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who also wrote "Casino Royale."

"Quantum of Solace" suffers from an awful title but marks yet another intriguing entry in Forster's eclectic filmography. He's found success with small character studies such as "Monster's Ball," "Finding Neverland" and "Stranger Than Fiction," but he might not have been prepared for the enormity of a 007 actioner.

Along the many elaborate adventures Forster lays out for him, Bond hooks up with the leggy, mysterious and dangerous Camille (Ukrainian model Olga Kurylenko), who is on her own revenge mission. Then again, you'd have to be leggy, mysterious and dangerous to be a Bond babe except for Denise Richards, the worst Bond girl ever, in "The World Is Not Enough" Kurylenko holds her own here just fine.

Craig is, of course, sexy and masculine and formidable as always, and he plays beautifully off of Judi Dench who blissfully returns as M, the head of the British secret service. They share scenes that are both teasing and meaty, and their exchanges provide the movie with some much-needed substance. They're enough to make you wish the two could spend the entire movie together, solving problems and sparring.

But despite his innate intensity, Craig seems a bit ... bored, maybe? Underutilized, despite appearing in nearly every frame of the film. His visceral combination of physicality and acting ability, which allowed him to practically burst through the screen in "Casino Royale," seems somewhat subdued here. Part of what made his first outing as 007 such a thrill was its back-story nature_ the fact that it was a prequel, that it showed the iconic character before he'd ever driven an Aston Martin or ordered his first martini. This time, though, there's little to connect the character with his beloved history. Sure, he kills indiscriminately when duty calls, loves brazenly without having to make booty calls, and looks great in a tux. But it almost feels as if he functions in a vacuum, as if character were as secondary as plot.

It certainly isn't Craig's fault, though he's more than up for the challenge. It's the material, which seems simultaneously truncated and too action-packed. Similarly, Jeffrey Wright and Giancarlo Giannini, both returning from "Casino Royale," bring grace and class to their few scenes but get woefully little to do as Bond's CIA counterpart and his old MI6 colleague, respectively.

Forster's film has a couple of standout action sequences as it bounces in obligatory fashion across Europe and South America; besides the opening car chase, there's a wild fight in which Bond and a bad guy are beating the hell out of each other while hanging upside down from scaffolding. There's also a coolly suspenseful cat-and-mouse scene in the middle of a stunningly inventive performance of Puccini's "Tosca." (If you've never been to the opera, it may actually make you want to go.)

But the climactic showdown at a completely empty boutique hotel in the middle of the Bolivian desert merely feels like an excuse to blow up a boutique hotel in the middle of the Bolivian desert.

"Quantum of Solace," a Sony and MGM release, is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some sexual content. Running time: 106 minutes. Two stars out of four.

source:yahoo.com

"Quantum of Solace" set to blast U.S. box offices

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Wednesday November 12 8:25 PM ET

Even before new James Bond flick "Quantum of Solace" blasts into U.S. movie theaters this Friday, industry watchers are expecting it to earn big bucks at box offices and easily top previous 007 film "Casino Royale."

The film is the 22nd in the lucrative series that dates to 1962's "Dr. No" and altogether has grossed over $4 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices when totals are adjusted for inflation, according to boxofficemojo.com.

"Quantum of Solace," in which the British secret agent battles a villain looking to control natural resources, already has topped box office charts in Europe and other markets.

It debuted in London about two weeks ago, and took in a record-breaking 15.4 million pounds ($25 million) on its opening weekend. So far, it has collected more than $160 million in over 60 international markets.

"This is arguably the most anticipated movie of the holiday season and therefore expectations are quite high," said Paul Dergarabedian of box office watcher Media by Numbers. "I think we are going to see tremendous numbers."

Dergarabedian did not predict an opening weekend figure, but he said "Quantum of Solace" was "certainly on track" to equal or beat "Casino Royale," which debuted with $40.8 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales in November of 2006.

"Casino Royale" introduced actor Daniel Craig as the new James Bond and went on to become arguably the biggest Bond ever with $167 million in the U.S. and Canada and another $426 million internationally for a global total near $594 million.

Dergarabedian noted U.S. box offices have been on a roll lately with five of the past six weekends beating year ago comparisons. Last weekend family film "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" opened to an eye-popping $63 million.

"The fact is, there was so much moviegoing last week that it just enhances the prospects for Bond," he said.

So far, reviews have been mostly good with the film scoring a 76 percent positive rating on Web site rottentomatoes.com, which aggregates movie reviews.

But critical reaction matters little to opening weekend ticket sales for event movies like "Quantum of Solace," which rely on studio marketing to lure crowds to theaters.

The Bond movies are co-produced by EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc and distributed by Columbia Pictures, a division of Sony Corp's Sony Pictures Entertainment.

(Editing by Jill Serjeant)

Nobel Son - Movie Trailer

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Nobel Son

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Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.

Cast
Shawn Hatosy as Thaddeus James/ Thaddeus James
Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson
Alan Rickman as Eli Michaelson/ Eli Michaelson
Mary Steenburgen as Sarah Michaelson
Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson
Eliza Dushku as City Hall
Bill Pullman
Danny DeVito as Gastner
Ted Danson as Harvey Parrish
Mary Pat Gleason as Ruby
Larry Hankin as Dr. Polaczek
Juliette Jeffers as Claire
Dean Rader-Duval as Ernie

Detail Info
Director Randall M. Miller
Writers Randall M. Miller, Jody Savin
Producers Art Klein, Tom Soulanille, Michael Ravine
Editors Dan O'Brien, Randall M. Miller
Music Paul Oakenfold (II), Mark Adler, Jonathan McHugh
Running Time 1 hr. 50 min.
Release Date December 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Freestyle Releasing
Country United States

Hotel for Dogs - Movie Trailer

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Bedtime Stories - Movie Poster

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Watchmen - Movie Poster

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Transporter 3 - Movie Poster

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Dark Streets

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Chaz Davenport is a dashing bachelor who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town--if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded by the sumptuous blues music he adores, and with his pick of the gorgeous women who perform their sensual dance numbers onstage every night, Chaz is the envy of every man. But with the city thrown into darkness by frequent blackouts and a menacing loan shark closing in, Chaz is in danger of losing the club--and far more. At the same time, he finds himself embroiled in a love triangle with the club's alluring star singer, Crystal, and a new arrival at the club--the mysterious and seductive chanteuse Madelaine. When people close to Chaz begin turning up dead, he doesn't know where to turn or whom to trust. And the harder he tries to uncover the truth, the further he's drawn into the darkness of lies and betrayal--a darkness as black as the city's streets during yet another power outage. Welcome to the Blues.

Detail Info

Release Date Dec 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Samuel Goldwyn Films

Dark Streets - Movie Trailer

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Cadillac Records - Movie Trailer

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Cadillac Records

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The rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac.

Cast
Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess
Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters
Beyonce Knowles as Etta James
Gabrielle Union as Geneva Wade
Columbus Short as Little Walter
Emmanuelle Chriqui as Revetta Chess
Cedric The Entertainer as Willie Dixon
Tammy Blanchard as Isabelle Allen
Dante 'Mos Def' Smith as Chuck Berry
Norman Reedus
Jill Flint as Shirley Adams
Chyna Layne as Juanita
Albert Jones as Hubert Sumlin

Detail Info
Director Darnell Martin
Writer Darnell Martin
Producer Beyonce Knowles, Sofia Sondervan
Music Howard Drossin, Terence Blanchard, Beth Amy Rosenblatt
Release Date Dec 5th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors Sony Pictures Releasing
Country US

'Madagascar' roars with $63.5 million weekend

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Sunday November 9 8:36 PM ET

Families herded into movie theaters for another trek with stranded zoo animals as the animated sequel "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" led the weekend with a $63.5 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The haul for the DreamWorks Animation comedy far surpassed the $47.2 million debut for "Madagascar" over Memorial Day weekend in 2005. Its three-day total also beat the $61 million gross the first movie took in over that full four-day holiday weekend.

"It just shows people seem happy to escape to the movies and have a good laugh," said Anne Globe, head of marketing for DreamWorks Animation.

While parents with children were the bulk of the audience, "Madagascar" also drew teens and adults on their own, who made up half the audience on Friday and one-third on Saturday, Globe said.

Premiering in second place with $19.3 million was the Universal Pictures comedy "Role Models," starring Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd as immature adults sentenced to community service as mentors for two misfit youths.

The weekend's other new wide release, the Weinstein Co. music comedy "Soul Men," opened weakly with $5.6 million, despite the lure of Samuel L. Jackson and his late co-stars, Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, who died last summer. Jackson and Mac play an estranged singing team on a reunion road trip to a memorial concert.

Mac also was among the voice cast for the "Madagascar" sequel, providing vocals as Zuba, the father of Ben Stiller's Alex the lion.

"Certainly, he just brought a wonderful heart to the role of Zuba. We were just fortunate to have him for that character," Globe said.

The movie also reunites voice stars Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith and Sacha Baron Cohen as the animal gang crash lands in an African nature preserve.

Disney's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," which had been No. 1 the previous two weekends, slipped to third place with $9.3 million, raising its total to $75.7 million.

"Madagascar" and "Role Models" kicked off a big start to Hollywood's holiday season. The top 12 movies took in $128.8 million, up 32 percent from the same weekend last year.

"It's all boding well," said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal. "We have lots of really good films coming, lots of commercial films. I love the fact that everybody's going to the movies. I love the fact that everybody likes what they're seeing."

The season continues with Sony's James Bond adventure "Quantum of Solace" on Friday, then Summit Entertainment's vampire romance "Twilight" and Disney's animated canine comedy "Bolt" on Nov. 21.

"Quantum of Solace" continued to pull in big audiences overseas with $106.5 million in 60 countries, raising its total to $160.3 million since it began opening internationally Oct. 31.

Hollywood's domestic revenue for the year stands at $7.96 billion, a fraction ahead of the pace in 2007, when the industry took in a record $9.7 billion, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.

Factoring in inflation, the number of tickets sold this year trails last year's admissions by 4 percent. But Hollywood has a stronger lineup this time heading into Thanksgiving, so studios could finish the year with a bang.

"Given where we are and the films in the pipeline, we have a huge shot at more than making up for any kind of attendance deficit," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers. "You wouldn't know there was a recession if you were just looking at the movie industry."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.

  1. "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," $63.5 million.
  2. "Role Models," $19.3 million.
  3. "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," $9.3 million.
  4. "Changeling," $7.3 million.
  5. "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," $6.5 million.
  6. "Soul Men," $5.6 million.
  7. "Saw V," $4.2 million.
  8. "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" $3.5 million.
  9. "The Secret Life of Bees" $3.1 million.
  10. "Eagle Eye," $2.6 million.