Movies

  • At the Streamys: Illeana Douglas Hearts Ikea

    Indie film icon Illeana Douglas has been busy these days with her web production company Brando TV. The company has finished the first season of its Ikea-sponsored series “Easy to Assemble,” in which Douglas, playing herself, takes a job at Ikea in an attempt to escape from after-40 Hollywood hell. But leaving showbiz behind is…

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    Maria Russo

  • Exclusive: Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ Slapped With NC-17

    Gay sex in the hot tub with a baby? The new docu-comedy has sex scenes that the ratings board considers over the line

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    Sharon Waxman

  • 3D Wins It as ‘Monsters’ $58M Eats Box Office

    3D accounts for more than 50% of of the box office; ‘The Haunting’ takes in $23M

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    Lauren Horwitch

  • Bruno Behaving Badly

    I’m not usually a fan of individuals who set up front companies and phony websites with the express intention of misleading people. It’s how the oil industry manages to convince people its "thinktanks" are in fact sources of objective research on energy and global warming. It’s how Washington uber-lobbyist Richard Berman — the model for…

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    Andrew Gumbel

  • City Council Passes Incentive Plan to Keep Productions in L.A.

    Includes parking aids, utility nodes in frequently used locations and taking steps toward implementing a business tax break for productions

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    Lauren Horwitch

  • ‘Monsters’ and the 3D ‘Wow!’ Factor

    I’ve no doubt that “Monsters vs. Aliens” is going to kick some serious box-office ass this weekend and probably have a long life beyond its opening bow. The reasons are numerous — the affability of voice talent like Seth Rogen and Reese Witherspoon, a simple, high-concept premise with broad-based appeal and, of course, DreamWorks cheerleader…

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    Michael Adams

  • Lionsgate Acquires ‘For Colored Girls’

    Studio gets worldwide rights to film version of the award-winning play

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    Wrap Staff

  • Oscars Moved Back a Week for 2010

    Want to avoid conflict with the Winter Olympics in Vancouver

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    Wrap Staff

  • How the Toons Stack Up

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  • ‘Monsters’ Has More to Fear Than Aliens

    Katzenberg’s latest toon faces a big budget, 3D … and old rival Pixar

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    Nicole LaPorte

  • ‘Hillary’ Sounds Like Journalism, but Smells Like …

    The Supreme Court spent the day Tuesday grappling with the question more and more on everyone’s mind these days: What is journalism, anyway? At issue is whether “Hillary the Movie,” a 90-minute film sharply critical of Hillary Clinton, was correctly subjected to campaign laws during the fall election season. The film had been blocked by…

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    Maria Russo

  • Filmmakers Roll Out Pro-Military ‘Identity’ (Guest Blog)

    As a career journalist with experience in Washington and elsewhere, I’m as cynical as anybody, so I was about to make fun of the Army rolling its military might — think M1 tank and armed Humvees — down Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills Wednesday night in support of a 30-minute, pro-military film, "American Identity," that’s…

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    Michael Janofsky

  • Renny Harlin’s Yellow Pages Solution

    “The key for me getting in the door was that I was so clueless”

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    Renny Harlin (to Eric Estrin)

  • Paul Rudd Gets Very Busy

    Paul Rudd risked overexposure this week by appearing at two movie premieres in one week. But with two markedly different films, he did not wear out his welcome in Hollywood just yet. What did, however: the term bromance, heard about a billion times on the red carpet of “I Love You, Man,” his comedy with…

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    Jenny Sundel

  • LEDs Light the Way to Cost Savings for Studios

    Incandescent bulbs are dead. CFLs, as they’re known, will be replaced by something better: bright, longer lasting and better-looking bulbs using light emitting diodes (LED) as a light source. I regularly write about LEDs for the New York Times, and my articles generate some very intense interest and debate. Some of the more vociferous critics…

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    Eric Taub