Cash infusion to fuel India's Reliance network
Variety &bull Sep 2, 2010
Reliance Broadcast Network, which recently pacted with CBS to bow three English-lingo channels in India, is set to receive a 4 billion rupee ($85.7 million) infusion to fuel growth. On Wednesday the board approved a proposal to offer preferential equity… Full Story »
'Breaking Dawn' Finds Its Earth-Moving Benjamin
Cinematical &bull Sep 1, 2010
In the Twilight world, most vamps seem to have some sort of special power. But we're not just talking super-speed or mind reading. In Stephenie Meyer's universe, your best and most developed talent or intuition as a human will become… Full Story »
'Breaking Dawn': Rami Malek joins cast
Entertainment Weekly - Movies &bull Sep 1, 2010Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty ImagesAs we reported yesterday, Rami Malek (The Pacific's Snafu and Night at the Museum's Ahkmenrah) has joinedBreaking Dawnas Benjamin, a member of the Egyptian coven who stands by the Cullens when they face the Volturi. In… Full Story »
'Rakugo' pro crosses borders with humor
The Japan Times: All Stories &bull Aug 31, 2010
Funnyman: Kaishi Katsura has the audience rolling with his "rakugo" comic storytelling performance in English during a 2008 tour of the United States. Humor, it is said, rarely crosses borders. Culture-specific references and ingrained social norms often mean jokes that leave audiences rolling in the aisles in the country of origin are greeted with puzzlement, incomprehension and even hostility when translated for foreign audiences. The challenge of presenting Japanese humor in English is compounded by not only linguistic and cultural differences, but also because Japan is known abroad for its high-tech products, creative manga and "anime," and serious, hardworking people,… Full Story »
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'The Pacific' Creator Bruce McKenna Sells Pitch For 3-D Battle Of Midway Tale To Warner Bros
MTV Movies Blog &bull Aug 31, 2010One of the best examples of television in the past year was "The Pacific," which was suitably honored at the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony a few nights ago. The miniseries, created, written and co-produced by Bruce McKenna, was actually a… Full Story »
Eric Stonestreet, Jane Lynch Win Acting Emmys
Cinema News &bull Aug 30, 2010LOS ANGELES - Eric Stonestreet of "Modern Family" and Jane Lynch of "Glee" were honored at Sunday's Emmy Awards for their comedy-series supporting roles. All I wanted to be was a clown in the circus when I was a kid growing up," said Stonestreet, who plays a boisterous gay dad and partner. He thanked his parents for their support and promised to send his trophy home with them. This is outlandish.… Full Story »
Film: Better Late Than Never?: Saving Private Ryan, Band Of Brothers, and The Pacific: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' World War II
A.V. Club &bull Aug 30, 2010The Second World War has been an interest of mine since I was a kid, bordering on an obsession. In this, I'm hardly unique; it can be fairly argued that the entirety of what we reckon as modern culture dates from the period immediately after the war ended. It shaped the political struggles, cultural shifts, and economic factors that made our society what it is. The first truly global war-a claim it stakes even over World War I-is a subject of deep fascination for historians, military strategists, biographers, economists, and specialists from almost every field of human endeavor. It literally… Full Story »
EMMYS BACKSTAGE: Tom Hanks & 'Pacific'
Deadline.com &bull Aug 30, 2010Tom Hanks was beaming backstage after having picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries for his work producing the HBO 10-parter The Pacific, the $200 million-plus project that was the most expensive in TV history. He began by expressing mock… Full Story »
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'Modern Family' and 'Glee' Early Emmy Winners
FOXNews.com &bull Aug 30, 2010LOS ANGELES -- Eric Stonestreet of "Modern Family" and Jane Lynch of "Glee" were honored at Sunday's Emmy Awards for their comedy-series supporting roles. All I wanted to be was a clown in the circus when I was a kid growing up," said Stonestreet, who plays a boisterous gay dad and partner.… Full Story »
No Crystal Clear Reason for Rita Wilson to Wear This!
TMZ &bull Aug 30, 2010Filed under: Rita Wilson , Emmy Awards , Fashion Inexplicably wearing a set of icicle Christmas lights over a white dress and the latest heels from Shauna Sand's Lucite Hollywood Boulevard collection, Tom Hanks ' wife Rita Wilson stunned onlookers… Full Story »
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Jane Lynch wins acting Emmy for 'Glee' role
Chicago Sun-Times Entertainment &bull Aug 29, 2010
LOS ANGELES -- Eric Stonestreet of "Modern Family" and Jane Lynch of "Glee" were honored at Sunday's Emmy Awards for their comedy-series supporting roles. All I wanted to be was a clown in the circus when I was a kid growing up," said Stonestreet, who plays a boisterous gay dad and partner.… Full Story »
Movies We Love: Catch Me If You Can
Film School Rejects &bull Aug 25, 2010Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16." Frank Abagnale Jr. isn't an ordinary teenager. Distraught when his parent's marriage ends in divorced he runs away when told he has to choose which parent to live with. With twenty five dollars in the bank Frank… Full Story »
Early Picks For The 2010 Best Actor Race
Cinematical &bull Aug 24, 2010
This year's race for Best Actor is almost guaranteed to be formed in the final months of this year. Don't get me wrong there have been some terrific performances. But not the kind that are remembered by voters unless they appear late into the season. Besides, with one of the five slots possibly already reserved for the first appearance of Jeff Bridges as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, the very role that got John Wayne his Oscar. Did they give Bridges his lifetime achievement too soon? Or is he simply being setup to be the… Full Story »
Hanks and Bullock Are 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'
The Film Stage &bull Aug 24, 2010I can hear the Oscar speeches already. The Playlist reports that Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are attached to star in an adaptation of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a book which tells the story of a boy looking to… Full Story »
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Short Takes: Noomi Rapace Has Hollywood Beckoning; Hanks and Bullock May Revisit World Trade Center
Premiere Daily &bull Aug 23, 2010
Director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) is set to direct Drive, about a Hollywood stuntman who spends his days off as a getaway driver during bank robberies. Ryan Gosling is attached as the lead, and Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston are… Full Story »
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Bullock, Hanks eyed for 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': Report
Entertainment Weekly - Movie Biz &bull Aug 23, 2010Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks have received offers to star in the adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud Incredibly Close, Variety reports. The novel, published in 2005, is set in 2003 and narrated by 9-year-old Oskar Schell, a precocious New York City kid whose father died in 9/11.… Full Story »
Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock in post 9/11 film?
Rediff India &bull Aug 23, 2010
Warner Bros and Paramount have reportedly made the offers to Bullock and Hanks for the movie but the studios are yet to begin formal negotiations on the project. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer novel and set in 2003, the story… Full Story »
Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks Eye Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Movie Web News &bull Aug 23, 2010
Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks to get Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are being eyed for starring roles in the feature version of post-9/11 drama Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close with Scott Rudin producing for Warner… Full Story »
Arrested Development Movie's Script Is Half Done
Movie Web News &bull Aug 2, 2010
Mitch Hurwitz reveals Arrested Development's movie script is halfway done We reported back in April that Arrested Development star Jason Bateman said the film based off the TV series is still alive and now the creator of the series revealed… Full Story »
