Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:16 AM EST
Finally, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity.
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Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:04 AM EST
The Directors Guild of America Awards are the latest Hollywood film honors to go silent.
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Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:34 AM EST
Ethel Kennedy prefers coming to the Sundance Film Festival when she's not the star of a movie.
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Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:46 PM EST
Nine years later, Cillian Murphy is back at the Sundance Film Festival, where he got such great exposure that people finally learned to pronounce his name.
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Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:45 AM EST
Paul Simon recalls his return to South Africa like a family reunion — musical brothers getting back together after decades apart.
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Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:27 PM EST
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are guilty of a bit of exaggeration with the title of their Sundance Film Festival premiere.
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Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:21 AM EST
Peter Jackson is making his hobbits and dwarves march double-time in his "The Lord of the Rings" prequel, which he's shooting in a faster film speed than the Hollywood standard.
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:29 PM EST
Sean Penn's new movie casts him as a former rock star who turns his back on stardom and goes into exile overseas.
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:22 PM EST
Sigourney Weaver may not believe in ghosts, but the paranormal world of her latest film is not alien territory for her.
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Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:34 AM EST
Neil Young recalls how his first concert film with director Jonathan Demme was a lush, stately tribute to country music.
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Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:33 PM EST
Peter Jackson believes Damien Echols would be dead now if not for a 1996 documentary that cast doubt on the man's guilt in three child murders.
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Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:32 PM EST
Lauren Greenfield's Sundance Film Festival entry "The Queen of Versailles" tells the story of every American in danger of losing a home amid the economic crisis.
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Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:02 AM EST
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association dared to let Ricky Gervais come back and host the Golden Globe Awards, a year after he insulted the organization and nearly everyone in the star-studded room with his lacerating wit.
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Sun Jan 8, 2012 4:36 PM EST
"Contraband" managed to steal the top slot away from competitors at the weekend box office.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:12 PM EST
Hollywood has more tricks in its bag than ever with digital 3-D and other new film tools. Yet as the images on screen get bigger and better, movie crowds keep shrinking — down to a 16-year low as 2011's film lineup fell well short of studios' record expectations.
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:11 AM EST
Ah, Paris. City of Light. Land of romance. Gobbler of all the best Golden Globe nominations.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:41 PM EST
John Krasinski, Helen Hunt, Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried, Danny Glover and rap star Common are among the stars with movies heading to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:07 AM EST
Maybe the Academy Awards need to launch a "Draft Billy" movement. Or even a "Draft Kermit" campaign.
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Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:35 PM EDT
"Paranormal Activity 3" didn't just go bump in the night. It made a ton of noise at the box office with a record-setting, $54 million opening.
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Sun Oct 9, 2011 3:19 PM EDT
The robot boxers of "Real Steel" and the dancers of "Footloose" are in a tight fight for the box-office title. The Hugh Jackman tale about machines in the boxing ring took in $16.3 million, which would make it the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 4:34 PM EDT
Academy Awards overseers have the expertise and memorabilia. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has the know-how to run a world-class exhibition space. So the two outfits have hooked up to create what they hope will be the finest museum in the world devoted to moviemaking.
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Sun Oct 2, 2011 1:41 PM EDT
Boxing robots are the undisputed champions at the weekend box office.
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Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:28 PM EDT
A dolphin has dethroned "The Lion King" at the weekend box office.
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Fri Sep 9, 2011 9:11 AM EDT
Bruce Springsteen pumped up the volume for music at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, and this year, the cinema showcase has cranked it up to 11.
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:52 AM EDT
The good news for Hollywood: summer movie revenues are up worldwide as studios rebounded from a dismally slow start to the year.
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