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(Sunday, 07 February 2010 12:17)
Film News: Arbuthnott, Fletcher-Jones join as development execs -- Scott Free has tapped Jack Arbuthnott and Surian Fletcher-Jones as development execs at the U.K.-based arm of the shingle.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/yqYeZCt7W7w" height="1" width="1"/
(Sunday, 07 February 2010 12:01)
Film News: Berlinale digs into issues but also programs lighter fare -- With an official selection that's high on dramas and short on laughs, Berlin's Bear slopes into its 60th birthday party (Feb. 11-21) with serious -- repeat serious -- celebrating on its mind.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/H3Ctv6f3ym8" height="1" width="1"/
(Sunday, 07 February 2010 12:00)
Film News: Topper Kosslick defends Polanski and his fest's slate -- It's not easy for fest directors to escape controversy, and this year promises plenty for the Berlinale's Dieter Kosslick as "The Ghost Writer," the latest film from Roman Polanski, unspools in the Palast as one of the centerpiece films of the fest's 60th edition.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/CZYJ9nce8Uk" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Thomson follows heart in programming sidebar -- Just a few weeks ago, Dieter Kosslick was telling me about the magnificent opening he had planned.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/wqAe_TnUjKQ" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Cinephile Bauer led creation of the Berlinale -- It may sound like a cliche to say that the Berlin Film Festival rose like a phoenix from the ashes of World War II, but when Berlin's governing mayor, Ernst Reuter, opened the very first festival, at the Titania Palast in Steglitz on June 6, 1951, the city was still struggling to recover. Two million "West" Germans were unemployed. Tens of thousands more huddled in makeshift camps within the city's tightly regimented borders. "Foreign" films meant, for the most part, Hollywood studio pictures.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/jP7fgAVZ59Q" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Berlinale's fund helps filmmakers get a step up -- While other fests support "world cinema," the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund tallies up real-world successes.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/soL8L-lT4gc" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Buyers, sellers hit market in cautious, upbeat mood -- For U.S. sellers coming to Berlin, the buzzwords are "optimism" and "caution." For buyers from the rest of the world accustomed to the glut of midpriced U.S. fare, however, the days of plenty appear well and truly over.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/IxbqB1l2FWA" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: Mart offers discounts, notes life in decimated sector -- With the international film sector still reeling from the financial crisis, European Film Market topper Beki Probst says she's eager to accommodate industry demands.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/C-pZiEJ4Ce0" height="1" width="1"/
Film News: France's companies grow into global movie leaders -- Never mind the near-total lockout of French films in competition. In Berlinale biz terms, French companies will make many of the biggest announcements -- this year as last.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/qjnsH_G0dJY" height="1" width="1"/
(Sunday, 07 February 2010 09:08)
Film News: Femmes push Sony pic to top spot -- Sony scored a touchdown pass this Super Bowl weekend with its Nicholas Sparks lit adaptation "Dear John" earning an estimated $32.4 million, enough to tackle 20th Century Fox's holdover phenom "Avatar," which landed in the No. 2 spot with $23.6 million.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/N8VmiebvjwM" height="1" width="1"/
(Saturday, 06 February 2010 21:42)
Film News: Disney/Pixar toon wins picture, director -- 'Up' took the top prize at the 37th annual Annie Awards Saturday, as well as director honors for helmer Pete Doctor.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/Tcj-V7qQezc" height="1" width="1"/
(Saturday, 06 February 2010 12:02)
Film News: 'R' takes Dragon Award for best Nordic feature -- Danish film "R," helmed by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer, walked away with the Dragon Award for best Nordic feature when the 33rd Gothenburg International Film Festival handed out its awards Saturday night. Pic also won the Fipresci Award.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/X7kPouv_Nok" height="1" width="1"/
(Saturday, 06 February 2010 08:20)
Film News: Film nabs Screen Gems record with $13.8 million. -- "Dear John" broke records in its debut, earning $13.8 million at 2,969 theaters.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/2sQouch6SBM" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 19:07)
Film News: Reviewers favor picks for 10 best pictures -- Even with five additional nominees, critics and voters are thinking on similar wavelengths.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/m4CTL991JFg" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 18:52)
Film News: Films face challenges as they try to outdo each other -- Oscars: Best pictureimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/Xxzm8ah0hPk" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 18:33)
Film News: 'Twilight' star to play title character in superhero pic -- Universal has tapped "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner as the title character in its upcoming superhero adventure "Stretch Armstrong," to be released in March 2012.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/9Bj2kkb7rH4" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 18:28)
Film News: Why they might win -- and why they might not -- Oscar: Directorimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/IILKJI65g0g" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 18:07)
Film News: Surprise selection among diverse field -- Oscars: Animationimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/aBWvaxVg5TE" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 17:54)
Film News: Israel, Germany, Peru, France, Argentina repped -- Oscars: Foreign languageimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/77PQpuf9fts" height="1" width="1"/
(Friday, 05 February 2010 17:40)
Film News: Voters weigh films on dolphins, migrants, food -- Oscars: Documentariesimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/variety/news/film/~4/u1V5zDGfafY" height="1" width="1"/
Upcoming Movies.
(Monday, 08 February 2010 23:05)
In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation in Brooklyns Finest, a searing new crime drama from acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day). Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Golden Globe®-winner Richard Gere) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of a novel by Dennis LeHane (MYSTIC RIVER). DiCaprio plays a U.S. marshal who travels to Shutter Island in search of the person who killer his wife.
Director and subject matter make for a perfect marriage in Tim Burtons version of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Sylvie Testud, star of LOURDES, may be the greatest French actress of her generation. Like Isabelle Huppert, she effortlessly slips into whatever role she assumes.
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Though the costumes are beautiful and the art direction impeccable, what stands out most from this debut by fashion designer Tom Ford is the leading performance by Colin Firth.
It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.
Thought not without its charms -- chief among them John Travolta's endearingly over-the-top performance -- From Paris with Love is too muddled and disjointed to satisfy.
Gabriel Medina's wonderfully crafted debut feature is a fresh, visually innovative, and often hilarious glimpse into the lives of some very offbeat, yet human, characters.
For better and for worse, Edge of Darkness offers vintage Mel Gibson, working within the familiar framework of a bloody revenge thriller.
Joseph Brodsky, the Russian-Jewish-American poet, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987 and was made poet laureate of the U.S. in 1991.
Dwayne Johnson brings the full force of his charm (and his appropriately pale chompers) to the title role, but flat direction and a committee-written script render The Tooth Fairy unacceptably dull.
Hailed as absorbing, a must see, Oscar material and the best movie at SXSW, MINE is a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina.
Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins.
POP STAR ON ICE is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of outspoken Olympian and three-time US Figure Skating National Champion Johnny Weir.
In the romantic drama Remember Me, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family.
Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing.
Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school - but that's the least of his challenges.
As astoundingly beautiful as it is technically dazzling, Space Station 3D is the first-ever IMAX 3D space film.
An all-star ensemble cast comes together in "Valentine's Day," which follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day.
At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED director Jacques Audiard.
District 13 bites off more than it can chew with its political subtext and questionable script, but the many action sequences are never less than entertaining.
Terek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father's honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate.
Anora Fleece has got it rotten. Her husband is abusive, her children are disrespectful, and she lives in the middle of nowhere feeling like a nobody.
The Man is a lonely, eccentric who works in a book store; amusing himself with his absurdist outlook on reality.
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