Movie News

NEW YORK - "Up In the Air" is the National Board of Review's pick for best film of the year. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood has finally realized that Tobey Maguire has grown up. The actor who gained fame as a teenager in the "Spider-Man" movies has embraced fatherhood and a new role as a soldier whose family is torn apart by war. Full Story »

NEW YORK - The National Board of Review names "Up in the Air" the best film of 2009. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone is again taking on the financial world in a sequel to 1987's successful "Wall Street," but this time he said greed is not only good — it's legal. Full Story »

PANAJI, India (Reuters) - An unusual Indian film that casts 68-year-old Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan as a 13-year-old school boy, with his own son playing the lead, has the world's most prolific film industry buzzing. Full Story »

GENEVA - Authorities acted to protect Roman Polanski from public attention Thursday by moving him from a Zurich area jail to an undisclosed location before his transfer to house arrest in the Swiss Alps. Full Story »

NEW YORK - There are only so many songwriting suggestions an outsider is allowed to offer Paul McCartney. Kirk Jones, director of the new Robert DeNiro movie, "Everybody's Fine," found the limit. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - Dramas featuring "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman and "The Sopranos" co-stars James Gandolfini and Edie Falco are in the hunt for awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Full Story »

TOKYO - Michael Jackson videos or the next Spider-Man movie won't be among the titles that Sony Corp. releases in 3-D as it gears up to boost TV sales with that technology, Chief Executive Howard Stringer said Thursday. Full Story »

PANAJI, India (Reuters) - What does it take to make a movie? A bicycle, a bullock cart, a small handycam and a soaring imagination -- that's what Indian director Shaikh Nasir will tell you. Full Story »

TOKYO (Reuters) - Firebrand director Michael Moore is in Japan to promote his latest documentary on the global economic meltdown, which he says should resonate in a nation that has already seen the dark side of capitalism. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday listed the 64 films that will compete for awards at the upcoming premiere event for independent films, which for 2010 has a new director and three opening night offerings. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's NBC Universal deal faces a long and intense regulatory review that could end in approval only after the cable giant agrees to give rivals access to NBCU's television shows and movies, experts said on Thursday. Full Story »

BERLIN (AFP) - Prominent Turkish-German director Fatih Akin said Thursday he would not bring his new film to Switzerland in protest against a referendum vote that banned the construction of minarets in the country. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rampant Black Friday discounting, promotions and ubiquitous Disney merchandisers in large chains like Best Buy had a marked impact on the national home video sales chart for the week ended November 29. Full Story »

"Hollywood Moon" (Little, Brown, 344 pages, $26.99) by Joseph Wambaugh: "Hollywood Moon" is the third novel in Joseph Wambaugh's series about the denizens of the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Division — and it is by far the best. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The highly anticipated 3-D movie "Avatar" could make more than $250 million in the U.S. and Canada, and draw new audiences to 3-D films, Regal Entertainment Group's chief executive said on Tuesday. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - For most of the last century, the Disney 'toon heroine was as white as, well... Snow White, the studio's first feature-film superstar, who marked her debut in 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Full Story »