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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When Peter Sarsgaard looks back on his training, he philosophically says, "I really swallowed that pill." Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - If any series has a shot at single-handedly reviving the buddy cop genre, it's "NCIS: Los Angeles." Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Before dawn even cracks Tuesday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. will have announced its Golden Globe contenders for the best films of the year, and Academy Award prognosticators will be looking for harbingers of the Oscar nominations, which won't be announced until February 2. Full Story »

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Having 10 best-picture nominees will be something different for the next Academy Awards, but it's nothing new at the Golden Globes. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Lightkeepers" is a dark-horse candidate for awards season attention, offering up Richard Dreyfuss in his showiest lead performance since his Oscar-nominated turn in 1995's "Mr. Holland's Opus." Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Kenny Ortega, the director of the "High School Musical" movies and "Michael Jackson's This Is It," is attached to bring the Tony-winning Broadway musical "In the Heights" to the big screen. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Downey Jr. adds punch to the role of Sherlock Holmes in an action-packed movie that breaks with what its makers called "stuffy" screen interpretations of the fictional English detective.. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In this corner is Guy Ritchie, master of visual con-game action movies that tend toward all-style-no-substance. Full Story »

In some not too far-fetched parallel universe, Jeff Bridges really might be living the life of a boozy country singer. Full Story »

If only there were more Kanye Wests in the world. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela in "Invictus" and Penelope Cruz in "Nine" look likely to take home Golden Globes nominations along with films "Julie & Julia," "Inglourious Basterds," "The Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air." Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Independently-made Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker" won a second key film critics award on Monday in a week heavy with nominations that are likely to set the stage for the Oscars. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - The animated musical "The Princess and the Frog" jumped to No. 1 at the box office with $24.2 million in its first weekend of nationwide release. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It was October 2007, a month before filming began on "The Lovely Bones," when Fran Walsh realized she had miscast her male lead. Full Story »

NEW YORK - The Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" added to its award-season momentum, winning best film from the New York Film Critics Circle. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell are set to reveal the nominees for the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Lord of the Rings" finally is coming to Blu-ray Disc. Full Story »

NEW YORK - It's fair to say that it's a risky venture to create a movie about an exotically colored, 10-foot-tall tribe called the Na'vi and spend more money making it than any other film in the history of Hollywood. Full Story »