'Sucker Punch' Movie Preview
LOS ANGELES – Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared.
LOS ANGELES – Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared.
LOS ANGELES – In "Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules," a sequel to 2010’s surprise hit, Greg Heffley, the kid who made "wimpy" cool, is back in an all-new family comedy based on the best-selling follow-up novel by Jeff Kinney.
NEW YORK – "The King's Speech" has been washed out with soap.
NEW YORK – Richard Leacock, a documentary filmmaker and pioneer of the unobtrusive camera technique cinema verite who followed John F. Kennedy on his presidential campaign and was seen by some as the grandfather of reality television, has died at age 89.
Leacock died in Paris on Wednesday, said his daughter, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, of New York. He had been in declining health and had taken several recent falls, she said in an email.
BEIJING – IMAX Corp. announced plans Thursday to open 75 more theaters in China within four years in partnership with Wanda Cinemas, the country's largest theater operator, underscoring the Chinese movie industry's rapid expansion.
LOS ANGELES – Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian director Carlos Saldanha is launching his new animated 3-D movie "Rio" featuring the voices of Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg.
HONG KONG – "Farewell My Concubine" director Chen Kaige says he follows his heart - and not box office predictions - when he chooses his projects, rebuffing criticism that he and his contemporaries have compromised their artistic integrity in exchange for commercial success.
HONG KONG – Director Gu Changwei is praising the all-star cast he assembled in his first film in four years, a drama exploring how AIDS impacts a rural Chinese village.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Cameras started rolling Monday on director Peter Jackson's production of "The Hobbit," following months of delays on the prequel to his Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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