2011 Tribeca Film Festival Adds Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Bartman Documentaries
NEW YORK – This year's Tribeca Film Festival will include documentaries on Ozzy Osbourne, a Tribe Called Quest and infamous Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman.
NEW YORK – This year's Tribeca Film Festival will include documentaries on Ozzy Osbourne, a Tribe Called Quest and infamous Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman.
NEW YORK – Hollywood would like to skip spring and head straight to summer.
AUSTIN, Texas – Director Duncan Jones premiered his thriller "Source Code" at South by Southwest on Friday, bringing a tech-savvy movie to a high-tech festival.
MEXICO CITY – Actress Jennifer Aniston says some non-comedy movie projects are in her future, including a film based on the true story of an all-female country-western band that formed at a Texas prison in the 1940s.
Aniston says the band was "sort of the Dixie Chicks of their time."
NEW YORK – Julianne Moore is set to play former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in an upcoming TV movie.
BOSTON – Former Harvard President Larry Summers says a scene from "The Social Network" in which he's shown brushing off twin brothers who claim their idea for Facebook was stolen by a fellow student was pretty accurate.
Summers was asked about it Monday at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
NEW YORK – The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival boasts an international slate, with movies from 32 different countries.
On Monday, Tribeca announced its selections in world narrative and documentary competition, as well as those in the festival's "viewpoints" section. Director of programming David Kwok called the lineup "one of our most diverse yet."
A documentary on school bullies, "The Bully Project," was among the documentary selections. A new take on Butch Cassidy, "Blackthorn," starring Sam Shepard, is among the world narrative competition.
LOS ANGELES – "Rango" has lassoed the top spot at the box office.
The animated Paramount film featuring Johnny Depp as the voice of a Wild West chameleon sheriff rode into town with a $38 million debut, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
CINCINNATI – Hometown hero George Clooney and the cast and crew of "Ides of March" have finished filming in the Cincinnati and northern Kentucky areas and are moving on to Detroit.
LOS ANGELES – British director Charles Jarrott, whose career of nearly 50 years in film and television included the acclaimed British royalty dramas "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "Mary, Queen of Scots," has died, a spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 83.
Jarrott, who had been suffering from prostate cancer, died Friday night at the Woodland Hills retirement community operated by the Motion Picture & Television Fund, the organization's spokeswoman Jaime Larkin said.
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