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Angelina Jolie's directorial debut - a controversial movie set in wartime Bosnia - has a name and a release date. ‘In the Land of Blood...

While other Martin Luther King projects seem to be on the ropes, DreamWorks' untitled biopic about the slain civil rights leader is starting to...

Critics say a new made-for-TV, Wills-and-Kate movie is so bad it may end up being a cult classic. 'William and Kate: The Movie' treats the Windsor dynasty as daytime soap opera. The low-budget, rushed-to-completion movie is getting plenty of attention in Britain, for all the wrong reasons.
The movie chronicles the university romance of Prince William and Kate Middleton, who in real life met and fell in love while studying art history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Lindsay Lohan is on the verge of a major big-screen comeback amid rumours she is in negotiations to join John Travolta in a movie about the infamous Gotti family. The Grease star has been linked to the lead role of real life mafia boss John Gotti ever since he was spotted meeting with the gangster's son John Gotti, Jr., in January. The actor is now officially signed up and Lohan is rumoured to be joining the project as his onscreen daughter. Lohan is in "final talks" to take on the

TEHRAN - 'Outcasts 3', an Iranian comedy film mocking the candidates who stood against the president in the disputed 2009 election, has prompted an opposition boycott call which instead endorsed another film.
The controversial movie, the latest in Masoud Dehnamaki's "Outcasts" trilogy, has attracted some 800,000 movie-goers and raked in 2.3 million dollars (1.6 million euros) since its release on March 17, according to media reports, despite having little luck with critics and

A new film about French President Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power scared off promoters with its red-hot political theme, its producers said on Friday. "We were faced with a hot potato. Everyone threw it on to someone else," said Eric Altmayer, joint producer of the movie titled 'La Conquete' ('Conquest'), in an interview.
"From the start, the project was considered dangerous and risky," he said, adding that French public television channels "all turned the film down." "The script

Movie bosses behind the Batman franchise have confirmed the Caped Crusader will return in a reboot following Christopher Nolan's upcoming third film - sparking rumours they are already hunting for an actor to take over from Christian Bale.
Bale will return to play the superhero for a third time in Nolan's next movie 'The Dark Knight Rises,' opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. The Oscar-winner has already hinted he will hang up his cape when

LOS ANGELES - Elizabeth Taylor, who has died at the age of 79, was the archetypal Hollywood movie queen, a violet-eyed beauty known equally for her stormy romances and eight marriages as her Oscar-winning performances.
Over a five-decade career she won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" one of many films where she played opposite her two-times husband Richard Burton. In later years as her health failed she retired

AUSTIN - Rap icon Snoop Dogg and upstart Wiz Khalifa are teaming up for a new film, 'High School,' which the former calls "a comedy stoner movie, a little something for the stoners." Snoop told that the duo - who also joined forces for the song 'This Weed is Mine' for his forthcoming 'Doggumentary' album - will begin filming during the first week of May, and that the project grew out of a musical collaboration with the Pittsburgh MC. "Just being a fan of his music and likewise, he

WASHINGTON - YouTube on Friday began showing what it said was the first feature-length Hollywood movie created specifically for the Internet. "Girl Walks Into A Bar" is a comedy starring Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett and Emmanuelle Chriqui, YouTube's entertainment marketing manager Nate Weinstein said in a blog post.
The movie is described as "a comedy about a seemingly unrelated group of characters spending a single night at 10

LOS ANGELES - The DreamWorks studio has optioned movie rights to a pair of books about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his controversial website that is bent on revealing government secrets, company officials said on Thursday.
One of the books is 'WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy' by journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. The other is 'Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website' by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a defector

LAHORE - Film director Syed Noor of an upcoming film lauding extra-judicial killing in the name of Islam denies any similarity between his film and last month's killing of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer.
For Pakistanis, the scene may evoke memories of the moment Taseer was killed by his own security guard last month for speaking out against the blasphemy laws, which have long been used to carry out personal vendettas and persecute minorities. Instead, it's a poster for upcoming

LOS ANGELES - Veteran US actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in an upcoming film about the French artist and his relationship with his nurse and model. 'Masterpiece,' about the pioneering painter's relationship with his nurse and model Monique Bourgeois, will be directed by Deepa Mehta, whose previous work includes 2003's 'Bollywood Hollywood' and 'Water' in 2006.
No start date has yet been fixed for the project, which will be made by production company Escape Artists from a

RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian garbage worker may be sharing the Oscar stage with the likes of Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp next month after his starring role in a documentary on the transformative power of art. In Oscar-nominated 'Waste Land,' Sebastiao Carlos dos Santos and a group of other workers at a huge, ugly Rio de Janeiro landfill become muses for artist Vik Muniz, who shines a light on an activity society would rather ignore.
Using blown-up photographs of themselves and the

Mexican movie director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is eager to see footballer Wayne Rooney swap the pitch for the big screen, insisting the sports star will "have a good Hollywood career" once he hangs up his boots. The 'Biutiful' filmmaker worked alongside the national player on a Nike commercial as part of last year's World Cup tournament.
In the series of clips, Rooney had to take on several different roles and Inarritu was so impressed with the 25 year old's acting abilities

LOS ANGELES - Anne Hathaway has nabbed the coveted female lead opposite Christian Bale in "The Dark Knight Rises."
Warners made the announcement Wednesday morning. The studio also revealed which character Tom Hardy, who joined the cast last fall, will play (Bane).
"I am delighted to be working with Tom again and excited to watch him bring to life our new interpretation of one of Batman's most formidable enemies," Nolan said in a statement. Hathaway was on the list of

LOS ANGELES - When Michel Gondry was hired to helm Columbia Pictures' 'The Green Hornet', we became immediately more enthusiastic about the project than we were before. Even after all the publicized production woes, we were sure that his avant-garde aesthetic and bittersweet style of storytelling would put a fresh spin on the standard superhero flick. However, sandwiched between the frat-house comedic sensibilities of Seth Rogen and the energetic guidance of explosion-savvy producer