North American movie theaters served as the field of combat for two action figures from ’60s TV: the Hasbro toy soldier G.I.
Box Office Weekend: G.I. Just-OK, Julia Delicious
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Movie Review: ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra’
One of the few smart things about G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was the decision made by Paramount Pictures to refuse to screen the movie for the press
Review: Streep makes ‘Julia’ worthwhile
Meryl Streep remains a wonder.
Box Office Weekend: Apatow’s Funny Peculiar
The new Judd Apatow movie carried the perky title Funny People, but audiences quickly figured out it should really be called The Guy Who Thinks He’s Gonna Die and Isn’t Very Nice. Or Funny. It managed a decent $8.7 million on opening day, dropped 15% on Saturday and is expected to finish the weekend at $23.4 million
2 U.S. filmmakers injured in Kenyan plane crash
Two U.S. filmmakers were injured Saturday when their small plane crashed into a three-story residential building in downtown Nairobi on Saturday. Dan Parris, 25, and Rob Lehr, 26, both from St.
Thirst: Why Vampires Beat Zombies
You’ve heard the propaganda: Zombies Are the New Vampires. Once relegated to back-list B movies like I Walked With a Zombie and Night of the Living Dead, those slow-moving, post-mortem drudges of West African mythic origin are now the hot horror creature
The Scene: ‘Funny’s’ Sandler goes to the doctor
A lot of people like Adam Sandler. The box office earnings for many of his films are testament to his drawing power. Sandler’s biggest comedic blockbusters include “Big Daddy,” “The Waterboy” and “The Longest Yard,” each of which has earned well over $150 million domestically
British hostages in Iraq feared dead
The families of three British hostages held in Iraq for more than two years are due to make a statement Wednesday amid British press reports that two of the men are dead. Take the case of Minnesota residents Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson.
$70 zombie movie hits the big screen
A zombie movie made using a camcorder for less then the price of a DVD box set is set to be distributed in cinemas across the UK. “Colin,” made by budding British director, Marc Price, will now get its own DVD as well as hitting the big screen in time for Halloween alongside Hollywood blockbusters like “Zombieland.” “It’s kind of scary in a cool way,” says Price of his success on a shoestring. Price wrote, directed, shot and edited “Colin” over 18 months while working nights at a taxi company
Hackers target Australian festival showing Uyghur film
Hackers repeatedly attacked the Web site of Australia’s largest film festival Saturday, asking organizers to apologize to the Chinese people for planning to screen a documentary on an exiled Uyghur leader. The attacks were carried out on the opening day of the Melbourne International Film Festival — in what organizers are calling the third phase of a “concerted campaign” to withdraw the film “The 10 Conditions of Love.” The documentary examines the impact on the family of activist Rebiya Kadeer as she fights for greater autonomy of the ethnic minority group, the Uyghurs, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China’s northwest. Kadeer is the president of the World Uyghur Congress, made up of exiled Uyghurs.