HIPPIE SOLDIER
U.S. actor George Clooney plays a New Age hippie soldier trained for psychic, peaceful combat in a comedy set during the war in Iraq
DOCUMENTARY
U.S. director Oliver Stone fears his documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will struggle to find a distributor at home
ANIMATION FILMS
The creator of Toy Story and other animation blockbusters hopes more animation movies will be considered for the Oscar best picture...
SUMMER 2009
Summer 2009 has notched a 4 per cent uptick at the North American box-office in a record performance
HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS
Columbia Pictures is developing a third installment of the high-octane Bad Boys franchise, hiring a writer for the screenplay.
NEWS
Films with rising stars like Bradley Cooper and Megan Fox dominated box-offices this summer, and a new poll shows fans favoured those flicks with fresh faces.
MOST-WATCHED FILM
Pallavi Singh tells the story of how MGM’s The Wizard Of Oz became the most-watched film of all time
DREAMTEAM
It's a 7-year-old boy's dream team – Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and David Koepp moving on from rampaging dinosaurs to marauding pirates
REMAKE
Rebecca De Mornay is getting in touch with her maternal instincts in Mother’s Day, a remake of Charles Kaufman’s 1980 Troma cult classic.
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
The Venice Film Festival has capitalism in its sights this year, with premieres of Michael Moore’s documentary...
OSCAR RACE
Adding another hurdle to next year’s Oscar race, organisers will use a preferential voting system in tallying the final vote for best picture...
PARAMOUNT
Had Paramount put a number on this summer’s successful Star Trek reboot it would have been XI, an instant indication of just how valuable the franchise has become
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