ANIMATED MOVIES

Animated films could impact Oscars

As the buzz on a best picture nomination for WALL-E hit a fever pitch last year, one Pixar confided, This is it. This is our last chance...

OSCAR

Up looks aloft, hopes for best picture Oscar

When an expanded list of 10 movies competes next year for the best picture Oscar, director Pete Docter hopes his Up will become the first animated film...

LEGAL FIGHT

Judge revives Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy lawsuit

The legal fight over rights to comic legend Dick Tracy is back on

CHRISTMAS IN HOLLYWOOD

A Christmas Carol off to slow start at BO

Walt Disney Co’s high-tech adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol topped the North American box-office last Sunday...

MASQUERADE MARCH

Twilight movies inspire vampire stampede

A reveller, subscribing to Fantasy Fest’s Villains, Vixens And Vampires theme, walks in the Masquerade March in Florida

PREMIER

Precious enjoys charmed life - so far

Director Lee Daniels’ tale of inner-city woe and pluck excited buyers, ended up at Lionsgate, generated awards talk...

KOREAN CULTURE

Korea invades Hollywood

References to Korean culture are seeping into American films and TV

HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS

Johnny Depp travelling to Tourist

The thriller remake The Tourist has run into another set of hiccups, with major players shifting around like luggage on a conveyor.

ANGELS & DEMONS

Angels delivers fast-paced thrills

Science or religion? Wait, there’s room for both. If the world could be rendered as simple as Angels & Demons, we’d all be living in a less confusing place.

RELATIONSHIP

Robert Pattinson sheds Twilight image

Twilight fans fell in love with Robert Pattinson as a vampire who makes girls swoon.

WOLVERINE

When Jackman met Ronaldo

Wolverine that will release in India this month, the Hollywood star Hugh Jackman made a quick stop in São Paulo to meet the famous soccer player Ronaldo

ACTION FANTASY

Face-off at box-office

Like colliding asteroids, a major sci-fi release and a megahit action fantasy will clash at the box-office this weekend.