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Kristin Scott Thomas, Dustin Hoffman, Josh Brolin to be honoured at Hollywood Film Festival
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The 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, co-chaired by Paul Haggis and presented by Starz, are pleased to announce honorees who will be recognized for their achievements at the festival’s Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony, which will take [...]
Plans for Bruce Lee museum in Hong Kong in danger
The billionaire owner of kung fu legend Bruce Lee’s last home warned Monday he would scuttle plans for a museum at the site if Hong Kong’s government did not allow him to build a tribute cinema, library and fan shops.
Chinese property developer Yu Panglin said in an interview Monday he would only go ahead with [...]
Filmmaker Rosalind Schneider receives 2008 Women’s Film Preservation Award Grant for 1973 film “Parallax”
New York Women in Film & Television Preservation Fund (WFPF) announced grants to eight noted women filmmakers this month, including the work of artist Rosalind Schneider. ‘Parallax‘ (1973) is a three-screen film that explores the sensuous flow of the female and male body as a reoccurring metaphor for change. The dance film was choreographed by [...]
Heath Ledger, RIP
Last fall in Venice, Heath Ledger revealed that he wanted to do a movie about Nick Drake, but that these aspirations had gradually faded because the musician who had taken his life at the age of 25 was too much of a mystery. “I felt like I would be taking too many liberties,” he said.
This [...]
Sean Penn and Heath Ledger in talks to star in Malick’s new movie
Hollywood Reporter writes that, two years after Terrence Malick’s fifth feature film Tree of Life was supposed to go into production with Colin Farrell and Mel Gibson starring, Sean Penn and Heath Ledger are now in talks to star, with River Road Entertainment (Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Lust, Caution) producing. If all goes well, [...]
Joey Bishop, last of the Rat Pack, dies
Joey Bishop, the Bronx-born comedian best known for his performances alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford (the “Rat Pack”) in the 1960s, passed away at the age of 89 in his home in Newport Beach on Wednesday.
Bishop was born as Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in Bronx in 1918. He made [...]
Deborah Kerr dies
Scottish film star Deborah Kerr passed away on Tuesday at the age 86 after having struggled with Parkinson’s disease for several years.
Born in Helensburgh in 1921, Deborah Kerr took up ballet at an early age, which brought her her first experiences on the stage. She made her big screen debut in the British film Contraband [...]
Karl Urban and Chris Pine round up Star Trek XI cast
Cinema Blend writes that Karl Urban and Chris Pine have been confirmed as the new Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Captain Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek movie. New Zealand actor Karl Urban is best known for playing Eomer in The Lord of Rings trilogy and has also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick, Doom, Pathfinder [...]
Fisher Stevens cast as Minkowski on Lost
Hollywood Reporter writes that the mysterious character Minkowski, whom we heard tell Jack over the satellite phone that the Losties have a chance of getting rescued in the season three finale, will get a face when Lost returns in January. Fisher Stevens has been cast in the role and will be a recurring character on [...]
Simon Pegg and John Cho cast as Scotty and SuLu in Star Trek XI
Hot Fuzz writer and star Simon Pegg has been confirmed as the new Scotty and Korean actor John Cho will take over from George Takei as Hikaru SuLu in the upcoming Star Trek movie, which starts filming in November.
Pegg, who is a big fan of the Star Wars saga, is best known from horror comedy [...]
