Posts Tagged Films
Posted on March 15, 2010

Yes, he’s coming back. Also today: news from pilot season, the USA network just keeps getting weirder, and a Showtime series finds its villain.
Alexander Payne, one of our all-time favorite directors, is making a movie called The Descendants with George Clooney that has just added some new cast members. Joining Salt ‘n Pepa in the [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2010

Robert Pattinson says acting out rage on set is therapeutic. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck share their bed with Jimmy Kimmel for a laugh while filming the Handsome Men Club. Plus, Amanda Seyfried kisses girls in films but doesn’t like it. Watch it all on PopSugar Rush!
Tags: Films, Robe, Popsugar, Amanda, Girls, Crowd
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Posted on March 8, 2010

It’ll be so real, you’ll want to reach out the touch Jesus’ stigmata. Posthumous John Hughes movie makes the rounds; Miss America’s still homeless but Miss USA’s safe; Hurt Locker’s banned director gives speech. Your daily update on show business.
The Bible is becoming a 3-D film, so Jesus can convert the geeks who loved Avatar. [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010

50 Cent continues to earn the “actor” part of his “rapper-actor” moniker. The Hurt Locker wins a bunch of non-Oscar awards. Shutter Island wins the weekend. Betty White might host SNL. The Roundup cares about hockey. Do you?
•Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is pretty much retired from the rap “game”. Now he is an actor. His [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010

Two weeks ago, author Edward Jay Epstein explained how the $5 billion deal in 2004 had cleaned out Wall St. hedge funds. Now he has obtained the dealbook that spells out exactly what went wrong.
MGM, once the shiniest studio in the Hollywood galaxy, has fallen on hard times. Last October it failed to making the [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2010

Of all the films to unseat Avatar’s domination over the box office, I doubt Dear, John—which I hadn’t even heard of until watching cheeseball Sandy Kenyon trash it on Taxi TV last night—was the frontrunner to do so.
However, the Mighty Blue Dicktails of the Na’vi Tribe were no match for another Nicholas Sparks book about [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2010

Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar.
If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may be hearing is Avatar draining money from your future [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2010

It is with heavy hand and heavy heart that we inform you today of the death of Miramax. The once-proud indie studio was 31 years old.
Though it had dwindled a bit in recent years, the studio built by Harvey and Bob Weinstein (named after their parents, Miriam and Max) will stand in history as the [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2010

Keira Knightley took the stage in London last night for her evening performance in The Misanthrope. Her boyfriend Rupert Friend was busy just a few blocks away starring in his own show called The Little Dog Laughed, but the couple reunited afterwards for dinner at The Woseley. Keira’s finishing up her run in the play [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2010

The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s second-goldenest night (and certainly its globiest), will go down on live TV this Sunday night. Who will win? Who should win?? After the jump we’ll break down the big categories to figure it all out.
Because this is all just a preamble to the Oscars (nominations come out on February 2nd [...]
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