The MPAA has come under some flack of late for its one-size-fits-all rating system and vague-at-best explanations for those ratings.
"Flowers of War" has a multitude of advantages over its rivals in the Oscar race for best foreign language film.
As Christian Bale approached an impromptu checkpoint leading to this tiny village in eastern China, four men blocking the narrow path started marching toward him in menacing unison.
Brendan Conlon (Joel Edgerton), a high school physics teacher, has a house the bank is about to foreclose on and a daughter with an (expensive) heart defect. He's also a former mixed-martial-arts champion, and so -- strictly for the money -- he decides to get back in the ring, even if the clawing, kicking, anything-goes bouts threaten to kill him.
We're born alone, we die alone, and we live through Oscar night alone -- because, let's face it, none of us can stay glued to the screen for all 18 hours, or however long it was, without missing something.
HLN's Brooke Anderson takes a look at the big winners at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.
The King's Speech is the major winner at 83rd annual Academy Awards
The Oscar winner signed for The Dark Knight Rises this weekend
Black Swan, The King's Speech and The Fighter stars are now poised for Oscar glory
Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter help carry King's Speech to 12 nods; 10 for True Grit
The film "The Social Network" took home four awards Sunday night, including best motion picture - drama, at the Golden Globes.
The Fighter star gets choked up while talking about Sibi Blazic
The Black Swan and The King's Speech stars were honored Friday night in Hollywood
Kate O'Brien plays one of Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale's colorful sisters
The Screen Actors Guild announces its nominees for the SAG Awards
One movie, more than any other, has planted its flag in the sand as the movie industry gears up for the awards season.
Film-maker Joss Whedon says he wants to buy the rights to the multi-million dollar "Terminator" franchise -- not for millions, or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for ten grand.
The actor drops weight again, this time to play a struggling boxer
Early in Michael Mann's vivid, incisive, but half-cocked gangster opus "Public Enemies," Johnny Depp's John Dillinger returns to jail a few scant months after leaving it.
Get to know the hotties behind the United States's amazing win over Spain
Parker and Broderick quietly check out with their newborn twin daughters
The bride-to-be is honored at a spa shower thrown by pals
TV critic Tom Gliatto remembers her best performances - vulnerable and surprising
Learn five things you didn't know about the Aussie hunk - including his surprising former career
Ben Stiller had no problem handling Christian Bale and an army of robots this Memorial Day weekend. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" cruised to an easy first-place finish of $70 million over the four-day weekend, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
Thirty-eight years ago, Joseph McGinty Nichol was a boy in Kalamazoo, Michigan, playing with toy robots.
The famous names behind "Terminator Salvation" explain why real robots steal the show.
Remember when the original Terminator -- Herr Schwarzenegger in the role that made him a movie star -- devastated an entire police station?
"Terminator Salvation" is a sequel that almost had a different cast.
Call it method acting: The actress was still plump from giving birth to her son when cast
He's also "pleased" by Heath Ledger's Oscar and "stunned" by Christian Bale's tirade
"It was just one of those moments," he says, admitting the online remix of the actor's F-bomb tirade is "pretty hot"
"I acted like a punk," says the actor, branding his behavior "out of order" and "beyond belief"
Actor Christian Bale is taped yelling at the director of photography on the set of the new "Terminator" movie.
Christian Bale wants everyone to make fun of him for his profanity-filled tirade against a crew member on the set of "Terminator: Salvation."
The star unleashed a 4-minute verbal attack when a crewmember entered his sight-lines
"The Dark Knight" took home top honors at the People's Choice Awards Wednesday night, walking away with five awards.
London authorities decide not to prosecute the Dark Knight star over assault claims
No. 1 for the fourth week, the Batman movie is expected to top Star Wars this week
Batman claims a new notch on his belt, toppling Shrek 2's box-office record
Christian Bale's new movie has very scary-looking artwork on its poster
In Tokyo to promote Dark Knight, the actor stays mum about his alleged assault
"I just want to see him recognized," says the actor of his late onscreen adversary
He armors himself, keeps other people guessing and likes to wear a mask.
Showbiz Tonight's Brooke Anderson investigates the arrest of "The Dark Knight" star Christian Bale.
His Terminator director McG says the embattled actor is "just all about the work"
Holy box office! Batman may surpass Titanic as Hollywood's biggest moneymaker
Speaking about his arrest, the Dark Knight star asks for privacy
The Dark Knight star greets fans – but avoids reporters – at a premiere in Spain
In his first comments since assault allegations were made public, the movie star Christian Bale is asking for privacy
The Dark Knight star's lawyers release a statement following his arrest in London
The darkness around Batman has deepened: While audiences were shattering weekend box-office records in the US, Christian Bale was in London, where his mother and sister reportedly leveled assault allegations against him
The Dark Knight star reportedly had an altercation with his mother and sister
'Batman' busted
updated: Tue Jul 22 2008 16:44:00
'Dark Knight' star Christian Bale was arrested and released Tuesday on suspicion of assaulting his mother and sister.
"Dark Knight" star Christian Bale has denied allegations by his mother and sister that he assaulted them, and he is cooperating with police, Bale's publicists said Tuesday.
Batman star Christian Bale was to be questioned by police over allegations he assaulted his mother and sister the night before the European premiere of his film, The Dark Knight
"It's Monopoly money to me – I can't even comprehend it," says Christian Bale
The rise and rise of the comic book movie continues tonight as "The Dark Knight" juggernaut rolls into London for the UK premiere.
The new Batman movie tops the midnight opening of the final Star Wars chapter
Nick Patten apparently has never been happier to go work on two hours of sleep.
The Batman sequel is a must-see thanks to the late actor's haunting Joker
The actor watched the movie's opening sequence before his death and "enjoyed it very much"
Inside The Dark Knight premiere, stars cheer the late actor̢۪s portrayal of the Joker
The Dark Knight actress says being a mother "changes everything"
The Dark Knight actor opens up about his co-star's tragic death
Christian Bale dons bat suit for a new ad campaign
The actor hopes the film is a celebration of his costar's "incredibly intense" work
Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Harvey Dent's characters battle for Gotham
The Dark Knight actor says Ledger "was a joy" to work with
"Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger," the actor says in The Dark Knight
Cate Blanchett, who won the best supporting actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, released a statement of gratitude after her win.
Todd Haynes's fictionalized version of the icon's life is a compendium of not-so-hot ideas. But Cate Blanchett does a great Dylan
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale talk about updating the classic "3:10 to Yuma"
'3:10 to Yuma'updated: Sun Sep 09 2007 16:39:00
Christian Bale and Russell Crowe face off in this remake of the 1957 Western. CNN's Matt West reports.
Toronto - Too many movies, not enough time. That's the dilemma confronting anyone, whether a critic or just a film fan, lucky enough to attend the annual Toronto International Film Festival.
The remake, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, is an instant classic that just might start a western revival
For a good part of the last century, and certainly throughout Hollywood's golden age, the Western was a staple in any boy's imaginative diet. The lore was so deeply engrained, it seemed to stand for America itself.
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley are among those expected to hit the red carpet at this year's Venice Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday.
David Beckham, watch out: Russell Crowe's teaching his older son how to kick.
It has become almost meaningless to talk of "the year" in American film. The business is now more seasonal than the climate. No less than three of my top five choices were released within the last two weeks of December; such is the magnetic lock of the Oscar period.
He can deliver a knockout punch, command a ship of the line, or confound a corrupt Roman emperor while armed with little more than a handful of dust, but great Caesar's ghost, Russell Crowe can't do everything.
"It took a long time to figure out what the film was," says director Christopher Nolan of his latest, "The Prestige."
We think of magic as puckish, elegant, lighter than air, but in "The Prestige," an aggressively devious sleight-of-hand thriller directed by Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins), the magic, even at its most clever, is powered by currents -- sometimes literal ones -- of electricity and danger.
In "Batman Begins," director Christopher Nolan gets back to a deeper, darker vision of the Caped Crusader. It delves so deep into the hero's origins that, if anything, the movie loses some steam once Christian Bale actually dons the cape and cowl.
Did you know that if you film a scene, tell everyone to hold really, really still, shut off the camera, add a prop of some sort, and then turn the camera back on -- it looks like magic? It's true!
Reviving Batmanupdated: Wed Jun 15 2005 13:46:00
"This Is Spinal Tap" said it best: There's a fine line between stupid and clever.
"Batman & Robin," the fourth installment in the Batman franchise, hit theaters with a loud thud in 1997. It was a bad time for the Caped Crusader, whose movies had started out so promisingly. The winged warrior was at least on life-support -- if not downright down and out.
There's no confusing the wizards and goblins who populate the dazzling animated adventure "Howl's Moving Castle" with their relatives from Harry Potter's branch of the wiz biz.
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