Give Robert Downey Jr. a glass of scotch and a suit made of metal, and lines will form around the block. But cast him as a newspaper columnist who befriends a cello-playing homeless man, and these days the only crowds gathering will be for the movie playing next door.
The 1974 subterranean thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" isn't what anyone would call an untouchable classic. If it's remembered for anything, it's for the hangdog Walter Matthau's garish shirt/tie combinations and the squalor of New York's subways.
After a lifetime of playing characters past-their-prime, Clint Eastwood appears to still be enjoying his own.
"Benjamin Button" received more life, but Batman ended up in the dark.
With an unexpectedly big gross of $24.6 million, according to Sunday's early estimates, Liam Neeson's kidnapping thriller "Taken" was the easy victor at the box office on this Super Bowl weekend.
Plus: Milk's Josh Brolin gets a congratulatory serenade from his wife, Kate Winslet is "genuinely thrilled," and more
When it comes to the Academy Awards, Hollywood has some biases.
Kevin James is the king of the box office. The actor's latest broad comedy, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," won the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in decisive fashion, grossing $33.8 million, according to Sunday's estimates. That total far exceeds all expectations.
Seventy-eight-year-old Clint Eastwood continues to be a big draw at the box office -- in fact, he's bigger than ever. The actor-director's latest action-drama, "Gran Torino," was No. 1 on the first competitive weekend of 2009, grossing $29 million, according to Sunday's estimates.
You may have noticed: Clint Eastwood has become respectable in his old age.
Give Robert Downey Jr. a glass of scotch and a suit made of metal, and lines will form around the block. But cast him as a newspaper columnist who befriends a cello-playing homeless man, and these days the only crowds gathering will be for the movie playing next door.
The 1974 subterranean thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" isn't what anyone would call an untouchable classic. If it's remembered for anything, it's for the hangdog Walter Matthau's garish shirt/tie combinations and the squalor of New York's subways.
After a lifetime of playing characters past-their-prime, Clint Eastwood appears to still be enjoying his own.
"Benjamin Button" received more life, but Batman ended up in the dark.
With an unexpectedly big gross of $24.6 million, according to Sunday's early estimates, Liam Neeson's kidnapping thriller "Taken" was the easy victor at the box office on this Super Bowl weekend.
Plus: Milk's Josh Brolin gets a congratulatory serenade from his wife, Kate Winslet is "genuinely thrilled," and more
When it comes to the Academy Awards, Hollywood has some biases.
Kevin James is the king of the box office. The actor's latest broad comedy, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," won the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in decisive fashion, grossing $33.8 million, according to Sunday's estimates. That total far exceeds all expectations.
Seventy-eight-year-old Clint Eastwood continues to be a big draw at the box office -- in fact, he's bigger than ever. The actor-director's latest action-drama, "Gran Torino," was No. 1 on the first competitive weekend of 2009, grossing $29 million, according to Sunday's estimates.
You may have noticed: Clint Eastwood has become respectable in his old age.
Longtime character actor Pat Hingle, a veteran of early television dramas, Westerns and four "Batman" films, has died at age 84, his family announced Sunday.
As the seconds tick away in 2008 and we cast our eyes toward the new hope that 2009 surely offers us, may we pause to give thanks to that one entity that has already contributed so much to the New Year ahead.
Clint Eastwood doesn't know if he's a legend.
Jaden Smith is getting a small taste of what it's like to walk in dad Will's action-blockbuster shoes.
The Jolie-Pitts get into the Christmas spirit by building Hansel and Gretel-style houses, she tells PEOPLE
The 99-year-old National Board of Review honors the stars for their roles
"I just really do love to travel," she says – but it can be difficult with six kids
She tells PEOPLE that after returning home, all she wanted to do was "hug the kids"
The actress slips into a Hollywood gala to honor her Changeling director
The multitalented, multitasking screenwriter behind Clint Eastwood's new film also created the influential sci-fi series Babylon 5 and writes, in his spare time, for Marvel Comics
In this complex story of kidnapping and corruption, Angelina Jolie looms a bit too large
The fresh ink complement the global birth coordinates of her children
But Jolie's great looks may be a stumbling block, says her Changeling director
"The babies are getting big and healthy and developing personalities," she tells PEOPLE
Jolie gets ready for her first post-twins red carpet: the premiere of her movie The Changeling
Old warriors are up in arms over a scene in Lee's new film about the Buffalo Soldiers who helped liberate Italy
Over the last few weeks, there has been a definite Italian flavor pervading "The Screening Room" offices.
I know what you're thinking. "Did he see all five films in this box set or only four?" Truthfully, in all the excitement, I kind of lost track.
Spike Lee says Clint Eastwood didn't show any African-Americans at the battle. Who's right?
Jon Voight comments on pregnant Jolie's recent Cannes appearance
The French film The Class takes top honor and Clint Eastwood's Changeling stands out in a mostly disappointing year
A "small" French film takes the big prize at the festival while the Americans are shut out, except for Benicio del Toro
Two movies and two babies on the way, she leaves the festival amid Oscar talk
The two have a leisurely night out with Mick Jagger and Clint Eastwood in Cannes
Will the Hollywood legend win the top prize of the Palme d'Or with Changeling? Richard Corliss thinks he might have a shot
Angelina Jolie is the talk of the Cannes Film Festival.
Palm trees, mild weather, the Mediterranean -- what more could you want? For film aficionados, the answer is movies, movies and more movies.
Organizers of the Cannes Film Festival say Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting will lead this year's streamlined competition
Ben Affleck's directorial debut, "Gone Baby Gone," may not have been a huge box office hit (it earned about $20 million domestically), but looking at it on DVD reminds you why it's at least three-quarters of a first-rate film.
With Brad Pitt in the audience and her latest director Clint Eastwood to present her with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Outstanding Performance of the Year Award for A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie signed autographs and posed for photos Saturday night with scores of fans who filled the streets.
"Saving Grace," "Nearing Grace," "Grace Under Fire," "Will & Grace": It's the thank-less literary fate of any fictional character given a name so rife with catchphrase possibilities to stand for far more than whoever she really is -- and whoever she could believably be.
"I don't do television. I've never done a talk show, never was on with my dear friend Johnny [Carson]. And I won't play golf on television, either. I tell 'em I'm too expensive for television."
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are already partners on a handful of huge projects – namely Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara and Pax – but now the pair are going into business together.
Paul Haggis' new movie looks at how war changes the people who fight it and the world we live in
The remake, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, is an instant classic that just might start a western revival
Like a potential hit movie, the 79th Academy Awards come equipped with any number of promising storylines.
Talk about musical chairs.
Looking at some of the Golden Globe nominees, you wonder if anyone speaks the same language.
CNN.com's top 10 entertainment stories of the year:
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.
There aren't many examples of war films made from the vantage point of "the enemy," but perhaps there should be more.
"Babel," the intertwined, cross-cultural story of desperate people in three far-flung parts of the world, led all films in nominations for the 64th Golden Globes, picking up seven nods Wednesday.
Clint Eastwood was 14 when Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945, old enough to know how Joe Rosenthal's famous picture vouched for victory and -- with a little help from John Wayne's "Sands of Iwo Jima" -- endowed the Marine Corps with a mythic luster that persists to this day.
This is a splendid weekend for entertainment. Three notable movies -- "Flags of Our Fathers," "The Prestige" and "Marie Antoinette" -- are receiving wide openings. The World Series begins. And a DVD of "SCTV's" early years is due out Tuesday.
Paris Hilton says her upcoming album will be a mix of reggae, pop and hip-hop, with the first single being a reggae song called "Stars Are Blind."
Tom Cruise led a poll of movie exhibitors aimed at determining the top 10 moneymaking stars of 2005.
I should begin with a disclaimer: I'm not that guy.
Wait a minute. Is that Steve Martin romancing Claire Danes -- an actress less than half his age -- in "Shopgirl"?
In making a movie about U.S. Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood became concerned that he was telling only half of the story.
I'm not sure what the statute of limitations on movie spoilers is, so if you're still not hip to the big twist in "Million Dollar Baby," you'd probably best skip this page and go read about "The Nanny" or something.
"The Aviator" had more Oscars, but it was "Million Dollar Baby" that scored the knockout punch at the Academy Awards Sunday night.
The Oscars this year seem to have inspired more yawns than awe, particularly when it comes to best picture.
Movie screens across the country lit up in 2004 with some exceptional films and dozens of outstanding performances, some of which are now up for Academy Awards.
While training for the boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby," Hilary Swank was nearly TKO'd -- by a foot infection.
Maybe Clint Eastwood should have called his latest flick "Ten Million Dollar Baby."
Here are the major nominations for the 77th Academy Awards announced Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
Clint Eastwood might soon be thinking he should have called his latest flick 'Ten Million Dollar Baby.'
Two years ago, Martin Scorsese won the best director Golden Globe for "Gangs of New York." However, the directing Oscar that year went to Roman Polanski -- who wasn't even nominated for a Globe -- for "The Pianist."
The Golden Globes celebrated Hollywood's time-tested veterans and its more youthful side for the 62nd annual edition of the awards show Sunday.
It's always a great party -- even if its influence is debatable.
Amid all the big hits, sequels and comic-book-inspired capers, one trend ruled the year: the biography film.
There's Hollywood, and then there's Hollywood.
"Million Dollar Baby" has one of the worst titles I've heard in awhile. It's a film set in the boxing world, but the title makes it sound like a Busby Berkeley musical.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of California women aged from 51 to 84 posed for a racy calendar to raise money for their local firehouse, but the town turned down the cash as too hot to handle.
Marian McPartland, the legendary jazz pianist and host of National Public Radio's "Piano Jazz," returns this year to the Monterey Jazz Festival. She'll perform, and she'll also join panel discussions with musicians such as Clark Terry and Bill Charlap and jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood.
"You will never hear me ask what someone is wearing again," says Pat O'Brien, talking about his new syndicated entertainment show, "The Insider."
In Sergio Leone's magnificent Western, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach are hunting for stolen gold. The treasure, they discover, is buried under a headstone in a huge...
Step into a movie theater and there's an overriding scent lingering above the popcorn and cleaning solvent. It's the sweet, sticky aroma of revenge.
This year, for some reason, conventional wisdom has settled early on several favorites for the 76th annual Academy Awards, scheduled for Sunday.
Even Dirty Harry likes clean energy. Three years ago, with the California energy crisis in full swing, Clint Eastwood was looking for a "clean" energy source for his Tehama Golf Club in Carmel, Cal...
--Feb. 3-9: AT&T Pebble beach national pro am When Bing Crosby wasn't crooning, he loved to play golf. He started this tournament back in 1937, and it's now an official PGA tour event, pairing amat...
Sure, you work like mad. So when you get to a resort or spa, it's an effort just to make it to your massage on time. Networking among the locals doesn't top your list. Don't sweat it. Instead, tap ...
DEAR READERS: When we started this column a few issues ago, I worried a bit. Okay, I worried a lot. What if I asked for comments and nobody sent any? Then what?
We're taking bets. Which has a longer life expectancy: your current job or the Energizer bunny? Your W-2 form reads Abbott Laboratories or Zurn Industries, but that's just for tax purposes. What it...
Though few would say it to his face, admen would call Clint Eastwood and the others below virgins -- personalities who have never appeared in a commercial except for charity. Compromising any of th...
Okay, let's run through it one more time -- maybe this time we can finally figure it out. Managers are supposed to be aggressive, right? Brenda L. Ruello, a big-league executive recruiter with the ...
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