Like all zombie movies, "Zombieland" has hundreds of zombies doing awful things, such as attacking and eating humans, but you could argue it's not a zombie movie.
Feted by Sean Penn and applauded by Quentin Tarantino at Cannes, Filipino filmmaker Brilliante Mendoza appears to finally live up to his name.
It happens every year: Memorial Day kicks off the summer with a box office bang, and Labor Day ends it with a whimper.
They are some of the biggest names in Hollywood, but even Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke and Dustin Hoffman have had their fair share of casting calamities they would rather forget.
For many, the creative relevance of 3-D cinema remains very much an open question. But when the history of Hollywood's 21st century embrace of 3-D is written, it very well may point to this weekend as the moment when the format definitively established its commercial power at the box office.
The Inglourious Basterds star has never even seen Valkyrie
Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend. "Inglourious Basterds," his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ "District 9," and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief.
Quentin Tarantino's movies are distinctive, thanks to several elements they typically share.
With Quentin Tarantino's recent disclosure that Brad Pitt "pulled out a brick of hash" for the pair to smoke during a meeting about Tarantino's new film "Inglourious Basterds," the two movie icons could today be mistaken for old roomies.
When the British comedian Spike Milligan wrote a memoir about his experiences during World War II, he called it "Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall."
Like all zombie movies, "Zombieland" has hundreds of zombies doing awful things, such as attacking and eating humans, but you could argue it's not a zombie movie.
Feted by Sean Penn and applauded by Quentin Tarantino at Cannes, Filipino filmmaker Brilliante Mendoza appears to finally live up to his name.
It happens every year: Memorial Day kicks off the summer with a box office bang, and Labor Day ends it with a whimper.
They are some of the biggest names in Hollywood, but even Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke and Dustin Hoffman have had their fair share of casting calamities they would rather forget.
For many, the creative relevance of 3-D cinema remains very much an open question. But when the history of Hollywood's 21st century embrace of 3-D is written, it very well may point to this weekend as the moment when the format definitively established its commercial power at the box office.
The Inglourious Basterds star has never even seen Valkyrie
Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend. "Inglourious Basterds," his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ "District 9," and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief.
Quentin Tarantino's movies are distinctive, thanks to several elements they typically share.
With Quentin Tarantino's recent disclosure that Brad Pitt "pulled out a brick of hash" for the pair to smoke during a meeting about Tarantino's new film "Inglourious Basterds," the two movie icons could today be mistaken for old roomies.
When the British comedian Spike Milligan wrote a memoir about his experiences during World War II, he called it "Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall."
Brad Pitt gets top billing in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," but Austrian actor Christoph Waltz may have turned in the most memorable performance as a Nazi "Jew Hunter."
The Inglourious Basterds star will go from R-rating to G as a cartoon character
In Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (out Friday) -- a simultaneous tribute to and deconstruction of war movies and '40s noir -- a special unit of Jewish-American soldiers is sent behind enemy lines to spread shock and awe among German troops in Nazi-occupied France.
Quentin Tarantino's new movie "Inglourious Basterds" comes with a film inside the film, a Nazi propaganda movie promoting the glory of Germany's Third Reich.
The star even taught 8-year-old Maddox to do his Tennessee hillbilly accent
The Inglorious Basterds star talks about domestic bliss with a house full of kids
American actor David Carradine has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according to a Thai police official.
The line-up at this year's Cannes Film Festival is a cineaste's dream.
After eleven days, hundreds of screenings and thousands of snaps from the paparazzi, there could only be one Palme d'Or winner.
Quentin Tarantino didn't give himself any breaks while making his latest film "Inglourious Basterds," which premiered at Cannes this week.
The couple are affectionate over cocktails, celebrating the premiere of his new flick
The duo attend a truffles and champagne dinner to launch his movie Inglourious Basterds
As the Cannes Film Festival gets underway, all eyes will once again be on the contenders for the festival's top prize -- the Palme d'Or. As one of the most prestigious awards in world cinema, the Golden Palm has been the launchpad for success for many films over the decades.
Penélope Cruz, Robin Wright Penn, Maria Carey and Sharon Stone are also expected to attend the movie festival
The economic downturn may take its toll at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, which opens Wednesday night. But as always, the show will go on.
On this month's The Screening Room, host Myleene Klass heads to the Croisette for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. While the recession has taken some of the luster off of the famously extravagant festival, movies from a virtual "who's who" of A-list directors show the world that no other film festival compares with eleven days on the French Riviera.
The film Heath Ledger was making when he died, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," will feature at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Plus, there's lots of Tarantino-style action in the first official trailer for the upcoming flick
The star's Inglourious Basterds will vie in May for the fest's top prize
Which star do you most associate with car-chase movies: Steve McQueen or Michael Caine? Gene Hackman or Burt Reynolds?
George and Brad are sporting facial hair for new movie roles, vote in our poll on your favorite
New picture gives first glimpse of the star in latest movie role
Jolie gets ready for her first post-twins red carpet: the premiere of her movie The Changeling
• Brad Pitt, dining with director Quentin Tarantino and Diane Kruger at Al contadino sotto le stelle, a small, hip Italian restaurant in East Berlin. The group discussed their work on Inglorious Bastards, their new movie, over dinner. But Pitt isn't just talking about his work – he's already on the set. The day after their business dinner, Pitt reported to Studio Babelsberg, according to a source. While he's working on the Tarantino project, the actor and his entire family has moved to Germany, living outside of the capital.
As the saying goes, "Pain is temporary, film is forever" and noone in the movie business knows this better than stuntmen.
The busy dad and Quentin Tarantino join forces to remake the WWII drama Inglorious Bastards
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The two American directors are back on the Riviera - one for the world premiere of his Che Guevara bio-pic, the other to give a film "master class"
Bad dubbing, angry men with extraordinary facial hair, balletic fighting and more blood than you can shake a nunchuck at: just some of the key ingredients to make a perfect kung fu flick.
This list isn't just about soundtracks or great music in the movies -- it is about quintessential movie moments where a song flawlessly complements or enhances the action.
Ten years ago, the adjective "Tarantinoesque" was an integral tool in any critic's arsenal. It seemed like every other young filmmaker was tramping the bloody, funny trail blazed by "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction"; rueful hitmen lurked around every corner.
Movie deaths can be tragic, heroic, spine-chilling -- even funny. This month, we've brought together our favorite screen exits, from Psycho to Bambi.
AR: Gordon, welcome to Talk Asia. Now you've been famous in this part of the world for many, many years now, but you only recently came to international attention in "Kill Bill." Tell us how that came about.
Celebrating the gory glory of the Toronto International Film Festvial's marvelous Midnight Madness series
The influential filmmakers create a $285 million fund for Asian films, hoping to expand audiences and maybe save some money too
A searing abortion drama from Romania takes the festival's top prize, while the Americans are largely ignored
When filmmakers talk about how great the movies were back in the 1970s, they're usually thinking about "The Godfather," "Chinatown," or "Dog Day Afternoon."
Sean McCabe said he remembers when indie was truly indie.
Sadism was once an element in horror films. Now it's more or less the only element, with the fear of death replaced by the fear of torture -- a fate worse than death.
In the past quarter-century, popular culture introduced us to the moonwalk and rap music, it brought us closer to a world where wizards learn magic instead of algebra and confronted our preconceptions about AIDS.
As of this fall, Jerry Bruckheimer will be the new King of Television. His eponymous production company had a whopping four pilots picked up at the May "upfronts" in New York. That means Bruckheime...
Hero, Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers -- Chinese martial arts movies have been making some breathtaking moves on the international cinema circuit in recent years.
"Sin City," adapted from three hardboiled comic books by the renowned graphic novelist Frank Miller, is without doubt the most visually stunning live action transfer of the comic book format to the big screen ever made.
Amid all the big hits, sequels and comic-book-inspired capers, one trend ruled the year: the biography film.
He won't be welcome at the Republican National Convention this summer.
The 57th annual Cannes Film Festival has opened with strife, star power and a 12-day lineup of the usual mix of glitz, glamour and controversy.
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.
"Kill Bill Vol. 2" starts off with a black-and-white extreme close-up of Uma Thurman. She's driving a convertible and as her character, the Bride, she speaks directly into the camera.
There's an old Monty Python sketch, "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days,' " in which a gathering of 1920s English country swells is interrupted by a man asking, "Tennis, anyone?"
British actress Helen Mirren isn't shy about wanting to portray convicted felon Martha Stewart if she had the chance.
Love him or hate him, Harvey Weinstein is bigger than life.
In 2000, the Small Business Administration tried to launch a pilot program to provide loans to filmmakers. The program never took off, but the SBA did grant a loan to the makers of The Gristle, a f...
Once upon a time, way back in the late 1980s, I considered myself hip. I had a sense of what was going on below 14th Street in Manhattan; I heard Lou Reed and John Cale sing a rock opera for Andy W...
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