It was not a pretty weekend at the box office.
Forget the butterfly effect. In a globalized century, it's a totally different effect you have to be worried about.
French writer-producer Luc Besson must have grown tired of watching Hollywood rehash his gal-with-a-gun actioner "Nikita," a memorably tight and efficient thriller which spawned a forgettable remake ("The Assassin," with Bridget Fonda) and might be considered the mother of recent reloads like "Salt," "Hanna," and Steven Soderbergh's forthcoming "Haywire."
Politics is serious business -- but not all of the time. From the halls of Congress to the campaign trail, there's always something that gets a laugh. Here are some of the things you might have missed.
Seconds, anyone? Eating up $24.6 million worth of tickets, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" defied box office gravity by falling a minuscule 19 percent to win the top spot yet again.
Most people, if they know of Mark Whitacre at all, remember him as a whistleblower. In the early 1990s, the Archer Daniels Midland vice president turned FBI mole helped bring the company to its knees by wearing a wire for three years to expose its price-fixing scheme.
It could be Matt Damon's most weighty role to date.
Punctuation promises comedy in "The Informant!" as if the title subject is a cartoon secret agent -- maybe Agent 86 in "Get Smart."
Matt Damon will assume the role as the performer's longtime lover, says director Steven Soderbergh
There's a longstanding tradition of athletes eschewing what made them famous to explore their inner muse. And vice versa for some of Hollywood's top stars. There's always something the other side has that, regardless if you're Steve McQueen or Quinton "Rampage Jackson, appears brighter.
Columbia Pictures pulls the plug on the star's baseball drama Moneyball"
As the 2009 Cannes Film Festival draws near, filmmakers who have made the event's short list hope that their films will be blessed with that hard-to-earn Cannes buzz, which could lead to awards and financial success.
These are not good times to be a newsprint journalist.
Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams discuss their new drama.
Over the last decade, Steven Soderbergh has taken the "one for them, one for me" concept of film-director politics to an almost comically programmatic extreme.
Steven Soderbergh made certain his new movie, "Che," about the life of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, couldn't be attacked -- at least on a factual level.
"Che" director Steven Soderbergh discusses his latest film, an intricate and lengthy look at Ernesto Guevara.
The decision to make "Che" was an easy one, Benicio Del Toro says. Filming the movie was anything but.
Actor Benicio del Toro brings "Guerrilla," a film about Che Guevara, to Cuba. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
"Che" the movie met Che the myth in Cuba this weekend, and the lengthy biopic of the Argentinean revolutionary won acclaim from among those who know his story best.
This year's final edition of "The Screening Room" comes from the beautiful city of Tallinn in Estonia.
Perhaps the most affecting scene of Steven Soderbergh's star-packed 2001 heist flick Ocean's Eleven comes near the very end. The camera slowly pans from right to left to capture the faces of 10 members of the film's titular gang of thieves as they silently observe the dancing fountains of Las Vegas's Bellagio casino. We understand that each man is reflecting on the unlikely caper in which he's just successfully participated, and on what the future might hold in store.
There's a little more to love about PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive in The Informant
"Au secours!" is one of the first phrases you will find in French travel dictionaries but I have never heard it used -- until now. It's 1.15am and we have just locked an elderly French lady in a lift, so the phrase is now being used in its most urgent form.
The French film The Class takes top honor and Clint Eastwood's Changeling stands out in a mostly disappointing year
There has been a distinctly Latin flavor to this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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"
Palm trees, mild weather, the Mediterranean -- what more could you want? For film aficionados, the answer is movies, movies and more movies.
That "Bourne" guy can sure get in the way.
Oceans 13, the third installment from Clooney's crew, is limp, by-the-numbers movie-making
Look up the word "caper" in the dictionary, you'll find it's a prickly shrub or a frolicsome leap, a romp or gambol -- as well as an informal word for a crime, such as a theft or a heist, usually involving deception.
At the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival a number of films have made an impact on audiences and judges alike.
The two movies virtually intersect at one point (in Berlin, 1945), but don't confuse Robert De Niro's lengthy, absorbing spy drama "The Good Shepherd" with Steven Soderbergh's black-and-white throwback "The Good German." The overlap probably won't help either of them at the box office, and neither looks like a surefire hit in that department.
Will Smith doesn't seem the likeliest candidate to play a desperate, struggling man. Whatever the role (love coach, alien fighter, Ali), he projects speed and good times, an almost aerobic self-confidence.
Fortune: Why dream teams failupdated: Tue May 30 2006 17:12:00
In what universe is it even conceivable that the United States could fail to reach the semifinals of something called the World Baseball Classic? Not only fail to win, but could field a team that included Roger Clemens, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and Johnny Damon and then lose games to Mexico, South Korea, and - wait for it - Canada? Yet it happened this year.
Fortune: Power toysupdated: Fri May 19 2006 10:50:00
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Fortune: Scary Movieupdated: Mon Feb 06 2006 00:01:00
HOLLYWOOD IS A TOWN WHERE RELATIONSHIPS ARE currency. All it takes is one or two box-office flops for today's star to become tomorrow's pariah. If that happens, the only thing that can save you are your friends at Spago. So movie industry people trade air kisses in public and rarely criticize their peers within earshot of others. That's why a meeting last June of the Directors Guild of America was unusual.
At this point in his career Steven Soderbergh could get financial backing to make a movie about the phone book. With "Bubble," he might as well have.
"Syriana" has a lot of big, important things to say about big, important things, and it says them with a sense of urgency.
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.
"Fever Pitch," a fable that pits true love against baseball love, is one of the most ingratiating romantic comedies in quite some time, yet the fact that it was directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly almost works against it.
The miracle of "Ocean's Twelve" isn't just that it's a sequel every bit as good as the 2001 production. It's that producer Jerry Weintraub was able to get some of the biggest stars in the industry -- and Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh -- to clear their schedules for a 77-day shoot in Europe.
Love him or hate him, Harvey Weinstein is bigger than life.
Fortune: The Playlistupdated: Mon Feb 04 2002 00:01:00
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I got shot yesterday. The Obregon cartel killed my loved ones. And I got stuck with 50 units of heroin I couldn't sell.
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