BERLIN (Reuters) - Roman Polanski may be under house arrest in a Swiss chalet, but the Polish-French director is set to dominate this year's Berlin film festival where his latest movie "The Ghost Writer" will be unveiled.
Interest in the 76-year-old's film, one of 20 competition entries vying for awards at the February 11-21 event, has inevitably soared since his sensational arrest in Switzerland in September.
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Lucy Punch has been cast opposite Cameron Diaz in the black comedy "Bad Teacher," which Jake Kasdan is directing for Columbia.
Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg wrote the original screenplay about Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz), a foul-mouthed, conniving seventh-grade teacher who pursues a colleague after being dumped by her sugar daddy. The new romantic interest brings her into conflict with Amy Squirrel (Punch), the school's model teacher.
PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - Beatings, prostitution, rough sex, knifings, car wrecks, arson, self-destructive despair, chain smoking, suicide.
Mmm, smells like ... independent film.
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PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - Let's get this out of the way up front: In Michael Winterbottom's "The Killer Inside Me," Jessica Alba is pulverized, fist to face, fist to face, fist to poor pretty face, by Casey Affleck for a good three minutes or so. Until her eyes are swollen shut and part of her face has been smashed away, exposing her jaw. What one character later describes as "hamburger," "stewed meat."
It's ultra-real, excruciating to watch and, in some viewers' minds, inexcusable.
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PARK CITY -- Beatings, prostitution, rough sex, knifings, car wrecks, arson, self-destructive despair, chain smoking, suicide. Mmm, smells like ... independent film.
While mainstream fare like "Avatar" gets dinged for its depiction of a single character demanding a well-earned cigarette, independent filmmakers continue to roll out their gleefully flagrant depictions of all things bloody, brutal and bare-assed. Indie film is like studio filmmaking's nutty younger brother who gets away with everything.
LOS ANGELES - Stars from "Precious," "Inglourious Basterds" and "Nine" will take the stage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Producers say nominees Mo'Nique, Gabourey Sidibe, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger and Kate Hudson will serve as presenters at the 16th annual ceremony.
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- Pink and purple gowns were the bright spots at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night as rain darkened the red carpet in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sandra Bullock, Emily Blunt, Fergie, Diane Kruger and Maggie Gyllenhaal were leading the way on the trend.
The other hot look was black, mostly strapless or off-the-shoulder numbers, with Penelope Cruz, Kyra Sedgwick, Courteney Cox, Lea Michele and Heather Graham finding a way to make a statement with their versions of not-so-basic black. Cruz's lace gown, from a 2005 Giorgio Armani Prive collection, for example, had a dramatic floral-pattern neckline and ribbon striping,
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All the latest updates from the red carpet of the 2010 Golden Globes in Hollywood, as the stars are braving the rain... and still looking their best!
4:48 PM -- Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer breeze by.
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All the latest updates from the red carpet of the 2010 Golden Globes in Hollywood, as the stars are braving the rain... and still looking their best!
4:48 PM -- Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer breeze by.
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LOS ANGELES - Kate Hudson, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana and Amy Adams will appear on the Golden Globes.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which puts on the Globes, says the four actors will serve as presenters at Sunday's ceremony.
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Universal Pictures has scooped up domestic distribution rights to the comedy "Larry Crowne," which will see Tom Hanks reteaming with Julia Roberts, with whom he shared the screen in 2007's "Charlie Wilson's War.".. More »
Betting that laughs can be found in a cancer diagnosis, Summit Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Mandate Pictures' untitled Seth Rogen/James McAvoy project... More »
Apparently, nothing's impossible... More »
