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24 July 2008 12:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor James Brolin is convinced his son Josh Brolin's much-publicised bar brawl in Shreveport, Louisiana, never happened.

The No Country for Old Men star and W. co-star Jeffrey Wright were arrested by police on 12 July after a wrap party turned rowdy.

But Brolin's father insists the details of the incident are so hazy it could have all been made up.

He poses, "There were people who lived across the street who said there was no fight. How come nobody is suing for being hit? There was no fight."

The younger Brolin made his first public appearance following the incident at the Los Angeles premiere of Frozen River on Tuesday.

Asked about the scuffle and his arrest on impeding police charges, the actor insisted he couldn't talk about it because he was "in kind of in a bad predicament right now".

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20 July 2008 7:30 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures I saw The Dark Knight three times during the 40 hours after its release. When I love a movie, I do that. I'm possessed with the need to see it over and over again within a short time span. Usually after the third viewing I'm ready to sit out a week or two before visiting the film again. At this very moment, about 15 hours since my third viewing, I could easily jump in my car and speed off to it again. Yes, the hype is true. The movie is great. Brilliant. A pop masterpiece. It ain't hyperbole if it's true. After the opening midnight screening, I crawled into work the next morning. Co-workers lined up outside my cube for a fuzzy-brained review. For most, a lazy string of superlatives sufficed. Others desired reasoning with a tad more beef. Then through the fog of two-hours sleep it hit me: a respectable,

David Frank

16 July 2008 8:45 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Take a look at the latest movie poster released by Focus Features for the upcoming film “Burn After Reading” by directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country For Old Men) and starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney and John Malkovich. Plot: A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official’s (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest “Burn After Reading” movie posters and news.

Brian Corder

15 July 2008 11:59 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Ralph Fiennes' Lord Voldemort character in the Harry Potter films has been named the best movie villain of all time - beating Heath Ledger's The Joker into fifth place.

Ledger's performance in new Batman sequel The Dark Knight, the last movie he completed before his death in January, has been lauded by critics and tipped for an Oscar nomination.

But editors of Moviefone rank him behind Fiennes; James Earl Jones and Hayden Christensen's Darth Vader; Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch of the West and Sir Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter in the onscreen evil stakes.

A Moviefone editor explains the decision to crown Voldemort the most dastardly, "He is the most powerful dark wizard to ever wave a wand. What's more, he schemes to dominate the whole world. Without his slithering presence, would J.K. Rowling be the best-selling author of all time? The answer, a resounding "No."

The top ten is as follows:

1: Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter - Ralph Fiennes

2: Darth Vader, Star Wars -James Earl Jones, Hayden Christensen

3. Wicked Witch Of The West, The Wizard Of Oz - Margaret Hamilton

4. Hannibal Lecter, Silence Of The Lambs - Anthony Hopkins

5. Joker, The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger

6. Goldfinger, Goldfinger - Gert Frobe

7. Chigurh, No Country For Old Men - Javier Bardem

8. Hans Gruber, Die Hard - Alan Rickman

9: Max Cady, Cape Fear - Robert De Niro

10: Queen, Snow White And The Seven Dwarves - Lucille La Verne.

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14 July 2008 2:03 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Josh Brolin has been arrested following a bar fight at the weekend, reports say. The No Country For Old Men star, along with actor Jeffrey Wright and five crew members from Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic W, were arrested at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport, Louisiana just after 2am on Saturday. Sgt. Willie Lewis said that police arrived on the scene (more)

By Simon Reynolds

19 June 2008 9:03 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

James Zahn, the mastermind behind the forever-in-development monster mashup Death Walks the Streets, just dropped us a line with your first look at issue #0 of the Dwts comic, which is looking to be released very soon. More pages are below!

As we told you about before, Zahn and the rest of the Scream Factory crew will be inhabiting booth # 933 at next week’s Wizard World con in Chicago, where they’ll have a convention exclusive copy of issue #0 limited to 333 pieces, the regular version, and a 12x18 poster limited to 500 pieces on hand. The preview issue itself will contain a sketchbook with production designs for the film, including set designs done by No Country for Old Men/Burn After Reading production designer Gregory Hill!

So it’s going to be pretty badass.

In other Zahn-related news, a new scene from Lonely Joe has shown up on his official site that

Johnny Butane

28 April 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Coen brothers' Burn After Reading has been selected to open this year's Venice Film Festival, festival organizers announced today (Monday). The selection would seem to assure the festival of some glittering stars walking its red carpet on opening night, August 27, since the movie's cast includes Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton -- not to mention Joel and Ethan Coen themselves, whose film No Country for Old Men won the best picture award at this year's Oscars (and they took home the best director award). The festival's official lineup is expected to be announced in July.

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18 April 2008 9:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem is visiting refugees in north Africa, ahead of his appearance at the Sahara International Film Festival.

The No Country For Old Men star has been spending time with Sahrawi (corr) families who have lived in a camp in Algeria, since they fled their native Western Sahara more than 30 years ago, because of Moroccan and Mauritian oppression.

Bardem and his brother Carlos - who he is travelling with - hope their trip will raise awareness of the tribe. During their visit they have been spotted riding camels in the desert with locals.

The festival, traditionally dominated by Spanish films, will take place in Dakhla this weekend (17-20Apr08). At the end of the festival, the top director will be awarded a camel.

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10 April 2008 3:12 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Spanish stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are to marry, reports claim.

Bardem, who won this year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar for No Country For Old Men, is thought to have proposed last month during a holiday in France.

Sources told the National Enquirer that he popped the question after mum Pilar urged him to take the relationship to the next level.

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Beth_Hilton_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Beth Hilton)

7 April 2008 12:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Welsh actor Ioan Gruffud is set to play former British Prime Minster Tony Blair in the new Oliver Stone movie W.

The star is also joined by actress Thandie Newton in the film, based on the life of U.S. President George W. Bush. Newton is reported to be in line to play secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.

No Country For Old Men star Josh Brolin will play Bush in Stone's drama, which will also feature James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks and Ellen Burstyn.

Cromwell and Burstyn will play the current President's parents George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush respectively, while Banks will portray First Lady Laura Bush.

W is due to began filming on 21 May.

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3 April 2008 10:35 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

John Leguizamo has exploded Oscar winner Javier Bardem's reputation for being super serious by revealing the Spaniard is a fun-loving party animal.

The Moulin Rouge! star worked with Bardem on the movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera and insists the Spanish star is nothing like the dark character he portrayed in No Country For Old Men, which earned him an Academy Award.

Leguizamo also dismisses reports that Bardem is too serious on film sets to have fun with his co-stars and crew.

He says, "He throws the best parties ever, crazy theme parties.

"The first party (he threw on the set of Love In The Time Of Cholera) was a Jamaican themed party and you had to come dressed as a Rasta.

"He had a Rasta doing stuff for everybody, hooking everybody up (with marijuana).

"He shipped in sand... (it was) all over his house."

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31 March 2008 10:29 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

In its first five days in the stores, the Blu-ray version of Fox's Hitman accounted for 12.6 percent of total sales; for No Country for Old Men, it was 9.8 percent, according to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert and reported by Home Media Magazine. Prior to the demise of the Hd DVD format, the number of high-definition disk sales rarely topped 2-3 percent of total sales, the trade publication observed. (An exception: sales of the Hd Dvd-only release of Transformers hit 4 percent.)

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28 March 2008 10:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Sales of Blu-ray titles passed the 9-million mark during the week ending March 16, Hmr Research said Thursday. The San Francisco-based research firm said that from the high-definition format's launch in mid-2006 to the first of the year, Blu-ray sales totaled 6 million units but added 3 million more during the first 11 weeks of this year alone. Recent sales have been propelled by strong demand for Oscar-winning movie No Country for Old Men, which sold 68,000 copies in its first week, making it the top seller of the year in its initial week. Sales were also boosted by the official demise in February of the competing Hd DVD format.

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27 March 2008 8:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

A day after the cast was set for Oliver Stone's upcoming political biopic of U.S. President George W. Bush, C. Thomas Howell has signed up to play the American leader in a comedy.

While No Country For Old Men star Josh Brolin will play Bush in Stone's drama W., Soul Man actor Howell will portray the President in new political satire Commander-And-Chief.

Directed by Gerson Sanginitto, the comedy can only loosely suggest Howell is Bush, because of the content of the film, but a movie spokesperson says, "There's no mistaking who he is supposed to be."

The insider adds, "This hysterical political satire is guaranteed to make audiences both laugh and think."

Meanwhile, Babe star James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks and Ellen Burstyn have been added to the cast of Stone's Bush biopic.

Cromwell and Burstyn will play the current President's parents George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush respectively, while Banks will portray First Lady Laura Bush.

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20 March 2008 9:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Oscar winner Javier Bardem has denounced his newfound status as a sex symbol - insisting people only find him attractive because he is a movie star.

The No Country For Old Men actor - who is rumoured to be dating Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz - is convinced he is very ordinary-looking and would not be considered so handsome if he had a more mundane job.

He says, "Would I be a sex symbol if I was working in a bar? No. It's because you work in movies that people want to find something special, but if you work in an office you won't be a sex symbol at all.

"If Brad Pitt works in an office he would be a sex symbol, no matter what. If he was a plumber, he'd be a sexy plumber."

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20 March 2008 5:13 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Spanish Oscar-winner Javier Bardem is a self-confessed hypochondriac.

The No Country For Old Men star is constantly convinced he has contracted a serious illness and rushes to see his doctor at the first sign of any ailment.

Bardem's obsessive behaviour began when he was a teenager and although the condition has improved over time, he still feels the need to see a medic on a regular basis.

He says, "I used to be (a severe hypochondriac), but I'm not that bad any more. I'll be like, "I'm really sick. I need to go to the doctor."

"I was about 14 years old (when it started) and lying on the sofa watching TV and my head started to ache. I said to myself, 'I'm going to die. I'd better call my friends and say goodbye.'

"Since then they've been used to me saying I have serious health problems. One day I won't say anything and I will just disappear!"

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10 March 2008 8:02 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Javier Bardem's menacing No Country For Old Men line "Call it, friendo" has topped an annual survey by terminology trend organisation Global Language Monitor (Glm).

Bardem's memorable coin-tossing catchphrase beat out competition from Daniel Day-Lewis' "I drink your milkshake" from There Will Be Blood, which landed at two in Glm's annual HollyWORD survey.

Bardem's No Country For Old Men performance won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar last month, while Day-Lewis' turn in There Will Be Blood earned him his second Academy Award for Best Actor.

At three in the survey are numerous phrases from teen pregnancy film Juno, for which writer Diablo Cody won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

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4 March 2008 10:31 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Amounting to a case of being kicked while they were down, departing New Line Cinema executives learned Monday that their latest film, Semi-Pro, starring Will Ferrell, had earned just $15.3 million during its opening weekend. The figure was about half what some box-office analysts had predicted the movie would earn. Only last week Time Warner announced that it would be shutting down most of New Line's operations, incorporating them into those of its other film studio, Warner Bros., and laying off some 600 employees, including the studio's co-chairmen. Semi-Pro wasn't the only film that fouled out. In its second week, Sony's Vantage Point slipped to $12.8 million, the only other film to finish in double digits. Paramount's The Spiderwick Chronicles slid to third place in its third week with $8.7 million. Sony's The Other Boleyn Girl opened in fourth place with $8.2 millioin, while Fox's Jumper rounded out the top five with $7.6 million. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):1. Semi-Pro, New Line, $15,075,114, (New); 2. Vantage Point, Sony/Col, $12,819,245, 2 Wks. ($40,823,745); 3. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Paramount, $8,700,378, 3 Wks. ($55,028,942); 4. The Other Boleyn Girl, Sony, $8,203,061, (New); 5. Jumper, 20th Century Fox, $7,568,462, 3 Wks. ($66,790,968); 6. Step Up 2 the Streets, Disney, $5,742,479, 3 Wks. ($48,621,711); 7. Fool's Gold, Warner Bros., $4,418,229, 4 Wks. ($58,800,790); 8. No Country for Old Men, Miramax, $4,114,994, 16 Wks. ($69,680,625); 9. Penelope, Summit Ent. $3,802,144, (New); 10. Definitely, Maybe, Universal, $3,382,005, 3 Wks. ($26,650,585).

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3 March 2008 10:23 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Box-office receipts barely dribbled in over the weekend for Will Ferrell's basketball spoof Semi-Pro. Although it beat all other contenders for the top spot, the movie wound up with only $15.3 million in ticket sales, yet another disappointment for its ailing distributor, New Line Cinema, which last week learned that it was being absorbed by Warner Bros. Many box-office analysts had predicted that the movie would earn $25-30 million, somewhat below the $33 million earned by Ferrell's 2007 ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory. Meanwhile, last weekend's winner, Sony's Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid, slid to No. 2 with just $13 million, while Paramount's fairy-tale film The Spiderwick Chronicles slipped to third place with $8.8 million. The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, opened in fourth place with $8.3 million. The only other film to open wide, Penelope, starring Christina Ricci, debuted in eighth place with $4 million. Overall, the top 12 films grossed just $81 million, down a whopping 25 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. Semi-Pro, $15.3 million; 2. Vantage Point, $13 million; 3. Spiderwick Chronicles, $8.8 million; 4. The Other Boleyn Girl, $8.3 million; 5. Jumper, $7.6 million; 6. Step Up 2 The Streets, $5.7 million; 7. Fool's Gold, $4.7 million; 8. Penelope, $4 million; 9. No Country For Old Men, $4 million; 10. Juno, $3.4 million.

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25 February 2008 10:26 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Say what you will about Vantage Point -- and critics last week unloaded on it -- the film delivered at the box office, producing an estimated $24 million in ticket sales. That's a lot more than could be said about the other new releases, several of which drew far milder responses from critics. Be Kind, Rewind opened with a so-so $4.1 million at 808 theaters. But Witless Protection was nearly devoid of witnesses, earning just $2.2 million, and Charlie Bartlett attracted just $1.8 million in sales. And the U2 concert flick U2 3D was no match for Hannah Montana, earning less than $1 million. Holdovers generally performed Ok, with last week's top film Jumper falling 54 percent to about $12.7 million and placing second to edge out The Spiderwick Chronicles with $12.6 million. Step Up 2 the Streets finished fourth with $9.8 million. Among the Oscar nominees, best-picture winner No Country for Old Men performed the best as it added theaters and rose 21 percent to about $2.3 million. Juno continued its long run on the box-office charts, taking in another $4.1 million to bring its total to $130.4 million. There Will Be Blood returned to the top ten (in tenth place) with $2.6 million. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers:1. Vantage Point, $24 million; 2. Jumper, $12.7 million; 3. Spiderwick Chronicles, $12.6 million; 4. Step Up 2 the Streets, $9.8 million; 5. Fool's Gold, $6.3 million; 6. Definitely, Maybe, $5.2 million; 7. Juno, $4.1 million; 7. Be Kind Rewind, $4.1 million; 9. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, $4 million; 10. There Will Be Blood, $2.6 million.

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