PLANET 51 Director: Jorge Blanco Javier Abad  Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel  Studio: TriStar Pictures The Plot: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when astronaut Chuck Baker (voice of Dwayne Johnson) arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Director: Chris Weitz  Stars: Kristen Stewart, Rober... Read Full Story

Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday that her popular daytime talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” will end its run in 2011, Tim Bennett, the President of Harpo, announced in a letter released to ABC affiliates on Thursday. “Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history,” he wrote in the letter, obtained by Access ... Read Full Story

Director Wes Anderson is featured in this profile of his screen work and the enigma of directing an animation film called The Fantastic Mr Fox. The premise is can Anderson reclaim his auteur status a decade after he produced grand movies like Rushmore and The Royal Tanenbaums. READ PROFILE AT LA WEEKLY Related posts:INTERVIEW: Director Wes Anderson In 1996, a 26-year-old filmmaker from Houston named Wes...Director Wes Anderson directs movie by email? To be clear, Wes Anderson did not set o... Read Full Story

Are they or aren’t they a couple? That’s the multimillion-dollar question fueling the “Twilight” franchise. According to gossip magazines, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been hooking up, breaking up, making up and shacking up for the past year. And as long as Pattinson and Stewart manage to keep fans guessing about the status of their relationship, they will manage to keep them captivated, helping to drive the box office sales for a movie that could have on... Read Full Story

Looks like “Land of the Lost” has earned star Will Ferrell the dubious distinction of being the most overpaid actor in show business, according to the list makers at Forbes magazine. Forbes looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film, which it then compared with t... Read Full Story

Hell hath no fury like a geek scorned, and there is no species of geek more dedicated or passionate than the Trekkie (or Trekker, as they prefer to be called). Roger Guyett, the visual effects supervisor for Paramount’s “Star Trek” prequel, knows this all too well. “Sometimes I wonder if I’ll meet someone on a dark and stormy night and he’ll come at me with a machete because I didn’t do something the way some hardcore fan would’ve done it,̶... Read Full Story

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She wore Oscar de la Renta, he wore Gucci, but the hottest couple in show business right now didn’t do a bit of snuggling on the “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” premiere red carpet on Monday night, Nov. 16, in Los Angeles. We’re talking about Kristen Stewartand Robert Pattinson, or Edward and Bella, as their legions of fans think of them, the star-crossed lovers of author Stephanie Meyers’ four-book vampire-werewolf series and now two-movie franchise. The are-they... Read Full Story

Universal Pictures is near a deal with Carl Erik Rinsch to make his feature directing debut on “47 Ronin,” the epic period samurai swordsmen tale that will star Keanu Reeves. Scott Stuber is producing through his Stuber Pictures banner, with Pam Abdy also aboard in a producing capacity. Pic is a priority project for Universal, and it is unusual to see a first-timer entrusted to helm a film with a large budget and tentpole aspirations. READ ARTICLE TA VARIETY Related posts:Sci-fi ... Read Full Story

When Sony Pictures Classics releases “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” next month, viewers will be treated to a full-blown tour inside the head of helmer Terry Gilliam, courtesy of a mind-blowing blend of miniatures, motion control, bluescreen work and vfx. What they’ll barely glimpse is the thicket of obstacles — technical and human — that stood in the way of the film’s completion. The death of Heath Ledger in January 2008, midway through filming his fin... Read Full Story