BY SEAN O’CONNELL
With the film portion of South By Southwest winding down, and the music portion about to kick into high gear, the Jury and Audience Award winners were handed out Tuesday night at the closing awards ceremony.
Comedian Eugene Mirman hosted the event, which honored winners in the Narrative and Documentary feature categories, Shorts [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
Over the weekend at Austin’s storied South By Southwest film and music festival, Lionsgate’s underdog comic book adaptation Kick-Ass arrived in town to offer a preview of the film and interview opportunities with members of its cast and crew. Following a panel during the festival, director Matthew Vaughn, actors Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz [...]

BY STAFF
The show “Two and a Half Men” is a traditional show in that it shoots live in front of an audience. But since the news of Charlie Sheen returning to the show this week, Radar Online has reported that the bosses have decided to close the set for a week and not allow an [...]

BY STAFF
Tiger Woods has announced that he will be returning to golf very soon. After months of being the center of the media attention following the news of his many affairs, he is going to return to the media, but in hopes of a brighter light. According to AP, he will be competing in the [...]

BY STAFF
“Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year,” their lawyers say in a statement. “The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children.”
The seven-year marriage of Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes, unfortunately, is coming [...]

BY LINELLE SCHULTZ
Pop star Lady Gaga has announced the dates for her North American Tour that kicks off June 28th at Montreal’s Bell Centre. Throughout the tour she will visit 31 top arenas as well as some new places. The second half of the tour promises to push the boundaries once again to bring her [...]

BY STAFF
Best friend Corey Feldman will not be present at Corey Haim’s funeral set to take place in Toronto on Tuesday. Feldman told ET that “In the days following my best friend Corey Haim’s death, I have spent much time with his mother Judy, who has always been like a mother to me. I would [...]

“Alice” buries Matt Damon thriller at box office. “Alice in Wonderland” has climbed to a $208.6 million total domestically to become the top-grossing of Depp and Burton’s seven films together, which include “Edward Scissorhands,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Corpse Bride.
“I believe it’s literally the magical, if you would, pairing of Tim and Johnny,” said Chuck [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Edward Norton stars alongside Keri Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon and … well, Edward Norton in Tim Blake Nelson’s “Leaves of Grass,” a twisty concoction of drug comedy and true-crime dramatics that blows the lid off of the drug-trading practices of Oklahoma’s Jewish community. As if you expected anything streamlined from Nelson, director [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
Saturday morning during a press conference for Predators in Austin, TX, multi-hyphenate moviemaker Robert Rodriguez announced that he has plans for a new installment in his acclaimed, commercially successful family film series Spy Kids. “I’m actually doing another Spy Kids for The Weinsteins,” he said to members of the press. “That is a [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
First, the bad news. My 30 minute layover between flight connections yesterday turned into a 9 hour endurance test, which ensured that my South By Southwest experience stalled in Atlanta instead of Austin. Many of you know this. Thanks for the sympathy tweets.
I missed “Kick-Ass.” I missed “Leaves of Grass.” I missed [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
On Friday, March 5, producer Simon Oakes invited a small group of reporters to the Beverly Hills offices of Hammer Films, the newly-resuscitated imprint of the studio that brought genre fans horror films for more than five decades. Largely defunct since the 1980s, Hammer was revived last year when Oakes and his partners [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
In little more than a decade as a director, Chris Weitz has proven that if nothing else, he’s incredibly versatile: he started his career with the first “American Pie”, moved on to “About a Boy”, brought “The Golden Compass” to life, and most recently conquered the second “Twilight” film, “New Moon”. So sad [...]

BY STAFF
URGENT HELP NEEDED TO REBUILD HAITI – DONATE NOW PLEASE
Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) announced today that Ben’s Stiller’s Haitian school initiative (HSI) will merge with APJ effective immediately.
The two organizations, both of whom were committed to improving living conditions in
impoverished Haiti prior to the devastating earthquake, will combine their shared passion [...]

BY ROBERT W. WELKOS
New York Press film critic Armond White wants to make one thing perfectly clear: it isn’t that he doesn’t like director Noah Baumbach. It’s Baumbach’s movies he dislikes.
“I have no more against Noah Baumbach than I do against Michael Mann,” White told HollywoodNews.com. “I never met either of them. It’s not personal. [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
Although not quite a household name in the U.S., Olivia Williams has steadily worked over the last decade to establish herself as one of the movies’ most versatile and interesting actresses. Early roles in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense earned her both visibility and indie cred, and since [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
We all have computer horror stories, where laptops die at the worst possible time. Here’s my latest.
Roughly 24 hours before I’m due to board a plane for Austin to cover my first South By Southwest Film Festival, an annual Mecca for lovers of film, music and interactive technologies, when my own modest [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
Here you have it Twilight fans, the moment that you have all been waiting for. The new trailer for the highly anticipated “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” has been released and does it look amazing! The famous series that stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner is sure to keep fans enthusiastic and [...]

BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Upon hearing that Corey Haim had passed away Wednesday morning, many probably though, “I wonder what Corey Feldman thinks of this?” Wednesday night, we found out. Feldman, who co-starred alongside Haim in several films and a short-lived reality television program, appeared on “Larry King Live” last night to discuss Haim’s death. The actor [...]

BY STAFF
Get ready Twilight fans! The first trailer for “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” movie is going to premiere tomorrow at 6:00 am PST via satellite. The trailer that runs 90 seconds is being kept under secrecy until its debut, but we’ve found a 10 second clip of it. The full trailer can also be seen [...]

BY TODD GILCHRIST
In a remarkably short time, Amanda Seyfried has played an amazing variety of roles, both on television and film. She’s appeared on soap operas, screen dramas, musicals, horror films, crime thrillers, and more, and at 25 seems to be picking up speed as she expands her repertoire, in roles great and small, but [...]

Former teen idol Corey Haim, star of “The Lost Boys” and “License to Drive” with his frequent co-star Corey Feldman, was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment this morning.
The Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed the actor’s death to local TV station KTLA.
Police are saying Haim died of an “accidental overdose.” He reportedly [...]

By ROBERT W. WELKOS
No doubt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is basking in the afterglow of its Oscar telecast, which captured the biggest audience for ABC in five years.
There will be slaps on the back in the Academy’s board room and a feeling that all is right again in Oscarland.
What [...]

When Let The Right One In was screened at film festivals in early 2008, it quickly built a reputation as a scary, satisfying vampire story that had a major advantage over its bloodsucking competition – namely, that it had substance, too. Upon its theatrical release, it continued to gain attention from genre fans and casual [...]

BY ROBERT W. WELKOS
Decades from now, Hollywood may still be debating the events that unfolded Sunday night at the 82nd annual Academy Awards and wondering how David came to slay Goliath?
How did “The Hurt Locker,” a small, independent film about a bomb disposal squad in the Iraq War made on a shoestring budget, manage to [...]

BY LINELLE SCHULTZ
The suspense is finally over as we come to a close to the awards season. Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” has taken home the coveted Best Picture prize beating out rival “Avatar.” Bigelow also took home the Best Director award, beating out ex-husband James Cameron to become the first female in Oscar history [...]

By ROBERT W. WELKOS
“The Hurt Locker” vs. “Avatar.”
Bullock vs. Streep.
Cameron vs. Bigelow.
If this sounds like matchups at a sporting event, well, the Academy Awards is all that and then some. Who was it who said the Oscars are women’s Super Bowl?
Well, a lot of men will be watching, too, on Sunday night when [...]

Oscar producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have stated that viewers should tune in early because this year is “the most dynamic opening, from drama to spectacle to humor, that has ever been staged.”
Shankman is not worried about the weather for the show. He told AP that the only rain they are going to be [...]

If you haven’t picked up a copy of today’s Los Angeles Times, then you are in for a big surprise. The Walt Disney Company worked with them to create a special promotion for their movie “Alice in Wonderland,” which hits the theaters today. The front page is covered with a full-color photo of Johnny Depp’s [...]

When the Academy Awards are handed out Sunday night in Hollywood, Bob Yari will be watching the star-studded show like millions of other movie buffs around the world.
“I love watching great films get their due,” Yari said.
But so much has changed for Yari since 2006, when “Crash,” a film about race relations in Los Angeles [...]