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Arnold Schwarzenegger in action: The good, the bad, the bad-ass
After an absence from the big screen for several years (governing California doesn't leave much workaround time for movie-shooting schedules), ...
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After an absence from the big screen for several years (governing California doesn't leave much workaround time for movie-shooting schedules), ...
Rajiv Joseph on his Black List screenplay 'Draft Day'
Rajiv Joseph is currently making quite an impression in Hollywood with his screenplay "Draft Day," written with Scott Rothman. The football comedy is ranked No. 1 on this year's Black List, the movie industry's informal ranking of the most popular...
Authors in L.A. this week: Matty Simmons with an 'Animal House' memoir, Julie Andrews and more
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 10 - 16 in PDF format Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here This week's TV Movies GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE: Jason wheels out a Vespa for auction ...
National moment of silence: President Obama led the moment this morning in memory of those killed by a gunman in Tucson, Ariz., over the weekend. Meanwhile, doctors remain hopeful for the recovery of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot point-blank. [Wall Str
Google Inc.'s YouTube is poised to dramatically expand its on-demand movie rental service with films from several major Hollywood studios, a move that would position the online video giant to compete directly with Apple's iTunes and Amazon.com. YouTube has rea
The American Cinematheque gets highly anime-ted with its "Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata and the Masters of Studio Ghibli" retrospective, which begins Thursday at the Aero in Santa Monica with a new 35-millimeter print of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1992 "Porco R
Selling 'Be Kind Rewind' with a slapdash of humor
In Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Gondry's upcoming comedy "Be Kind Rewind," Jack Black and Mos Def play accidental auteurs -- a couple of knock-around film novices who end up making movie magic with a minimum of resources: tin...
'Pest Control' can't be exterminated
You can't throw a skim latte in L.A. without hitting a writer who has a screenplay that's been stuck in the system since grunge was breaking. But there are very few who can say that in the intervening years they've turned the same story...
Whether you're a film festival director, a college president or a secretary of state, you know that you've landed in Media Hell when Noam Chomsky, Jane Fonda and Harry Belafonte start signing open letters complaining about your policies. Artists and ...
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 18 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies LIZARD KINGS: 'Nova' follows expert lizard hunter Eric Pianka as he tracks elusive monitor lizards through Australia's heartland at ...
"AVATAR" COUNTDOWN: 10 DAYS You may have heard about a little film called "Avatar" that opens Dec. 18. We're counting down the days here at Hero Complex and today we bring you a conversation with Sigourney Weaver, arguably the greatest ...
• Amy Kaufman chats with the thespians who read off the names of nominees for the 16th annual SAG Awards at Thursday's 5 a.m. press conference. As Amy writes, "Inside the theater, SAG President Ken Howard welcomed the audience before introducing presenters M
"Inglourious Basterds" leads with the most nominations (12) for Gold Derby Film Awards, which are determined by posters in our forums. "The Hurt Locker" follows with nine, and "Avatar" and "Up in the Air" have eight. Winners will be announced March 6 (the nigh
We've tracked the long, spooky path of a third "Ghostbusters" -- there was the time Dan Aykroyd sat down and told the Hero Complex that it was just a matter of time before the old gang was all going to ...
After the coffee. Before figuring out how to slip out early to watch the tournament. 3-D turf war gets dirty. Paramount Pictures is playing hardball with theater owners over its upcoming 3-D movie "How to Train Your Dragon," which the ...
Everywhere you look these days, Variety has been getting a black eye, whether it's from a nasty lawsuit filed by a filmmaker who's furious that the paper took $400,000 in advertising and then gave his film a bad review or ...
Variety has been making a lot of news lately. Unfortunately, the news has been pretty much all bad. In case you've just tuned in, the venerable trade paper has suffered one black eye after another in recent weeks. First, it ...
Rachel Abramowitz goes back to the future to look at Hollywood's big-time interest in the 1980s. Actor-writer-director Jorma Taccone remembers with loving fondness the gear montage from almost every '80s action flick of his youth -- Rambo movies and "Die ...
This is a longer version of my cover story in today's edition of the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. I flew up to the Bay Area to moderate some panels at WonderCon and between the time at the microphone I ...
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