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Hit Buoys Animation Studio’s Profit

Posted: July 30th, 2008, 12:49am EDT by By REUTERS

DreamWorks Animation SKG said that second-quarter profit fell sharply, but still topped expectations, helped by its hit “Kung Fu Panda” film.

No Film Distributor? Then D.I.Y.

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 11:41pm EDT by By JOHN ANDERSON

In a glutted marketplace, some directors are opening their own films.

Movie Review | 'The Dark Knight': Showdown in Gotham Town

Posted: July 17th, 2008, 11:29pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, “The Dark Knight” goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind.

Movie Review | 'Mamma Mia!': Does Your Mother Know You Sing Abba Tunes?

Posted: July 17th, 2008, 10:10pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is.

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Front Row: We’re Off to See the Ruby Slippers

Posted: July 17th, 2008, 3:49pm EDT by By ERIC WILSON

Betsey Johnson and 20 other designers are recreating Dorothy’s glittering ruby slippers to commemorate the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” next year to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Front Row: We’re Off to See the Ruby Slippers

Posted: July 17th, 2008, 2:49pm EDT by By ERIC WILSON

Betsey Johnson and 20 other designers are recreating Dorothy’s glittering ruby slippers to commemorate the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” next year to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

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Polanski Asks Prosecutor to Review Film’s Claims

Posted: July 17th, 2008, 1:51pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Will the director Roman Polanski get bailed out, finally, by a film?

Film Society Chooses Executive Director

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 11:12pm EDT by By ROBIN POGREBIN

Mara Manus, the Public Theater’s top financial executive, is taking the helm as the Film Society undergoes a $38 million expansion.

Film Society Chooses Executive Director

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 10:12pm EDT by By ROBIN POGREBIN

Mara Manus, the Public Theater’s top financial executive, is taking the helm as the Film Society undergoes a $38 million expansion.

Arts, Briefly: Cannes Winner to Open New York Film Festival

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 3:36pm EDT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”).

Arts, Briefly: Cannes Winner to Open New York Film Festival

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 2:36pm EDT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”).

TV Decoder: More Dialogue in Hollywood

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 11:09am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES

The Screen Actors Guild and a group of large Hollywood production companies agreed to meet informally on Wednesday afternoon.

An Appraisal: An Artist of the Cutting-Room Floor

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 7:54am EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

Bruce Conner’s ecstatic films were at once salvage projects and assertions of individuality in an increasingly anonymous age.

Paramount Drops Out of Plan to Raise $450 Million for Films

Posted: July 15th, 2008, 5:02pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES

Paramount Pictures said it had pulled out of a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million.

Paramount Drops Out of Plan to Raise $450 Million for Films

Posted: July 15th, 2008, 4:02pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES

Paramount Pictures said it had pulled out of a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million.

Charles H. Joffe, Movie Producer, Is Dead at 78

Posted: July 15th, 2008, 2:46pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. Joffe was a co-producer of Woody Allen’s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the careers of a host of high-profile comedians.

Charles H. Joffe, Movie Producer, Is Dead at 78

Posted: July 15th, 2008, 1:46pm EDT by By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. Joffe was a co-producer of Woody Allen’s movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the careers of a host of high-profile comedians.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘A Throw of Dice’ and Summer Serials

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 10:54pm EDT by By DAVE KEHR

New on DVD this week are the 1929 film “A Throw of Dice” and a collection of serials including “The Green Archer” and “Dick Tracy Returns.”

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Evelyn Keyes, 91, Whose Film Roles Included ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Is Dead

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 4:08pm EDT by By ANITA GATES

Ms. Keyes played the pouty Suellen O’Hara, whose sister Scarlett steals her longtime boyfriend and marries him just to pay the taxes on the plantation, in the Academy Award-winning 1939 movie classic.

Film: Still Out There (in Movie Theaters)

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 2:08pm EDT by By MARK HARRIS

Chris Carter, the creator of “The X-Files,” has made an “X-Files” film for people who gave up guessing what “The X-Files” was about.

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Holy Cameo, Batman! It’s a Senator!

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 12:18pm EDT by By PAM BELLUCK

Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a lifelong Batman fan, has a cameo role in the new movie — held at knifepoint by The Joker.

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Disney Taps Into Blu-ray’s Interactive Technology

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 1:17am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES and ERIC A. TAUB

The Walt Disney Company, along with the broader entertainment industry, is counting on “Sleeping Beauty” to help awaken interest in Blu-ray DVDs.

Angelina Jolie Gives Birth to Twins

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 1:09am EDT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Angelina Jolie has given birth to a girl and a boy.

3-D Movie in the Top 5 at Weekend Box Office

Posted: July 13th, 2008, 10:48pm EDT by By BROOKS BARNES

“Journey to the Center of the Earth” sold a modest $20.6 million in tickets at North American theaters over the weekend, placing third among the five highest-grossing films for the period.

North Jersey or South? A Search for the Line

Posted: July 13th, 2008, 2:44am EDT by By ROBERT STRAUSS

“New Jersey: The Movie” considers the conundrum of what is up or down, north or south, in the state.

Film: Finding the Darkness Within the Perky

Posted: July 13th, 2008, 2:33am EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH

Although Emily Mortimer has often played sweet, vulnerable roles, she takes on a more mysterious part in “Transsiberian.”

A Girl and a Gun

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 6:28pm EDT by By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

A look at the revolutionary achievements and long career of the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.

Film: The Discreet Charms of Accountancy

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 6:14pm EDT by By JOE QUEENAN

European films treat bookkeepers with something lacking in American movies: respect.

An Examined Life of Wicked Pleasure

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 5:15pm EDT by By DENNIS LIM

“Before I Forget” trains an unflinching spotlight on a species that, to judge from the movies, might as well be extinct: the aging homosexual.

Film Series

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 2:03pm EDT by By DAVE KEHR

This week’s film series include a David Gordon Green retrospective, Slovenian cinema and Film Forum’s tribute to Tatsyuda Nakadai.

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Leaders of Actors’ Union Call Offer Unacceptable

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:52pm EDT by By BROOKS BARNES

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild declined a final offer for a new labor contract and an alliance of Hollywood production companies demanded a vote by the union’s members.

Movie Review | 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired': The Judge, the Director and the Vagaries of Justice

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 12:18pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” is a subtly intelligent and sharply argued documentary.

Movie Review | 'August': A Web of Cynicism

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 12:02pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Embracing superficiality in both subject and style, “August” is a low-key drama in high-tech clothing.

Arts, Briefly: Robert Downey Jr. to Play Sherlock Holmes

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:37am EDT by Compiled by JACQUES STEINBERG

Robert Downey Jr. has agreed to play the lead role in the film “Sherlock Holmes,” which will be directed by Guy Ritchie for Warner Brothers.

Movie Review | 'The Exiles': Despair and Poetry at Margins of Society

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:14am EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“The Exiles” is a beautifully photographed slice of down-and-almost-out life, a near-heavenly vision of a near-hell.

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Movie Review | 'La France': World War I on Their Minds, ’60s Pop in Their Hearts

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:12am EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

In the once-upon-a-time fairy tale called “La France,” French soldiers move through darkly verdant landscapes worthy of Henri Rousseau.

Movie Review | 'Hellboy 2: The Golden Army': Like Bogey, but With a Really Big Fist

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:11am EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

There are moments in “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army” capable of delighting even the most jaded, comic-book-weary summer-blockbuster conscript.

Movie Review | 'Journey to the Center of the Earth': Six Flags Subterranean Style, or Something Like It

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:07am EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

If “Journey to the Center of the Earth” is not a ride, then what is it? One thing it may not be, quite, is a movie.

Movie Review | 'Garden Party': Lost, Lonely Souls Adrift, Randomly Crossing Paths

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:06am EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Garden Party” is a low-rent answer to Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts.”

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Movie Review | 'The Stone Angel': A Tenacious Matriarch Who Won’t Go Quietly

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:03am EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“The Stone Angel” is a film of tightly assembled bits and pieces that don’t fit comfortably together despite clever dashes of magical realism connecting past and present.

Movie Review | 'Meet Dave': An Itty-Bitty Brother From Another Planet

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 12:56am EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Meet Dave,” the latest in a long line of disposable Eddie Murphy vehicles, plays like a half-hour sitcom episode that has been stretched to feature-length running time.

Movie Review | 'Days and Clouds': Hard Look at Tough Times for an Italian Marriage

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 12:46am EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Silvio Soldini’s film “Days and Clouds” suggests that Italy’s middle class is as much under siege as that of the United States.

Movie Review | 'The Reflecting Pool': Trade Secrets

Posted: July 10th, 2008, 8:11pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

The problem with “The Reflecting Pool,” an investigative drama that mucks around with 9/11 conspiracy theories, is not that its ideas are silly.

Movie Review | 'Eight Miles High': The Life of a World-Class Sex Kitten

Posted: July 10th, 2008, 8:04pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

The mythologizing of the ’60s gets a lusty, Germanic twist in “Eight Miles High.”

Movie Review | 'Harold': Old Boy

Posted: July 10th, 2008, 7:51pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“Harold” is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television.

Movie Review | 'Death Defying Acts': Magic Love

Posted: July 10th, 2008, 7:42pm EDT by By NEIL GENZLINGER

“Death Defying Acts,” a fictionalized love story involving Harry Houdini, could be a sweet little discovery if only the relationship at the core of it were more convincing.

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Movie Review | 'La Rivière Gentille': Feeding a Creative Headwater

Posted: July 10th, 2008, 1:36pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“La Rivière Gentille” affords an exceedingly long afternoon in the company of the artist Louise Bourgeois.

Many Movie Theaters Decide to Leave the Bat Signal on Till Dawn

Posted: July 9th, 2008, 6:38pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Fans of “The Dark Knight” have bought so many late-night tickets for the July 18 opening, some theaters are scheduling 6 a.m. screenings.

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Movie Review | 'Full Battle Rattle': Soldiers on the Ground in California, Facing All the Conflicts of Iraqi Towns

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 10:59pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

This documentary gives a remarkably thorough and detailed account of the difficult conditions facing American soldiers in Iraq.

Cannes Success Gives Italian Cinema a Boost

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 10:50pm EDT by By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

When two Italian films won the top runner-up prizes at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the reaction at home was akin to that usually reserved for victorious national soccer teams.

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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer,’ Stan Laurel and ‘Remembrance of Things to Come’

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 1:13am EDT by By DAVE KEHR

New this week are Thorold Dickinson’s 1955 film “Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer,” “The Stan Laurel Collection, Volume 2” and Chris Marker’s “Remembrance of Things to Come.”

Rare Hollywood Type: Camera-Ready Executive

Posted: July 6th, 2008, 10:49pm EDT by By BROOKS BARNES

Tom Rothman, the co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, has developed a cult following for his historical monologues and self-deprecating style on the show “Fox Legacy.”

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‘Hancock’ Powers to the Top of Box Office

Posted: July 6th, 2008, 10:39pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Will Smith’s “Hancock” scored $66 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend, affirming his drawing power but leaving Hollywood short of the peaks it hit during last year’s Fourth of July holiday period.

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On Film, a Monk’s Passion and Protest

Posted: July 6th, 2008, 1:01am EDT by By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

With the help of a New York-based producer, a documentary profiling the life of Palden Gyatso, a 77-year- old former political prisoner in China, will open in August.

Arts, Briefly: Lost and Found

Posted: July 4th, 2008, 10:56pm EDT by Compiled by PATRICIA COHEN

Lost scenes from the classic 1927 silent film “Metropolis” were shown for the first time in decades, The Associated Press reported.

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Film: The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:20pm EDT by By SYLVIANE GOLD

“Mamma Mia!” comes to loud and flashy life on the big screen.

Movie Review | 'Gonzo': Beyond Fear and Loathing

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:11pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

“Gonzo” is a fascinating history lesson and a bit of a cautionary tale about how fame can turn into the scourge of talent.

Movie Review | 'Kabluey': Land of the Meek, and Home of the Deeply Blue

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:09pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Kabluey” is a bittersweet indie comedy whose hapless protagonist spends a good part of the movie waddling along the side of a highway in a blue foam-rubber suit.

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Film: Elves and Killer Beanstalks From Director’s Personal ‘Hell’

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF

The beasts of “Hellboy II” began as drawings in Guillermo del Toro’s visual diary. The director offers a peek into that world.

Movie Review | 'Diminished Capacity': A Tale of Two Minds, Spinning Out of Control

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:42pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Diminished Capacity” touches earnestly on heart-heavy issues of loss: loss of memory, of love and, perhaps because of the local angle, of (or rather by) the Chicago Cubs.

Movie Review | 'Holding Trevor': Desperately Seeking Sex and Identity, With Snark

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:41pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Holding Trevor,” a portrait of 20-something gay men and their straight friends, is a joyless exploration of middle-class deadbeats.

Movie Review | 'Very Young Girls': Children Without Childhoods

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:40pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Notwithstanding the coyly suggestive title, “Very Young Girls” is very far from exploitative.

Movie Review | 'We Are Together': The Gifts That Song Can Bring

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:39pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“We Are Together” is another feel-good documentary about a feel-bad topic: the bright-eyed, golden-voiced children of Agape, an orphanage in South Africa.

Displaced and Adrift in Los Angeles

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 9:19pm EDT by By DENNIS LIM

“The Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect.

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Movie Review | 'The Wackness': Summer of ’94, With Boy, Girl, Love and Dope Sales

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 9:55pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

“The Wackness” makes a good-faith effort to steer clear of coming-of-age story clichés, and succeeds and fails in roughly equal measure.

Movie Review | 'Tell No One': Snared in a Dark Labyrinth When His Wife Disappears

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 10:08am EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Guillaume Canet’s delicious contemporary thriller “Tell No One” is “Vertigo” meets “The Fugitive” by way of “The Big Sleep.” That is meant as high praise.

Movie Review | 'Hancock': Able to Leap Tall Buildings, Even if Hung Over

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 9:50pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Hancock” makes for one unexpectedly satisfying and kinky addition to Hollywood’s superhero chronicles.

This Film Will Be Back, Strike or No Strike

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 9:48pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY

The movie “Terminator Salvation,” the latest in the franchise, boldly takes its chances in the face of labor unrest.

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Bits: ‘Wall-E’: An Homage to Mr. Jobs

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 1:53am EDT by By DAMON DARLIN

“Wall-E,” the Pixar movie, is chock-full of references to Apple products. Perhaps that’s because Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, used to own Pixar.

Redford Is to Keep His Mark on Sundance Channel

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 12:18am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG

Mr. Redford is also working with the new owner on efforts to bring more documentaries to the cable channel, which specializes in independent films.

Advertising: The Force Lives On, as Do the Toys

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 12:16am EDT by By DOUGLAS QUENQUA

The retailer Toys “R” Us is counting down to July 26, when it begins selling toys from the latest “Star Wars” film, “The Clone Wars,” an animated movie that opens in August.

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