When final weekend box-office figures were reported for “Quantum of Solace,” the movie saw its record-breaking numbers stirred, but not dramatically shaken.
Since at least 2004 those latter-day knuckleheads Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the gross-out auteurs of “There’s Something About Mary” and “Kingpin” fame, have been contemplating a movie in which they would upgrade the Three Stooges for 21st-century audiences.
A British jury investigating the death of a special-effects technician on “The Dark Knight” was told that he was killed in an accident during the shooting of a stunt.
The son of the filmmaker Moustapha Akkad said that a forthcoming movie about the life of the Prophet Muhammad would not be a remake of his father’s 1977 film, “The Message.”
The director Steven Soderbergh, whose body of work includes the films “Schizopolis,” “Kafka” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” is planning to make a rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra.
The striking union that briefly brought film and television production to a halt in India said that its demands had been met and that it would call off its strike.
The Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee voted late Wednesday to ask the union’s board to approve a strike authorization vote by its 120,000 members.
The Walt Disney Company’s film division said Wednesday that Johnny Depp would star in a fourth installment of its “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
Robert Redford has been named the winner of the 2008 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in recognition of his films, his activism and his creation of the Sundance Institute.
“You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” attempts to satirize the continuing tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors, one of the least funny topics of modern times.