PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Along with her soon-to-end daytime talk show, fall engagement and recent move from TV to the web as Yahoo’s global anchor, Katie Couric also made a documentary feature shown at Sundance. “Fed Up” premiered Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. Couric linked up with “An Inconvenient Truth” producer Laurie David […]
De Niro casts spotlight on works of his artist father at Sundance
(Reuters) — Robert De Niro may best be known as an Oscar-winning actor, but in a new documentary he takes on the role of a devoted son as he spotlights his own artist father, Robert Sr., for his influential but not well-known works in the New York City abstract expressionist art movement. De Niro, 70, […]
POLICE armed response units called after an elderly resident reported an axe …
Police responding to reports of axe attack find young people making zombie film 5:16pm Friday 3rd January 2014 in News By Emily Flanagan, Reporter A zombie POLICE armed response units called after an elderly resident reported an axe attack, found it was young people making a zombie film. A full emergency response unit was sent […]
Zach Braff’s starry, Kickstarter-fueled ‘Wish I Was Here’ rapturously applauded
By Josh Dickey and Lucas ShawTheWrap Zach Braff loves Sundance, and Sundance loves him back. It’s been 10 years since Braff made a big Sundance splash with “Garden State,” and now the “Scrubs” star is back with “Wish I Was Here,” which earned rapturous applause following its Saturday premiere at the Marc, and a standing […]
‘American Hustle’ wins top honor at SAG Awards
David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” has won the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding cast, setting up the con-artist comedy as the film to beat at the Academy Awards. The other nominees Saturday night at the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium were “12 Years a Slave,” ”Dallas Buyers Club,” ”August: Osage County” and “Lee […]
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ star Margot Robbie in talks for ‘Tarzan’: She’s Jane
By Jeff SneiderTheWrap Hot off a star-making performance as Leonardo DiCaprio‘s wife in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Margot Robbie is in negotiations to play Jane in David Yates’ “Tarzan,” TheWrap has learned. She is also in talks to replace Amanda Seyfried in Craig Zobel’s “Z for Zachariah.” Representatives for both films did not immediately respond […]
Sundance: Kristen Stewart’s Guantanamo Bay drama ‘Camp X-Ray’ draws warm response
By Josh Dickey and Lucas ShawTheWrap Kristen Stewart‘s return to Sundance with “Camp X-Ray” was looking like a success — at least initially — as festivalgoers began to tweet positive things about her starring turn in the Guantanamo Bay drama that premiered midday Friday to a partial standing ovation at the cavernous Eccles Theater in Park City. “I […]
Movie ticket prices hit record high in 2013
By Brent LangTheWrap Going to the movies got pricier last year as 3D films and higher ticket costs made catching the latest Blockbuster a more expensive proposition, according to new data by the National Association of Theater Owners. The average ticket price rose a little more than 2 percent in 2013 to $8.13, compared to […]
Warner Bros. pushes ‘Batman vs. Superman’ back 10 months to ‘fully realize vision’
Maybe they can find a better Batman while they slowly get smarter
Phoebe has starring role in Emmy-nominated film
Phoebe has starring role in Emmy-nominated film 5:30am Wednesday 15th January 2014 in News By Marion Sauvebois Phoebe Maddison, who was in a TV programme which has been nominated for a Emmy in the US A NINE-year-old girl from Swindon will rub shoulders with the crème de la crème of international TV in New York […]