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Zach Braff to Do His Thing with ‘Swingles’

Zach Braff is joining the upcoming comedy Swingles as director and co-star.  He’s also re-writing the screenplay. It’ll be his first writing/directing job on a full-length movie since Garden State. The movie, in which Cameron Diaz is already set to star, follows a guy who loses his wingman and instead teams up with the “sharp-tongued woman he [...]

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Cameron Diaz Opens ‘The Box’

After the drawn-out, behind-the-scenes headaches known as Donnie Darko and Southland Tales — one of which was redeemed by becoming a cult hit, the other, not so much — writer/director Richard Kelly finally made a big studio thriller: The Box, starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and recent Oscar nominee Frank Langella. Kelly wrote the screenplay, which [...]

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Drew Barrymore Desperate To Restart Career–Angels Style

It’s a dark day when cheesy franchise from almost ten years ago suddenly get new life on the studio circuit, especially when the property in question is Charlie’s Angels. Apparently, the fact that the last one of these hit theatres six years ago, and the franchise itself got its start almost TEN years ago, isn’t stopping [...]

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Warner Bros. Conjures Up Its 2009 Film Slate

Warner Bros. led the 2008 North American box office with $1.79 billion in ticket sales.  What does the studio have in store for 2009?  A few long stagnat franchises, a revered children’s tale and a boy wizard to name a few. Gran Torino (Jan 9th) - Clint Eastwood takes on an Asian gang and develops an [...]

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Angelina Jolie Named Top Earning Actress

Actress Angelina Jolie has been named the top earning actress in Hollywood Reporter’s annual “Women In Entertainment Power 100″ special issue.  The star of this year’s Wanted reportedly earned $15 million to portray the role of assassin “Fox” in the film.  Jolie beat out last year’s number one earner Reese Witherspoon by a mere $1 [...]

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