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Oscar Nominee Jenkins Joins ‘Eat, Pray, Love’

Richard Jenkins will join Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, the upcoming adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling book for Paramount Pictures. Jenkins has been on a bit of a hot streak since being Oscar-nominated for Best Actor for The Visitor, his first-ever lead movie role.  He recently completed the movies Dear John and Waiting for Forever, [...]

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James Franco Gets Busy

It’s funny what starring in a stoner movie and an Oscar-baiting human rights movie in the same year can do for your career. The Hollywood Reporter notes that James Franco has been fielding a number of high-profile projects over the past few months, some of which he’s had to turn down. Biggest among those is a role [...]

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Julia Roberts Returns with ‘Duplicity’

Julia Roberts hasn’t had a lead role in a movie in five years, but now she’s back with her Closer co-star Clive Owen in the con thriller/comedy Duplicity.  The movie, directed by Tony Gilroy (Oscar-nominated for writing/directing Michael Clayton) follows two former spies who team up to pull a $40 million con on two rival [...]

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Universal Brings A Howling Good Time To 2009

Despite strong ticket sales overseas, Universal Pictures lingered far behind its rivals in 2008 with a $1.12 billion take in U.S. theaters (Warner Bros. led the pack with $1.79 billion).  The studio tries to turn things around with their upcoming slate of features for 2009. The Unborn (Jan 9th) - Writer/director David Goyer’s tale of a girl haunted [...]

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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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