Starting Wednesday, celebrities will begin blogging for the National Hockey League’s (NHL) web site. The celebrities involved include “Juno” director Jason Reitman, “The Hills” Lauren Conrad, Dierks Bentley, Kevin Smith, David Boreanaz, A.J. Buckley, Tom Cavanagh, William Fichtner and Geoff Stults.
More than a dozen celebrities will blog on the NHL site about their favorite temams […]

Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who helmed “The English Patient” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” is dead at age 54.
While no details have been revealed about the cause of death, Anthony Minghella’s agent confirmed the director’s passed away today.
Update: Anthony Minghella died from a brain hemorrhage, the result of a neck operation at London’s Charing Cross […]

The candidates for Best Achievement in Directing for the 80th Annual Academy Awards:

Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood.
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men.
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton.
Jason Reitman for Juno.
Julian Schnabel for Scaphandre et le papillon, Le.

The Oscar goes to Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country For Old […]

The candidates for Best Achievement in Directing (aka Best Director) for the 80th Annual Academy Awards are:

Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood.
Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men.
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton.
Jason Reitman for Juno.
Julian Schnabel for Scaphandre et le papillon, Le.

I’d like Reitman to win for Juno but I […]

Bo Zenga, who produced Scary Movie, is making a directorial debut on Stan Helsing, a horror spoof. (His last production was Turistas, starring Josh Duhamel of Las Vegas - see video clip below.) The movie, written by Zenga, is about a video store clerk, Stan Helsing, who has to save his town from various monsters. […]

Filmmaker Mira Nair will be directing Hilary Swank as pilot Amelia Earhart in a biopic written by Ron Bass. Production starts in April, and Swank will be an executive producer. She’ll also be appearing in Birds of America this year, and is currently in 2007’s P.S. I Love You.
Nair is directing New York, I Love […]

More unusual celeb baby names dept: Director Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter have named their new baby girl Indiana Rose Burton. Indy was born on Dec 15th.
Burton directed Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which is currently in theatres. He’ll be directing Frankenweenie and The Spook’s Apprentice, both in 2009, and […]

No kidding dept: It’s been buzzed about in the blogosphere so it comes as no surprise that Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is in talks to direct a Cloverfield sequel. Since I mostly hated Cloverfield, this is definitely something I’m not rushing out to see - unless they ditch the stupid Blair Witch school of cinematography […]

A man posing as Heath Ledger’s father, Kim Ledger, fooled Tom Cruise, the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, and a number of other people. He managed to talk with Cruise for a while. John Travolta was also contacted but according to his reps, he knew the man was an impostor. Looks as if Cruise didn’t […]

It appears that Guillermo del Toro has not in fact been confirmed for the two upcoming The Hobbit movies. At least considering that the Hollywood Reporter is saying that he’s in talks to direct them back to back. He’s on the shortlist., and considering what he’s done with at least Pan’s Labryinth, Hellboy and Blade […]