The candidates for Best Motion Picture of the Year for the 80th Annual Academy Awards:

Atonement: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster.
Juno: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith.
Michael Clayton: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent.
No Country for Old Men: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin.
There Will Be Blood: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar.

The Oscar […]

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. […]

Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds had a wedding ceremony New Year’s Day on an island near Bora Bora, but under French law, they would have to be resident 30 days for a legal marriage. So not only were they not legally married, they didn’t have a legit ceremony upon returning to the U.S. Now, only […]

Sasha Baron Cohen, aka Borat, aka Ali G, might be appearing in a Steven Spielberg film, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2010). The film is about counter-culture hero Abbie Hoffman (pictured above and in video clip below), who was one of several protesters involved in disrupting the 1968 Democratic convention. Charges against Hoffman and […]

The ladies’ man Eddie Murphy reportedly wed Tracey Edmonds on New Year’s Day near Bora Bora in a private ceremony. They’ve been dating for about a year and were in engaged in July 2007.
Edmonds is a film producer, with Chilled in Miami scheduled for 2009. (Marrying film producers must be a trend, as Jimmy Fallon […]

Frank Capra, Jr., president of EUE/ Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, Delaware, and son of the director Frank Capra, died mid last week at age 73 of prostate cancer. His father, Frank Capra, Sr. (d. 1991), is probably best known for what is arguably the best Christmas movie ever, 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life (starring […]

Two of the hottest producers of right now are Judd Apatow and Jerry Bruckheimer, though you’re probably more familiar with Bruckheimer’s name. Between them, each of their last five films combined (i.e, ten in total) have pulled box office profits of about $1.6B.
In the TV arena, Bruckheimer’s name is behind the three CSI franchises (CSI, […]

Since Peter Jackson has other obligations, he’ll not be directing the two upcoming “The Hobbit” movies. He will executive produce The Hobbit, now that he’s settled his lawsuit with New Line Cinema. Directing duties are falling to Sam Raimi, who’s probably best known for directing the first three Spiderman films, Evil Dead, The Messengers, 30 […]

Moviemaker Saul Zaentz is launching a lawsuit against New Line Cinema. Zaentz made a hybrid live action-animated version of Lord of the Rings in 1978. He’d acquired the rights to the LOTR novels and The Hobbit and later licensed them to Miramax, who licensed them to New Line. So he feels he should get a […]

Lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings books or even the acclaimed trilogy of movies directed by Peter Jackson should be happy to hear that another Tolkien novel, 1937’s The Hobbit, will be turned into a live-action movie. Unfortunately, Jackson will not direct, but he will be the executive producer.
There are actually going […]