Director John Woo takes on China's greatest literary work and a Western audience
McClatchy Newspapers
10/31/2008, by Ikuko Kitagawa
The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT) - For director John Woo to realize his 18-year dream of filming the 13th-century masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," he would have to return to Asia. The veteran Chinese director, who was responsible for blockbusters such as "M:I-2" and "Face/Off," needed the ...
‘Changeling'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Others may regard them in a less complicated way, but I wonder whether Angelina Jolie ever has mixed feelings about her lips. They hog the limelight just by being there, daring moviegoers more into tomb-raiding than "A Mighty Heart" not to take her acting talent seriously. ...
‘Ashes of Time Redux'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - In Hollywood, directors used to earn their stripes by tackling that archetypal American genre, the Western. In China and Japan, martial arts epics fill that bill. Before he made his mark "Chungking Express" and the quieter-than-quiet melodramas "In the Mood for Love," ...
Catholic Online pre-screens new Disney movie, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL III Senior Year
Catholic Online
10/25/2008
See this movie! Take a date, take your kids, or go by yourself. In fact, see it twice at the theatre, (it will take two visits to hear all the dialogue over the clapping and laughter) and we think you will buy the DVD when it is released. LOS ANGELES, CA - We (Catholic Online) were invited to ...
Catholic Online Review: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL III Senior Year
Catholic Online
10/24/2008, by D.P.Clark
See this movie! Take a date, take your kids,or go by yourself. In fact, see it twice at the theatre,(it will take two visits to hear all the dialogue over the clapping and laughter) and we think you will buy the DVD when it is released.
LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - We (Catholic Online) were ...
‘HSM 3: Senior Year' becomes first movie in franchise to hit silver screen
McClatchy Newspapers
10/20/2008, by John Anderson
Newsday (MCT) - The most important threesomes in movie history? The Marx Brothers. John Ford's cavalry trilogy. "The Godfather." "Star Wars" (the first three). And "Lord of the Rings." Oh, and "High School Musical."
Scoff if you must, but any 8-year-old with Disney Channel would simply tell you ...
‘Trouble the Water' directors found an ideal subject for their Katrina documentary
McClatchy Newspapers
10/16/2008, by Robert W. Butler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Originally, Brooklyn-based filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin thought they'd make a post-Katrina documentary about Louisiana National Guardsmen struggling to provide disaster relief. "After a few days of filming, one of their officers cut off our access," recalled ...
Mark Wahlberg and Ludacris come in from the cold to pitch their new film ‘Max Payne'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/16/2008, by David Hiltbrand
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - The hotel near Rittenhouse Square should put a plaque on the door of one of its luxe rooms: The Mark Wahlberg Suite. Every time the actor is in Philadelphia _ and he's shot four movies here _ he requests the same accommodations.
It's not just that the suite has ...
When times get tough, we pick ‘Chihuahua'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/14/2008, by Mark Caro
There's nothing like a cute little dog to take our minds off the economy. Chihuahua takes another big bite out of the box office last weekend. Chicago (MCT) - When the economy goes to the dogs, moviegoers follow.
That's the apparent message of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua's" weekend box office ...
Here are some tips on how to keep people going to the movies in tough times
McClatchy Newspapers
10/13/2008, by Barry Koltnow
I was thinking about the economy this morning, wondering whether I'll be able to afford to eat wet cat food instead of dry cat food during my retirement. The Orange County Register (MCT) - In the middle of these self-indulgent meanderings, I remembered that I still have a job, and that job requires ...
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