• Anne Hathaway and Neil Patrick Harris are joining the voice cast of Rio, the next movie from Blue Sky Productions (Ice Age). The story follows "a nerdy macaw who lights out from his small-town Minnesota cage for the exotic Summer Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro." So it's Madagascar with birds, basically.
CHICAGO (AdAge.com)
-- Nascar is sprinting into cinema ads, and it is bringing its sponsors along
for the ride. The auto-racing behemoth has cut a three-year deal with cinema-ad
network Screenvision to bring original branded content to 15,000 movie screens,
the league's first play in a fast-growing format that has spotlighted the sport
in movies such as "Talladega Nights" and "Days of Thunder."
Netflix doubled its profit in its third quarter, raised its
forecast, added more than a half-million subscribers. Amazon.com also reported stellar
Q3 earnings on Thursday.
It takes money to make money. That's the essence of a newly
released study by SNL Kagan, which found that pics toting the biggest negative
cost also tend to fetch the most profit.
Eighty films are featured in the 13th annual Hollywood Film
Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, which commences Friday evening at the ArcLight
Hollywood.
from Movieline
We already knew Liza Minnelli would drop into Sex and the
City 2 for a rendition of "Single Ladies." But according to one
actor who shot the film's big wedding scene with her, it was one of her
mother's songs that stopped the show.
Ms. Wilcox worked actively in television and in theater, but
she was best-known for her film role as Mayella Ewell in "To Kill a Mockingbird,"
the 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee's novel.
from Splash Page by Josh Wigler
As "Astro
Boy" prepares to lift-off into theaters this weekend, the many cast
and crew members of the film are making the press rounds to discuss the
upcoming manga adaptation's plot and thematic elements.
Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse and Fan Bingbing will
star in new kung-fu project Shaolin Temple, Variety reports. Hong Kong's Benny
Chan will direct the $29 million project, a remake of the 1980s film of the
same name. It will shoot later this year for a late 2010 release.
The lead singer of literate bar-rockers The Hold Steady, Craig
Finn, is teaming up with a Dave Letterman writer to bring Chuck Kloserman's
first book to the silver screen.
ABC is teaming with "Biggest Loser" exec producer J.D.
Roth for a show where extremely overweight people shed hundreds of pounds over
the course of a full year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A coalition of mega-bands and singers
outraged that music - including theirs - was cranked up to help break
uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers
and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama's push to
shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba....
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Rock band Bon Jovi announced
plans Thursday for a new world tour that will swing by the new home of the New
York Giants and Jets
LILONGWE (Reuters) - Madonna will visit Malawi on Sunday to
lay the foundation stone of a multi-million dollar girls' school she is
building, her charity Raising Malawi told Reuters.
Michael Jackson's mother is changing the legal team she's
using to fight for control of her son's estate, according to a lawyer involved
in the litigation.
Didn't catch Sunday's sneak preview of AMC's The Pitch (which officially premieres on Mon. Apr. 30)? For a limited time only, the full episode is available free at AMCtv.com.
Sneak Peek Episode 106 The Pitch: JDRFSee what's at stake when two agencies compete to win the JDRF account. Don't miss the next episode of The Pitch on Sunday May 27th.
