Whoa. This news isn't entirely fresh (it's been in development for some two years) but I can't shake it now that it's actually happening. Someone stop the doomsday clock. How is Dakota Fanning growing up so fast? She's a tiny adorable little kid. Sean Penn is her alien-battling father. Tom Cruise is...

Biography movies will never die! Run for cover. The NY Post blog PopWrap gave me a little chortle titling this premiere photo to your left "Emily Blunt: Boob Watch". If you were Emily Blunt wouldn't you stare at it, too? She's delicious and knows it. It seems like years ago when we first started tal...

Filed under: Entertainment, Celebrity, Cheat Sheet, News Our roundup of celeb gossip so you can keep up with your girlfriend. Rihanna will not press charges against Chris Brown. Is it us, or are they rapidly turning into Ike and Tina? (Anything Hollywood) The first trailer for Michael Mann's "Public...

OhLaLa ~Jake Gyllenhaal drinks to Jamie Foxx's new music video Blame It (on the alcohol)... always a good thing to blame it on. Foxx seems to have instructed his celebri-guests (there are a few others, too) to play "attitude" because they don't seem to be having a good time. Just Jared ~more Wolveri...

Nathaniel R: First things first, please welcome this year's Symposium guests (in alpha order just like Oscar do): Timothy Brayton, Antagonie & Ecstasy, Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine, Karina Longworth, Spout, Erik Lundegaard, Eriklundegaard.com and Kris Tapley, In Contention. They were chosen throu...

Milk scripter Dustin Lance Black, 34, tearfully accepted the Writers Guild Award for best original screenplay for Milk Saturday night by calling up the ghost of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the man who inspired Black when he moved to the Bay Area from San Antonio, Texas as a closeted ...

Spike Lee and his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, has nabbed the rights to "Now the Hell Will Start," a nonfiction book written by Brendan Koerner. Check out the book’s Web site here. The true story follows Herman Perry, a black Army private during World War II who snapped and w...

Hollywood has been singing a tune in the key of music biopics for decades, most recently with this weekend’s release of the Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace biopic Notorious. To honor Biggie Smalls, we take a look at 10 biopics that moved us far more than P. Diddy’s dance ...

There’s a moment in The Great Escape where you realize that Steve McQueen has been chosen for the role not just because of his sly devil-may-give-a-shit attitude, but also because the man represents America in the purest way possible. While the Brits are planning every detail and painstakingly...

400 Screens, 400 Blows is a weekly column that takes an in-depth look at the films playing below the radar, beneath the top ten, and on 400 screens or less. This year we've got at least three biopics jockeying for space in the year-end awards, just like every year. Biopics continue alternately to fa...