It was last night's Meryl Streep chit-chat that got me to thinking; Hell, 15 nominations is impressive enough, and she's even won the dang Oscar twice! For Kramer vs. Kramer and Sophie's Choice. But while in the lovely land of Hollywood that's a track record to be amazingly proud of, the simple trut...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Sundancers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather (41 degrees in the afternoon) as the festival headed toward its concluding weekend. Deals. After picking up the Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow, IFC Films added another comedy to its roster, acquiring...

- Former Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson (seen here at a book singing last month) recently gave an interview to Us in which she made Hugh Hefner look like an ass, and complained that she had to sneak out of the Playboy Mansion for sex. Well, obviously Hef had......

"You haul 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store. ..." -- "Sixteen Tons," Merle Travis Know thyself. -- Solon of Athens Moon, the directorial debut of Duncan Jones, opens with a bright, bre...

Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Sundance Reviews 2009 "You haul 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store. ..." -- "Sixteen Tons," Mer...

Donald Trump and his silent wife Melania (seriously, does she talk?) were among the rich celebrities last night who attended the Happy Hearts Fund 2008 ball "A Masquerade in Venice" to benefit children in disaster areas at Cipriani in NYC.Did Melania forget her glasses or is she just not......

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter: --Madonna has paid $7 million for the unit directly above her current 6,000-square-foot co-op at s 41 Central Park West. Last year, she filed suit against the building co-op board saying that they had wrongfully prevented her...

Filed under: Drama, Deals, Scripts I can't help but wonder if Kevin Spacey managed to score a 2 for 1 deal on the film rights to a Ben Mezrich book. 21 hasn't even hit theaters and Spacey has already picked up another property from the non-fiction writer. Variety reports that Spacey, in the form of ...

Filed under: Drama, New Releases, SXSW, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports In 21 , an M.I.T. math whiz joins a secret cabal of card-counters who fly to Vegas on the weekends to make a killing at the blackjack tables. That's the hook, the part you may not have seen in a thousand other films. But th...

Filed under: Drama, Site Announcements, Sony, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips So even if you choose to ignore the somewhat 'white-washed' casting for the big-screen version of Bringing Down the House , if you are a fan of the book you can't help but notice that there seems to be very little that...