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Director Billy Bob Thornton poses for the photo call of the film Jayne Mansfield's Car at the 62 edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
BERLIN Billy Bob Thornton says his frustration at the state of films in America prompted him to direct his first feature in more than a decade, the 1960s family drama "Jayne Mansfield's Car."
U.S. actress Angelina Jolie attends a press workshop of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Berlin Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
BERLIN Angelina Jolie said Monday she hopes her directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey" will provoke a wider discussion about rape - something that the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said could be extremely valuable in helping bring perpetrators to justice.
U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, left, and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo attend a press workshop of the ICC in Berlin Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
BERLIN Angelina Jolie says she's not yet sure whether she will follow her directorial debut on the Bosnian war with another film on such serious material - but she has already written a script focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan.
LOS ANGELES Moviegoers readily committed to "The Vow" this weekend, as the romantic drama posted the biggest opening of the year.
LONDON The breakout silent movie "The Artist" continued its unscripted run of awards glory Sunday when it was named best film and claimed six other trophies at the British film awards, including director and lead actor.
LONDON The breakout silent movie "The Artist" continued its unscripted run of awards glory Sunday when it was named best film and claimed six other trophies at the British film awards, including director and lead actor.
LONDON Winners of the 2012 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:
In this image released by Columbia Pictures, Rachel McAdams, left, and Channing Tatum are shown in a scene from "The Vow."
LOS ANGELES Love triumphed over action at the weekend box office with a No. 1 debut for the romantic drama "The Vow."
Protagonist Rohan Marley is flanked by director Kevin Macdonald, right, and artist Neville Garrick during the photo call of the film Marley at the 62 edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
BERLIN Billy Bob Thornton says his frustration at the state of films in America prompted him to direct his first feature in more than a decade, the 1960s family drama "Jayne Mansfield's Car."
This undated photo released by Richard Harbaugh/A.M.P.A.S. shows Douglas Trumbull. Hollywood filmmaker and visual-effects master Douglas Trumbull is receiving an honorary Academy Award. Trumbull is being honored with a special career achievement Academy Award at the Sci-Tech Awards dinner this weekend, and was given another lifetime honor by the Visual Effects Society earlier this week.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The first Oscars of the year have been presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards, the motion picture academy's annual celebration of the geeks and gizmos that make movie magic.
LONDON Silent movie "The Artist" had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards.
In this artist rendering released by Lucas Films, a drawing of the proposed Industry Light & Magic campus, is shown. Residents in a tony Marin County neighborhood just north of San Francisco have balked at filmmaker George Lucas' plans to build his next Industry Light & Magic campus in their upscale, rural community. The 275,000+ square foot complex with an outdoor sound stage and undergrounding parking for 250 cars would result in too much traffic, noise and environmental impacts to their bedroom community.
NICASIO, Calif. Luke Skywalker would be proud. A rebel alliance has formed in the hills north of San Francisco to fight a perceived Evil Empire.
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2009 file photo, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan speaks during an interview in London. Abhishek Bachchan, son of Amitabh Bachchan, said his father is recovering from abdominal surgery in a Mumbai hospital, India, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. India's best-known actor has a history of stomach ailments after he suffered an intestinal injury while filming a movie in 1982.
NEW DELHI Bollywood's biggest star Amitabh Bachchan underwent abdominal surgery on Saturday and was recovering well in a Mumbai hospital, his son said.
Angelina Jolie, director of the Golden Globe-nominated foreign language film "In the Land of Blood and Honey," poses at the Golden Globe Foreign Language Nominees Seminar, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles. Jolie says she's nervous and excited about the upcoming premiere in Sarajevo of her Bosnian war movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey." The film, which is showing at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday Feb. 11, 2012, is set to make its full debut in the Bosnian capital on Feb. 14, though it already has been shown to some groups there.
BERLIN Angelina Jolie says she's nervous and excited about the upcoming premiere in Sarajevo of her Bosnian war movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey."
FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2012 file photo, Ice-T, from the film "The Art of Rap," pose for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
LOS ANGELES Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Eminem, Nas and Kanye West are coming to a theater near you.
Firefighters continue to pour water on hotspots on a burning building , Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 near Stockbridge, Ga. A museum official says valuable memorabilia from the classic film 'Gone with the Wind' was being kept in a storage facility that was heavily damaged by fire. Frenda Turner of the Road to Tara Museum fears much of the collection was lost to flames or water damage. Turner said items stored there included "highly, highly collectable" Gone With the Wind memorabilia not currently on display at the Jonesboro museum. She said the items included large poster-type boards that were used at the 1939 premier. Henry County Fire Capt. Sabrina Puckett says firefighters battled the blaze for several hours overnight. Fire officials said one person was injured in the blaze. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic film "Gone with the Wind" was ruined when a fire heavily damaged the facility near Atlanta where it was stored.
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (PG-13): Nicolas Cage reprises his role as the Marvel Comics superhero with a flaming skull and an insatiable appetite for raining pain down on evildoers. The wild-and-crazy duo of Neveldine / Taylor ("Crank") directs. (Not screening for critics before it opens Friday.)
LOS ANGELES - Woody Harrelson wants the windows down. "Do you mind if we go old style on this? I don't like air conditioning." The journalist at the wheel of the Honda Accord jabs a button and the famous passenger gets a face full of Sunset Strip. Harrelson is used to breathing in paradise - he lives in Maui most of the time - but even West Hollywood tastes sweet when you feel like you're smothering. "Yeah," the 50-year-old star said, "that's better already."
'Tis nearly Valentine's Day, fellas, when you're expected to sit down with your gal to see "The Vow," or something like it.
From left actor Thomas Horn, background centre director Stephen Daldry and actor Max von Sydow pose at the photo call for the film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.
BERLIN Director Stephen Daldry has brought Sept. 11 drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" to the Berlin International Film Festival, saying the film was sensitive to make.
Here's what you may (or may not) remember from "Star Wars: Episode 1-The Phantom Menace," now back in theaters in 3-D.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. The owner of Hollywood's Kodak Theatre is challenging bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.'s effort to end its sponsorship agreement and have the company's name removed from the Academy Awards venue.
They split in 2008, but apparently Madonna stayed married to director Guy Ritchie just long enough to absorb his most grating cinematic instincts - shooting in every style, in an addled, shuffle-mode, falsely glamorizing way until all is chaos. And, astonishingly, boredom.
"Safe House" is solid evidence of mind-body duality. This overproduced spy thriller never really seized my imagination, but it kept my knee jiggling nervously for 115 minutes.
Do whatever necessary to avoid "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," a quasi-sequel to the 2008 release "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It's a monumental failure because of clunky acting, an uninspired story, not-so-special effects and flat 3-D.
Early on in the derivative but fairly absorbing blur titled "Safe House," set in Cape Town, South Africa, Denzel Washington's Tobin Frost, a spy in from the cold, is brought to a Central Intelligence Agency safe house so that he can be asked a few questions about the super-secret intel he has in his possession. Wordlessly, Washington sits in a chair, as a supporting player (Robert Patrick) prepares for the waterboarding, and in one five-second progression Washington smiles, drops his head, lifts it back up - and his face has morphed into that of a man who has killed and will be killing again very soon.
What a difference five years can make. For Paige (Rachel McAdams), it meant a new life free from her rich, controlling parents, free-spirited new friends, a loving marriage to Leo (Channing Tatum), and a promising career as a sculptor. Then she loses her memory after a car crash, and without those experiences, who is she?
The new romance film "The Vow" suggests love means never having to say you can't remember your spouse's name. The film, loosely based on a true story, follows the life of a woman who comes out of a coma with no recollection of her married life.
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, Jean Dujardin holds his co-star Uggie the dog arrive at the AFI gala screening of "The Artist" at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Hollywood really has gone to the dogs this year. There's even a brand-new awards show, The Golden Collar Awards, honoring canine performers. Alan Siskind, creator of Dog News Daily, a website and marketing firm, came up with the idea to honor on-screen dogs in January when he noticed how many films prominently featured man's best friend.
LOS ANGELES The Oscars aren't until Feb. 26, but winners of the Pawscars are already celebrating.
LOS ANGELES The average movie ticket price in the U.S. climbed to an annual record of $7.93 in 2011, up from $7.89 the year before, the National Association of Theatre Owners said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES The new romantic drama "The Vow" is poised to steal the hearts of moviegoers this weekend.
LOS ANGELES When a movie calls itself "The Vow," you know it takes its love and its relationships seriously. And that's certainly the case with the new romantically and medically challenged weepie starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.
LOS ANGELES Can a $70 business loan change the life of someone long entrenched in poverty with little education and less hope? And would that loan ever be repaid?
LOS ANGELES Is any place less safe than a safe house? In the entire lexicon of movie locations, is any setting more likely to be visited by chaos and destruction on a biblical scale? Not very likely.
ST. LOUIS - Recently, 3-D has begun to shake off its reputation for gimmickry and be taken seriously as a means of cinematic expression by esteemed filmmakers from Martin Scorsese ("Hugo") to Werner Herzog ("Cave of Forgotten Dreams"). Still, "Pina" is something special.
ADDICTION INCORPORATED 2 stars. A documentary that recounts the legal battles against American Big Tobacco. It's a long, studious film. 1 hr. 42 PG-13 (adult themes) - David Hiltbrand
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, actress Naomi Watts attends the National Board of Review awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. Producers say Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal's life. Britain's Ecosse Films says "Caught in Flight" will focus on the two years before Diana's death in a Paris car crash in August 1997. Filming will begin later this year.
LONDON Producers say Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal's life.
Rachel McAdams can't remember. She can't remember the car wreck involving a Meat Loaf song, she can't remember her hottie husband and she can't remember making "The Notebook."
PHILADELPHIA - Wim Wenders was two weeks away from the start date for his new film when his star - Philippina "Pina" Bausch, the German choreographer - died. She had cancer, and had been diagnosed only five days earlier.
LOS ANGELES - Visual effects visionary, director and producer Douglas Trumbull has a "broad" philosophy of film. He believes that everything in a movie is, in essence, a special effect.
LOS ANGELES - Although they're just co-stars in the new tear-jerker romance "The Vow," if you didn't know any better it'd be easy to think Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams are an old married couple.
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"The Vow" is like a Nicholas Sparks novel with a dash of wit, a hint of edge and a smidgen less sap. It's a romance in "The Notebook" tradition - "inspired by true events" and scripted by committee. But as such concoctions go, it's not half bad.
Picture supplied by Christie's auctioneers , of Van Gogh's work Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy, which sold for £10,121,250 (nearly $16 million) at a sale of paintings from Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor's art collection Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. Three paintings from the estate of the late star, by Van Gogh, Edgar Degas and Claude Pissarro fetched a combined £13,787,750 at the Christie's sale, more than double their pre-sale low estimate
LONDON Paintings, jewelry and fashions belonging to the late Elizabeth Taylor have sold for more than $183 million, with all of the more than 1,800 items on offer snapped up, Christie's auction house said Thursday.
Workers clear the red carpet of snow prior to the beginning of the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
BERLIN A costume drama set during the French revolution and starring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette kicked off the annual Berlin film festival Thursday - the first of the year's major European film festivals.
The moon is made of tinkling gold stars - and you can reach it by climbing a ladder.
Where feature films conform to the three-act structure of drama, movie short subjects are more like short stories.
He must have joined "The Agency" with an eye toward excitement, exotic locales and danger. But in Capetown, a backwater as far as foreign intrigue goes, agency newcomer Matt Weston is stuck - a one-man show, running a never-used "safe house" in the C.I.A.'s real-estate portfolio.
Cast and crew err on the side of silly in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," the amusingly childish sequel to that unlikely 2008 hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth." They've rendered Jules Verne's novel into a jokey lark, with broad, corny wisecracks, comic sidekicks and everybody riffing on the ginormous lizards, humungous spiders and the like.
LOS ANGELES Ayuko Babu, cofounder and executive director of the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, which kicks off its 20th anniversary Thursday, peppers his conversation with the word "explosion."
