Archive: February 2009 (161-170 of 218)

Feb 9 2009 09:21 PM ET

Britney Spears reaches custody agreement, tour is a go

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Categories: Music

Britney Spears will go on a world tour as previously announced, now that she has worked out a custody agreement with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, allowing her to bring her children, Jayden James and Sean Preston, along with her on the road, TMZ.com reports. The website had previously reported that Spears would cancel the tour if an arrangement could not be reached. The 31-city North American wing of the tour is scheduled to commence on March 3 in New Orleans.

Feb 9 2009 06:26 PM ET

Jon Krakauer's Pat Tillman book is a go!

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Categories: Books

Good news for Jon Krakauer fans: The Into the Wild author will indeed release his book about Pat Tillman, the NFL star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. Eight months after Doubleday confirmed that the book was postponed indefinitely — thanks to Krakauer’s displeasure with his manuscript — the publisher announced plans to release the book Sept. 22 (Doubleday said Krakauer reversed his decision on its release after having additional time to write and report the book). According to Publishers Marketplace, the book is titled Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, and Doubleday will release 600,000 copies in its first printing.   

Feb 9 2009 06:12 PM ET

Disney, Dreamworks enter long-term distribution agreement

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Just days after Universal issued a statement that all discussions of an alignment with Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios had been finished, Walt Disney Studios has agreed to enter into an exclusive long-term distribution arrangement with DreamWorks. Disney will handle distribution and marketing for approximately six DreamWorks films each year — the first to be released under the Touchstone Pictures banner will hit theaters in 2010. Reliance BIG Entertainment, a partner in DreamWorks, will distribute the new company’s projects in India.

Previously: Dreamworks set to move to Disney?

Feb 9 2009 10:50 AM ET

McG on Christian Bale rant: 'It happens'

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Categories: Movies

Terminator: Salvation director McG spoke to fans at New York Comic Con on Saturday about the infamous on-set F-Bomb assault his star, Christian Bale, dropped on the film’s director of photography, People.com reports. "The film set is a passionate place, and it happens," McG tsaid. "There was no version of, ‘Oh, Christian is going to whip his ass.’ It was just sort of a blowup….I think I can speak on all of ourbehalf that we’ve all gotten a little fired up. And if anybody wouldtake that moment and take it out of context, it would seem very, verystrange."

More Christian Bale freak out:
Christian Bale detonates some major F-bombs
Christian Bale’s rant: The ‘Bale Out’ remix
Christian Bale apologizes for rant

Feb 9 2009 07:00 AM ET

Brett Ratner will direct 'Youngblood'

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Categories: Movie Biz

It’s rush hour for Brett Ratner, whose company Rat Entertainment has signed deals with Indian media company Reliance Big Entertainment for two fast-tracked projects. Ratner will direct Youngblood, an adaptation of Rob Liefeld’s graphic novel about a superhero team sanctioned and overseen by the U.S. government. "It was a real personal passion project for me," Ratner said. He’ll also produce a project called Infinity, based on the French graphic novel Fly Wires. Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) will direct.

Feb 9 2009 02:14 AM ET

'Slumdog Millionaire' sweeps BAFTAs

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Categories: Movies

Slumdog Millionaire added to its ever-increasing awards-season haul on Sunday with seven wins at the annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Danny Boyle’s Mumbai-set drama swept the top prizes — Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Other victors included In Bruges for Best Original Screenplay, WALL-E for Best Animated Film, Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) for Leading Actor, Kate Winslet (The Reader) for Leading Actress, Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) for Supporting Actress, and Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) for Supporting Actor.

The BAFTAs are often considered a predictor of Academy Award tallies, although just two of this decade’s eight Best Picture Oscar winners also went home with the top prize at the BAFTAs — Gladiator and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Feb 8 2009 07:15 PM ET

Ed O'Neill returns to TV with ABC's 'American Family'

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Categories: Television

Ed O’Neill, who memorably played lazy shoe-salesman dad Al Bundy in Fox’s Married With Children, will return to network TV with the ABC half-hour pilot An American Family. The single-camera sitcom will revolve around three families. O’Neill plays a 60-year-old stepdad married to a Latina (Sofia Vergara) 30 years his junior, while Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler are signed on to play another family: a gay couple who have adopted a Vietnamese baby.

Feb 8 2009 06:04 AM ET

Writers Guild honors scribes for 'Slumdog Millionaire,' 'Milk'

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Categories: Movies

More good news for Slumdog Millionaire: The rags-to-riches story penned by Simon Beaufoy took the prize for best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards Feb. 7 in Los Angeles. In the original screenplay category, Dustin Lance Black — who also received the honorary Paul Selvin Award for penning a story about civil liberties — won for Milk. The Guild also uses the night to pay tribute to outstanding achievements in TV writing, so (no surprise here!) scribes for Mad Men and 30 Rock were awarded those funny-looking winged trophies, as well. Here were the night’s winning writers:

Original screenplay: Milk, written by Dustin Lance Black

Adapted screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy

Drama series: Writing staff of Mad Men

Comedy series: Writing staff of 30 Rock

New series: Writing staff of In Treatment

Episodic drama: Breaking Bad, pilot, Vince Gilligan

Episodic comedy: 30 Rock, "Succession," Andrew Guest and John Riggi

TV movie, original: Recount, Danny Strong

TV movie, adaptation: John Adams, Kirk Ellis

Animation: The Simpsons, "Apocalypse Cow," Jeff Westbrook

Comedy/variety series: Writing staff of Saturday Night Live

Daytime series: Writing staff of As the World Turns

Comedy, variety special: Writing staff of 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards

Feb 7 2009 12:34 AM ET

James Whitmore dies at age 87

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Categories: In Memoriam, Movies

Jameswhitmoreshaw_lJames Whitmore, the Emmy- and Tony-winning actor who starred in scores of movies, stage plays, and television dramas over more than half a century, died on Friday at his home in Malibu, Calif., the Associated Press reports. Best known to current audiences as the wise and lonely old librarian in The Shawshank Redemption, Whitmore was 87 years old and had been suffering from lung cancer.

Often appearing in historical dramas and Westerns, Whitmore was renowned for his one-man theater performances about Harry Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, and Will Rogers, and he won acclaim as an actor across all stages. He was twice nominated for Academy Awards, garnering a Best Actor nod for 1975′s Give ‘em Hell, Harry! and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for 1949′s Battleground. He took home an Emmy in 2000 for a guest-starring role on The Practice. And his Tony Award came in the late 1940s for the play Command Decision.

Feb 7 2009 12:29 AM ET

Mickey Rourke set for 'St. Vincent'

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Categories: Movies

Academy Award nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) has signed on the star in the independent hit-man drama St. Vincent, Variety reports. The actor will play an assassin who masquerades as a priest in New York, where he winds up taking the confession of one of his targets. Walter Hill (The Warriors) will direct the movie, which is due to begin production later this year.

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