
- Holiday Weekend Box Office Gets Off to Record-Setting Start with 3-D Transformers: Dark of the Moon; plus Transformers 3 Set to Slaughter 2-D Field; Plus Terri, Aurora, Perfect Host, Uninspired Larry Crowne; and Transformers: Dark of the Moon Reviews: 3-D Action Porn, Nostalgia for Megan Fox
- Screenwriters Talk A Better Life: From Capracorn and Social Realism to Weitz and Bichir.
- Last Weekend's Box Office: Cars 2 Beats Critic Brickbats and Cars with $68 Million; Diaz Opens Bad Teacher
TRAILER WATCH
- Outer Space Horror in APOLLO 18, In Theaters September 2; Steven Spielberg’s War Horse Looks Like Oscar Bait; and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Starring Oldman, Firth, Hardy, Strong.
IN THE WORKS
- First Look at The Raven: Cusack Frighteningly Passable as Edgar Allen Poe.- Portman & Butler Win Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton Poll for Scorsese’s Furious Love.
- Place Beyond The Pines: Cast Gets Hotter, with Liotta Joining Gosling, Cooper, Mendes, Mendelsohn.
- Next Coen Brothers’ Feature Goes Folk, Moverman Writes Brian Wilson Biopic.
- Emma Thompson to Adapt Annie for Will and Willow Smith and Jay-Z?
- Mandate Buys Diablo Cody Script Lamb of God for Her to Direct.
- Why Tragic Jeff Buckley Biopic Has Lured the Likes of Pitt, Maguire, Pattinson, and now Badgley.
- Franco Nero Talks Meeting Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained.
- Johansson Sings, Cranston for Affleck’s Argo, Denzel Washington for Katrina Drama, Patel for Sorkin.
- Noomi Rapace & Husband Ola Rapace to Star in Hardwicke’s Lindblom/Högberg Love Story.
OSCAR WATCH & FESTIVALS
- Academy Moves Around Governors List, Adds Hurd, Bening, Mazursky.- Oscar Watch: Skin I Live In Gets October Date; Carnage Goes to November, Holiday Sked Shapes Up.
- Oscar Watch: Weinstein Co. Adds Director Madonna’s Sophomore Film W.E. to Holiday Line-Up.
- Palm Springs International ShortFest: The Road to Hollywood, Oscar.
- LAFF Highlights: From Bernie to Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Winners.
- AFI-Discovery Channel’s Silverdocs Fest Announces Audience Award Winners: Donor Unknown, Mr. Happy.
MEDIA
- Hollywood Chases Bin Laden Capture.- Media Watch: Wikipedia Love Button, Hearst Umbrella Campaign, Mind the Spending Gap.
- First Four MBA/MFA Students Graduate from NYU.
- Trade Watch: TheWrap Makes Changes, Adds Reuters, Schruers, Duralde, Willman.
- Media Watch: Selling MySpace for a Song, Tina Brown Defends Photoshopping Princess Diana
PLUS
- Long-Running Ron Meyer Wins Universal Game of Survivor; More Changes in Store?- BAFTA LA’s Britannia Awards to Disney/Pixar’s John Lasseter, Harry Potter’s David Yates
- Last Chance to Celebrate LACMA Classic Cinema Favorites!
- Mickey Spillane’s Best Mike Hammer Hits Criterion via Kiss Me Deadly.
- EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Spurlock’s Greatest Movie Ever Sold on Blu-ray & DVD August 23.
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