Afghan director: Insurgency threatens movie scene

A Golden Globe-winning Afghan director who made the country's first post-Taliban movie says he's worried the group's resurgence may threaten artistic freedom again.

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Big screen evolves to compete with small

Today, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O'Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but is often just as happy to hunker down on a bed or a couch with friends to watch a downloaded movie on a laptop that's perched on a nearby desk or a chair.

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Hollywood studios agree to digital rollout

Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie screens in North America, a precursor to showing movies in 3-D.

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'Harold and Kumar Escape' is a Can’t Miss film

MoviesIf nothing else, “Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” sounds like a tough location shoot. Fortunately, the boys aren’t there for long, and neither is the film. In fact, if you’ve ever eaten at a White Castle — the site of a previous adventure by the stoner duo — you’ll know that sometimes it’s harder to escape that drive-through line. In this newest entry, Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are mistaken for terrorists. Miraculously, they do escape from the notoriously secure penitentiary, but then have to elude a rabidly determined Homeland Security chief (Rob Corddry), who believes they represent a new, more virulent strain of terrorist and are not simply two slackers who like to smoke dope. Warning: If they put people in Guantanamo Bay for being politically incorrect, these filmmakers would land in solitary confinement. (New Line Cinema, opens Friday)

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6 Killed in India Cinema Bombing

A bomb ripped through a packed movie theater in northern India on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding at least 30 others, authorities said.

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Sony Introduces New Digital Projector

After more than a decade of talking about it, movie theaters and studios are finally rolling out digital projectors that show sharper, brighter images without cracks, pops or hisses.

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If American independent cinema could be said to have a birthday, Nov. 11 is as good a date to celebrate as any. On that night 50 years ago, John Cassavetes, an actor then best known for his TV roles, unveiled for a downtown New York audience his directing debut, Shadows.

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Young Woman's Drive to Get the Petition for Roman Polanksi's Release Dropped Gaining Noteriety – and Signatures

A university student’s effort to “Drop the petition for Roman Polanksi's release” is gaining public attention, and has resulted in at least one celebrity withdrawing their name from French philosopher’s Bernard-Henri Lévy’s petition calling fo …

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A controversial film about the "intimate" relationship between Lord Mountbatten's wife and India's first prime minister has been put on hold by a Hollywood studio after the Indian Government demanded that the love scenes should be deleted.

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With slick horror movies hitting theaters this horror-tastic season, it's important that you know how to recognize true, authentic made-in-my-basement chills. You know it's an indie horror movie when . . .

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Poll: Did you see many of the summer '09 film releases? Any favorites? Any you disliked?

The top-three grossing movies so far this year were all released this summer: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Getting Ready for Halloween Poll: What's the scariest movie ever?

"All Hallow’s Eve" is just around the corner! This means time to come up with a clever costume, stock up on treats to give out, and above all, get frightened by your favorite scary movie.

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By Prachi Pinglay BBC News, Mumbai After drinking pesticide out of sheer desperation, poverty-stricken farmer Nandu collapsed. He did this on screen in front of an audience at a packed multiplex cinema, which issued a collective gasp.

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The arrest of film director Roman Polanski in Switzerland and his threatened extradition to the US have stirred the baying hounds of 'law and order' into action.

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If your average guy were to rape a 13-year-old girl and then flee into exile rather than paying for his crime, pretty much everyone and their twin sister would agree that he was a scumbag who deserved nothing less than the hammer of justice brought down upon him.

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This two-hour scripted drama tells the remarkable story behind the unveiling of the most influential scientific theory of all time, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

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Indie distributor Newmarket is back on the acquisitions scene, picking up U.S. rights to Toronto International Film Festival opener "Creation."

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This clever video pieces together scenes depicting the already-hoary suspense-film cliche in which a cellular phone's signal (or battery) gives out at just the wrong (right) time so that the characters will have something to be in suspense about.

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Remarkably, the feature will now be handled by the same firm which helped make Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ such a huge box-office hit in 2004. Newmarket is reportedly aiming for a December release for the biopic.

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Cruising on the Gordon River in his home state of Tasmania, Jonathan Auf Der Heide was told the story of the cannibal convict Alexander Pearce. The aspiring film director was soon obsessed.

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Tim Hunter (co-screenwriter): Foster City was supposed to be an ideal bedroom community. The designers built it with a master plan; it was threaded with little man-made canals and waterways. Outside of some houses were docks that people could use to boat to the grocery store.

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Brigitte Bardot, one of the true icons of the last century is the subject of this excellent four-minute mini documentary from the Guardian.

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Hollywood icon James Dean is the star of a new television advertisement for an investment firm in South Africa. The advertisement features imagined scenes from Dean's life had he survived the car crash that killed him in 1955 at the age of 24.

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WASHINGTON - CINEMA-GOERS in Asia and Europe could soon be able to watch movies without keeping their legs crossed or shifting from side to side, as the US-based Runpee.com website prepares to expand globally.

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After months of resistance, the creators of the Charles Darwin bio-pic "Creation" say they're close to getting a distribution deal in the United States.

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Robert Redford's historical drama about the aftermath of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln looks set to get under way.

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Sylvester Stallone was obviously glowing with pride at being awarded a film-making prize today. But it was more than just the flush of success that was contributing to the Rambo star's slightly orange and frozen complexion.

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Two articles: Daily Mail - New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences

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Government involvement in alien-themed movies continues to the present day.

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Alien lovers who were disappointed with Hollywood’s latest extra-terrestrial offerings - tame Caribbean blue spandex aliens, recently previewed in James Cameron’s highly anticipated film ‘Avatar’ - can look forward to District 9.

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It's not even Labor Day weekend yet, but 2009 has already become the highest-grossing summer ever at the domestic box office. Through Sunday, summer B.O. revs were $4.17 billion, compared to $4.16 billion for summer 2007, the previous record holder for best summer sesh.

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