Movie News

Little "Elephant" roars at box office (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:49 AM CDT

Reuters - How did a low-budget movie with no lead stars (save supporting actress Ellen Burstyn) get the highest opening per-screen gross in the country?

"High School Musical," "Saw" lead U.S. box office (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:27 AM CDT

Reuters - In one of the more unusual duels at the North American box office, a perky Disney romantic musical trumped the fifth installment in the grisly "Saw" horror series, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

New cartoon "Coraline" fuses stop-motion, 3-D (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 01:22 AM CDT

Reuters - Director Henry Selick describes his upcoming "Coraline" as a marriage of "old-fashioned" stop-motion animation with the latest 3-D techniques.

Directors talk another "Madagascar" sequel (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 01:20 AM CDT

Reuters - The co-directors of "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" discussed the travel plans of Alex the lion and his friends during the Los Angeles premiere of the sequel to Dreamworks Animation's 2005 animated hit on Sunday.

"Saw V" is simply torture (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 12:34 AM CDT

Reuters - The old motto "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" is quoted in this latest installment of the ridiculously successful franchise and, well, shame on everybody involved in "Saw V."

Hudson offers $100,000 reward for missing nephew (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 07:22 PM CDT

AP - Jennifer Hudson and her family offered a $100,000 reward Sunday for the safe return of her missing nephew, as investigators looked for forensic evidence near the home where her mother and brother were found shot to death.

Bond cuts to the chase in fast-paced sequel (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 04:57 PM CDT

Reuters - The meanest and leanest James Bond film yet, "Quantum of Solace" is a breathless splash of high-speed action that hurtles from one reckless chase to another.