Movie News

Screen Actors Guild faces dissension from NY board (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 11:47 PM CST

AP - A faction of the Screen Actors Guild on Friday called for the union to suspend an upcoming vote to authorize a strike amid stalled negotiations with Hollywood producers.

Actor Van Johnson dies, aged 92 (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 08:47 PM CST

Reuters - Actor Van Johnson, a Hollywood star during the 1940s and 1950s who performed alongside Humphrey Bogart in "The Caine Mutiny," died on Friday aged 92.

After-parties feel heat from meltdown, SAG threat (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 08:28 PM CST

AP - The sleek shine of a designer gown, the gleam of a trophy, piles of gourmet food, a tipsy laugh. Award-show after-parties have always measured the glitz and glam of Hollywood, from the Golden Globes to the Grammys to the Oscars.

"Doubt" made easy -- the hard way (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 07:18 PM CST

Reuters - If there is anything that can be said about the new movie "Doubt," which debuted in major U.S. cities on Friday, it is that there was never a big question over whether the film would get made.

Actor Van Johnson, '40s heartthrob, dies at 92 (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 07:05 PM CST

AP - Van Johnson, whose boy-next-door wholesomeness made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s with such films as "30 Seconds over Tokyo," "A Guy Named Joe" and "The Caine Mutiny," died Friday of natural causes. He was 92.

Academy Awards hosts through the decades (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 06:54 PM CST

AP - Hugh Jackman isn't the first actor — or the first Australian (Paul Hogan was a co-host in 1987) — to host the Academy Awards. Here's a look at Oscar hosts through the years since the ceremony was first televised in 1953:

Triple-threat Hugh Jackman shakes up Oscar format (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 06:52 PM CST

AP - He sings, dances, acts on stage and screen, and he's the "Sexiest Man Alive." Hugh Jackman does everything but standup comedy — and that's why the first-time Oscars host fulfills the academy's promise to shake up the show in a way that's as tough to predict as the winners.

Rep: Tara Reid checked herself into rehab (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 06:39 PM CST

AP - A publicist says Tara Reid has checked herself into rehab.

Actors' strike threat casts shadow over Oscars (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 06:35 PM CST

Reuters - Even as Oscar organizers on Friday unveiled Hugh Jackman as the host of their gala film awards, the prospect of a U.S. actors strike was casting a long shadow over whether Hollywood's big show would go on as usual.