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2/18/2008 11:10:02 PM

"No Country" adds honors in pre-Oscar awards blitz (Reuters)
2/18/2008 9:31:04 PM
Reuters - Oscar front-runner "No Country For Old Men" picked up two awards during the weekend as the countdown to the Academy Awards entered its final week.

Italian film festival to honor Polanski (Reuters)
2/18/2008 8:38:10 PM
Reuters - Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, a fugitive from American justice, will be honored at the Turin Film Festival in November.

Satan ready for close-up in "Master" adaptation (Reuters)
2/18/2008 8:37:35 PM
Reuters - Mikhail Bulgakov's satanic novel "The Master and Margarita," an inspiration for the Rolling Stones tune "Sympathy for the Devil," is being turned into a movie, two decades after Roman Polanski attempted to bring it to the big screen.

Alan Menken looks for another Oscar (AP)
2/18/2008 6:40:48 PM
Composer Alan Menken is seen in a Feb. 4, 2008, file photo.  Menken, co-composer of songs from Walt Disney's musical hit 'Enchanted' has three of the five nominations in the original-song category at the Academy Awards. Sunday Feb. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian/file)AP - If it truly is a pleasure just to be nominated for an Oscar, Alan Menken must be Hollywood's happiest man.

Brazilian director blasts "Elite Squad" critics (Reuters)
2/18/2008 4:28:36 PM
Reuters - Brazilian director Jose Padilha, winner of the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his movie "Elite Squad," hit back at critics on Monday with all the force of its antihero, police captain Nascimento.

"Enfant terrible" Robbe-Grillet dies (Reuters)
2/18/2008 3:29:38 PM
Director Alain Robbe-Grillet (C), cast members Dany Verissimo (L) and Marie Espinosa pose during a photocall to introduce their film 'C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle' at the Venice Film Festival, September 8, 2006. Robbe-Grillet, an Reuters - Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday aged 85, his publishers said.

Sci-fi film "Jumper" tops worldwide box office (Reuters)
2/18/2008 1:54:33 PM
Director Doug Liman and actors Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson attend the premiere of the movie Jumper at the Zeigfeld Theater in New York, February 11, 2008. REUTERS/Marko GeorgievReuters - Sci-fi fantasy "Jumper" led the worldwide movie box office after opening at No. 1 in North America and in countries including Britain and Korea, befitting its story about a man who can instantly leap around the globe.

Gloom dominates tight Oscar documentary race (Reuters)
2/18/2008 12:43:23 PM
Oscar nominated documentary film makers Michael Moore (L) and Meghan O'Hara pose at the 80th annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California February 4, 2008.   REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni   (UNITED STATES)Reuters - Viewers may think some of the nominees for best picture at next week's Academy Awards are dark, but they pale in comparison with the movies competing for the coveted Oscar for best documentary.

Johnny, Jude, Colin Sub for Heath (E! Online)
2/18/2008 10:48:52 AM
Johnny, Jude, Colin Sub for Heath(E! Online)E! Online - Hollywood's version of the three musketeers is riding to the rescue of fallen pal Heath Ledger's final film.

Memo to Jumper: Next Time, Flaming Skulls (E! Online)
2/18/2008 10:12:23 AM
Memo to Jumper: Next Time, Flaming Skulls(E! Online)E! Online - Jumper was no Ghost Rider. And so this President's Day weekend was no holiday for Hollywood.

Oscar countdown begins in Hollywood (Reuters)
2/18/2008 9:02:20 AM
A large Oscar statue is carried along the red carpet outside the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, February 25, 2005. REUTERS/Sam Mircovich SSMReuters - It is Oscar week in Hollywood, and after three months in the dark winter of a bitter labor strike, the movie industry finally has something to celebrate -- itself.

Oscar town: Marfa, Texas? (AP)
2/18/2008 12:00:13 AM
AP - A thousand feet above a wind-swept, drought-browned valley, a man steps out of a late-70s Ford Granada on a deserted two-lane. He is confronted by a second man, who raises a pneumatic bolt gun to his forehead and deals a fatal blow.

Indian opulent Mughal epic panned (Reuters)
2/18/2008 5:36:42 AM
Reuters - A film about the fabled romance of a Mughal emperor, whose rule stands as a symbol for religious harmony in India, has been panned by many critics and sparked protests over the historical accuracy of his on-screen love life.



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