Zombieland's Emma Stone to Star in The Help?

<em>Zombieland</em>'s Emma Stone to Star in <em>The Help</em>?

Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel The Help—which explores the social hierarchies of race in 1960s Mississippi—will soon be gracing the big screen...  read more

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Showtime and DreamWorks Partner on Movie Deal

Showtime and DreamWorks Partner on Movie Deal

Sure, most TV connoisseurs associate Showtime with its popular original programming like Dexter and Weeds, but the cable network was founded on movies, and they still take up a large part of their airwaves. That’s why when a trio of studios—Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—abandoned their longtime Showtime alliances to begin a new channel, Epix, they also left behind a rather gaping hole in the network’s lineup....  read more

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Disney and DreamWorks Ban Cast from Using Facebook and Twitter

Disney and DreamWorks Ban Cast from Using Facebook and Twitter

In what can only be described as a short-sighted business move by Hollywood moguls, Disney and DreamWorks have both added a clause to their contracts for cast and crew forbidding them to use social networking sites while in production on a film....  read more

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Steven Spielberg Signs on to Harvey Remake, Bridges Gap Between Production Companies

Steven Spielberg Signs on to <em>Harvey</em> Remake, Bridges Gap Between Production Companies

In 1950, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey was adapted for the silver screen. Nearly 50 years later, Steven Spielberg has recently agreed to direct and co-produce a remake of the classic film....  read more

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Michael Bay, DreamWorks Get Film Adaptation Rights to James Frey Sci-Fi Book

Michael Bay, DreamWorks Get Film Adaptation Rights to James Frey Sci-Fi Book

Although the book has not yet been published, science-fiction novel I Am Number Four, co-authored by James Frey, is set to become a film, and it's got big names behind it. Given Michael Bay's taste for big-time special effects, DreamWorks' talent for creating box-office brilliance and Frey's penchant for touching (yet not always wholly truthful) stories, it's likely to gather hype in the coming months....  read more

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Steven Spielberg Set to Produce MLK Biopic

Steven Spielberg Set to Produce MLK Biopic

Steven Spielberg will make good on his longtime plan to put together a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. at DreamWorks, though he will do it as a producer rather than a director. ...  read more

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Monsters vs. Aliens

Monsters vs. Aliens

The Japanese taught us long ago that the only thing better than a car chase is when two giant freakish creatures do battle...  read more

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In coup, DreamWorks to release movies through Disney

In coup, DreamWorks to release movies through Disney

In a major surprise and minor industry scandal, DreamWorks confirmed on Monday that it will now release its movies through Disney, not Universal, as had previously been announced. ...  read more

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Trailer Stash: The Reader, Fanboys, Cadillac Records, more

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And now, a brief look at a few of the latest movie trailers to hit the web: ...  read more

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Ben Stiller in talks to replace Spielberg on Chicago 7

Ben Stiller in talks to replace Spielberg on <em>Chicago 7</em>

Explain this one to us: Ben Stiller may fill in for Steven Spielberg as director of The Trial of the Chicago 7. ...  read more

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