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Feb 27, 2009 7:15 AM CST

Slumdog Kids Back in Slum

Child actors receive heroes' welcome in Mumbai

(Newser) - No more red carpet: The two child stars of Slumdog Millionaire have returned from Hollywood to their now-infamous Mumbai slum, CNN reports. The pair, excited from the trip but exhausted from the media attention, were greeted by enthusiastic crowds. Rubina Ali, 9, says she has heard rumors of new homes...

Warren Beatty
Courts LiLo ...
No, Not Like That

Feb 26, 2009 10:29 AM CST

Warren Beatty Courts LiLo ... No, Not Like That

Actor will consider Lohan for role, but only if she lives with him

(Newser) - Warren Beatty wants to cast Lindsay Lohan in his upcoming film, but he’s not willing to gamble on the troubled starlet's reliability. The film icon will require the 22-year-old to live with him—or at least on his property—during production, Fox News reports. Lohan is said to be...

Tarantino's Basterds
Looks as Lousy as His Spelling

OPINION

Feb 25, 2009 2:27 PM CST

Tarantino's Basterds Looks as Lousy as His Spelling

(Newser) - The trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Inglourious Basterds, is just 100 seconds long, but that's enough. "Perhaps there will prove to be a level of postmodern self-ironising,” Paul MacInnes writes in the Guardian. “Perhaps serving up Kill Bill with the Holocaust as a backdrop will...

Slumdog Kids
Promised New Digs

Feb 25, 2009 1:40 AM CST

Slumdog Kids Promised New Digs

Indian government vows to upgrade housing for kids 'who have brought laurels' to nation

(Newser) - The two key child actors in Oscar-sweeping Slumdog Millionaire will receive new homes in Mumbai, compliments of the Indian government, Reuters reports. The children, who played the younger versions of the movie's main characters, "have brought laurels to the country, and we have been told that they live in...

Cera Joins
Arrested
Development
Movie

Feb 24, 2009 7:49 PM CST

Cera Joins Arrested Development Movie

(Newser) - Fans of the family Bluth, rejoice. Michael Cera has signed on to the Arrested Development movie, reports E! Online. Details have been sketchy, but Cera—whose role as George-Michael Bluth on the show helped propel him to teen stardom in movies such as Superbad and Juno—had reportedly been the...

Will Americans See Ledger's Last Film?

Feb 24, 2009 1:00 PM CST

Will Americans See Ledger's Last Film?

Distributors aren't exactly fighting over indie Parnassus

(Newser) - Heath Ledger’s highly anticipated last film, the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is having an inordinate amount of trouble landing a US distributor, reports Steven Zeitchik in the Hollywood Reporter. Over the summer, Lionsgate, Overture, and others were lining up for the rights, but since then things have hit a...

Slumdog Kids Hit Disneyland

Feb 24, 2009 9:22 AM CST

Slumdog Kids Hit Disneyland

Child actors celebrate win with Mickey

(Newser) - What better way to celebrate your Oscar win than by going to the Happiest Place on Earth? That’s where the child actors from Slumdog Millionaire headed the day after their film won Best Picture. For some, the whirlwind trip to California marked their first time on a plane—or...

Best and Worst of Oscar Night

Feb 23, 2009 7:12 AM CST

Best and Worst of Oscar Night

Funny and un-funny moments abound at ceremony

(Newser) - Oscar night was filled with highs and lows, from the predictably inspirational moments when Kate Winslet finally won and Heath Ledger’s family received his posthumous award, to the cheap shot of producers cutting to Angelina Jolie’s face during Jennifer Aniston’s presenter speech. More from the Los Angeles ...

Slumdog Wins Best Picture

oscar roundup

Feb 22, 2009 11:03 PM CST

Slumdog Wins Best Picture

Penn, Winslet win for lead roles; Boyle wins Director

(Newser) - In a fast-moving Oscar ceremony tonight, Slumdog Millionaire led the pack with eight awards including best picture and best directing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sean Penn beat out Mickey Rourke for best actor in the evening's major upset, and Kate Winslet scored gold for her controversial turn in The ...

The Most Undeserved Oscars

Feb 22, 2009 6:07 AM CST

The Most Undeserved Oscars

SF Chronicle serves up its 'Titanic Awards'

(Newser) - Oscars go to undeserving flicks so often that the San Francisco Chronicle has a prize for them: the Titanic Award. Pop culture critic Peter Hartlaub targets some of the most egregious offenders:

Best Picture: Titanic. The award’s namesake, which somehow beat LA Confidential, needs no explanation.
Best Actor: Al

...

Katyn Horrific, Excellent

Movie Review

Feb 20, 2009 11:15 AM CST

Katyn Horrific, Excellent

(Newser) - American art houses are finally getting a taste of Katyn, legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s acclaimed film about the World War II-era massacre of the same name, and critics are heaping yet more acclaim on it. AO Scott of the New York Times calls it “solemn and searing,...

Fired Up Delivers
Lukewarm Laughs

MOVIE REVIEW

Feb 20, 2009 9:53 AM CST

Fired Up Delivers Lukewarm Laughs

Reheated teen sex comedy gives critics little to cheer about

(Newser) - The raunchy teen comedy Fired Up delivers a few chuckles but isn't anything to cheer about, say critics. Thirtyish actors Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen play a pair of high school football jocks who go to cheerleading camp to meet babes, but the duo's comic energy is "weighed...

Winslet:
No More Nudity

Feb 19, 2009 7:55 PM CST

Winslet: No More Nudity

(Newser) - Kate Winslet has never been shy about removing her clothes in film, from her breakthrough in Titanic to her current role in The Reader. But the 33-year-old tells Time that those days may be behind her. "I think I won't do it again," she says. "A) I...

Hollywood Is
Fatal to Fabulous Books

OPINION

Feb 17, 2009 6:43 PM CST

Hollywood Is Fatal to Fabulous Books

(Newser) - Willing Davidson knows his complaint isn't original. But he can't help asking in Slate, "Why does Hollywood take our favorite novels and turn them into crap?" In Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, readers see their own hopes within those of his characters; in the movie, character replaces plot "and...

Phoenix: Music Is My Legacy

Feb 17, 2009 4:03 PM CST

Phoenix: Music Is My Legacy

Not my acting

(Newser) - Joaquin Phoenix thinks he’ll be remembered for his music, rather than his Oscar-nominated acting, he tells the Mirror. Phoenix is a lot wordier than he was in his monosyllabic appearance on Letterman, telling the paper he’s serious about becoming a rapper. “I feel like everything in my...

Madge-Jesus Fling
Is—Get This—
a Sham: Pals

Feb 16, 2009 8:24 AM CST

Madge-Jesus Fling Is—Get This— a Sham: Pals

Pop star just using model for publicity

(Newser) - How did Madonna score a Brazilian model less than half her age? His parents cried “kidnapping,” but pals claim the whole thing is a well-played publicity stunt typical of the Material Pentagenarian, the Mirror reports. “Taking Jesus to Kaballah is a masterstroke as she always historically introduces...

Friday Hacks Up Box Office

Feb 15, 2009 3:40 PM CST

Friday Hacks Up Box Office

(Newser) - Friday the 13th took an ax to Valentine's Day flicks by bagging the biggest opening weekend gross of the year, $42.2 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. He's Just Not That Into You fell to second with $19.6 million, followed by Taken ($19.3 million), Confessions of a Shopaholic ($15....

Winslet's
Oscar Bid
Battered by
Nazi Furor

Feb 15, 2009 8:37 AM CST

Winslet's Oscar Bid Battered by Nazi Furor

'Nazi porn' asks use to 'empathize with mass murderer'

(Newser) - Mounting criticism of The Reader as an apologia for the Nazis is seriously undermining Kate Winslet's chances for an Oscar, reports the Telegraph. Critics have blasted the film as "Nazi porn," and the author of a book on Hitler charged in a recent article in Slate that it...

Shopaholic Not So Addictive

MOVIE REVIEW

Feb 13, 2009 8:19 AM CST

Shopaholic Not So Addictive

Subprime rom-com maxes out the clichés

(Newser) - Chick-lit flick Confessions of a Shopaholic is one victim the credit crisis should have claimed, say critics. Isla Fisher stars as a credit card addict who lands a job at a financial magazine, but her considerable comic gifts are wasted by a script that turns her into a "babbling...

Coraline Scares in Stunning 3-D

MOVIE REVIEW

Feb 6, 2009 10:14 AM CST

Coraline Scares in Stunning 3-D

Dazzlingly creepy stop-motion animation conjures up children's worst fears

(Newser) - Coraline is an eerie marvel of stop-motion animation guaranteed to give little kids nightmares, say critics. The story of a young girl—voiced by Dakota Fanning—who stumbles into a strange parallel universe where life seems almost too good to be true is a "dazzling, delightfully dark children's movie,...