Jack Black&#39;s &#39;Stupid&#39; &#39;King Kong&#39; Dream
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LOS ANGELES  - Like millions of moviegoers worldwide, actor Jack Black fell under the spell of filmmaker Peter Jackson&#39;s epic &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; trilogy.
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Director Peter Jackson's first attempt to remake "King Kong" featured an Empire State Building constructed out of cardboard and a Manhattan skyline painted on an old bedsheet. It was an amateur effort, but Jackson was only 13 at the time. He has a bigger budget now, at 43.
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If you&#39;re planning on seeing the John Travolta-Joaquin Phoenix movie &quot;Ladder 49&quot; when it premieres this weekend - take a good look at the screen.
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In &quot;Shark Tale,&quot; those GoodFella fishes are tawking the tawk. DreamWorks&#39; animated movie gives us Don Lino, a great white shark, as voiced by Robert De Niro; and Sykes, his sidekick, a puffer
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I hope Jamie Foxx has a nice Oscar-sized spot dusted off on his mantle, because if there&#39;s any justice in the world, he&#39;ll be going home with a statuette next February.
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Featuring the voices of Will Smith, Jack Black, RenÃ©e Zellweger, Robert DeNiro, Martin Scorsese and Angelina Jolie. Written by Rob Letterman, Damian Shannon, Mark Swift and Michael J. Wilson.
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TORONTO -- So enough already about the great films in Toronto this year -- how about the stars? Well, Jamie Foxx hasn&#39;t won the best actor Oscar he&#39;s being promised by fawning critics for his amazing impersonation
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Universal Pictures has  picked up movie rights to a New York Times article with the  headline "In College Football, Big Paydays for Humiliation" for  comic actor Jack Black to produce.
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Director Taylor Hackford has made one good movie (1982&#39;s &quot;An Officer and a Gentleman&quot;) and a lot of bad ones (recently, &quot;The Devil&#39;s Advocate,&quot; &quot;Proof of Life&quot;).
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As filming began Monday in New   Zealand on Peter Jackson's King Kong remake, the teeth-gnashing   among the usually detail-fretting genre faithful was at a minimum.
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He stars in John Waters&#39;s raunchy &quot;A Dirty Shame&quot; and is known for his MTV stunts. But what he really wants is to be taken seriously as an actor.
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Think of DreamWorks&#39; new animated comedy Shark Tale as The Codfather. This zippy little ditty from the creators of Shrek, Shrek 2 and Antz is an affectionate homage to such mobster classics as The Godfather
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A critic&#39;s reaction to a  film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men  who all touch an elephant and report wildly different  descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the  particular body part encountered.
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When a force of nature like John Belushi is lost, 25 years isn't time enough to ease the grief or erase the laughter. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer still dreams about him from time to time, the unselfish friend and "impish genius" who devoured life. John Landis, who directed Belushi in "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers," is still angry at him for dying foolishly and young.
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Horror movies have a right to be tacky. Good taste really shouldn&#39;t cross anybody&#39;s mind while determining the swift arc of an ax or a cool trajectory for blood to spray. But if you&#39;re looking for ...
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When you dominate the movie universe, it&#39;s as if you carry your own center of gravity with you. That&#39;s what it seemed like, anyway, with Michael Moore, attending this year&#39;s Toronto
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&quot;Shark Tale&quot; is a not-quite-fresh fish story. Fairly or not, it&#39;s bound to draw comparisons to last year&#39;s &quot;Finding Nemo,&quot; another computer-animated comedy with quirky hijinks from denizens of the sea.