News Analysis: Old-Line Hollywood Takes Back the Night
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The victory of âThe Departedâ serves as an acknowledgment that stars not only make movies, they make the movie.
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Between Valentine's Day  and the Presidents Day holiday weekend, Hollywood is throwing a  lot of product at moviegoers, hoping that some will stick.
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When it comes to getting Oscars, Martin Scorsese is one of the unluckiest men in Hollywood. As we approach the 79th Annual Academy Awards this Sunday, the big question is "will his luck change?" This year, he is heavily favored to take home the Best Director Oscar, but an upset isn't out of the question. Martin Scorsese has been down this road before and always lost. The real question is, does it matter?    Of course it doesn't. If Crash winning Best Picture last year hasn't dispelled the myth that the Academy Awards have anything to do cinematic merit, then you're likely the type of person who thought Pearl Harbor should have won Best Picture. Even if Scorsese loses once again, that only means he's in the same boat as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles etc. Also, I don't know anyone who still adores Ordinary People, but Raging Bull gets a spin in the old DVD player at least once a year. And the Goodfellas disc (despite being one of those early crappy "flipper" discs that splits the movie onto both sides of the DVD) gets watched even more than that. Kevin Costner? Didn't he direct The Postman?
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Classics, cult classics, vintage TV and one silent treasure
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The film industry is retrofitting its rating system to give the studios a chance to showcase their racier material online.
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NBC's two late-night franchises are coming back. Will the laughs come with them?
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Hollywood had one of its best summers in recent history, but the studios are not quite popping the Champagne.
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Long gone are the days when a film held on to one story and fleshed it out through the
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Friday Night Lights is a lousy name for a very good movie. Relax, I know the title is based on investigative journalist HG Bissinger&#39;s 1990 book, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream, acclaimed
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Technology that acquires films instantaneously gives theater operators unprecedented flexibility in selecting what they screen. Now, a box-office bomb can be ditched for an old favorite. By the Associated Press.
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All-Star weekend on the Vegas Strip is one thing. The N.B.A. with its makeup removed on a Tuesday night in January is another.
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The Enough star has pulled out of the now slightly   less star-studded big screen remake of the '80s TV hit, with nary an   explanation regarding her departure.
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The movies in this yearâs Toronto Film Festival were collectively like a wayback machine to the obsessionsâand the memorable filmmakingâof the â60s and â70s
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Oscar statuettes are cheaper than they used to be.
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The Hollywood hand-wringing of 2005 has been forgotten. After a dismal box-office year and gloomy prophecies about its future, the movie business has rebounded with a solid &#151; though far from spectacular &#151; summer season.
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Forget Warner Brothers, Universal and Disney. Say goodnight and good luck to CBS, NBC and Fox. The Hollywood studio model is about to be turned upside down.
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.