blogging about movies

AP - Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party’s presidential candidate.

Reuters - Japanese cult director Takeshi Kitano
turns his oddball gaze on what he calls the “cruel” world of
art and art collecting in his latest movie, which has its
premiere at the Venice film festival on Thursday.

AP - Screenwriter and actor Danny Strong is interviewing colleagues at the Democratic National Convention for an Associated Press video diary.

Reuters - Terrence Howard earned an Oscar
nomination for his role as a pimp aspiring to be a rapper in
“Hustle & Flow” but the 2005 movie also shone a spotlight on
the actor’s musical talents and helped him land a record deal.

AP - Carmen Electra, in a low-cut gold minidress, captures every photographer’s attention as she steps out on a patio overlooking the Pacific. Her hair catches the ocean breeze as if on cue. Even her fiance is transfixed. He snaps a few photos with his cell phone. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian, wearing a tight tank top and slim-fitting skirt, waits in the wings for the cameras to point her way.

E! Online - George Clooney wants to be an Air head.

Reuters - George Clooney is in
talks to star in “Up in the Air,” an adaptation of the 2001
Walter Kirn novel, with Oscar-nominated “Juno” director Jason
Reitman behind the camera.

Reuters - A family of serial killers
has drawn “Twilight” star Ashley Greene into their web in the
edgy indie thriller “Summer.”

Reuters - In “Burn After Reading,”
the Coen brothers have taken some of cinema’s highest-profile
and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes
roles in a thriller set in and about Washington.

Reuters - Writer-producer Aaron
Sorkin, creator of “The West Wing,” is about to get a whole lot
of friends on Facebook.