Film Industry News

'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA (AP)

AP - Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series "Mission: Impossible," died Sunday.

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"Frankenstein" breathes new life, at 100 (Reuters)

Reuters - Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the American movie industry's first attempt to bring "Frankenstein" to the big screen with a long-forgotten film made by Thomas Edison's studio. ...More>>

White Stripes movie documents oddball Canada tour (Reuters)

Reuters - As stylish as the band it depicts and occasionally as enigmatic, "The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights" stands out among tour films largely because of the strange tour at hand. ...More>>

Scribes share secrets in "Tales From the Script" (Reuters)

Reuters - Author/filmmaker Peter Hanson's "Tales From the Script," with its focus on writers who've furnished the studios with mainstream product and know the rules, inadvertently suggests the great divide that separates the mainstream movie factories from the indie world. ...More>>

"Hubble 3D" a thrilling Imax ride into space (Reuters)

Reuters - With apologies to James Cameron and other science-fiction filmmakers, their journeys to Deep Space never really leave Earth. The Imax Space team in association with NASA have, in a series of astonishing large-format films, literally traveled to other worlds. ...More>>

American Grindhouse a stylish tribute to bad taste (Reuters)

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George Lucas goes on trial in fanboy documentary (Reuters)

Reuters - A generation of fanboys has its say in "The People Vs. George Lucas," a documentary whose obvious sympathy for one side of the battle doesn't keep it from giving a fair shake to the mogul behind "Star Wars," or prevent it from making good-natured jokes about those who take the saga too seriously. ...More>>

Testicular trauma limits appeal of "Barry Munday" (Reuters)

Reuters - Like a frumpy version of "Knocked Up" playing out in a sadder, stranger world, "Barry Munday" offers two icky humans and hopes that, by the tale's end, we'll be happy they're procreating. It comes closer to achieving that than we might expect, but the film's focus on some pretty unappealing quirks limits its commercial appeal. ...More>>

Penn spends serious time helping post-quake Haiti (AP)

AP - Look closely at the foreigners buzzing around a hospital tent above one of Haiti's biggest earthquake-refugee camps and a face stands out: There, carrying the box of supplies, that's Sean Penn.

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Comic talent wasted in Tallulah Bankhead play (Reuters)

Reuters - Considering her scant film career and that her last stage appearance was more than half a century ago, actress Tallulah Bankhead has proven a surprisingly irresistible subject for stage biographies. ...More>>

"Alice" leads box office, as "Green Zone" flops (Reuters)

Reuters - "Alice in Wonderland" raced to a $430 million haul at the worldwide box office on Sunday, while Matt Damon's new Iraq war conspiracy thriller "Green Zone" was one of the year's first big flops.

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