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"The Artist" and "Hugo": A very French Oscars

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26 (Bloomberg) — Martin Scorsese's 3-D picture “Hugo” won Oscars for best cinematography, art direction, sound and visual effects, jumping to an early lead at the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Christopher Plummer, 82, became the oldest Oscar

23, 2012 file photo, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez wipes his forehead as he attends a concert in his honor at the Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela. Throughout his presidency, Chavez has relied on his vigor and endurance: playing

"The Artist" and "Hugo" tied by winning five Oscars apiece, but "The Artist" won for the top categories of best film, actor and director, while "Hugo" cleaned up in the technical categories — appropriate for a movie that depended heavily on special

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's military high command reaffirmed its loyalty to President Hugo Chavez on Saturday in a public show of support a day after Chavez's departure for Cuba to undergo surgery removing a

'Hugo' bags Best Cinematography and Art Direction awards, 'Artist' takes home Best Costume Design prize, while 'Iron Lady' claims Best Makeup kudo as the 2012 Academy Awards kicks off.

'The Grey': Is film's portrayal of wolves as man-killers too dramatic?

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28 "The Grey" is looking like box office gold. The film, starring Liam Neeson, took in $6.5 million at the domestic box office Friday, and is on track to take $18.6 million for the weekend. While that's nowhere near the $25.3 million that last week's

Director Joe Carnahan discusses why he shot 'The Grey' on location, his connection to the characters, how the film differs from the source material – and gives his two cents on the pro-wolf protests surrounding the film.

Playing the survivor of an airplane crash in Alaska, actor Frank Grillo endured nasty Arctic winds and freezing cold temperatures shooting in the desolate country around Smithers, BC for the film The Grey. But in a phone interview from Toronto,

The heavy use of strings and piano are faint enough to keep from overpowering the already intense scenes and performances that make up The Grey, but are still powerful enough to support those moments and help add to the emotional weight of each actor's

Playing the survivor of an airplane crash in Alaska, actor Frank Grillo endured nasty Arctic winds and freezing cold temperatures shooting in the desolate country around Smithers, BC for the film The Grey. But in a phone interview from Toronto,

'The Grey': The Reviews Are In!

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FRIDAY 9:30 PM, 2ND UPDATE: Sources are telling me that the No. 1 movie at the North American box office is projected as Open Road Films acquisition of Li.

Writer/director Joe Carnahan ('The A-Team') reteams with Liam Neeson for the survival thriller, 'The Grey.' Find out if the film is a gripping and substantive man vs. nature movie experience.

And if you've seen any of the trailers for The Grey, chances are good that's exactly what you thought the movie was going to be about. The plot is refreshingly without frills: Neeson stars as Ottway, a brooding, poetry-quoting

But The Grey is so much more than that. It's really the story of men who need a life-or-death struggle such as this to remember that life is worth living, even if death is a certainty, either by the fangs of a wolf or the extreme and ruthless cold.

Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's new deep-freeze thriller, that might do it. The best thing about this movie is its shivery hypothermic vérité, a credit to the skill of cinematographer Masanobu Takanayagi, working under what must have been

The Evolution Of Katherine Heigl: Track The 'One For The Money' Star's Career …

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Katherine Heigl stopped complaining about her long hours on the set of new action comedy “One For The Money” after listening to her veteran co-star Debbie Reynolds' tales of on-set hardships. The “Knocked Up” star admits she's prone to grumble about

Heigl plays Plum in the action-comedy, One for the Money, which opens Jan. 27. The film is the first version of 18 books, so the 33-year-old is hoping for a franchise of her very own. In the picture, Plum is unemployed, facing eviction from her

Katherine Heigl steps into the shoes of Janet Evanovich's best-selling bounty hunter, and the results are hardly page-turning.

Katherine Heigl, Daniel Sunjata, Sherri Shepherd and Jason O'Mara dish about the new movie 'One for the Money.'

Author Janet Evanovich poses with Katherine Heigl at the "One For the Money" premiere Tuesday in New York, (AP Photo). This is precisely what Janet Evanovich fans are afraid of — maybe more than the out-of-control

Makers of 'The Grey' confront inner beasts

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The action pic opens against Summit thriller "Man on a Ledge" and Lionsgate's Katherine Heigl action-comedy "One for the Money"; award contenders "The Artist" and "The Descendants" make major expansions.

These are the lofty questions posed by The Grey, the new film by director and co-writer Joe Carnahan, based on a short story called “Ghost Walker” by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (who also co-wrote the screenplay).

Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's new deep-freeze thriller, that might do it. The best thing about this movie is its shivery hypothermic vérité, a credit to the skill of cinematographer Masanobu Takanayagi, working under what must have been

This movie's biggest problem is that the wolves in it — a mix of real wolves, animatronics, and CGI — never appear real enough to be threatening or to generate legitimate fear.

In The Grey, wolves unleash their fury at mankind in a bloody yet tasteful flurry of stamping paws and gnashing teeth; mankind fights back as best he can, which in this particular case, is not very well. What's not surprising

Regal but never solemn, Morgan Freeman accepts Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime …

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On the eve of receiving this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award, veteran actor and five-time Golden Globe nominee Morgan Freeman reflects on five roles that have defined his career. Freeman earned critical acclaim for one of his first lead film roles

In accepting the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globes, Morgan Freeman noted that over his long career, he's gotten to commit crimes, solve crimes, drive Miss Daisy, play the president and even play God. But one role he didn't mention — which

Morgan Freeman poses with Favorite Movie Icon Award in the press room during the 2012 People's Choice Awards on Jan. 11, 2012, in Los Angeles. (CBS) Morgan Freeman was bestowed with the first-ever favorite movie icon award Wednesday night at the

Morgan Freeman accepted an award for favourite movie icon. In his acceptance speech, Freeman said that he looked up the definition for the word "icon," and found it to mean "representative of something." "If I represent something, here's what I hope it

Morgan Freeman is only the second African American actor to receive the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award; he accepted it 30 years after Sidney Poitier was similarly honored in 1982. The 84-year-old Poitier received a standing ovation when he came out