Sunday, May 3, 2026

Movies

Polanski vs. Gibson: How Scandal Can Help or Hurt

Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” opened in four theaters this past weekend, sold them all out, and is headed for 10 more this Friday. Mel...

Scorsese, DiCaprio to Score Biggest Opening Ever: $37.3 Mil ‘Shutter’ Weekend

It looks like famed director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are having their biggest weekend opening ever. “Shutter Island,” with the star power of...

Roman Polanski: Life Imitates Art in New Film

Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” opens today in New York and Los Angeles, a little suddenly, it feels, after its debut at the Berlin...

Leonardo DiCaprio Set for Sinatra, But He Won’t Sing

Leonardo DiCaprio is still to set to play Frank Sinatra for Martin Scorsese. But he’s probably not going to sing. “With those records?” Scorsese asked...

Ben Stiller-Brett Ratner Heist Gets Noah Baumbach Script

“Tower Heist,” Brett Ratner’s next film, is going full speed ahead at Universal. I’m told that Noah Baumbach has just been signed to polish...

It’s a Warner Bros. World, Despite Mel Gibson

You have to give Warner Bros. credit. They give the big studio business a good name. Right now WB has not one or two but...

Jamie Foxx Mimics Ray Charles in New ‘We Are the World’

The new version of “We Are the World” went up on iTunes last night, and you can see it everywhere at 2 p.m. Saturday....

‘Basterds’ Brings Old Hollywood to Musso and Frank

The combined ages of the Hollywood elite who celebrated Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” for lunch on Wednesday was about a thousand. Famed B-movie director Roger...