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MySpaceTV to stream 'Sorority'

8 hours 29 min ago
TV News: Website gets one-day jump on WB.com show -- MySpaceTV has landed a one-day jump over its broadband rivals to stream webisodes of "Sorority Forever," TheWB.com's first major Web original skein, beginning today.

SAG will keep voting confidential

9 hours 30 min ago
Web Exclusive: Issue arose after poll postcards were sent out -- With SAG's election contest heating up, the guild has promised it will keep confidential how individual members vote in its polling on the guild's contract stalemate with the majors.

SAG will keep voting confidential

9 hours 30 min ago
Web Exclusive: Issue arose after poll postcards were sent out -- With SAG's election contest heating up, the guild has promised it will keep confidential how individual members vote in its polling on the guild's contract stalemate with the majors.

Unspoken

9 hours 37 min ago
Film Reviews: Talented Belgian writer-director Fien Troch engages in a difficult dramatic game with her second film, "Unspoken," and falls short of the mark. Intensely involved with the emotionally alienated and disoriented parents of a teenage girl who went missing four years earlier, Troch's work is so bundled in elliptical moments and scenes without context that it will test -- and break -- most viewers' patience.

It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)

10 hours 2 min ago
Film Reviews: Advertised in Quebec (where it opens Sept. 26) as a wacky comedy about a rampaging child terror, "It's Not Me, I Swear!" is in fact a bittersweet portrait of one prepubescent kid acting out against his dysfunctional family in ways that would send any teen straight to the reformatory.

Good

10 hours 3 min ago
Film Reviews: Onstage, British playwright C.P. Taylor's "Good" excited less for its rather obvious parable of moral corruption than for the cinematic sweep of events as a conscience-stricken protagonist passively let himself be pushed up the ladder of Nazi favor.

The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien Perhosten Koti)

Sun, 2008-09-07 23:32
Film Reviews: Something feels lost in the bigscreen adaptation of Leena Lander's widely translated (albeit not into English) 1991 novel, "The Home of Dark Butterflies." Tale of troubled youth at an island-set reformatory is polished and intriguing, but whatever glue originally held the plot and characters together dissolves here, leaving the whole feeling variably underdeveloped, undermotivated or just unmoving.

Kanchivaram

Sun, 2008-09-07 23:30
Film Reviews: Hitting a sweet spot somewhere between Bollywood and earnest independent fare, South Indian writer-helmer Priyadarshan's poignant historical drama "Kanchivaram" offers the universal resonance of a tragic fairy tale. Mostly set in the two decades prior to Indian independence, plus a powerful 1948 coda, this compelling Tamil-language yarn about exploited silk weavers also provides a primer on the rigid social structures and traditions of the times and a fascinating analysis of the failure of communist ideology.

More Than a Game

Sun, 2008-09-07 23:25
Film Reviews: With superstar LeBron James as its point man and a big heart at its center, "More Than a Game" is about the boyz from the 'hood who made up the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School basketball team of Akron, Ohio, which launched James into the NBA and is a kind of classic of American sports history.

Tommy Lee Jones sues Paramount

Sun, 2008-09-07 23:21
Web Exclusive: Actor seeks $10 million for 'Country' -- Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller.

Boomer back on track with Berman

Sun, 2008-09-07 23:00
TV News: 'Malcom' creator in talks on CBS pilot -- Linwood Boomer is back in the family comedy biz. The creator of "Malcolm in the Middle" is in final negotiations with CBS on a pilot order for a project that will reunite him with Gail Berman.

Rudin inks indie producers

Sun, 2008-09-07 22:00
Gotham: Van Hoy, Knudsen sign first-look deal -- Scott Rudin has signed indie producers Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen and their Parts and Labor shingle to a first-look deal.

Will Smith puts on 'Pharaoh' hat

Sun, 2008-09-07 22:00
Front Page: Actor set for Columbia's 'Last' film -- "Braveheart" scribe Randall Wallace will write "The Last Pharaoh," a Columbia drama crafted as a vehicle for Will Smith to play Taharqa, the pharaoh who battled Assyrian invaders in ancient Egypt.

Till to take over overseas Icon arm

Sun, 2008-09-07 22:00
Business News: Executive will handle international sales, ops -- Former Polygram chief Stuart Till has inked a deal to acquire the international sales and distribution operations of Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's Icon Entertainment.

'Company' gets its men

Sun, 2008-09-07 22:00
Film News: Landau, Zahn, Buscemi, Livingston star in film -- Martin Landau, Steve Zahn, Steve Buscemi and Ron Livingston will star in indie drama "The Company Men."

Moresco to direct 'Daughter'

Sun, 2008-09-07 22:00
Film News: Helmer, Artists Relations Group co-produce -- Bobby Moresco will direct and co-write "Castro's Daughter" in addition to producing with Artists Relations Group.

Borin gets 'Butcherhouse'

Sun, 2008-09-07 22:00
Film News: Director takes on film for Platinum Dunes -- Paramount has tapped Frank Borin to direct the feature adaptation of "The Butcherhouse Chronicles" for Platinum Dunes.

MTV VMA winners announced

Sun, 2008-09-07 21:59
Music News: Britney Spears takes three trophies -- A complete list of winners of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards

Two-Legged Horse

Sun, 2008-09-07 21:56
Film Reviews: The line between dramatizing physical abuse and causing genuine physical harm to actors looks to have been crossed in Samira Makhmalbaf's repellent "Two-Legged Horse." Written by Makhmalbaf's filmmaker father, Mohsen, as a blunt fable on the potential for humans to treat others like animals -- specifically, how a one-legged boy turns an older boy into a beast of burden -- the resulting film is designed to provoke outrage.

Tonight

Sun, 2008-09-07 21:53
Film Reviews: Idiosyncratic helmer Werner Schroeter's "Tonight" is about as impenetrable as a film can get while still retaining a semblance of narrative construction. It's easy to follow the protag attempting to secure passage out of a city about to be invaded, but the proliferation of baroque characters, bizarre asides and a scene bordering on kiddie porn turns Schroeter's normally intriguing, operatic visions into a head-scratching, tedious exercise.