Ever wondered how Steven Spielberg did his famous beach scene from the WWII movie “Saving Private Ryan”? It’s Hollywood, so that means a mega budget, thousands of extras, and enough technical gadgets to make 100 war movies. But wait — can three guys, given four days, a digital...

Maybe the WGA knows what it’s doing after all. After failing to get producers in Hollywood to agree to a deal, and indeed, they’re still “talking” behind the scenes, the WGA has instead adopted a “divide and conquer” strategy, striking their own interim deals with...

Sad news from the world of acting today, as Australian-born Heath Ledger, most famous for his role in “Brokeback Mountain”, and has already been praised for his performance as a psychotic Joker in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “The Dark Knight”, was found dead in a downtown...

Winning an Oscar isn’t a get-out-of-jail free card, as Roger Avary found out when he was recently arrested for suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence. Avary, for those who don’t know, won an Oscar for co-writing “Pulp Fiction” with Quentin Tarantino, and has...

Johnny Depp is possibly the nicest Hollywood movie star in the world. Ever. Or, anyways, if you want an autograph. Autograph magazine, which is all about celebrity autographs, has rated the 44-year old Depp as the most gracious celebrity when it comes to signing autographs for fans. And it’s not...

Hollywood loves Reese Witherspoon. Or, to be more precise, America loves Reese Witherspoon when she’s falling in love on the big screen, and as a result, Hollywood loves her, too. The star of sappy romantic comedies like “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Just Like Heaven” topped...

Seth MacFarlane’s relationshipo with the FOX network has always been a little, shall we say, contentious. Of course, having a TV show that was canceled by the network, only to be resurrected again when the DVD sales receipts came in didn’t help matters. But after returning to the FOX line-up...

I swear, Jackie Chan is becoming one really whiny little biotch. First there was that story about how he’s warning his fans not to get too excited about his upcoming collaboration with Jet Li in “The Forbidden Kingdom” (read that sorry story here), and now Jackie is making his opinions...

I don’t think anyone saw Judd Apatow’s romantic comedy “Knocked Up” doing so well at the box office, and I suspect no one saw this lawsuit by Canadian author Rebecca Eckler coming, either. Eckler claims that Apatow stole the idea for “Knocked Up” from her, and points...