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“Hurt Locker” Producer Barred from Oscars

Nicolas Chartier, one of the four nominated producers of “The Hurt Locker,” will have to stay away from the Kodak Theater for Sunday’s Oscar ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that, as a penalty for violating campaign rules, Chartier would be barred from the 81st Academy Awards gala. Chartier violated [...]

HBO Thinking for New Show: Blog This!

The world of Hollywood blogging is getting the HBO treatment. The pay cable network is developing “Tilda,” a half-hour comedy series with Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon and “Tell Me You Love Me” creator Cynthia Mort. The project centers on a powerful female online showbiz journalist with a no-holds-barred style. Condon and Mort are writing and [...]

Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dies at 97

Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dies at 97

Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97. Malden died of natural causes surrounded by his family at his Brentwood home, they told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He served as [...]

‘Amendment’ gets going at Warners

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is in talks to direct Warner Bros. drama “The 28th Amendment,” which has emerged as a strong contender to be one of Tom Cruise’s next star vehicles.
The German helmer hasn’t directed a film since his 2006 pic “The Lives of Others” won the foreign-language film Oscar, and he recently signed with [...]