Movies
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'Air,' 'Wild Things' rack up Chicago film nominationsDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Jason Reitman's comic tale of a professional downsizer "Up in the Air" and Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story "Where the Wild Things A...
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Clooney, Streep, Bullock among SAG Awards nominees
Dec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- "Up in the Air," "Precious" and "Inglourious Basterds" led the Screen Actors Guild Awards with three nominations each Thursday, among them honors for Geor...
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Visually absorbing 'Avatar' takes technology to new heightsDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - James Cameron's science-fiction adventure "Avatar" runs for an insanely long two hours and 43 minutes, yet, there's not a single slack moment in it. This feature has bee...
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Downey turns supersleuth in 'Sherlock Holmes'
Dec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Robert Downey Jr. is an actor at the top of his game -- already a big-screen superhero, now an iconic super-sleuth. He's also surprisingly open about his self-...
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Cameron and Weaver on 'Aliens,' and 'Avatar'
Dec 15, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- What first signaled to a young, eager-to-please James Cameron he'd make movie history with Sigourney Weaver? Her heels. More than two decades ago, the director...
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'Up in the Air' leads Golden Globes with 6 noms
Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- "Up in the Air" landed at just the right time, emerging as a potential Academy Awards favorite with themes of job loss and economic calamity tha...
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With 10 nominees, Oscar outlook is up in the air
Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Academy Awards organizers have shaken up their show by doubling the best-picture category to 10 nominees in hopes of a broader range of films, mainstream ...
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Filmmakers visit Gacy home site to prep for film on serial killerDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Retired Des Plaines police Det. Rafael Tovar remembers the terrifying discovery as investigators dug up the 29 bodies buried at John Wayne Gacy's home. Now 30 years late...
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'Avatar' joins tradition of the Hollywood colossus
Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- It's fair to say that it's a risky venture create a movie about an exotically colored, 10-foot-tall tribe called the Na'vi and spend more money making it tha...
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'Princess and the Frog' hops to No. 1 with $25 million weekend
Dec 13, 2009 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- "The Princess and the Frog" earned a big wet kiss from family audiences as the animated musical leaped to No. 1 with $25 million in its first weekend of n...