A Young Director With Tom Hanks's Seal of Approval

I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever • Before You Buy That Harry Potter Desk Calendar Just for the Photos...
Here they are! (via JoBlo) Yes, whoever made the Harry Potter desk calendar this year committed a grave error: they included unreleased studio images from whatever Harry Potter movie we're on at this point! And now someone on a LiveJournal ...

Film Experience Blog • EQQQQQQQ ! EQQQ !
So I went to Equus on Broadway. Let me back up a bit... I generally disapprove of stunt casting and I'd been frustrated that people were so gung ho about seeing Potter's wand. It's all anybody talks about when talking about this classic which ...

OH NO!! • Debbie Harry, Lil' Wayne and Pharell will all appear on Folie à Deux
It's perhaps testament to Fall Out Boy's clout that even when they're publically denouncing rumors about big-name musicians making cameos on their albums, there's a pretty good chance that those big-name musicians actually will end up making an ...

Defamer • Harrison Ford All But Confirms 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of the $100 Million Payday' [The End Of Ideas]
It would be too easy to say that Harrison Ford hit the Crystal Head Vodka a little hard before today's interview at the LA Times ; how else to explain his eagerness to jump aboard Indiana Jones 5 so soon after the franchise's fourth installment? He's ...

In Case You Didn't Know • Johnny Being Offered $55 MIL To Reprise Role
Proving actors are grossly overpaid… Disney has offered Johnny Depp $55 million to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a 4th Pirates of the Caribbean film, according to Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times. That payday surpasses ...

Now Entering the City of Ember (Part 1)
With a string of successful adaptations under their belt, especially the "Narnia" series, Walden Media has been at the forefront of the current fantasy revival. And when they left Disney to join the Murdoch family as the freshly-minted FoxWalden, ...

JK Rowling nets £3m a week
HARRY Potter creator has become world’s best-paid author — earning £3m a WEEK

J.K. Rowling Number One On List Of Year's Top 10 Best Paid Authors
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- "Harry Potter" continues to be magic at the box office - and on bookshelves. J.K. Rowling, the author of the seven-book series about the young wizard's battles about the evil Voldemort, earned $300 million in the year between ...

Paramount and DreamWorks Finalize Split
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks principals today announced the formalization of their transition agreements as Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider depart to form their previously announced new motion pictures company in partnership with Reliance BIG ...

Reliance, DreamWorks hold on to major projects
Paramount agrees to amicable split with Spielberg's shingle, retains distrib options.