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Lords of Illusions
Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman Battle for Supremacy as World-Class Magicians in "The Prestige"
It's Batman vs. Wolverine, and they're using magic! Actually, it's Christian Bale vs. Hugh Jackman and they're using illusions -- but in some ways that's even cooler. Though Bale and Jackman are playing rival 19th-century magicians, Jackman says.... » read more
Eddie Izzard's World Domination Plot
The comedian-turned-thespian unleashes his powers in "My Super Ex-Girlfriend"
Eddie Izzard has a master plan to take over the world. It doesn't involve the "cunning use of flags" he extemporized upon in his breakthrough comedy show "Dress to Kill," but rather the careful development of his public persona. Izzard is a.... » read more
The Hidden Messages in "Water"
"So, um...what's the twist?" Boxoffice asks Bryce Dallas Howard in an overly-casual manner that doesn't fool the "Lady in the Water" star for a moment. Though Howard takes care not to give away the M. Night Shyamalan-brand left-hook surprise in.... » read more
Up, Up and Away
Newcomer Brandon Routh and director Bryan Singer Take the "Superman" Franchise to New Heights
The rude blare of a car horn interrupts a conversation with Krypton's most famous export. Did someone just honk at Superman?! "He did!" Superman confirms. "Hey, he just gave me the finger!" he adds, with wholesome incredulity, only to amend,.... » read more
Unpredictable Oscar
Superstars and Dark Horses Share the Stage in a Year Full of Surprises
"That changes my whole story!" the reporter across from BOXOFFICE griped while the rest of the press room whooped with surprise and joy as dark horse "Crash" swooped in and scooped up the Best Picture Oscar. The turn of events may have messed up.... » read more
Historic "Memoirs"
A vanished world is brought back to life in Rob Marshall's "Memoirs of a Geisha"
Actress Michelle Yeoh compares the geisha to the samurai warrior ...and, in the same breath, to a rigorously-trained ballerina. Producer Lucy Fisher reckons she's more analogous to a supermodel. "What we forget is that they are artists!".... » read more
Aslan is On the Move
"The Chronicles of Narnia" casts a spell to thaw the box office's 100-Year Winter
"This is an empty world," came the Witch's voice. "This is Nothing." In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from which direction it was.... » read more
"Fantastic" Voyage
It's Clobbering Time at the Box Office With Fox's Bigscreen Adaptation of the "Fantastic Four" Comic
"We're exposed. We're in the public eye. We're dealing with how you handle instant fame. And exposure. Loss of anonymity. Everyone else is a little more reserved. But I'm a little bit more up-front about my want of the spotlight." Sounds like.... » read more
"Galaxy" Quest
The mission to bring Douglas Adams' humor/sci-fi classic to the bigscreen takes off
Some of author Douglas Adams' most devoted fans thought they'd be pulling up chairs at Milliways (the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) and witnessing the end of time before the adaptation of Adams' 1979 bestselling sci-fi/humor classic "The.... » read more
Just 'Deserts'
"Matthew McConaughey is M.I.A.," exclaims a PR rep with baffled exasperation. Colleagues and cohorts following the progress of securing this story inevitably made tongue-in-cheek speculations concerning bongos, nudity and big fat doobies. In.... » read more
"Treasure" Trove
Nicolas Cage Unearths Historical Gems in Jon Turteltaub's "National Treasure"
Did you know the United States of America has an official insignia known The Great Seal? What symbol do you imagine is on it? Old Glory fluttering in the breeze? A noble eagle? How about an Egyptian pyramid with a giant eyeball hovering above it?.... » read more
"Grudge" Match
It's after midnight when a phone rings. A young woman tentatively picks it up, nervously wondering who could be calling at such an hour. She puts the receiver to her ear, only to scream and slam down the phone at what she hears. At the sound.... » read more
Robot Wars
"Look out -- there's a giant robot!" cries Gwyneth Paltrow with life-or-death urgency. One might think that an actual invasion of outsized mechanoids is more likely than the delicate-featured, Shakespeare-versed Oscar winner exclaiming such.... » read more
Full Moon Fever
Hugh Jackman Battles Transylvania's Creatures of the Night in "Van Helsing"
If you ever wondered who would win in a fight, Wolverine or Dracula? Wolverine or Frankenstein? Or, in perhaps the most direct match-up, Wolverine or the Wolf Man?, Universal's "Van Helsing" should answer that pugilistic ponderance, as Hugh Jackman,.... » read more
One "Ring" To Rule Them All
"Return of the King" Reigns Supreme With a Clean Sweep at the 76th Annual Academy Awards
It's good to be the "King." "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won each and every one of the 11 awards for which it was nominated at the 76th Annual Academy Awards, securing the epic fantasy a place in the record books for the most wins.... » read more
Starsky & Hutch Ride Again
TV's Original Buddy Cop Duo -- and Their Torino -- Roar Onto the Big Screen
One thing was true for every 10-year-old American boy in 1975: "If you had dark hair, you were Starsky. If you were swarthy -- if you were Jewish, Armenian, Italian, or whatever -- you were the Starsky guy. And the blonde, the WASPier one, was.... » read more
The Last Samurai
Tom Cruise Lives by the Sword in the 19th-Century Japan-Set Epic "The Last Samurai"
"This is Tom Cruise," says the iconically familiar but cellphone-compromised voice on the phone. This information is met with silence. "Hello?" he queries to determine the continued presence of the call's recipient. "I'm writing down the.... » read more
Will Power
"Saturday Night Live's" Will Ferrell Brings Christmas Cheer to the Big Screen With "Elf"
A fansite describes his cardinal acting traits as including cluelessness, befuddled confusion, suppressed rage, anger and horrified weeping, while his "Saturday Night Live" Best Of DVD jacket blurb synopsizes his small-screen career as "plenty of.... » read more
Multi-Faceted
Glitz of Oscar's Diamond Anniversary Sobered by Unfolding War
"Well, I'm glad they cut back on all the glitz," Steve Martin, emcee of the 75th Annual Academy Awards, noted wryly as the camera panned across the superstar-filled, luxuriously appointed Kodak Theatre. "Gasp -- I'm sorry -- I thought I saw a.... » read more
Adaptation Of The Species
The Fiction/Reality-Blurring Genre Evolves in "Malkovich" Filmmakers' Unfaithful "Adaptation"
After writing "Being John Malkovich," in which a frustrated artist discovers a secret portal that transports one into the head of the eponymous actor, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman must have been asked more than once what a portal into his own mind.... » read more
Telling "Secrets"
Director Chris Columbus Adapts "The Chamber of Secrets"
That old black magic has us in its spell. Of course, boy wizard-in-training Harry Potter is a white-lighter all the way, but there is no light without dark. Epic battles of good-versus-evil are fought with imagination to spare in J.K. Rowling's.... » read more
Tolkien Of Affection
Labor-of-Love Adaptation of "Lord of the Rings" Stays True to the Text's Heart
The quest began a millennium ago and whisked the Bearer of the One "Ring" to exotic faraway lands. That is, Elijah Wood was tapped circa mid-1999 to play Frodo Baggins in New Line's epic adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, filmed on.... » read more
20,000 Leagues in 9000 B.C.
Disney's "Atlantis" Plumbs the Depths of the Legendary Lost Continent
History or fantasy, the legend of Atlantis has imprinted itself upon imaginations since as far back as 360 B.C. That's when Greek philosopher Plato wrote in his dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias" of the continent that, 9,000 years earlier, at its.... » read more
Director's Chair: Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont
On Bringing 1970s' Cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats" to the Big Screen
"Josie and the Pussycats/Long tails, and ears for hats...." The only part of the theme song from the '70s-era "Josie and the Pussycats" Saturday morning animated series (based on the comic book published under the Archie Comics banner) any.... » read more
Casting A "Shadow"
Director Elias Merhige Sinks His Teeth Into "Vampire"
Elias Merhige is a filmmaker before his time. Literally. His college thesis film, 1991's avant-garde, critically lauded but barely released "Begotten," is made to appear to be a 3,000-year-old celluloid artifact from a long-extinct culture.... » read more
"Hollow" Be Thy Name
Kevin Bacon's Motives Are Transparent in "Hollow Man"
In his last film, "Stir of Echoes," Kevin Bacon played a haunted man. Now he's the one doing the haunting. "Except that I'm not a spirit," Bacon clarifies. "In fact, [a character in the film says of my condition,] 'It's kind of creepy, like a.... » read more
A True "Patriot"
Mel Gibson Stars in a Story About America, Family and Freedom
A gorgeous oceanside mansion in Malibu is a world away from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, but that's where "The Patriot" stars Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger and director Roland Emmerich have convened to pose for promotional.... » read more
Be"witch"ed, Bothered And Bewildered
Fear Has No Face in "The Blair Witch Project"
How scary is a hank of hair? When it's ritualistically tied in a bundle of sticks along with some blood and an unprofessionally extracted tooth in a foreboding implementation of sorcery, it's infinitely more frightening than even the most graphic.... » read more
Lust In Space
Captain Picard Meets His Love Match in "Star Trek: Insurrection"
Pointy ears. "Beam me up, Scotty." That insane fight music. Warp Nine. None of these things say "Star Trek" more than that green-skinned girl asking Captain James T. Kirk "What is this thing called 'kiss'?" Sure, the Prime Directive and tests of.... » read more
Crimes And Smithdemeanors
Gary Oldman's Dr. Smith Puts the "Danger, Will Robinson!" into New Line's "Lost in Space"
British, American, Southern, German, Black English Vernacular, Transylvanian: Gary Oldman's accents are as much a part of his memorable pantheon of characters as his intense, reach-out-of-the-screen-and-throttle-you energy. The complexly quirky.... » read more
"Sphere" Of Influence
Having a Ball With Dustin Hoffman
He's in a meeting-but he'd like you to go in," Dustin Hoffman's assistant informs BOXOFFICE with a slightly puzzled tone in her voice. Sure, it's not the normal etiquette, but Hoffman soon makes it evident he's not one to stand on formalities..... » read more
Special "Guest"
Alan Rickman Invites Audiences Into His "Winter" Wonderland
There's a bug on your hand," BOXOFFICE informs Alan Rickman. "Oh, I don't mind," he says in a gentle tone, delicately brushing the insect away while making sure not to injure the creature. "Go on, fly away," he tells it tenderly. It's.... » read more
Howard's Turn
Radio's Controversial First Amendment Poster-Boy Reveals His "Private Parts"
"If you're going to put out a movie, it better be damn well kick-ass and great," asserts Howard Stern, whose long-in-development "Private Parts" will finally go public this March. After Stern's first film, "Fartman," about a flatulent but.... » read more
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