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Tom Cruise rejected for festival film

September 3, 2009

Tom Cruise offered to help complete Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, but was rejected by the film's director, Terry Gilliam, because Cruise had not personally known the late star. Instead, Gilliam hired Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell to play different versions of the character Ledger had begun to portray […]

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Keanu Reeves agrees to paternity test

September 3, 2009

Keanu Reeves, who will be appearing at the Toronto International Film Festival this month to promote his new film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, insists he has never met the Barrie woman who claims he's the father of at least one of her children. However, he has agreed to a paternity test, according to […]

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Canadian director pulls film in protest

September 1, 2009

Canadian filmmaker John Greyson has pulled his short documentary Covered out of this year's inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv, calling it "complicity with the Israeli propaganda machine." This isn't the first time Greyson has protested against Israel: In April, he withdrew his film, Fig Trees, about an AIDS activist, from the Tel Aviv International […]

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Viggo Mortensen (Appaloosa) interview

September 8, 2008

Viggo Mortensen describes how the shotgun he carried in Appaloosa almost becomes another character in the minds of the audience and the movie's characters.