Profile: The diet was a pain, but Anthony Mackie's gains...
By BARBARA VANCHERI - Talk about the breakfast of champions. Or gym rats.
View ArticleFilm: 'Iron Man 3' more entertaining than the last...
By BARBARA VANCHERI - Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) cannot sleep, suffers anxiety attacks that hit like a punch to the gut and is haunted by what happened in New York with the Avengers.
View ArticleDC bridge to close for new 'Captain America' film
WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia's film office says Washington's Theodore Roosevelt Bridge will be closing temporarily for a major motion picture.
View ArticleCleveland lands another Hollywood film shoot
CLEVELAND - Cleveland has landed another Hollywood film shoot and it could mean delays for motorists.
View ArticleFilm: Has noted director M. Night Shyamalan lost his...
By BARBARA VANCHERI - Once upon a time, an M. Night Shyamalan movie would be sold on his name: "From the director of 'The Sixth Sense.'?" But these days, superstar Will Smith and his son, Jaden Smith,...
View ArticleFor art's sake, Cleveland museum closes Sunday
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Museum of Art is giving way to another art form this weekend, closing Sunday to allow filming for a Hollywood movie.
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Grisham's 'A Time To Kill' heading to Broadway
NEW YORK - John Grisham's first novel, which was made into a star-filled film, is now heading to a Broadway stage.
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Review: 'Turbo' is attractive but runs out of gas
LOS ANGELES - In delivering a film about a garden snail that dreams of winning the Indy 500, it's as if the makers of "Turbo" had been pressed to come up with the most extreme underdog tale they could...
View ArticleFilm: 'Turbo': In this race, watch the escargot
There are good reasons why we don't see a lot of gastropods as protagonists in family movies. - -- Snails don't have hands or feet, limiting an animator to just eye and mouth movements for expressiveness.
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Sebastian Arcelus to star in B'way 'Time to Kill'
NEW YORK - Sebastian Arcelus, Fred Dalton Thompson and John Douglas Thompson will star in the stage adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller "A Time to Kill" on Broadway.
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Jamie Foxx backs Trayvon Martin's mom 'forever'
SAN DIEGO - Hours after President Barack Obama delivered remarks about Trayvon Martin and the George Zimmerman trial, Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson addressed the racially charged case at Comic-Con...
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Samuel L. Jackson in the dark on new 'Star Wars'
SAN DIEGO - Samuel L. Jackson's just like everybody else: He has no idea what's going on with the new "Star Wars" films.
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Joss Whedon talks comics, 'Avengers,' 'SHIELD'
SAN DIEGO - Joss Whedon is the busiest man at Comic-Con.
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New reality: And the geek shall inherit the earth
SAN DIEGO - Samuel L. Jackson visits Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles twice a month. Employees there keep a box stuffed with the latest comic books and graphic novels.
View Article2 die after being pulled from water off AC
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey - A man and a woman have died after being pulled from the water off Atlantic City.
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Review: 'Smurfs 2' is a largely unwarranted sequel
LOS ANGELES - Time flies when you're not wondering about the welfare of the Smurfs, those diminutive, animated blue-skinned forest-dwellers. Turns out they've been just fine since their 2011 big-screen...
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Yankees beat Dodgers 3-0 helped by Ellis' error
LOS ANGELES - With two strikes against him, pinch-hitter Lyle Overbay wanted to make sure he wasn't getting a fastball on the next pitch.
View ArticleFilmmakers pay up for using Cleveland streets
CLEVELAND - Cleveland charged the filmmakers of the new Captain America movie more than $200,000 for filming in the city streets.
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Tom Skerritt to star in Broadway's 'Time to Kill'
NEW YORK - Tom Skerritt will make his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller "A Time to Kill."
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Leonard's cool inspired generation of writers
Peter Leonard first figured out his father was cooler than most anyone else at an early age, when he was crawling around under the church pew and noticed Elmore Leonard's ultra-mod ankle boots - you...
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