Drew Pearce, currently writing “Iron Man 3,” has been tapped to write the script months before the second installment releases. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows doesn’t open until December 16, but Warner Bros. is already planning the next installment of the period detective adventure movies. The studio has hired Drew Pearce, the creator of the [...]

Thundering typhoons! Steven Spielberg has won the seal of approval of Tintin’s native land — and that’s no mean feat. In Tintin’s home city, movie journalists got a sneak preview of “The Adventures of Tintin — The Secret of the Unicorn” this week, and knives were sharpened in case it turned out that some Hollywood [...]

How does a modern filmmaker with qualms about religion make a movie about the power of an ancient Christian pilgrimage? That’s the dilemma that actor/director Emilio Estevez faced when making ‘The Way,’ a new film that opens Friday (Oct. 7) starring his own father, actor Martin Sheen. Estevez opted to focus on the personal dimension [...]

The Spaniard Javier Bardem has had his name associated with the production of the new Bond since January 2011 when Deadline broke the news that Bardem had been offered a part in the 23rd James Bond film. Last month Daniel Craig restated that both Bardem and English star Ralph Fiennes were in contention for a role. Now, in an interview [...]

“Finding Nemo,” “The Little Mermaid” and two other animated Walt Disney tales are following “The Lion King” into 3-D mode on the big-screen. Disney announced Tuesday that the 3-D reissues will begin Jan. 13 with 1991′s “Beauty and the Beast,” the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. The studio [...]

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie on Tuesday pleaded with the international community to step up aid to the Horn of Africa, saying that its response would determine “whether huge numbers of people live or die.” “Today three-quarters of a million people are at risk of death in the next four months in the Horn of Africa,” [...]

Exclusive: After debuting in the Top 200 of the charts last week, the Philadelphia Christian Hip Hop veteran speaks about what makes this latest album’s inspiration so meaningful. There’s a thin line between rocking stages and rock bottom. Da T.R.U.T.H can attest to that. Still basking in the success of his album The Big Picture, the [...]

Brad Pitt was unable to put the cat out of first place at the weekend box office. Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” reissue was No. 1 for the second-straight weekend with $22.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That puts it just ahead of Pitt’s baseball drama “Moneyball,” a Sony Pictures release that opened at [...]

It’s 1994 all over again, with a re-release of “The Lion King” opening at the top of the box office. A 3-D version of the wildly popular Disney animated musical earned a surprising $29.3 million in its first weekend in theaters, according to Sunday estimates. The original film made more than $40 million when it [...]

Thesps to star in remake of musical Sony Pictures is rounding up a sparkling cast for its remake of the 1976 music-themed pic “Sparkle”: Whitney Houston is in negotiations to join “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks and Mike Epps in the film, which Salim Akil is directing from a script by Mara Brock Akil. Debra [...]