In star-studded ‘Late Autumn,’ Seattle plays starring role

A motion picture star may have spotted you at Northgate Mall these past couple months. But you probably did not notice.

Chinese actress Tang Wei is in Seattle filming “Late Autumn,” a drama also starring South Korean heartthrob Hyun Bin that is set to wrap Monday. Like her co-star, Wei could not step on the streets of Hong Kong without being mobbed. So when she is not filming or sneaking into Asian restaurants, she likes to sit in and around ...

Winter of our content: Fun Olympic movies

Here are some movies to get you into the mood for the Winter Olympics, which start Friday in Vancouver, B.C.

Cool Runnings (1993): Based on the true story of the Jamaican Bobsled team in the 1988 Calgary Games. Jamaicans are known for their summer runners, so this story about how they put together a team is the perfect way to chill out.
Miracle (2004): “Do you believe in miracles?” So uttered Al Michaels in 1980 at Lake Placid, N.Y., when the United ...

‘Avatar,’ ‘The Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar nominations

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The science-fiction sensation “Avatar” and the war-on-terror thriller “The Hurt Locker” lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for James Cameron and ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow.

For the first time the Oscars feature 10 best-picture contenders instead of the usual five.

Also nominated for best-picture Tuesday: “District 9″; the animated comedy “Up”; the World War II saga “Inglourious Basterds”; the football drama “The Blind Side”; the recession tale “Up in The Air,” the ...

There’s an art to translating books into movies

The Lovely Bones arrives in movie theaters Friday. Fans of Alice Sebold’s book will see it in a new light: as part of an old Hollywood tradition that turns beloved books into major motion pictures.

It’s a tradition with mixed results.

“When we deal with adaptation movies, we always compare the movie to the book,” says Karen Fang, who teaches film studies and literature at the University of Houston. “But that’s not the way the film industry thinks about the issue. The ...

Forecast 2010: movies

It’s apparent at this time of the year why they call it “the movie business.” Just as most folks are beginning to think about what films might score Oscar nominations, the industry has already moved on to its new product.

A perusal of 2010 films reveals the return of Demi Moore, Mel Gibson and Gordon Gekko and the release of “Shutter Island” and “The Wolfman,” both of which were to come out last year. Some fascinating-sounding indie and foreign films brighten ...

Brittany Murphy made a vivid impression

Watch enough movies over a period of many years and cinema begins to seem like a land of the dead. Actors and actresses visit that land over the course of their careers and exist, for a time, in two worldsreal and cinematic. But sooner or later they go over completely into the land of the movies and remain there forever, acting out the same dramas and playing out the same emotions, all the time looking just a bit more innocent ...

Plenty of Ritchie on decade’s worst list

Time flies when you’re having fun but has a way of slowing down when you’re getting pins stuck in your eyes. Vacations blur into a pleasant memory, and it’s even possible to have an entire romance without remembering, years later, what the two of you ever talked about. But the trauma of seeing something like “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” never quite goes away. Like toxic waste, those 151 minutes don’t degrade, don’t get reabsorbed into the soil ...

Murphy’s husband doesn’t want autopsy

ACTRESS Brittany Murphy’s husband has reportedly asked that officials do not conduct an autopsy on his wife.

Actress Brittany Murphy Dies At Age 32

The actress got her start in the sleeper hit Clueless and rose to stardom in 8 Mile.

‘Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32′

AMY Winehouse kicked a theatre manager in the groin, yelled abuse and made children cry at a Cinderella pantomime performance.

Rage band ruins UK’s X Factor Christmas

AMY Winehouse kicked a theatre manager in the groin, yelled abuse and made children cry at a Cinderella pantomime performance.

Winehouse acted like ‘a demonic child’

AMY Winehouse kicked a theatre manager in the groin, yelled abuse and made children cry at a Cinderella pantomime performance.

Awful And Astounding Movie Accents Of The Decade

Some actors spend hours, days, even months painstakingly perfecting accents for their roles. A great accent can enhance a performance, but an awful one can derail the whole thing. Tell us who nailed it — and who failed it.

Looking For Signs Of God, ‘The Dude’ Delivers

Cathleen Falsani’s book, The Dude Abides, examines the way the Coen brothers inject elements of religion into their films, from The Big Lebowski to A Serious Man.

Michael Imperioli, now in ‘The Lovely Bones,’ still a New York guy

Writer-director Terry Gilliam was faced with a difficult decision when his “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” star diedtrash the movie or use CGI wizardry to complete it. The former “Monty Python” member instead did something completely different.

Heath Ledger’s spirit lives on in his final film, ‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’

Writer-director Terry Gilliam was faced with a difficult decision when his “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” star diedtrash the movie or use CGI wizardry to complete it. The former “Monty Python” member instead did something completely different.

Terry Gilliam: The ‘Imaginarium’ That Almost Wasn’t

The director of Brazil and 12 Monkeys returns to the big screen this month with a new entry in his legendarily eccentric film catalog: a fantastical Imaginarium that almost didn’t get finished.