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This summer, however, two of Hollywood's most acclaimed actresses have taken the leads in a pair of edgy cable dramas and matched TV's bad boys vice for vice and flaw for flaw. In FX's engrossing legal chiller Damages (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Glenn Close plays Patty Hewes, a committed and vicious trial lawyer who is driven to win cases against the powerful but resorts to bullying and deception--and other, possibly bloodier, means--to do it. Litigating against a CEO (Ted Danson) in a pump-and-dump stock scandal, she hires--or exploits?--a young lawyer (Rose...
...stop going places. You sit around, and you read." Schiffer read Gaiman's novel Stardust and told her husband that it was the best book she'd ever read. Schiffer's husband is the director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake). And thus it was that Gaiman finally made his big Hollywood movie...
...pretty much time. Gaiman has been an icon in the world of comics and fantasy fandom for almost 20 years. He's notorious for having sold more ideas to Hollywood, without any of them actually getting made, than almost any other living person. Now, all at once, the year of Gaiman is finally upon us. Stardust opens Aug. 10, starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. Beowulf, written by Gaiman and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is coming in November. Next year Dakota Fanning will star in Coraline, based on Gaiman's children's book. Is he about...
...England in June 1997 and generated immediate buzz. According to a 1997 review of the novel in British newspaper The Guardian, author J.K. Rowling sold her manuscript to her UK publisher Bloomsbury for ?100,000, and less than a month later, she had attracted movie offers from two Hollywood studios...
...without a heavy dose of teen romance, superstition or horror, and even then most Indonesian films aren't shown for more than a week on a particular screen. "The only films that do well now are ones kids see over and over," adds producer Wijaya. That's a formula Hollywood knows all too well. But if Indonesian cinema is to flourish, commercially, its producers need to rely on something more predictable than the whim of the censors to determine whether their movie makes it onto screens...