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Writer-director Bill Condon has made some compromises too: pumping up the role of a James Brownish belter to get Eddie Murphy more screen time, handing Beyoncé a new ballad to even out a story that belongs to Effie. But, hey, that's show biz, and Dreamgirls has plenty of visual pizazz to match its cast's charisma. American Idol's Hudson is sensational, mixing tenderness and the truculence of an oughta-be star...
...most important things is the ability to do a lot of movies and slot them in various places," says Harvey. "Some will go directly to TV or video or the Net. Others will go to theaters. It's a brave new world." Plans call for 18 big-screen projects in 2007, with an equal or greater number going direct to video. "The emphasis on theatrical is to be pickier," he explains...
...Pictures, a huge creative achievement, but it made a forgettable $20 million in theaters. By forgoing a distributor this time, Lynch gets to skip the awkward step where he turns over control of his vision to those linear folks, studio marketers. "People seeing the film together on a big screen in a dark room with really good sound is really important to me," says Lynch, who released his first film, Eraserhead, himself in 1977. "But any film like mine that's not seen as a summer blockbuster is getting harder to get into the theaters. It's so depressing...
...juniors in Bill Stroud's class are riveted by a documentary called Loose Change unspooling on a small TV screen at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education, in urban Astoria, N.Y. The film uses 9/11 footage and interviews with building engineers and Twin Towers survivors to make an oddly compelling if paranoid case that interior explosions unrelated to the impact of the airplanes brought down the World Trade Center on that fateful day. Afterward, the students--an ethnic mix of New Yorkers with their own 9/11 memories--dive into a discussion about the elusive nature of truth...
...time she turns 13 in February, Dakota Fanning will have appeared in 16 movies. Her two latest--an adaptation of the children's classic Charlotte's Web, in theaters this month, and the gritty indie Hound Dog, which will screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January--represent opposite ends of the young star's growing oeuvre. Fanning told TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about enduring her awkward stage, tackling grownup themes and selling Girl Scout cookies...