The attempted hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates and hostage-taking of a US merchant captain last month is to get the big screen treatment, Hollywood press said on Friday. Columbia Pictures has bought the film rights to Richard Phillips' story -- the seaman who gave himself up to Somali pirates in return for the free passage of his crew ...

If you're looking for a meme to grab onto during the upcoming Oscar season, try this: in an effort to make pre-established release dates, studios are rushing their prestige films to the detriment of the product. And we thought that only happened with summer tent poles! We first noticed a month ago when The Weinstein Company pushed John Hillcoat ...

It was the tale of beleaguered film-maker, a leaked email, an embattled production and two Hollywood heavyweights at loggerheads. Yet now, it seems, the torrid, behind-the-scenes history of Stephen Daldry's The Reader may finally have a happy ending. Producers Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin today issued a joint statement announcing that the film would be released in the US ...

Scott Rudin has admitted that he lied to Page Six about an email that Harvey Weinstein supposedly sent to producer Sydney Pollack on his deathbed, along with the widow of another producer, Anthony Minghella, over issues related to the upcoming release of The Reader. [Gawker] During a talk about the joys of philanthropy featuring Bill Clinton, The Economist's Matthew ...