The Screen Actors Guild is in a tough position as it prepares to make a statement on film studios’ final offer for a contract that the union has already indicated does not give actors enough money for new media.
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced this week that its members approved a separate [...]

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A possible Screen Actors Guild strike in the United States is affecting the movie business in Winnipeg.
The last American film production to shoot in the city this year was Wild Cherry, starring Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. It wrapped in May.
Tara Walker, executive director of Onscreen Manitoba, an association representing [...]

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Currently ubiquitous is the latest and fullest trailer for the new Batman instalment, “The Dark Knight.” Advertising for the film has been scrutinized following the death of Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker.
But the ad campaign by Warner Bros. which heavily features Ledger has largely drawn raves. Even the staunchest art-house filmgoer would have to [...]

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In-Fusio, a digital-content publisher headquartered in France, has licensed mobile gaming rights for the upcoming movie Get Smart from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.
Based on the motion picture from Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures, the Get Smart mobile game will feature mission-based gameplay, puzzle solving and combat.
Assuming the role of CONTROL operatives, Get Smart mobile [...]

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David Berenbaum and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes have been brought on deck to bring Hasbro’s supernatural game “Ouija Board” to the big screen. The project is set up at Universal, where Hasbro has a six-year strategic partnership.
Platinum Dunes’ Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce “Ouija” along with Hasbro.
Although the specific log line for [...]

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The American film industry will be called to testify before a Quebec legislative committee next fall to explain why more Hollywood films aren’t dubbed into French in the province.
A committee studying the issue says it wants to hear from members of the Motion Picture Association, which represents the U.S. film industry internationally.
Quebec’s opposition parties have [...]

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Movie studios are studying how they might undercut the disk business in favor of digital downloads, and there’s a report from ContentAgenda.com that moviemakers may release movies to cable and satellite companies before they even appear on disk.
As it is now, a few movies make it to cable systems on the same day they are [...]

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A Hong Kong movie company said Wednesday it has invested in American director Oliver Stone’s biopic of U.S. President George W. Bush, a rare Chinese leap into financing a Hollywood film.
Emperor Motion Pictures said in a statement that it is one of the investors in “W,” along with American independent movie company QED, Switzerland’s Condor [...]

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“By the pricking of my thumbs, something celluloid this way comes.”
Like the carnival at the center of Ray Bradbury’s classic 1962 novel, the annual arrival of the Summer Movie season is like a decidedly deceptive big top temptress. Every year, Hollywood unveils a carefully planned cavalcade of thrills, spills, laughs, and gaffs, and lemming-like we [...]

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Peer Gynt (1941): Heston played the title role in his movie debut, which was made by a fellow Northwestern University student.The Greatest Show on Earth (1952): He starred as the circus manager Brad Braden under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille.The Ten Commandments (1956): He played Moses in the biblical epic that was DeMille’s [...]

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