FROM SODERBERGH: SOUR NOTES ABOUT MAKING LIBERACE BIOPIC

Director Steven Soderbergh, whose movies represent a cross-section of film fare — from the more-than-four-hour-long commercial failure Che (it earned less than $1.5 million at the box office) to the box office hits Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve — says it is difficult to find financing for a film “that’s not bubbly and positive all [...]

MICHAEL DOUGLAS CENTER OF OSCAR DILEMMA

Twentieth Century Fox is likely to promote Michael Douglas for a best supporting actor Oscar, rather than a best actor award, for his performance in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, DeadlineHollywood.com reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. The website observed that Douglas himself feels that his Gordon Gekko character in the sequel amounts to a supporting [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

Money may never sleep, but that may not be the case when it comes to the audience watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, several critics suggest. “Greed is boring,” writes Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle in his review. “Strange thing about this movie: The sky is falling, empires are crumbling, venerable financial monoliths [...]

ABC NEWS APOLOGIZES FOR ANOTHER ETHICAL MISSTEP

Admitting an ethical lapse for the second time in a one-month period, ABC News said Wednesday that Elizabeth Vargas should not have interviewed Michael Douglas about his divorce during a segment on Tuesday’s Good Morning America. The Post pointed out that Vargas dated Douglas while he was still married to his wife Diandra. During the [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: “SOLITARY MAN”

Among films playing in limited release, Anchor Bay Films’s Solitary Man, starring Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandan, Mary-Louise Parker and Danny DeVito, expanded into 53 theaters, where it averaged a solid $6,976 per theater for a total of $871,081. That’s especially impressive given the fact that a few of those theaters have been screening it for [...]