JOHN SINGLETON SUES PARAMOUNT FOR $20 MILLION

Filmmaker John Singleton has filed a $20-million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, claiming that the study backed out of a two-picture promise that was part of his deal with the studio for his 2005 film Hustle and Flow. In the suit, he claims that he agreed to sell the movie to Paramount at the Sundance Film […]

MOVIE REVIEWS: ABDUCTION

Taylor Lautner, the former teen werewolf of the Twilight movies, makes his starring debut in the John Singleton-directed Abduction. And critics, who are mostly excoriating the movie, are treating Lautner himself with a sizable degree of leniency. Despite the lameness of the plot, Roger Moore suggests in the Orlando Sentinel, “Lautner does not embarrass himself.” […]