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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
'Dear John' bumps 'Avatar' with $32.4M debut
A sci-fi love story has given way to an earthbound romance at the box office, livening up typically slow times at theaters over Super Bowl weekend.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
Stretch Armstrong Casts Taylor Lautner in Title Role
Taylor Lautner is about to stretch his acting muscles. The Twilight star has been cast in the title role of the upcoming action film Stretch Armstrong, Variety reports.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
Jesse James Hollywood gets life in murder case
Jesse James Hollywood was sentenced to life in prison Friday for orchestrating the kidnap-murder of a teenager, ending a 10-year legal odyssey that included an international manhunt and a movie inspired by the high-profile crime.

Geoffrey Fletcher is 'Precious'
On Tuesday morning, just before the 2010 Academy Award nominations were announced, screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher couldn't get his TV to work. He scrambled to his computer and searched for the online broadcast of the nominations, his ears perking up for his name to be called.

Aussie banker caught ogling on TV will keep job
An Australian banker who was caught on live TV looking at photos of scantily clad model Miranda Kerr will not lose his job, the bank said Friday.

Mia Farrow criticizes illegal Haiti adoptions
UNICEF goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow has criticized as "deplorable" attempts to take children out of Haiti illegally after last month's devastating earthquake.

Review: Dear John, I'm Dumping Your Movie
It's like a bad soap opera.

Review: From Paris with Love a Satisfying Escape
Eminently watchable.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Coroner: Pneumonia killed Murphy, drugs had role
Brittany Murphy, the star of "Clueless" and "8 Mile," died from pneumonia, with prescription drugs and anemia also playing a role, a coroner's official said Thursday.

Judge: Internet provider doesn't abuse copyrights
An Australian judge ruled Thursday that an Internet service provider cannot be held accountable for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a test case of a key strategy by entertainment companies to combat online piracy.

Surf's Up for Carrie Underwood in New Movie
Carrie Underwood is riding the acting wave to the big screen: The country singer will make her film debut in the indie drama Soul Surfer, Variety reports. Carrie Underwood to guest-star on How I Met Your Mother Underwood joins Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt ...

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
'Avatar' tops $600M, beats 'Titanic' domestic haul
James Cameron's "Avatar" has sailed past his blockbuster "Titanic" to become No. 1 on the all-time domestic box-office chart.

Time Warner posts 4Q profit despite ad drop
Time Warner Inc. made a profit in the fourth quarter despite a decline in advertising revenue as the media company saw revenue gains in its cable channels such as HBO and its Warner Bros. movie studio, the one behind the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Brooks recalls Anne Bancroft as wife, collaborator
Mel Brooks has made audiences laugh for more than a half century, but it was his wife, the late Anne Bancroft, who made him smile.

What's the Big Deal?: Easy Rider (1969)
When you hear the title Easy Rider, there's a good chance you start humming "Born to be Wild," the rock anthem on the soundtrack that has come to represent the movie's philosophy of youth, freedom, and drugs. Peter Biskind considered the movie so significant that he put it in the title of his New Hollywood ...

The Academy Awards Mystery Host: Our Nominees
Rumor has it the Academy plans to spice up its 82nd annual award broadcast by adding a surprise third to its 2010 hosting team -- recent It's Complicated rom-com rivals, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Even better, Hollywood gossips have been buzzing that Tina Fey could be amigo number three. Yet when ...

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010
'The White Ribbon' top contender for foreign Oscar
Germany's award-winning "The White Ribbon," which took the top prize at Cannes last year, will compete with another prize winner, the melancholy Peruvian drama "Milk of Sorrow," and three other films from Israel, Argentina and France for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Capsule reviews: 'From Paris With Love' and others
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

Sony trumps Oscar season with 18 nominations
Sony Pictures emerged as the biggest winner of Oscar nominations this year, reaping 18, the most it has scored in many years, if not ever.

Diversity reigns in Oscar-nominated directors
The Academy Awards category for best director has historically been two things: white and male. This year, the five nominees are a slightly more diverse crowd.

Bridges, Bullock tabbed as early Oscar favorites
Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock are early favorites to win Oscars in the top acting categories at the Academy Awards, oddsmakers said Tuesday.

Oscars go big & small with 'Avatar,' 'Hurt Locker'
"Avatar" is a dreamy space fantasy that has made more money than any movie in history. "The Hurt Locker" is a ground-level dose of war-on-terror reality and one of the lowest-grossing best-picture contenders ever.

Just 24, Carey Mulligan earns Oscar nomination
Carey Mulligan, the 24-year-old star of "An Education," prepared herself for Oscar nominations in a peculiar way: She watched a film about drug addiction: "Requiem for a Dream."

Reactions to Academy Awards nominations
What they said upon learning of Tuesday's Academy Award nominations:

Bullock vs. Streep: A playful awards-season feud
Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress Oscar, but for her, awards season is more about camaraderie than competition with her fellow nominees. Except Meryl Streep.

Among expected picks, 'District 9' still surprises
In an Oscar year defined by inclusion, fewer movie folks than normal spent nominations morning feeling snubbed.

'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker' lead Oscar nominations

	In this film publicity image released by Summit Entertainment, Jeremy Renner is shown in a scene from, "The Hurt Locker." (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Jonathan Olley)

Best Picture Three-For-All: Avatar vs. Hurt Locker vs. Inglourious Basterds
The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced this week, a spectator sport in itself for awards season junkies who keep tabs on the ebb and flow of Oscar front-runners all the way through to the Big Night. (It's Sunday March 7, if you haven't already marked your calendars.) But what of those ...

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010
February Movies: The best bets and biggest gambles
Get ready for something you aren't usually accustomed to: a solid February. Every week there are about two different films of note being released. Here are the best bets and biggest gambles.

Avatar Tops Mel Gibson at the Box Office
After earning another $30 million domestically over the weekend, Avatar is still atop the box office chart, bringing its total to $594.5 million in 45 days.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010
Winter's Bone Tops 2010 Sundance Film Festival Winners
Winter's Bone, a film about a teenage girl who must venture deep into the wilderness to find her meth-making father, took home the grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010
The Best of Revenge Cinema, Served 10 Different Ways
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. That's exactly how Mel Gibson delivers it in this week's Edge of Darkness, in which he plays a desperate father hunting his daughter's killers with a cache of shotguns, pistols, and paternal bloodlust at his disposal. But throughout the history of cinema ...

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
Review: When in Rome Worth Skipping
An appalling collection of unfunny.

Review: Edge of Darkness a Bit Silly
Gibson tries his hardest to deliver here with a story full of plot holes and bland baddies.

The Verdict: Scorsese Does It for the Kids and Downey Jr. Lands Another Franchise
The Guy From Ice Age Was First Pick Over Scorsese?? Martin Scorsese is in talks to direct the adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret after Chris Wedge recently stepped down. The award-winning children's book follows an orphan who lives in the walls of a '30s Paris train station who finds his secret ...

Review: The Last Station on a Memorable Love Journey
A delightful comparison of old and new love, as well as the conflict between idealism and realism ... liberating, stimulating, and bubbling with humor throughout.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010
Ranking Meryl Streep's Oscar-nominated roles
Meryl Streep has been nominated for an Oscar a record 18,785,947 times. Well, close, anyway: she's received 15 Oscar nominations -- 12 for Best Actress and 3 for Best Supporting Actress -- which is more than any other performer in the history of the Academy Awards (she's won twice). And we might as ...

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010
Will audiences still go mad for Mel Gibson?
Edge of Darkness comes out on Friday. Will it bank theatrically? Do audiences miss Mel Gibson yet? It's an interesting question, without an easy answer.

Avatar Breaks Titanic's All-Time Record
Avatar is the biggest movie ever. James Cameron's unstoppable sci-fi epic has surpassed Titanic to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Avatar entered Monday $2 million shy of Titanic's global benchmark of $1.843 billion and passed the tally ...

Casting Call: Professor Moriarty
Now that Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie have given Sherlock Holmes a 21st-century rebirth, and a sequel (and the dawn of a blockbuster franchise) is nearly certain, one nagging question remains. Who will play Moriarty?