Mischa Barton's movie Guilty Pleasures

Pictures on set of Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton's movie Guilty Pleasures scheduled to come out January 2007.

Five Fingers

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Ryan Phillippe, Touriya Haoud, Isa Hoes, Colm Meaney
Directed by: Lawrence Malkin (II)
Produced by: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Sam Nazarin

When a young Dutch idealist travels to Morocco to start a food charity he's kidnapped by local terrorists and has to engage in a mental chess match to learn his captors' objectives.

Genres: Thriller

A hot and sexy clip of Ryan Phillippe getting a spongebath from a lady in the film Five Fingers.

Julia Roberts In Three Days Of Rain, Review

THEATER REVIEWS: JULIA ROBERTS IN THREE DAYS OF RAIN
Julia Roberts, a darling of American film critics and the top female box-office star, is receiving mixed reviews from theater critics following her debut playing two characters in Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain on Broadway. Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times: "She's stiff with self-consciousness (especially in the first act), only glancingly acquainted with the two characters she plays and so deeply, disturbingly beautiful that you don't want to let her out of your sight." Later, he continues: "That she does not do well -- at least not by any conventional standards of theatrical art -- is unlikely to lose Ms. Roberts any fans, though it definitely won't win her any new ones among drama snobs. Your heart goes out to her when she makes her entrance in the first act and freezes with the unyielding stiffness of an industrial lamppost, as if to move too much might invite falling." Peter Marks writes similarly in the Washington Post: "Well, she gives it the old college try -- and that is all she appears capable of. As if marooned on an unfamiliar shore, Julia Roberts staggers hesitantly through Three Days of Rain." Elysa Gardner in USA Today is kinder, writing, "Roberts makes both women [her two characters] credible, compelling and sweetly funny. And she manages a tender chemistry with each of her costars." As for Shakespeare's remark that "the play's the thing," clearly he lived before the age of movie stars. As Howard Kissel observes in the New York Daily News, "There's almost no point discussing Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain" as a play. With Julia Roberts as its leading lady, it's an event! Think Puffy in "A Raisin in the Sun." Or Liz and Dick in "Private Lives." A celebrity changes theatergoing into an evening of status enhancement. It's not about experiencing a play - it's about telling your friends you saw Her." source

Silent Hill

Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates
Produced by: Samuel Hadida, Don Carmody, Andrew Mason

A woman named Rose, desperate to find her child Sharon, finds herself trapped in an alternate dimension as she searches for her daughter in a world of decay inhabited by strange beings. Over the protests of her husband, she flees with her child, heading for an abandoned town to which the child seems drawn. Sharon disappears in the town, and Rose follows what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette

Genres: Action/Adventure, Suspense/Horror and Adaptation
Distributors: TriStar Pictures

Alicia Keys Another Movie Role

Alicia Keys is adding another note to her acting resume.

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has been cast in the big-screen adaptation of the best-selling book, “The Nanny Diaries,” Keys’ spokeswoman, Kelly Bush, said Thursday.

The film features Scarlett Johansson as a nanny for a wealthy Manhattan family. Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney and Chris Evans also star. Keys will play the nanny’s best friend, Bush said.

The character is a far cry from the assassin she plays in the upcoming action flick “Smokin’ Aces,” which features Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Jeremy Piven and Ray Liotta.

Keys, 24, and longtime manager Jeff Robinson formed a production company, Big Pita, Lil’ Pita, in January that will create original television and movie projects — and even more acting opportunities for Keys.
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Thank You for Smoking

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Robert Duvall, Katie Holmes, William H. Macy, Sam Elliott
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Produced by: John Schmidt, Edward R. Pressman, Alessandro Camon

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.

Genres: Comedy, Drama and Adaptation
Distributors: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Benchwarmers

Starring: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Craig Kilborn
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Produced by: Todd Garner, Derek Dauchy, Jack Giarraputo

Gus and his nerdy buddies, Richie and Clark, are scouted by a millionaire nerd, Mel, who wants to form a baseball team and compete with the meanest Little League teams in the state. A stellar ballplayer, Gus becomes a role model for nerds and outcasts everywhere. But when his fans learn that Gus, himself, was once a school bully, they feel outraged and betrayed, until Gus takes extraordinary steps

Genres: Comedy and Sports
Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing

Casablanca is the best movie script

The list was chosen by Guild members from more than 1,400 nominated screenplay.

Round up the usual suspects: The Writers Guild of America has named "Casablanca" as No. 1 on its first list of the "101 Greatest Screenplays."

The screenplay for the wartime tale of courage and cynicism starring Humphrey Bogart was written by Howard Koch and brothers Julius and Philip Epstein.

It was followed on the list by the screenplay for "The Godfather," written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola; "Chinatown," written by Robert Towne; "Citizen Kane," by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles; and "All About Eve" by Joseph Mankiewicz.

Rounding out the top 10 were "Annie Hall," by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman; "Sunset Boulevard" by the writing team of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr.; Paddy Chayefsky's "Network"; Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's "Some Like It Hot"; and Coppola and Puzo's "The Godfather Part II"

Three writers -- Allen, Coppola and Wilder -- had four films on the list, while three others had three each: William Goldman, John Huston and Charlie Kaufman.

Julia Roberts was almost the million-dollar

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Julia Roberts was almost the million-dollar baby on Broadway last week. "Three Days of Rain," which stars Roberts,Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper, grossed a whopping $988,298 for its first full week of preview performances, according to figures released Monday by the League of American Theatres and Producers.

The eight performances, which began March 28, played to 101 percent of capacity (which includes standing room) at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, the league said. The Richard Greenberg play — Roberts' Broadway debut — opens April 19.

Other shows playing to capacity — or better — last week included "Wicked," "Monty Python's Spamalot," "The Pajama Game," "The Odd Couple" and "The Phantom of the Opera." Although "Phantom" was helped by discount offers, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has demonstrated surprising box-office muscle, particularly after becoming Broadway's longest running show last January.

Also playing to virtual capacity were such shows as "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," "Jersey Boys," "The Lion King" and "Tarzan," which is now in previews. Disney's new musical opens May 10 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre Source

"Ice Age: The Meltdown" heated up the box office

"Ice Age: The Meltdown" heated up the box office with $70.5 million weekend, while audiences were cool to Sharon Stone, whose "Basic Instinct 2" debuted with a paltry $3.2 million.
The "Ice Age" took over the top box office spot from Universal's "Inside Man."
The rest of the top 10:
2. "Inside Man," $15.7 million.
3. "ATL," $12.5 million.
4. "Failure to Launch," $6.6 million.
5. "V for Vendetta," $6.5 million.
6. "Stay Alive," $4.58 million.
7. "She's the Man," $4.57 million.
8. "Slither," $3.7 million.
9. "The Shaggy Dog," $3.5 million.
10 (tie). "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector," $3.2 million.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

Starring : Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Josh Peck
Directed by: Carlos Saldanha
Produced by: Lori Forte

The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in the melting paradise that is their new world. Manny, Sid, and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: a huge glacial dam is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So the three heroes, along with a mammoth named Ellie and her two "brothers".