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Women lust after Channing Tatum, and his wife loves it
Your husband starred in one of the biggest movies of summer — as a male stripper. Women ages 12 to 92 have professed their eternal love. His fan base has turned all three of his movies in 2012 into $100 million-plus hits. What is it …
Moscow-born animator gets to ‘Transylvania’ via Chicago
Growing up in Rogers Park, Genndy Tartakovsky was always in trouble at the end of the school year. “I drew little comics all through my text books,” he says. “I had to buy a lot of books at the end of the school year because …
Wearing the ‘Dredd’ helmet, Karl Urban ‘walks into the face of danger’
Karl Urban of “Star Trek” and “Dredd 3D,” calling during a recent Chicago visit, frets that he has made a huge mistake.
“I just had a phenomenal chicken panini,” he says, “but I’m told that I should have tried the pizza.”
Urban has his reasons …
Ex-classmates turn nostalgic in solid ‘10 Years’
When Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara and Rosario Dawson are all in the room for a 10-year reunion, you can’t help thinking: Gee, they must have gone to Good-Lookin’ High! That’s some appealing cast, all delivering fine work in “10 Years,” one …
Sundance to honor film critic Roger Ebert
Critic Roger Ebert is receiving an award from Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute for his support of independent cinema.
Radnor ages gracefully in latest ‘Liberal’ film
A few years ago, actor-writer-director Josh Radnor was showing his film “Happythankyoumoreplease” to students at his Ohio alma mater, Kenyon College.
“I hadn’t planned on aging, but it happened,” says the 38-year-old. “It was shocking. I figured out that I was twice the age of …
Clint Eastwood says chair routine ‘didn’t get the response I wanted’
He took longer than he was supposed to with the GOP convention bit, Eastwood says, joking that “I was hoping they would nominate me.” His new movie is “Trouble With the Curve.”
‘The Master’ smashes records opening in two cities
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s cult drama “The Master” commanded a huge following in its opening weekend, smashing records on just a handful of screens. The Weinstein Co. release made $729,745 in five theaters in New York and Los Angeles for a record-setting per-screen average of …
Michael Pena took chances making cop movie with Jake Gyllenhaal
Shooting “End of Watch,” the Chicago-born actor did ride-alongs with police and raced into a burning building. “We saw a lot of insane stuff,” Pena says.
Producer called to majors to direct Clint Eastwood in ‘Curve’
Look between the white lines of “Trouble With the Curve,” and you see that it is more than a baseball movie.
Clint Eastwood plays an aging baseball scout who is developing macular degeneration, among other ailments. Amy Adams is his daughter who takes on life’s …
At 72, Al Pacino still in ‘the amazing business’
He once made a film called “Looking for Richard,” but when this Oscar-winning actor takes the stage, it could be billed as “Searching for Al.” The traces of his many iconic roles — Michael in “The Godfather,” Sonny in “Dog Day Afternoon,” Lt. Col. Slade in “Scent of a Woman” — ripple through “Al Pacino: One Night Only.”
Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ swarms back into theaters next week
Newly restored, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” (1963) will screen at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 18 area cinemas (with 2 p.m. matinees at select locales), as part of Universal Pictures’ centennial salute. Introducing the film, TCM host Robert Osborne also interviews “Birds” star Tippi Hedren, who famously became the object of Hitchcock’s obsession.
Anti-Obama film making history
LOS ANGELES — While it hasn’t yet reached the lofty level of 2004’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” at the box office, “2016: Obama’s America” has become the hottest political documentary of the year. And it comes from Hollywood’s conservative corner, a spot normally reserved for faith-based movies. …
‘Possession’ tops weak week
LOS ANGELES — “The Possession” occupied the top spot at a nearly comatose box office. The fright flick with Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan playing the parents of a girl possessed by a demon earned $9.5 million in its second outing, the lowest grossing …
Susan Sarandon won’t put wisdom in writing
She’s an Oscar-winning actress, an activist and a ping-pong entrepreneur, but one title Susan Sarandon has yet to claim is author. “I did write a book about a very funny raccoon,” the 66-year-old role model reveals. “A friend of mine took it to his publisher …
