The Best Films of 2008: A movie trivia post! :D
It's the end of the year, and we're all bored and maybe a little hung over and probably broke from the holidays. It's been a slow news day and it's a Sunday with nothing to do, so I got bored and decided to make a movie trivia post! I've seen them on ONTD before, but I decided to only pick trivia tidbits from Moviephone's 50 Best Movies of 2008, instead of picking random titles as others have done in the past. Because all of these movies are new, not every single one has trivia or they have very little, but

Best And Worst Science Fiction Movies Of 2008 [Io9 2008 Year In Review]
This wasn't just the year that science fiction dominated the movies — it also featured an amazing diversity of SF stories. Here's our list of the greatest — and most horrendous — films of 2008.Okay, so here are the movies that blew us away and horrified us this year:BEST:10. Let The Right One In. This intense, beautiful Swedish movie about a 12-year-old boy's relationship with a vampire did the near-impossible: it almost made us forget the blah Twilight. It's a parable of the world-destroying power of

Box Office Predictions (September 26-28)
The big opening film this weekend will be Shia LaBeouf’s action/thriller, Eagle Eye.  LaBeouf teams up again with D.J. Caruso hoping they can recapture the success they had with Disturbia.  There’s no doubt Eagle Eye will open at #1 in the box office this weekend… but how much will it make?  Also starring are Michelle Monoghan, Rosario Dawson, and Billy Bob Thornton.  Opening in over 3,000 locations, the question is whether or not Eagle Eye can top the $30 million mark. While all of t

'Nights in Rodanthe' swamped by sappy romance
There's still plenty of charm in romantically pairing Richard Gere and Diane Lane. The "Unfaithful" cast mates can still play flirty and cute with the best of them. And the stark, windswept beauty of North Carolina's Outer Banks makes a grand setting for a big-screen romance. Ah, but the corn grows high in those sand dunes in Nicholas Sparks' "Nights in Rodanthe." The movie version of "Nights" begins with such promise before it drowns in the romance novelist's sentimentality. Gere plays a Rale

Theatrical Releases for September 26, 2008
A few movies opening this weekendEAGLE EYE– The latest action packed, paranoid, conspiracy thriller film. This time, from producer Steven Spielberg starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson and Billy Bob Thornton. Reviews have been good.MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA– Spike Lee’s World War 2 film. Is it just me or are the ads too convoluted? Makes it look like some DA VINCI CODE lost treasure film rather than about WW2.NIGHTS IN RODANTHE – Richard Gere and Diane Lane team up for the third tim

'Eagle Eye' easily leads Friday box office
D.J. Caruso's new action spectacle "Eagle Eye" topped the North American box office Friday with an estimated $9.8 million in ticket sales, according to numbers released by Box Office Mojo. The Shia LaBeouf vehicle had the widest release this weekend, opening in 3,510 theaters. Also starring Michelle Monaghan and Billy Bob Thornton, the film will easily win the three-day box office race. Following in second place with $4.8 million was George C. Wolfe's romance "Nights in Rodanthe," which is based on a Nichol

Nicholas Sparks finds atmosphere key to romance
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, who has seen three of his romantic novels turned into films, celebrates as the third, "Nights in Rodanthe", hits theaters and this month and a fourth, "Dear John" goes into production in South Carolina in October. "Nights in Rodanthe", a mid-life love story of two strangers who become stranded together at a seaside inn during a storm, stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane and opens September 26. Sparks, 42, talked to Reuters abou

Movie review: 'Nights in Rodanthe'
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Nights in Rodanthe: Romantic drama. Directed by George C. Wolfe. Starring Diane Lane and Richard Gere. (Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Author and screenwriter Nicholas Sparks may well be, as one blog has proclaimed, the...

Diane Lane & Richard Gere: Onscreen Couple Once Again
The first film that had actors Diane Lane and Richard Gere working together was back in 1984 in The Cotton Club. Since then, the two were paired up in Unfaithful in 2002 and six years later, the two are now promoting their new film, a romantic comedy, Nights in Rodanthe. Based on a novel by The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks, the film has Lane and Gere playing star-crossed lovers. According to Diane, their experience as on-screen lovers was helpful, "We get better at not bumping teeth when we kiss, which

Nicholas Sparks finds atmosphere key to romance
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, who has seen three of his romantic novels turned into films, celebrates as the third, "Nights in Rodanthe", hits theaters and this month and a fourth, "Dear John" goes into production in South Carolina in October. "Nights in Rodanthe", a mid-life love story of two strangers who become stranded together at a seaside inn during a storm, stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane and opens September 26. Sparks, 42, talked to Reuters abou

Nicholas Sparks finds atmosphere key to romance
Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, who has seen three of his romantic novels turned into films, celebrates as the third, "Nights in Rodanthe", hits theatres and this month and a fourth, "Dear John" goes into production in South Carolina in October. "Nights in Rodanthe", a mid-life love story of two strangers who become stranded together at a seaside inn during a storm, stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane and opens September 26. Sparks, 42, talked to Reuters about mid-career drift, and not letting things ge

How (And Why) Did George C. Wolfe Get Involved With Nights In Rodanthe?
This weekend brings Nights in Rodanthe to theaters. It's an unapologetic tearjerker, a love story starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane (click here for Rex Reed's review), based on a Nicholas Sparks novel and directed by...George C. Wolfe? It's certainly not an obvious partnership. After all, Mr. Wolfe has made his reputation as being an edgy and inventive playwright (The Colored Museum, Spunk, Jelly's Last Jam), theater director (he staged Tony Kushner's Angels in America for which he won the Tony), and p

Director is the real villain in 'The Spirit'
This is what "Sin City" would have looked like without the restraining hand of codirector Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. And "300," shorn of Zack Snyder's reality? It might have had the same expressionist flourishes, the loony, loopy excesses of "The Spirit," also known as "Frank Miller Run Amok."

'The Spirit,' 'Seven Pounds' and 'Revolutionary Road': A Taxonomy of Trash [Rants]
Though Hollywood reserves the holiday movie season for its annual harvest of ambition, prestige and clout, even the most painstaking Oscar husbandry can often fail. For three much-anticipated films in particular, the damage varies.So Bad it's Good:The Spirit (Dec. 25). Perhaps it's best to know as little as possible going into this adaptation of Will Eisner's classic 1940s comic series, written and directed by Eisner acolyte Frank Miller in the arresting visual style of his debut (with Robert Rodriguez) Sin

The 50 Sexiest Movies of All-Time: 20-11
 We continue our list with the Top 20 sexiest films ever made. If you need a refresher, here are 30-21, 31-40, and 50-41. 20. Boogie Nights. Come on, you don't actually need an explanation for why this is here, do you? This film is about the 70s porn explosion and it involves Julianne Moore and Heather Graham, not to mention Burt Reynolds. For God's sake!19. Do The Right Thing. It seems like a century has passed since Spike Lee's monumental classic Do The Right Thing landed like a mete

The Top 10 Movie Couples We Want To See Reunited
While we aren’t exactly jumping in line to see the newly released “Nights in Rodanthe” — even the trailers for it give us a cavity — we bet there are plenty of people — like maybe our moms? — who are excited to see Diane Lane and Richard Gere...

Gere stunned by Lane chemistry
Actor Richard Gere is surprised by his onscreen chemistry with regular movie co-star Diane Lane - because they hardly talk.

In shore romance, Lane & Gere are just coasting
There's nothing wrong with some indulgent escapism, of course, and if that's what you're looking for you could certainly do worse. Diane Lane plays Adrienne Willis, a weary, fortysomething mother with two demanding children and a useless husband (Christopher Meloni). What she needs, obviously, is a vacation. And maybe another good thing would be a steamy fling with a guy who looks like Richard Gere. Fortunately, her best friend, Jean (Viola Davis), just happens to own a seaside inn in Rodanthe, N.C. When

DIANE LANE AND RICHARD GERE ARE STILL GOING STRONG
Photo Credit: Buzz Foto Diane Lane is in New York promoting "Nights In Rodanthe" and it's a movie she can be proud of. Diane has a legion of female fans who love her romantic movies like "Under the Tuscan...

Gere and Lane reunite in Rodanthe
Richard Gere and Diane Lane have teamed up again for romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe.

Richard Gere - Movie Reviews Nights In Rodanthe
The teaming of Richard Gere and Diane Lane in Nights in Rodanthe , their third movie together, has not charmed the critics who were previously charmed by The Cotton Club ...

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: We Spend Our Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere and Diane Lane
Director George C. Wolfe is also there to offer us a hanky in talking about his latest drama.

Nights in Rodanthe Giveaway!
Talk shows newest babe Bonnie Hunt wants to give you “Nights in Rodanthe!”  Diane Lane and Richard Gere reunite to bring the latest Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) novel to the big screen this weekend. But you can see them first as they are interviewed by Bonnie tomorrow. So for all my readers, I offer you a chance to win a “Nights in Rodanthe” Prize Package!  Prize pack includes, a Bonnie Hunt tv show T-shirt w/ a matching mug and a copy of the Nicholas Sparks novel! What do you