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Goode Surprised To Be Hired By Allen

26 July 2008 7:10 AM, PDT

British actor Matthew Goode was surprised to land a role in Match Point - because he was convinced he had offended the film's director Woody Allen.

Goode recalls an awkward audition for the role as Tom Hewett in the 2005 movie and believed Allen hated him.

He explains, "They tell you not to shake Woody's hand, that he doesn't like to be touched. But like any proper Englishmen I forgot.

"I was in and out of there in a minute. I thought I was doomed."

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Sally Field Endorses SAG Dissidents

25 July 2008 10:27 AM, PDT

Sally Field, who won an Oscar for portraying a textile union activist in the movie Norma Rae, has become the first major star to endorse the dissident slate challenging the current leadership of the Screen Actors Guild. In a statement on Thursday, Field urged guild members to vote for the Unite for Strength slate in September's board elections to "end the senseless war with AFTRA and start building a united front of actors." The union's national board is set to meet on Saturday. Although some reports had suggested that the board might agree to submit the studios' "final (more)

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Kristi Yamaguchi Helps Raise Money for Friend's Family

26 July 2008 8:30 AM, PDT

Last March, Kristi Yamaguchi was celebrated for becoming a contestant on Dancing with the Stars – but in her personal life, the Olympic Gold Medalist and her husband, NHL star Bret Hedican, were mourning the loss of their good friend Patrick Brandt. Brandt, a childhood pal of Hedican's, succumbed to a brain tumor and left behind a wife and two young children on March 2, 2008 in Mahtomedi, Minn. He was 37 years old. On August 21, Yamaguchi and Hedican will host The Patrick Brandt Live Life, Give Love Celebration benefit concert and silent auction at (more)

Monica Rizzo

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Dark Knight with $23M Friday & headed for a $77M weekend! Nolan's masterpiece will overtake 'Iron Man' in just 10 days!; Ferrell's 'Step Brothers' strong with $11.75M Friday and $32M O.W.; 'X-Files' manages only $4M Friday & targets just $11M by Monday.

25 July 2008 10:28 PM, PDT

By Monday morning, The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) will likely be the no. 1 movie of 2008. Even the rosiest of forecasts could not have anticipated that the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman Begins sequel would surpass Marvel’s Iron Man (Paramount) and Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones & The Kingdom (more)

Steve Mason

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Sdcc '08: Red-Band Trailer For 'Quarantine'

26 July 2008 7:31 PM, PDT

Shown earlier today at the San Diego Comic Con was Sony Screen Gems' red-band trailer for Quarantine, which arrives in theaters October 10th. Directed by John Erick Dowdle from a script by John and his brother Drew, Jennifer Carpenter stars as a reporter who becomes "quarantined" in (more)

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Interview: Margaret Brown on "The Order of Myths"

25 July 2008 4:24 PM, PDT

By Alison Willmore

Mobile, Alabama is home to the country's oldest Mardi Gras celebration, an event that consumes the city with parades, masked balls, mystic societies and the coronation of the year's king and queen. Well, kings and queens -- as revealed in Margaret Brown's astonishingly good documentary "The Order (more)

Alison Willmore

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