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6 October 2008 9:16 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood star Michael Douglas is to be honoured with the American Film Institute (AFI)'s lifetime achievement award next summer - 18 years after his actor father Kirk Douglas was presented with the same accolade.

The Traffic star will pick up the prize for his work as a producer at a ceremony in Los Angeles in June - and he is delighted to be following in his father's footprints. Douglas Sr. received the honour in 1991.

Michael says, "I am honoured and overwhelmed to be included in such a prestigious group of film-makers.

"I am particularly moved to be following my father 18 years later."

The 64-year-old is best known for his work behind the camera for 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which starred Jack Nicholson. The film went on to win five Academy Awards the following year, with producer Douglas picking up the Oscar for Best Picture.

And AFI chairman Howard Stringer insists Douglas is the "rightful heir to the throne of the royal family of American film".

He adds, "Though he is most beloved as one of the great leading men of the movies, Michael is also a most accomplished film producer and, ultimately, an artist whose films have been elevated in the pantheon of American film."

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11 September 2008 9:34 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Steven Soderbergh is making a biopic of a famous historical of the 20th century, starring one of the stars of his 2000 movie Traffic. No, not Che with Benicio del Toro-- in fact, about as different from Che as you can get. Brace yourselves: Michael Douglas is going to star in Steven Soderbergh's biopic about Liberace. Liberace! The man known as much for his flamboyant style as his piano playing, and who died of AIDS in 1987 after decades of denying he was gay. And it gets even better: Variety says that Matt Damon is in talks to play Scott Thorson, the man who sued Liberace in the 80s while claiming to have been the musician's partner for five years. I love the idea of a Liberace biopic, given what a fascinating figure he was, and even think Douglas could be the man to pull it off. But it's kind of

11 September 2008 9:32 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Women loved him, men wanted to be him, and now Steven Soderbergh wants to tell us all about him. (One of those claims may actually be false.) According to Variety, Soderbergh is developing a biopic of the flamboyant pianist for Warner Bros -- naturally, he'll be directing, and the busiest pen in Hollywood, Richard Lagravanese, is writing the script.

More interesting than that is the casting -- Soderbergh says he's actually drafted his old Traffic star Michael Douglas to play the man of a thousand candlelabras. He's also in talks with Matt Damon to play Scott Thorson, the man who sued Liberace for palimony, claiming they had been in a relationship for five years. To this day, apparently no one really knows what Liberace's sexual orientation was -- even Alice Cooper couldn't figure it out upon meeting him. (Thanks, Soderbergh! I learned something already.)

Despite everything being in place, this

Elisabeth Rappe

10 September 2008 7:55 PM, PDT | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

After making a double biopic on Che Guevara, a fiery, inspiring, revolutionary, it's only natural for Steven Soderbergh to follow that up with a biopic on Liberace, a fiery, inspiring, revolutionary, albeit one that preferred rhinestones to pistols. No you're not wasted--you read right. The versatile director is in the early stages of developing a biopic about Liberace for Warner Bros., which he will direct. Apparently Soderbergh has his sights set on his Traffic star Michael Douglas to...

Daniel Barna

20 August 2008 10:31 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Ben Affleck is acting again. He joins Mike Judge's latest film Extract, which stares Jason Bateman as a flower extract plant owner dealing with workplace issues and a stream of bad luck, including his wife's affair with a gigolo. No, Affleck will not be playing the gigolo, instead he'll be playing an ambulance-chasing lawyer. With Bateman, Affleck, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, and Clifton Collins Jr. all part of Extract as well, it's starting to sound a lot more like an ensemble comedy than anything purely focused on Bateman's character. Shooting starts in Los Angeles next week and the film will be a Miramax release, meaning it will hopefully have more studio support than Judge's other disastrous film, Idiocracy. Clifton Collins Jr, of Traffic, Capote, and "Thief", who was also announced today, plays a factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident and is now due for

Alex Billington

30 June 2008 1:27 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

We scored some new details on Twisted Pictures' untitled project once known as Tortured. We learned this evening that Erika Christensen (Flight Plan, Riding the Bullet, Traffic) is the first to be cast in the film, which is now slated to begin production this August with Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky) still at the helm. In addition, we now learned that Charlie Sheen is Not starring and is officially off the project. Written by Marek Posival, we discovered a more in depth synopsis that reveals just how brutal the film is. Read on for the skinny and a pic of Erika Christensen.

6 articles from 2008