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With Theaters Barely Digital, Studios Push 3-D

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER : LAS VEGAS — Coming soon, and coming straight at you: houseflies in astronaut suits, Brendan Fraser boldly exploring the earth’s core and an animated, nearly 50-foot-tall she-monster with Reese Witherspoon’s voice.
Energized by impressive profits from the pioneering “Polar Express” (2004) and last year’s “Meet the Robinsons” — not to mention […]

Direct-to-DVD Releases Shed Their Loser Label

By BROOKS BARNES

LOS ANGELES — If you missed the red-carpet premiere for the latest “American Pie” movie, you are not alone. There wasn’t one. “American Pie Presents: Beta House,” the sixth film in the popular comedy series, was sent straight to DVD.

But it’s not another failed straight-to-video movie collecting dust in Blockbuster. “Beta House,” […]

Done Deals Finally Start to Appear at Sundance

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

PARK CITY, Utah — And on the fifth night, the wallets opened.
After a weekend marked by too many downbeat dramas and comedies in name only, the Sundance Film Festival’s flock of film buyers finally began taking in movies they could send to the multiplexes — and it was a religious experience.

As […]

Heath Ledger, Actor, Is Found Dead at 28

By JOHN SULLIVAN and SEWELL CHAN

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead in a Manhattan apartment on Tuesday afternoon, the New York City police said.

The police said Mr. Ledger, 28, was discovered facedown in bed in an apartment at 421 Broome Street in SoHo. Police officials said that a bottle of prescription sleeping […]

SAG Show Is New Star of Awards Telecasts

By EDWARD WYATT

LOS ANGELES — For most of their first 13 years, the Screen Actors Guild Awards played little more than the role of a seat-filler, taking up space between the real shows of the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the Emmys.
This year, however, they might be the biggest star in town.
The SAG Awards, […]

Sundance Could Be a Sellers’ Bonanza

By DAVID CARR

PARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film Festival, which opens Thursday night with “In Bruges,” the playwright Martin McDonagh’s film debut, is one of the oddest ecosystems on earth. The festival of independent film transforms this normally quaint little village, one that offers world-class skiing and a lift smack in […]

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