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George & Brad Enjoy a Guys' Night in Venice

27 August 2008 9:20 AM, PDT

George Clooney and Brad Pitt lived la dolce vita in Venice Tuesday night, partying into the wee hours. In town to promote their film Burn After Reading, which opens the film festival Wednesday, the pair first attended a black tie fundraiser for their Not On Our Watch charity. Some 200 Italian VIPs – plus their costar Tilda Swinton – attended the dinner at the Hotel Cipriani on Giudecca Island. "They both have such passion and such dedication," a guest told People of the pair. After the event wound down, the two actors partied on with some (more)

Courtney Rubin

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Movie Reviews: Traitor

27 August 2008 10:35 AM, PDT

Several critics seem to suggest that Traitor, starring Don Cheadle, tries to take a complicated story and condense it for easy digestion -- but succeeds only in giving the audience something to chew on. As A.O. Scott puts it in the New York Times: "The movie ... tries to cover every side and cater to just about every possible ideological objection, an effort at comprehensiveness that seems noble and a little nutty." Similarly Tom Maurstad in the Dallas Morning News writes that "this movie tries to blur the line between action-thriller and a probing drama. The result is (more)

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Brand Eager For Movie Role

27 August 2008 11:57 AM, PDT

British funnyman Russell Brand is desperate to begin work on his new film Get Him To The Greek - because his drug-addicted character is a reminder of his past.

Brand has been cast to reprise his Forgetting Sarah Marshall role as Aldous Snow - a rock star struggling to stay sober - in the forthcoming comedy.

And he's convinced playing a relapsed junkie will be therapeutic - because former addict Brand quit drugs and alcohol in 2003.

He says, "The opportunity to revisit it (drugs) without the consequences is exciting. I might even find (more)

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Final Tracking: 'Tropic Thunder' likely to hold off 'Babylon A.D.' for Labor Day Weekend Win!; 'Disaster Movie' may finish #3; 'College,' 'Hamlet 2' and 'Traitor' 7-8-9?

27 August 2008 4:56 PM, PDT

The end of August is a dumping ground for marginal movies that are, in many cases, barely worthy of release. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer made friends on “the island of misfit toys,” but not even Rudolph would pay to see the “misfit movies” bowing for Labor Day weekend. I (more)

Steve Mason

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Access Hollywood 'Twilight' Preview Piece

27 August 2008 3:54 PM, PDT

While additional shooting is about to get underway, today Access Hollywood posted an exclusive preview of Summit Entertainment's Twilight, which now arrives in theaters November 21st. In the adaptation of the popular vampire drama by Stephenie Meyer, the film is about a high school girl named Bella (more)

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Interview: Ken Leung on "Year of the Fish"

27 August 2008 11:00 AM, PDT

By Aaron Hillis

38-year-old New York actor Ken Leung ("Rush Hour," "Saw," "The Squid and the Whale") may have only gigged on a single episode of "The Sopranos" (as Junior Soprano's violent protégé in a psychiatric hospital), but it was enough to inspire producers to write him (more)

Aaron Hillis

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