Into the Wild Leads S.A.G. Awards

Into the Wild led contenders for the Screen Actors Guild Awards with four nominations, including honors for lead actor Emile Hirsch and supporting players Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener. The nominations were announced this morning.

Directed by Sean Penn, Into the Wild also was nominated for performance by its overall cast, along with the Read More

Critics Circle Goes Wild

They’re wild for Sean Penn, those movie critics. Into the Wild received seven nominations for the 13th Critics Choice Awards, announced today by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The film got nods for picture, director, writer, actor, supporting actor for Hal Holbrook, supporting actress for Catherine Keener and best song for Eddie Vedder’s "Guaranteed" Read More

Brolin, Hirsch, Franco Got Milk

Three hunky actors have got Milk this morning, landing roles in the biopic based on the life of Harvey Milk. He was America’s first openly gay elected official, assassinated in 1978. (His killer launched the infamous “Twinkie defense,” arguing that exposure to the Hostess treat rendered him powerless to stop himself from the dramatic shooting Read More

Wild Thing, I Think I Love You …

It looks like Resident Evil: Extinction (#1) will not be following its own advice. After a $24 million dollar opening weekend, the Sony franchise based on a video game looks like it is here to stay. And it appears New Yorkers are just fine with that: the movie grossed a very respectable $337,000 at 9 Read More

Penn’s Good Boy

Last Wednesday at the restaurant in the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, Emile Hirsch was tucked into the corner seat at a corner table, windbreaker smooshed into a ball in his lap, eating chicken noodle soup. The 22-year-old actor looked worn and pale, his fair skin all the more porcelain-like under a thick swoosh of Read More