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Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017 Front Page: 'Hobbit' director eyes 'Frankenstein,' 'Jekyll' -- Many top film directors have no idea what their next movie is. But Guillermo del Toro is now booked through 2017. And maybe beyond.

Ashley Judd joins Fox's 'Tooth Fairy' Front Page: Hockey comedy stars Dwayne Johnson -- Ashley Judd is set to star with Dwayne Johnson in 20th Century Fox comedy "Tooth Fairy," which shoots in Vancouver in October. Michael Lembeck is directing.

Liberty Media splits stake in DirecTV Front Page: Liberty Entertainment nabs 50% of division -- John Malone is big-game hunting again.

Box Office News»

Fall season set to get 'Dangerous' Weekend B.O.: Cage's action flick faces smaller indie fare -- Lionsgate kicks off the fall box office season with the bow of Nicolas Cage hit man actioner "Bangkok Dangerous," the Pang brothers' English-language remake of their 1999 Thai film.

'Mamma' gets a box office tune-up Weekend B.O.: Sing-along screenings bump up musical -- "Mamma Mia!" -- here you go again. Special Labor Day sing-alongs for Universal's bigscreen musical adaptation "Mamma Mia!" scored bigtime, with the film actually enjoying a 2% bump in ticket sales over the holiday weekend. That's impressive, considering the pic was in its seventh sesh.

Summer season a smash success Weekend B.O.: 'Thunder' wins holiday fray over new releases -- The Labor Day box office may have been sluggish -- with none of the new releases doing big business -- but the summer ended on a high note in all but matching last year’s record-setting B.O. haul.

Film Reviews»

The Magic Hour (Za Majikku Awa) Film Reviews: The kind of slavish homage to cinema itself that’s not quite as charming as it thinks but charms nonetheless, Koki Mitani’s "The Magic Hour" echoes "Tropic Thunder" in that it involves actors performing for an alleged movie, unaware they’re in the middle of dangerous real-life situations.

Reverse Angle: Rebellion of the Filmmakers (Gegenschuss – aufbruch der filmemacher) Film Reviews: Charts the rise and fall of legendary 1970s pic production-distribution co-operative Filmverlag der Autoren.

After School Film Reviews: An amusingly convoluted narrative that brings together equally clueless yakuza, police and semi-innocent bystanders to search for a couple allegedly missing people.