US-FILM Summary

"Jurassic Park" 3D re-release looks like a profit-saurus for Universal

By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Twenty years after its original release, Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking "Jurassic Park" returns to movie theaters Friday - in 3D.

U.S. film critic Roger Ebert says cancer has returned

(Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. film critic Roger Ebert says he is battling cancer again and that he will scale back his writing by taking a "leave of presence" from his more than four-decade career. Ebert, 70, known for his rhetorical power and prolific output, said he will undergo radiation treatment that will force him to take time away from his job.

"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke tapped for "The Age of Miracles"

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Catherine Hardwicke, who tapped into the world of a lovelorn teenage to great profits with "Twilight," will once again oversee the story of a young girl's coming of age with "The Age of Miracles."

Matthew McConaughey confirms starring role in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Interstellar"

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Matthew McConaughey will star in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Interstellar," the director's follow-up to "The Dark Knight Rises" and McConaughey's first big-budget film in years. The actor told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune he had accepted the role in the film, confirming reports from about a week ago.

Tim Burton to direct Christoph Waltz in film about famous painting duo

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Tim Burton has signed on to direct "Big Eyes," a long-gestating film project that The Weinstein Company is on the verge of acquiring, according to two individuals with knowledge of the director's plans. Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz will star as Walter Keane, one-half of a husband-wife duo that became famous for painting children with massive eyes.

"Evil Dead" review: Great grey gobs of greasy, grimy ghoulish guts

By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's no easy feat to pull off "Evil Dead" in 2013; not only is director and co-writer Fede Alvarez's film treading on the sacred ground of Sam Raimi's 1981 horror classic "The Evil Dead," but he's also following up last year's "The Cabin in the Woods," which brilliantly celebrated and skewered the tropes of Raimi's movie and the many copycats which followed.

Movie market research fractures more: Who will change the game?

By Sharon Waxman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Once again, the movie industry fractured just a little bit more today. Ipsos OTX, one of the leading market research firms, sold its worldwide motion picture group to a group of investors led by Vincent Bruzzese. That's the same impulse that propelled Reed Elsevier to sell Marketcast, another major market researcher, to a similar group about a year ago.

Wake up and embrace the technology, urges napster documentary "downloaded"

By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It was perhaps inevitable that at the Q&A that followed a screening of Alex Winter's Napster documentary "Downloaded" on Monday night, one audience member would ask if the movie was going to be available on the internet for free.

A Minute With: Danny Boyle and his hypnotic "Trance"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After producing last summer's London Summer Olympics opening ceremony, British filmmaker Danny Boyle is back in the movies with "Trance." The psychological caper, opening in U.S. movie theaters on Friday, stars James McAvoy as man who teams with a criminal (Vincent Cassel) to steal a painting, but suffers a blow to the head during the heist. Unable to remember where he hid the painting, the man works with a hypnotherapist (Rosario Dawson) to regain his memory.

Paramount, China Movie Channel to produce "Transformers 4"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures said on Tuesday it reached a deal with the government-run China Movie Channel and its online movie service partner, Jiaflix Enterprises, to produce "Transformers 4" in China. China Movie Channel said in the joint announcement that the deal marks the first time it will work with a western studio to produce a film in China, although other studios such as Walt Disney Co have entered deals with other parties to produce films there to tap the booming Chinese box office.

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