Naomi Watts has been tapped to play Princess Diana in the film, “Caught in Flight.” The British-Australian actress will star in the Oliver Hirschbiegel directed biopic, which will focus on the last two years of Diana’s life and her relationship with surgeon Hasnat Khan, the BBC reports . Read full article > >

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“ Luck ,” HBO’s new gritty, realistic (if somewhat confusing) horse racing drama, is in hot water with PETA, after it became public that two horses died during the filming of the series’s first season. As Entertainment Weekly reported , the pilot — which fictionalized a horse being injured and euthanized in one scene — did not carry the American Humane Association’s stamp to assure viewers that “No animals were harmed” during filming. That’s because a horse suffered a severe fracture while filming a race sequence and had to be euthanized. The same fate befell a second horse during episode seven’s filming. Read full article > >

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‘Luck’ in hot water with PETA over two euthanized horses

Michael Fassbender wins the best actor prize at the Evening Standard British film awards for his roles in sex addiction drama Shame and Jane Eyre.

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US film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died in New York at the age of 81.

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Acting veteran Ben Gazzara dies

Appeared in more than 100 films and TV series.

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Actor admits he was intoxicated while filming.

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Radcliffe: I Was Drunk During ‘Harry Potter’

UK cinema box office takings passed the £1bn mark for the first time last year, according to the British Film Institute (BFI).

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UK box office takes £1bn in 2011

John Latenser doesn’t want to lose his dome. The Bethesda-based location scout was standing last week on one of Hollywood’s favorite spots in D.C., a sliver of pavement at the edge of the reflecting pool with the U.S. Capitol looming just so over his shoulder — as it has loomed over Sean Penn, Aaron Eckhart and various Transformer robots . Read full article > >

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Filming movies in Washington, D.C., just got harder

Sean Penn discusses his new film, “This Must Be the Place,” by Paolo Sorrentino, and his relief work in Haiti.

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A documentary, “Room 237,” collects theories and interpretations surrounding the symbols and intentions of Stanley Kubrick in his film “The Shining.”

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In upcoming film “Lovelace.”

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SJP Takes Over for Demi Moore

Wait, they haven’t given out the Oscars for last year’s films and we’re already talking about 2012? It’s hard to believe another movie season is upon us — and even harder, at a time when Hollywood seems more addicted than ever to sequels, prequels and reboots, that we might go to the multiplex and enjoy something genuinely original. The spring collection of films includes its share of adaptations of proven properties, but as anyone familiar with “Batman” or “The Green Lantern” knows, it’s all in the execution. Here are some opening dates to circle (and maybe one to cross off): Read full article > >

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Spring preview — Films: ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Moonrise Kingdom’

The most recent Oscar nominations reinforce the fact that many films that garner nominations had a near-miss path to the screen, built on serendipity, determination and, most often, leaps taken.

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Paul Giamatti and filmmaker Don Coscarelli on ‘John Dies at the End.’

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The Wackiest Sci-Fi Flick at Sundance

Officials dealing with budget cuts plan to make monuments and archaeological sites more attractive to foreign film crews, advertising firms and publishing houses by reducing the cost of permits.

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Athens Journal: Debt-Ridden Greece Turns to Sacred Sites for Help