Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant News

With the sure-fire blockbuster New Moon days away from opening, director Chris Weitz has a startling project lined up next: his last.

"Amelia": Hilary Swank plays pioneering aviator and women's-rights advocate Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while trying to fly around the world in 1937.

1:35, Rated PG-13 for sexual material and language. Kimball Theatre. A Serious Man A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house.

Will any of these be box office hits? New this weekend 2012 Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments.

The New York-born Weitz brothers, Chris and Paul, who made their name as filmmakers with American Pie and About A Boy, know a thing or two about "otherness". Growing up, their lives were coloured by a clutch of family friends, primarily actors, many of whom seemed rather bizarre to the impressionable young boys.

Film Clips November 6, 2009 capsule film reviews by Michael Phillips, chief movie critic for the Chicago Tribune , and other contributing writers; 2) longer reviews of "Disney's A Christmas Carol," "Precious," "The Box," "The Men Who Stare at Goats," "The Fourth Kind" and " .") AMELIA.

This Amelia Earhart biopic has magnificent period settings and airplanes, majestic aerial photography and solid performances from Richard Gere and Hilary Swank.

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters by Elkhart Truth movie columnist Ben Ford , the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times .

A Michael Jackson's This is It: A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

In the bizarre world of Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant , there's a war brewing over "portion" control.

The sight as he strolled into the "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" corner of Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights was enough to give John C. Reilly a start.

A sadness permeates the opening moments in the behind-the-scenes piece This Is It , but it has nothing to do with Michael Jackson's death.

Pop culture just can't seem to get enough of vampires these days. Between films like "Twilight" or television shows like HBO's "True Blood" and the CW's "Vampire Diaries" -- moody, good-looking bloodsuckers seem to be everywhere.

John C. Reilly is awesome. But sometimes he gets drunk and has trouble making judgment calls.

Photos provided by Universal Picture/ Crepsley welcomes Darren to a new world in Cirque Du Freak.

They say there's nothing new under the sun, and that's especially true in Hollywood.

Vampires were wondering the streets of New Orleans long before Robert Pattinson was even a glimmer in his parents' eye.

Published: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:19 p.m. It's getting downright batty trying to keep all these vampires straight.

Sexy Salma Hayek is no stranger to vampire movies. She played a vampire stripper in the 1996 thriller 'From Dusk Till Dawn.' She consorted with cannibals in 2001's 'Hotel.' She now stars in the fantasy-adventure 'Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant,' in which she plays a mortal sideshow 'freak' in love with a vampire.

Forget Method acting, forget in-depth role research, forget any of that fancy-dancy stuff they teach you in acting school.