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Actress and activist Shirley Douglas admits she was away from home for lengthy periods of time to pursue the stage and screen and it was hard on her children, including "24" star Kiefer Sutherland.

Horror brand name Stephen King shared a stage in Toronto with director David Cronenberg, and dropped this tidbit in front of a a crowd and a filmmaker very good at horror He's writing a sequel to The Shining, one of his greatest literary hits , a book that picks up Danny Torrance's story at age 40.

There's Russia. Then there's the New Russia. Then there's David Cronenberg's take on the New Russian crime culture, and let's just say the latter is the most dangerous proposition of all.

I love how the trades bury nuggets of info. At the bottom of the piece I used to source info about Michael Fassbender's upcoming role in A Single Shot was a throwaway sentence that suggests David Cronenberg is still at work on The Talking Cure , a project we've heard almost nothing about in the two years since it was first 'announced'. Almost ...

Part 1 of Overlooked Scary Movies to Rent is here. Nosferatu the Vampyre Werner Herzog 's re-imagining of the silent F.W. Murnau classic casts Klaus Kinski in the title role and makes the beast more vulnerable and pathetic than horrifying.

If you visit actress Jill Hennessy's Web site, you won't hear the echoey gavel that conjures images of her playing Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid on 'Law & Order.' You will hear, however, a lilting, earnest alto reminiscent of Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, the alt-folk duo who not only appear on a poster in Hennessy's subsequent NBC ...

Unlike his fellow creepmeister Alfred Hitchcock, director David Cronenberg doesn't do self-referential cameos in his films.

Predictable news this evening with a double-take twist. David Cronenberg is said to be developing a remake of his 1986 sci-fi horror classic The Fly as a potential vehicle for him to write and direct.

The following is a true story, swear to god, so please indulge me. We begin on the set of a 1988 episode of TV's preminent film review show At the Movies .

Canadian director David Cronenberg is adapting Don DeLillo's provocative novel "Cosmopolis" for the big screen.

I've worked a lot of crackpot jobs in my life. I pounded pickles into glass jars with immigrant workers in Colorado.

Ed Norton will be here sooner than you know it. Both of him. One of the curiosities shaping up for the Toronto International Film Festival in September, as per the latest roll-out yesterday, is Leaves of Grass, a movie in which Norton is two-timing. There is his role as Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor.

Sam Rockwell has made a name for himself as both an indie darling and a chameleonic Hollywood oddball .

By CHRISTOPHER KELLY Sam Rockwell has appeared in Oscar-nominated films like Frost/Nixon and The Green Mile , he has worked with directors such as Ridley Scott, George Clooney and David Mamet, and his performance in the new science-fiction drama Moon is the best by any actor so far this year.Why, then, can't Sam Rockwell get the attention he ...

Video Event of the Week: Is it Sony's new DVD of The Strange One , a rarely seen gays-in-the-military drama with Ben Gazarra and George Peppard ? Could Disney's disc of The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Experience concert flick possibly get the nod? Or is there even the slightest chance that Fox's Blu-ray of 12 Rounds , the latest action flick starring ...

The attractive, often somber French-Canadian film star Genevieve Bujold established herself as a thoughtful, mature screen lead in the 1960s, becoming an international star with "Anne of the Thousand Days" . In.... The attractive, often somber French-Canadian film star Genevieve Bujold established herself as a thoughtful, mature screen lead in the ...

"We can always fool a foreigner," is supposedly a common Chinese saying. When the foreigner is ready to be deluded, as is Jeremy Irons' Gallimard in M. Butterfly , director David Cronenberg's 1993 adaptation of David Henry Hwang's play, the job is halfway done.

With his clear diction and melodious British tones, Jeremy Irons is perfect for period dramas.

Released in 1993, M. Butterfly was the most commercially viable project David Cronenberg had directed, save perhaps for The Fly .

In Mel Brooks' The Producers , the characters played by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel pay a visit to the Park Avenue home of eccentric theatrical director Roger De Bris, who greets them in a flowing peignoir.