BigScreen Journal

This weekend, we see a battle between good and evil, between Steve Carell and John Cusack, and between cute elephants and a hotel room with an unpleasant disposition. Morgan Freeman returns in his...

The Turner Classic Movies Channel will be airing a documentary about legendary director Steven Spielberg on July 9th, 2007.According to the IMDb, Spielberg has directed 46 movies and shorts, with...

I was reading a conversation on a forum frequented by professionals in the movie theater industry, and a comment was made about the fact that movie theaters are currently the "engine that pulls...

It's a battle of comic book heroes vs. a book sleuth whose name is known to generations of girls young and old this weekend as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Nancy Drew go head to...

This week's big release is George Clooney and his friends in "Ocean's Thirteen." This time around, Al Pacino is the mark as a casino owner who puts Reuben (Elliott Gould) in the...

Two years ago, audiences reacted favorably to Steve Carrell's depiction of "The 40 Year Old Virgin," in which a guy who has reached his 40s with his virginity intact. It opened in first...

Everywhere you go this weekend, there be pirates!"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" is looking to make sure that it brings in a new record for the Memorial Day weekend by...

If you take a look at the New Movies page today, you'll see that "Shrek the Third" is all by itself on the list of today's new releases. The big green guy won't have any excuse...

Reader Ron H. sent us this link on YouTube for a movie montage counting down 100 movies containing quotes that mention the numbers 100 through 1.It's a great way to spend 10 minutes of time!...

The cast of the upcoming movie "Hairspray" will appear on the Oprah Winfrey television show tomorrow, Wednesday, May 16, 2007.According to the notice we were sent, there will be a live...

Spider-Man 3 set all kinds of records by bringing in over $151 million in the box office on its opening weekend. (It certainly didn't hurt that it was released on an unprecedented number of...

Would you like to visit the sand dunes where some of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were shot? How about the Las Vegas casino's featured in Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen?Fandango...

You can't escape him, he's everywhere. On TV, in the toys section at Target, and in almost 4,300 theaters this weekend, "Spider-Man 3" is the official kick-off to the summer...

Eight weeks after its release, "Wild Hogs" is still pulling in the audiences, this comedy starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Marisa Tomei, Jill Hennessy,...

Nicolas Cage stars in the new release "Next" as a man who can see two minutes into the future, and the government comes to him to stop a bomb detonation in Los Angeles.There was a time when...

If you've seen the original "The Silence of the Lambs," you know how intense Anthony Hopkins can be on-screen. His psychological mind-games with Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling are...

"Grindhouse" didn't do as well as many expected last weekend, leading many in the industry to wonder whether its lengthy 3+ hour running time didn't limit its ability to bring in...

When it comes to saccharine, feel-good films, Quentin Tarantino isn't the director you want. He's directed such movies as "Kill Bill Vol. 1" (& "Vol. 2"), "Pulp...

The major releases this weekend are Will Ferrell's "Blades of Glory" and Disney's animated "Meet the Robinsons" but there are a few limited release openers today, as well...

To follow-up with dressing mailboxes to look like everyone's favorite astromech droid, the U.S. Postal Service has announced the availability of special stamps to commemorate the 30th anniversary...