Big News About Movies

Reuters - Moon Bloodgood, who
starred in NBC’s short-lived series “Journeyman,” is in final
negotiations for the female lead in the fourth installment of
the “Terminator” movie series.

E! Online - Forget Sarah Marshall. The weekend box office was about Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Reuters - An acclaimed movie producer and the
former head of Fox Television Entertainment have built a new
kind of studio that taps into an aspiring community of
moviemakers on the Web to cultivate the next great talents.

Reuters - The latest flurry of rumors
ahead of the Cannes Film Festival next month concerns a fat
martial arts panda and a trio of high-profile documentaries.

Reuters - “The Forbidden Kingdom,” a first
collaboration between action heroes Jackie Chan and Jet Li,
kicked its rivals at the weekend box office in North America,
also becoming the first martial arts movie to open at No. 1 in
almost four years.

E! Online - There’ll be no frothy rom-com needed to ease new mama Halle Berry back into the Biz.

Reuters - America has Marilyn Monroe;
Europe has Romy Schneider. Although the German-Austrian actress
with French citizenship had her international breakthrough soon
after the death of the U.S. screen icon, the same sultry
potpourri of beauty, talent, vulnerability, fame and tragedy
swirls around both.

E! Online - Perhaps The Hulk’s troubles aren’t so massive after all.  

Reuters - “Harry Potter” heroine
Emma Watson is attached to star in the period romance “Napoleon
and Betsy,” replacing Scarlett Johansson who was deemed too old
for the role.

E! Online - Actors are used to working for scale on indies. Now they’re just glad they’ll be working.