<?xml version='1.0'?><feed xmlns:opensearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/' xmlns:s='http://jadedpixel.com/-/spec/shopify' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'><id>http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news</id><title>Michael Wiese Productions - Hollywood news</title><author><name>Michael Wiese Productions</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news' rel='self'/><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news' rel='alternate'/><updated>2009-02-03T04:14:13-08:00</updated><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/750202</id><title>5 Snow Movies</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><img src='https://static2.shopify.com/s/files/1/0010/8802/files/snowman.jpg?1233601656' alt='Snowman photo' /><strong>Snowed in? Here’s five random movies with snow in them to watch while waiting for the snow to melt.</strong></p>


	<p><strong>Elf (2003)</strong><br />An oversized elf (played by Will Ferrell in an unflattering pair of green tights) raised in the North Pole goes in search of his dad in New York.</p>


	<p><strong>Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)</strong><br />Kevin McCallister takes the wrong flight and ends up stranded in New York. He runs into his old enemies the Wet Bandits and the fun starts again.</p>


	<p><strong>Snow Dogs (2002)</strong><br />A Miami Dentist inherits a team of snow dogs. Leading to fun with Cuba Gooding Jr. in the Alaskan snow.</p>


	<p><strong>Anastasia (1997)</strong><br />Animated movie about the daughter of last Russian czar. Meg Ryan voices the lost Russian princess on a journey to discover her past.</p>


	<p><strong>The Snowman (1982)</strong><br />You can’t have snow without a snowman. A boy makes a snowman which comes alive and takes him flying.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-03T04:14:13-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-03T04:14:13-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/750202-5-snow-movies' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744412</id><title>New Batman movie due in 2011</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>The third Batman movie in the new series should be released in 2011, its producer Michael Uslan says.</strong></p>


	<p>Uslan refused to reveal who the villains will be in the new Batman movie</p>


	<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of those deals where if I told you, I&#8217;d have to kill you,&#8221; he says.</p>


	<p>He added the first time he saw The Dark Knight movie he &#8220;wanted to cry&#8221; with happiness.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T19:25:10-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T19:25:10-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744412-new-batman-movie-due-in-2011' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744382</id><title>Spike Lee: &apos;James Brown biopic will go ahead&apos;</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>Spike Lee has spoken about his planned James Brown biopic, insisting it will go ahead.</strong></p>


	<p>Lee told <span class="caps">MTV </span>News that Wesley Snipes will play the late soul singer.</p>


	<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re doing it together,&#8221; Lee says. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to happen. He&#8217;s my man.&#8221;</p>


	<p>Lee adds that Snipes will not sing in the film, saying: &#8220;I want to hear James Brown’s voice. That’s just my personal taste. I know Joaquin in Walk The Line did some of the singing. I’m a purist.&#8221;</p>


	<p>Lee started planning the Brown biopic in 2007, after acquiring the rights with Paramount Pictures.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T19:15:44-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T19:15:44-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744382-spike-lee-james-brown-biopic-will-go-ahead' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744342</id><title>Megan Fox &apos;not involved&apos; in Tomb Raider movie</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>Megan Fox’s representatives have denied reports that the Transformers actress will appear in the new Tomb Raider film.</strong></p>


	<p>Fox was rumoured to be stepping into Angelina Jolie’s shoes to play video game heroine Lara Croft.</p>


	<p>The star’s rep says: &#8220;Megan is not involved in this movie.&#8221;</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T19:11:06-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T19:11:06-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744342-megan-fox-not-involved-in-tomb-raider-movie' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744322</id><title>Downey Jr. feared being &apos;crucified&apos; for Tropic Thunder role</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>Robert Downey Jr. says he was scared about being “crucified” for playing a black man in the movie Tropic Thunder.</strong></p>


	<p>In Tropic Thunder, Downey Jr. played Kirk Lazarus, an Australian actor who has plastic surgery to darken his skin for the role of a black soldier fighting in Vietnam.</p>


	<p>&#8220;My reaction was, like, find someone else who needs to take some big ass risk and get crucified for it,&#8221; Downey Jr. said.</p>


	<p>&#8220;But then I thought there really is a way if people understand the concept of the movie &#8211; to make it entertaining and not make it stupid or offensive. Did I nail it or am I in trouble?&#8221;</p>


	<p>Downey Jr.’s role as Lazarus was recently nominated for a supporting actor Oscar.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T19:06:47-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T19:06:47-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744322-downey-jr-feared-being-crucified-for-tropic-thunder-role' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744302</id><title>Run DMC story planned for the big screen</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>Hip hop legends Run <span class="caps">DMC</span>’s story could be brought to the big screen by the man behind the Notorious B.I.G biopic, Notorious.</strong></p>


	<p>Screenwriter Cheo Hodari Coker is planning to adapt Bill Adler&#8217;s Tougher Than Leather &#8211; The Rise Of Run <span class="caps">DMC</span> for <span class="caps">DJ </span>Classicz, the urban department at Davis Entertainment.</p>


	<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an extraordinary rags-to-riches journey that I&#8217;m eager to bring to the screen,&#8221; <span class="caps">DJ </span>Classicz’s president Dallas Jackson says.</p>


	<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping to have Run, <span class="caps">DMC</span> and Russell Simmons&#8217;s involvement. This will be a big movie about the 1980s hip-hop movement that took over the world.&#8221;</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T19:00:13-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T19:00:13-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744302-run-dmc-story-planned-for-the-big-screen' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744282</id><title>Scarlett Johansson wants to work with Tim Burton</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>Scarlett Johansson says she hopes to work with Tim Burton.</strong></p>


	<p>The actress has already worked with a number of top directors, like Woody Allen, Christopher Nolan and Sofia Coppola, and wants to work with Burton next.</p>


	<p>&#8220;I would love to work with Tim Burton. I am a huge Tim Burton fan,” Johansson says.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T18:56:43-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T18:56:43-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744282-scarlett-johansson-wants-to-work-with-tim-burton' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744262</id><title>Woman launches The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button lawsuit</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>The makers of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button movie are facing a lawsuit from an Italian office worker.</strong></p>


	<p>Adriana Pichini claims that film is based on a story she wrote in 1994 called Di Arthur All&#8217;innocenza (Arthur&#8217;s Return To Innocence), rather than a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.</p>


	<p>A judge at the Rome Tribunal Court will decide whether the case has any merit.</p>


	<p>&#8220;At this point it&#8217;s still a matter of principle. What happens next will depend on what the judge rules,&#8221; the woman’s lawyer Gianni Massaro said.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T18:52:58-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T18:52:58-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744262-woman-launches-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-lawsuit' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744232</id><title>Denzel Washington voted America&apos;s favourite film star</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p><strong>Denzel Washington has been named America’s favourite film star for the third year in a row.</strong></p>


	<p>Washington received the most votes in The Harris Poll to find the most popular movie star.</p>


	<p>Clint Eastwood was voted in second place, third place was shared between Will Smith and the late John Wayne and Harrison Ford completed the top five.</p>


	<p>Others in the top 10 were: Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T18:46:44-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T18:46:44-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744232-denzel-washington-voted-americas-favourite-film-star' rel='alternate'/></entry><entry><id>tag:db1@shopify.com,2009:articles/744202</id><title>Whoopi Goldberg unveils Sister Act musical cast</title><summary type='html'><![CDATA[<p>Whoopi Goldberg has unveiled the cast who’ll star in the West End stage adaption of her hit movie Sister Act.</p>


	<p>American actress Patina Miller will play Deloris, the lead character played by Goldberg in the 1992 movie. <br />Goldberg called Miller, 24, &#8220;an amazing girl&#8221;.</p>


	<p>British actress Sheila Hancock will take the role of Mother Superior.</p>


	<p>Goldberg says Miller and Hancock will &#8220;reinvent Sister Act and bring it to a whole new level&#8221;.<br />The Sister Act musical will open in June.</p>]]></summary><updated>2009-02-01T18:33:44-08:00</updated><published>2009-02-01T18:33:44-08:00</published><author><name>Dani Boobyer</name></author><link href='http://shop.mwp.com/blogs/hollywood-news/744202-whoopi-goldberg-unveils-sister-act-musical-cast' rel='alternate'/></entry></feed>