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| "Argo" triumphs with top prize at Screen Actors Guild Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 07:33 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iran hostage drama "Argo" won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, while Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence took acting honors, as Hollywood celebrated its own and helped sharpen the race for Oscar glory in February. Sunday's best ensemble cast win for "Argo" was the film's second award in two days. The win boosts the thriller's chances of winning a best picture Oscar in a race that is considered wide open. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Argo" wins top prize at Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 07:04 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Argo" won the Screen Actors Guild award for best cast ensemble on Sunday, the top prize at the annual Hollywood ceremony. The film about the Iran hostage crisis starred Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston. The Screen Actors Guild, made up of about 100,000 actors working in the United States, handed out trophies for the best performances on film and television at a dinner in Los Angeles. (Reporting By Jill Serjeant, editing by Stacey Joyce) Full Story | Top |
| Daniel Day-Lewis wins best actor award from Screen Actors Guild Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 06:59 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Daniel Day-Lewis won the award for best actor from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday. Day-Lewis, who was raised in Britain, won for his intense portrayal of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in movie drama "Lincoln." The Screen Actors Guild, made up of about 100,000 actors working in the United States, handed out trophies for the best performances on film and television at a dinner in Los Angeles. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis, editing by Stacey Joyce) Full Story | Top |
| Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress award from Screen Actors Guild Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 06:59 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jennifer Lawrence won the award for best actress from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday. Lawrence won for her role as a young widow in the film "Silver Linings Playbook." The Screen Actors Guild, made up of some 100,000 actors working in the United States, handed out trophies for the best performances on film and television at a dinner in Los Angeles. (Reporting By Jill Serjeant, editing by Stacey Joyce) Full Story | Top |
| Rock singer Morrissey postpones six more shows due to bleeding ulcer Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 04:51 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British rock singer Morrissey is postponing six performances on his U.S. tour due to a bleeding ulcer, his spokeswoman said on Sunday. "Morrissey is expected to make a full recovery and thanks everyone concerned for their support during this time," his representative Lauren Papapietro said in a statement. Morrissey, the former lead singer for 1980s alternative rock band The Smiths, checked into Beaumont Hospital on Friday in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Papapietro said. She declined to say if he remains hospitalized. ... Full Story | Top |
| Clinton coy about political future in joint interview with Obama Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 04:02 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sidestepped questions about whether she would run for president in 2016 in a CBS television interview done jointly with President Barack Obama, her rival in the 2008 race. Clinton, 65, denied there were any political tea leaves to read in the unusual joint interview for the CBS show "60 Minutes," and acknowledged that she still has "some lingering effects" from a recent concussion and blood clot that she said doctors expect to disappear over time. ... Full Story | Top |
| Studios snap up Sundance favorites, boosting indie film market Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 02:56 PM PST  Park City, Utah (Reuters) - Movie studios have been searching for the next big thing at the Sundance Film Festival after the critical and commercial success of indie films such as "Beasts of the Southern Wild" with a slew of business deals being made during the festival. The biggest purchase came midway through the 10-day event when Fox Searchlight paid about $10 million for quirky coming-of-age comedy "The Way, Way Back", starring Steve Carell and Toni Collette, according to sources close to the deal. ... Full Story | Top |
| Witch-hunting "Hansel & Gretel" wins box office Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 11:37 AM PST  (Reuters) - A grown-up "Hansel & Gretel" grabbed the weekend box office title, pulling in $19 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales with its reinvention of the fairy tale characters as fierce bounty hunters. "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" knocked last weekend's winner, low-budget horror flick "Mama," into second place. "Mama" earned $12.8 million from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates, followed by "Silver Linings Playbook" with $10 million. CIA drama "Zero Dark Thirty" came in fourth with $9.8 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dutch dance duo Bingo Players hit jackpot at top of UK pop chart Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 11:08 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Dutch dance duo Bingo Players secured their first British No. 1 single on Sunday with the club hit "Get Up (Rattle)", a collaboration with hip-hop group Far East Movement. They edged last week's No. 1 "Scream & Shout", by U.S. rapper and producer will.i.am and singer Britney Spears, into second place, the Official Charts Company said. The dance act's previous biggest British hit was "Cry (Just a Little)", a track which used bits of Brenda Russell's "Piano in the Dark" and reached only No. 44 in the charts. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hollywood actors weigh in on Oscar race with SAG Awards Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 06:46 AM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood actors name their picks for the best performances of 2012 in film and television at the annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday in a ceremony that will likely define some of the top Oscar races in four weeks time. "Lincoln," about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's battle to end slavery, French revolution musical "Les Miserables," and comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," about a bipolar man's unlikely romance, head into Sunday's show with four nominations apiece, including the top prize of best ensemble cast. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hostage film "Argo" wins producers award as Oscars loom Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 03:28 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iran hostage drama "Argo" continued its trophy-winning streak on Saturday, taking the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards in the latest boost to its chances at the Oscars. Guild picks regularly go on to win at the film industry's most prestigious event - for the last five years, the producers' choice of best-produced film has taken the best picture Oscar. "I'm really surprised. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 12:05 AM PST  BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" when Valhalla goes up in flames. In this bicentenary year of Wagner's birth, Himsel, 90, recalled the last wartime production at Bayreuth. It was August 9, 1944 and the cast performed "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg", which contains the command "honor your German masters". The Nazis had turned the piece into a propaganda pageant. ... Full Story | Top |
| Factbox: Winners at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 08:42 PM PST PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Following is a list of winners at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, the top gathering for independent movies made outside of Hollywood's major studios. The competition categories are grouped for drama films and documentaries in sections for U.S. films and world cinema. U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Fruitvale," "Blood Brothers" win top awards at Sundance Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 08:40 PM PST  PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Drama film "Fruitvale" and documentary "Blood Brothers" won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, giving them a big boost to reach independent movie audiences this year. "Fruitvale," starring Octavia Spencer and Michael B. Jordan and directed by 26-year-old, first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler," picked up the U.S. drama jury and audience awards for its "moral and social urgency. ... Full Story | Top |
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