The Movie Blog

Even though her latest film, “Rendition,” was a flop, Reese Witherspoon is a moneymaker.

Film and TV writers who’ve been on strike for nearly a month are mulling a new contract offer from Hollywood studios.

Labor negotiators for the major Hollywood studios presented striking screenwriters on Thursday with a new set of proposed pay formulas for digital media, but the writers' union immediately rebuffed the offer as far too stingy.

In retrospect, once all the Oscar-season fireworks are over, it's often possible to view the eventual winner as an exemplar of the prevailing zeitgeist. "Chicago" (2002) seemed to ride a growing wave of cynicism about the interplay between celebrity, the media and the justice system. "Crash" (2005) might not have spoken to the national consciousness, but it certainly reflected a Los Angeles uneasiness — as well as its Westside liberal guilt — with festering racial and…

Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Banks star in "Lovely Still," a holiday fable shooting in Omaha, Neb.

In "The Savages," which has a limited opening Friday, Laura Linney plays a single woman drawn back into a relationship with her estranged brother, Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), after their father's (Philip Bosco) health fails.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Hollywood studios presented a new contract offer to striking film and TV writers Thursday that the studios said would pay writers millions of dollars extra for shows created for the Internet.

John Cusack has signed to star in "The Factory," a psychological thriller slated to go before cameras in January.

The Oscar race has now begun, with the specialty divisions of the major Hollywood studios and the truly independent players pulling out all the stops to ensure their films make the cut when nominations are announced on January 22.