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17 October 2009 3:27 PM, PDT | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »

Angelina Jolie is reportedly teaming up with Swedish director Lasse Hallström for the spy thriller, The Tourist. Jolie, 34, was photographed leaving the Sony Studios Building in Culver City, Calif., Oct. 15, where she reportedly inked a deal to star as an Interpol agent in The Tourist. Charlize Theron, 34, was previously attached to the project but recently dropped out. The Stockholm-born Hallström, 63, has been widely praised for his work in My Life as a Dog (1985), Chocolat (2000) and in 1999 was nominated for an Academy Award for The Cider House Rules. The Tourist is a remake of a 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer (which starred Sophie Marceau). The movie concerns an Interpol agent (Jolie) who manipulates an American tourist (played by Sam Worthington, who starred in Terminator Salvation) to entrap her ex-lover, a suspected international criminal. »

- schang@theimproper.com (Samantha Chang)

17 October 2009 3:27 PM, PDT | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »

Angelina Jolie is reportedly teaming up with Swedish director Lasse Hallström for the spy thriller, The Tourist. Jolie, 34, was photographed leaving the Sony Studios Building in Culver City, Calif., Oct. 15, where she reportedly inked a deal to star as an Interpol agent in The Tourist. Charlize Theron, 34, was previously attached to the project but recently dropped out. The Stockholm-born Hallström, 63, has been widely praised for his work in My Life as a Dog (1985), Chocolat (2000) and in 1999 was nominated for an Academy Award for The Cider House Rules. The Tourist is a remake of a 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer (which starred Sophie Marceau). The movie concerns an Interpol agent (Jolie) who manipulates an American tourist (played by Sam Worthington, who starred in Terminator Salvation) to entrap her ex-lover, a suspected international criminal. »

- schang@theimproper.com (Samantha Chang)

15 October 2009 12:11 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

According to Rottentomatoes.com, Where the Wild Things Are, which opens on Friday, is getting mixed-to-decent reviews. I'm trying hard to wrap my mind around this, because I saw the film on Monday, and it simply doesn't work.

Because of all the buzz, I suspect the movie will open strong, but I'll be shocked if the box office doesn't collapse as word-of-mouth gets out about how muddled and frequently outright boring it is.

But I'll grant you that it's not terrible in the way that earlier "bad" movies this year have been — movies such as G-Force (which was soul-less and completely by-the-numbers) or Year One (which was a meandering, painfully unfunny mess).

Director Spike Jonze at least tried to make something truly different. Much has been made of the fact that he was trying to create the sense of being a nine-year-old boy — the sense of confusion, the feeling that »

- Brent Hartinger

3 articles from 2009