Twitnuuz: Movies & Cinema

EXCLUSIVE: The UK government is considering handing over the £15 million of lottery film production cash the UK Film Council currently handles to public broadcasters the BBC and Channel 4. Ed Vaizey, the government arts minister, has talked about splitting…

UPDATE: Random House Publishing Group head Gina Centrello just announced Susan Kamil’s promotion in an internal e-mail that includes other promotions within the group. You can read her e-mail below my original posting. EXCLUSIVE: Susan Kamil, who has…

The network’s movie arm has optioned The Ex Files, a 2003 chick-lit novel by Jane Moore, columnist on Murdoch tabloid The Sun. Leonard Goldberg, who co-created Charlie’s Angels and Fantasy Island with Aaron Spelling, will produce. The Ex Files sounds…

Roger Michell, director of Notting Hill, has called British culture secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision “astonishing” and “catastrophic” without the merest hint of consultation with either the wider film industry of the UKFC itself. “The decision…

EXCLUSIVE: Rapper-turned-actor Common is set for his first regular TV gig, landing a lead role in the AMC period drama pilot Hell on Wheels. Common has become the first actor cast in the Western, which centers on the building of the Transcontinental…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Beverly Hills, 90210 stars Luke Perry and Jason Priestley have reunited for Goodnight For Justice, a Hallmark Movie Channel original movie starring and executive produced by Perry and to be directed by Priestley. The Western is based…

I already reported this, but here’s the official Warner Bros announcement: BURBANK, CA – July 26, 2010 – On Sunday, July 25th, Warner Bros. Studios became the only studio in history to surpass $1 billion at the domestic box office for ten years in…

Leah Remini, who co-hosts CBS’ recently picked up new mom daytime talk show, is expanding her relationship with CBS to primetime. Remini, best known for her starring role on the long-running CBS sitcom The King of Queens, has signed a development and…

Zac Efron, who opens Friday in Universal’s Charlie St. Cloud, is on the verge of closing on deals for what figure to be his next two star vehicles. His likely next pic is The Lucky One, a Scott Hicks-directed adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel for…