The Great Buck Howard (movie)

THERE'S A rich irony in the fact that James Caan is being feted this month with the CineVegas Film Festival's inaugural Vegas Icon Award: Caan hates almost all the acting he's ever done that has anything to do with the city. The four years he spent as...

The Great Buck Howard is a pleasant enough comedy in the My Favorite Year mold. Colin Hanks, son of Tom (who produced and has a cameo) plays a young man who drops out of law school and takes a job as road manager of has-been "mentalist" Buck Howard. Not-...

Evangeline Lilly will use her summer "Lost" hiatus to shoot the thriller "Afterwards." In addition to Lilly, John Malkovich and Romain Duris ("The Beat That My Heart Skipped") will appear in the film, set to begin shooting in early June in New York and...

TNT has greenlit the Tom Cavanagh-Eric McCormack series "Truth in Advertising" for next season, giving the cable channel three new shows for 2008-09. "Truth in Advertising," which is set at a Chicago ad agency, is scheduled to premiere in 2009. It...

"Three days of work, two days of snowboarding." That's the plan of at least one pasty Irish visitor, the writer-director Martin McDonagh, who arrives alongside an estimated 52,000 other people this week for the 30th annual schuss of the Sundance Film...

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Star Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are close to deals to return for the sequel to their critically maligned blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code." According to The Hollywood Reporter -- scurrying after a story first reported online -- Sony hopes to have...

After appearing in three films with Jack Black, Colin Hanks is happy to co-star opposite a Playboy bunny, even a fake one. The actor has joined "Scary Movie" star Anna Faris in an untitled comedy that combines Playboy bunnies and college co-eds for...

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"The Great Buck Howard," an affectionate though flawed comedy, stars John Malkovich as a mentalist who once charmed audiences with his logic-defying ability to read minds or hypnotize volunteers plucked from the audience. At his peak, Buck filled venues...

Universal is lining up some big names for "How Starbucks Saved My Life," recruiting Tom Hanks to star in the project and wooing Gus Van Sant to direct. The studio snagged "Starbucks" as a 102-page proposal by Michael Gates Gill, grabbing the rights to...

Hot off the success of "The Devil Wears Prada," Emily Blunt is close to signing on to play the female lead in "The Great Buck Howard." Written and directed by Sean McGinly, "The Great Buck Howard" stars Colin Hanks and John Malkovich and is produced...