Tropic Thunder (movie)

Seeing Double Two great actresses received double nominations today: Meryl Streep was nominated for best actress (drama) for "Doubt" and best actress (musical or comedy) for "Mamma Mia!," her 22nd and 23rd career Globe nods (she's won six), and Kate...

There was tittering in the Beverly Hilton ballroom early Thursday morning as Brooke Shields announced the Golden Globes nominees for actor in a comedy or musical. James Franco, she intoned, and there came those giggles. Co-announcer Elizabeth Banks then...

Marvel is reportedly turning over writing duties for "Iron Man 2" to actor-turned-scribe Justin Theroux. The comic/movie giant has already set an April 2010 release date for the sequel to the summer's biggest hit, while Variety says that original...

Do you think of Sherlock Holmes as being more like Sacha Baron Cohen or Robert Downey Jr? Viewers may get to decide in the years to come. Just days after Cohen and Will Ferrell were linked to a Judd Apatow comedy about the Arthur Conan Doyle gumshoe,...

Owen Wilson and Nick Nolte have joined the cast of Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder." Stiller is also co-starring in the wildly high concept DreamWorks comedy, which also features Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride,...

My favorite gag in "Tropic Thunder" comes just before "Tropic Thunder" itself, in a movie trailer touting a fake movie called "Satan's Alley." (That's an in-joke for all you "Staying Alive" freaks; "Satan's Alley" was the Broadway musical John Travolta...

"Slumdog Millionaire," a modern-day fable about an orphan from Mumbai who ends up on a television game show, is shaping up to be this movie season's Cinderella story. At one point, it seemed poised to go straight to DVD after its original studio,...

"Tropic Thunder," a war-movie satire that skewers everything Hollywood, is a welcome addition on DVD: While its release was overshadowed by criticism, the humor is sly and sharp and worthy of standing alongside classics like "Airplane!" While the...

Last year, the Writers Strike ended up canceling the NBC Co-Chairman's "prom," but for the time being -- pending the SAG vote, that is -- all things are full steam ahead for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 66th annual Golden Globes honoring...

This has been a year filled with teachable political moments. Racism, sexism, ageism and "change" have been debated at kitchen tables and water coolers across America. But this last week, those gathered around my kitchen table have been consumed with...

Matthew McConaughey has joined the cast of the comedy "Tropic Thunder" taking the role Owen Wilson vacated last month. Already in production in Hawaii, "Tropic Thunder" focuses on a group of actors shooting a war movie in Hawaii who are somehow forced to...

TO become a mega-movie star these days, a man must don the tights. With a few notable exceptions like Leonardo DiCaprio, who had the good fortune to be in the highest-grossing movie of all time (that would be "Titanic"), almost every $20-million man has...