Miranda Otto

Calling its 2013-14 schedule Fox’s “biggest investment in original programming in our history,” Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly on Monday presented the network’s plans to launch original shows over all 12 months of the year....

Kiele Sanchez's character on "Lost" has barely been introduced this season, but the actress may be moving on to another ABC project. Sanchez has signed on to the network's pilot "Football Wives," headlining the latest round of casting at the Alphabet....

Multiple Emmy nominee Peter Krause is coming back to network TV, taking the lead in an ABC pilot called "Dirty Sexy Money." The former "Six Feet Under" star tops the list of actors taking pilot roles. The latest batch also includes Kim Raver in NBC's...

As a boy growing up in the 1950s, Steven Spielberg was always watching the skies. He experienced meteor showers with his father, enjoyed space dramas like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and dreamed, he told friends, of being the Cecil B. DeMille of...

Miranda Otto, who filmed the final "Lord of the Rings" film in New Zealand, will head back home to Australia for her next project. The Aussie actress and Joe Mantegna will join Debra Messing in "The Starter Wife," a USA Network limited series set in...

Peter Jackson's epic "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" first unfolds with even greater grandeur than "The Fellowship of the Ring." But the inherent cinematic problems of the J.R.R. Tolkien book - huge battles, a divided story and talking trees -...

Know your Sauron from your Saruman? Ever mix up Gimli and Gollum, or an orc and an Uruk-hai? As the sword-and-sorcery sequel "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" ventures into theaters, the vastness of author J.R.R. Tolkien's universe can give viewers...

Friday August 1, 1997      "Love Serenade" offers as precise and merciless a comic vision as anyone could want. A wickedly funny examination of obsessive romantic behavior, its satiric vision of women in love and men on the make was devastating enough to...

Wednesday December 23, 1998      For months and even years after World War II officially ended, gaunt, sepulchral figures would periodically emerge from the jungles of some South Pacific island--isolated Japanese soldiers who either hadn't known the...

Friday July 21, 2000      Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) looks to have an enviable life. Consider the stunning Vermont lakeside house, the sympathetic friend, the spacious SUV, the swell daughter who's just off to college. And the husband, don't...

Titles like "Human Nature"--or "Happiness" or "Pleasantville" or even "Parenthood"--are more or less guilty pleas in advance that what you're going to get is Irony with a capital I, the name being merely a mask for the unfettered, unadorned Truth that...

Let's start with all the things "The Matrix Reloaded" is: • the highly anticipated sequel to one of the most influential, admired (four Academy Awards) and popular (nearly half a billion dollars in worldwide theatrical gross) of films; • the first...