Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Full Article at Comingsoon.net

Actress Drew Barrymore arrives at the AFI FEST 2009 screening of Miramax' 'Everybody's Fine' at the Chinese Theater on November 3, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Full Article at WAWS FOX 30

understand (Edgar Bronfman, Jean-Marie Messier and, well, just about everybody else in the media world). ?This was not a business decision,? said friend Gayle King of Oprah Winfrey?s decision to end her talk show. Full Article at Salt Lake Tribune

And for those of you who question why Smith belongs in a column called "Legends," the answer is simple. For better or worse, he changed the way films were made with CLERKS, simple as that. Full Article at Ain't It Cool News

Mo'Nique in a scene from Lee Daniels' "Precious." Image courtesy of Lionsgate. With Thanksgiving two days away, the film industry’s fiscal seasons are-a-changing. Full Article at Indie Wire

Its Oscar season which means Hollywoods studios, limping indie-label and blockbuster powerhouse alike, are flooding the nations film critics and opinion makers with screeners in an attempt to win their vote. Full Article at Cinema Blend

When you look at Oprah Winfrey's multidecade run through daytime talk -- most of it at No. 1 -- it's easy to be impressed by what she did to make it happen. Full Article at The New York Times

When you look at Oprah Winfrey’s multidecade run through daytime talk most of it at No. 1 it’s easy to be impressed by what she did to make it happen. Full Article at The New York Times

Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 49 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. Full Article at Slash Film

How did you end up choosing John Hillcoat to direct the movie? Full Article at New York Magazine

Disney's decision to slash Miramax's releases to three films a year, shut down operations in New York, and reduce its overall budget by 70 percent has resulted in the cancellation of the planned Richard Linklater romantic comedy Liars (A to E),... Full Article at IMDB

Director Richard Linklater's upcoming romantic comedy Liars (A-E) has been scrapped due to studio budget cuts. Full Article at Digital Spy

Two project have both been confirmed as dead on arrival today. First, Richard Linklater's very next project, Liars (A to E), has been canned, the first victim of Miramax's downsizing. Full Article at FirstShowing.net

Richard Linklater can barely catch a break this year. His film Me & Orson Welles finally found marginal distribution, and hasn’t been nabbing particularly good reviews. Full Article at Slash Film

Richard Linklater is probably one of the most versatile directors working today, but he seems to remain mostly under the mainstream radar. Full Article at Cinema Blend

It would probably be wrong to say that Kevin Smith speaks for my generation. He certainly has, as his production company name tells us, a View Askew, and that means that we'd all have to have the same sort of skewed view if he spoke for my generation. Full Article at Blogcritics.org

When Disney downsized the bulk of Miramax’s employees and announced that the company would be reducing its output to only three or so films a year, it was assumed that the next product slated to go into production -- the Richard Linklater romantic... Full Article at The Wrap

With Disney taking the axe to Miramax's output and staff, we guess it's no surprise that one of the latter studio's planned projects — Richard Linklater's Liars (A-E) — is now in limbo. It's no longer happening, unfortunately. It didn't really work out. Full Article at ReelzChannel

New Jersey native, Kevin Smith started out in the world of film making with a successful indie film Clerks, that became a cult classic, and has gone onto direct several bigger films to date. Full Article at Readjunk.com