A large rubber-band ball sits on the bedside table of the wilful young Max, hero of the new Spike Jonze film, while overhead, on a shelf, sits a bird's nest. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Courtesy of Deitch Projects and the artist Kehinde Wiley’s “Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II,” 2009, at Deitch Projects. MIAMI — The first person I saw at yesterday’s V.I.P. preview for Art Basel Miami Beach was Sylvester Stallone. Full Article at The New York Times

Lulu Frost's Lisa Salzer reports from a trunk show bonanza in Tokyo Just got back on the 14-hour haul to NYC from my second-most favorite city, Tokyo. This was my fifth visit to the oh-so-foreign land, and I think it was the best trip yet. Full Article at Fashion Week Daily

Personally speaking, I've been a fan of since he and writer-director Wes Anderson collaborated on Rushmore and created what I still think is a definitive portrait of the beautiful torment of teenage life. Full Article at Cinematical

acting skills rank just between Sofia Coppola in “Godfather III” and a second grade play about the four food groups. Really, she’s terrible. She sucks. I don’t know how in God’s name she’s lasted in Hollywood this long. Full Article at Yeeeah!

"An Education" director Lone Scherfig recently lamented, good-naturedly, that she was tired of producers thinking of her for stereotypically female projects. "Everyone sends me scripts with these sweet stories," she said. "I've done that already. Full Article at Original Signal: Movies

Insisting it will survive the tremendous upheaval in the studio specialty biz, Focus Features has already dated six movies for release in 2010, including new pics directed by Noah Baumbach and Sofia Coppola and starring George Clooney. Full Article at Original Signal: Movies

March 12th 2010: The Squid and the Whale writer/director Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg which stars Ben Stiller April 16th 2010: Thomas Balmès‘ Babies, a documentary film which simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from birth to first steps. Full Article at Slash Film

Release Date: TBA 2010 Studio: Focus Features Director: Sofia Coppola Screenwriter: Sofia Coppola Starring: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius Genre: Comedy, Drama MPAA Rating: Not Available Official Website: Not Available Review: Not... Full Article at Comingsoon.net

SOMEWHERE, directed by Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T

The American Film Market, currently going on in Los Angeles, is where a lot of indie movies have the opportunity to pitch themselves to potential buyers, trotting out whatever materials they've got to make their movie look like the next big thing. Full Article at Cinema Blend

A huge batch of new photos from all kinds of different movies arrived on Collider earlier tonight. And just before that, our friends at Fanboyz found the first few photos from Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Full Article at FirstShowing.net

Our friends at Collider scored a shitload of early promotional images and posters from the American Film Market. You can head on over to Collider to see all of the images, but I thought I’d profile a few of the projects that I’m more looking forward to. Full Article at Slash Film

by Kevin Friedman; Photos By Daniel Field | 11.10.2009 A beret-sporting prep-school playwright vying for the attention of an out-of-his-league teacher; a desperately heartbroken short- story author with a faltering sense of reality; an incredibly lost... Full Article at Filter Magazine

The movie business "is absolutely consistently more difficult for women from beginning to the end," said Debra Zimmerman, executive director of the nonprofit organization Women Make Movies. How difficult? Full Article at Shakesville

Like the part of Cannes you don't usually hear about, the American Film Market is the largely unglamorous event held every year in L.A. where film buyers and distributors from across the globe come to put the business back in show business, looking at... Full Article at Independent Film Channel

Scarlett Johansson (Catherine). A View From The Bridge marks Johansson's Broadway debut. Full Article at Broadway World

Sensitive young men who avoid sunlight and the gloomy misfit young women who adore them: For all the gasps that greeted Twilight author Stephanie Meyer's recent embrace of indie rock, the parallels between the two are obvious enough. Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T

For the children of successful artists, going into the family business might seem like the obvious choice. Full Article at The Honolulu Advertiser