Hollywood never had a chance to make a movie out of J.D. Salinger’s delightful “The Catcher in the Rye,” though it wasn’t for lack of trying. Over the years, everyone gave it a shot — Sam Goldwyn, Billy Wilder, even…

Everyone in the world in the past couple of days has been writing about how “Avatar” has now surpassed “Titanic” to become the highest-grossing film of all time. But most of the stories have left out the tricky part: You…

Normally I take time out in January to offer up my Studio Report Card, which grades the major studios on the performance of their films, both in terms of commerce and quality. But I took a break this year, since…

Here’s the dirty little secret about the motion picture academy’s controversial scheme to expand this year’s best picture nominees from five to 10 movies. It isn’t going to make the slightest bit of difference in the Oscar race. Coming on…

“Extraordinary Measures” opened with a thud this weekend, barely earning an anemic $7 million, according to my colleague Ben Fritz, an especially poor showing for the debut release from CBS’ new film division. Although the syrupy Harrison Ford-starring medical drama…

When you’ve worked with practically every movie star imaginable and won virtually every award in the business, I guess that you don’t sweat the small stuff. So when Dick Zanuck and I had lunch earlier this week at his favorite…

With the Lakers taking on LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight, basketball junkies will no doubt be reliving all of the great NBA rivalries of the past, none more storied than the titanic mid-1990s clashes between the Reggie Miller-led…

No matter how Harrison Ford’s new movie, “Extraordinary Measures,” ends up doing at the box office this weekend, you can’t say that CBS Films didn’t go all out to promote the medical drama, which is the debut release for CBS’…

Way, way back in December — meaning all of five weeks ago — Roger Ebert was saying that “Avatar” was a huge, groundbreaking film, calling it the kind of “sensational” movie that made him feel “sort of the same as…

Few things are more prickly and complicated than the relationship between sons and fathers. Just ask Michael Douglas, who spent many troubled years trying to carve out any kind of satisfying kinship with Kirk Douglas, his emotionally distant father. Many…