The Departed (movie)

Everyone has at least one skill that doesn't have a practical use. Mine is the ability to name every movie ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. I absorbed that knowledge from years of reading critical studies of the Oscars, to the point...

Mark Wahlberg, a Boston native, voiced his mournful reaction to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings as he premiered his latest film in New York on Monday. "Thoughts and prayers with my hometown Boston today," the actor tweeted Monday after two bombs...

HONG KONG — When Mabel Cheung, one of this city's leading directors, shot her historical-political drama "The Soong Sisters" in China in the mid-1990s, the nature of the exchange for the co-production was simple: Beijing provided inexpensive...

With rehearsals for this year's Oscars show clocking in at nearly four hours, some wondered if the telecast could give 2002's record four-hour,  23-minute marathon a run for its money. Thanks to some judicious, last-minute trimming, the Seth MacFarlane-...

Academy Awards nominations and Oscar statues can provide a big boost at the box office. Some films benefit enormously. The domestic box-office take for 2009 best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped to $141.3 million from $98.3 million after...

Probably just like you, we at the Gold Standard enjoy the occasional Facebook foray to quietly unfriend anyone who sent us Farmville requests check up on the daily doings of friends and loved ones. Today, nestled among the cute kid pics and breaking...

Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov won the the Darryl F. Zanuck outstanding producer of motion picture for "Argo," besting "Lincoln" and other contenders in the category. It was the latest triumph for the film, which won the Golden Globes...

Say hello to ya mutha for me, OK? Mark Wahlberg gets that a lot. Five years after Andy Samberg's "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" skit on "Saturday Night Live" (if you've never seen it, the title says it all), five years after Wahlberg went on Jimmy...

Brian Tucker's "Broken City" screenplay is packed with plot twists, complex sentences and the kind of innuendo that make it seem as if the movie will be a smarter-than-most thriller from the first exchanges. All the talking is no doubt why "Broken City"...

"Godzilla" is not scheduled to set foot in the U.S. for another two years, but things are already getting ugly. Legendary Pictures, the film finance and production company behind "Inception" and "The Hangover," has been sued by a trio of prominent...

The Producers Guild of America nominated the producers of 10 films Wednesday for the Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award for theatrical motion pictures. They are the producers of "Argo"; "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; "Django Unchained"; "Les...

Martin Scorsese has found his next film subject: Bill Clinton. The Oscar winner will produce and direct a documentary on the former president for HBO, the network announced Monday. The documentary will explore the 42nd president's perspective on...