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Citing script concerns, Columbia has pulled the plug on Steven Soderbergh's "Moneyball" just days before filming was scheduled to begin.

A quarter century after walking the fine line between clever and stupid, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer are back together again as Spinal Tap, playing their "greatest hits" and gearing up for a one-night-only "world tour" at Wembley.

Proof of the power of the cougar-com in this season of blockbuster action and low-brow man-movies, Sandra Bullock's The Proposal mirrored its US success and wooed Australian audiences to debut at number one at the box office. Who knew she still had the star power? The rom-com, which co-stars Ryan Reynolds, charmed up a healthy $4 million for the week, ousting The Hangover from the top and wiping out the other big new release, the Jack Black-Michael Cera comedy Year One. Harold Ramis' ramble through ancient times drew largely scathing reviews-including an unimpressed one star from David Stratton-and landed in...

You've never --- and we mean never, even by Michael Bay's standards --- seen $200 million lavished on two-and-a-half hours of such stratospherically absurd spectacle as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Understandably nerve-wracked Australian starlet Isabel Lucas prefaced the film's Sydney premiere by advising the audience to 'strap on' for the thrill ride to follow. Given the awkward giggles in the theatre, we're pretty sure she meant to say 'strap in'; then again, when you see her character, well-mild spoiler alert-maybe she meant it. The familiar metallic soundwave soon strafed the usually-placid DreamWorks logo and then --- wow --- what...

Ahead of its US and rest-of-world rollout on June 24, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has opened to huge business in two international territories. The sequel took $14 million alone in the UK, besting the first film's opening haul by 71 per cent according to Paramount, while also topping its predecessor in Japan.