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.Star Wars creator George Lucas has topped a list of Hollywood’s highest male earners, making an estimated $US170 million ($212 million) in a year that saw the release of his fourth Indiana Jones movie.
Steven Spielberg, who directed Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, took second place after making about $US150 million between June 2008 and June 2009, according to Forbes. .
“In Hollywood the stars get their pictures on the covers of magazines and designers ply them with free clothes, but producers earn the big bucks,” Forbes.
Men behind the camera rather than screen stars dominated Forbes’ list, with movie and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer – the man behind hit series like CSI, The Amazing Race and Cold Case – listed as the third biggest male earner with an estimated $US100 million.
Forbes compiled the high earning list by looking at producers, actors, writers, musicians and television personalities in the industry and then talking to Hollywood insiders to estimate earnings over the past 12 months.com said.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld came fourth in the list with $US85 million, thanks largely to syndication rights for his TV comedy creation Seinfeld 10 years after it ended and a series of Microsoft ads.
American Idol judge and record producer Simon Cowell raked in around $US75 million, along with TV producer Dick Wolf and movie-maker Tyler Perry.
In fifth place, television psychologist Dr Phil McGraw proved that advice pays with his TV shows, books and speeches helping him earn about $US80 million last year.
– Reuters

.Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment are breathing new life into Bride Of Frankenstein.
The companies are in talks with Neil Burger to write and direct their long-stirring remake of the 1935 monster movie.
James Whale’s Bride Of Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as the monster and Elsa Lanchester as the titular bride, continued the story that began with 1931’s Frankenstein – a monster, on the run from an angry mob, has a series of adventures and persuades Dr Frankenstein to create a mate for him. .
About five years ago, American Splendor screenwriters Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini were on board to write the screenplay for the Universal/Imagine update.
Bride has had a series of stops and starts.
Burger’s version is expected to differ significantly from that concept.
Their concept was to set the picture in contemporary New York, with a young woman dying and then brought back to life.
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Jacob Estes, a writer on Spider-Man spin-off Venom, also at one point had been attached to the project to write a draft

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.Rags-to-riches drama Slumdog Millionaire has been named best picture at this year’s 81st Academy Awards.
The Mumbai-set love story, about a contestant on India’s version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, also scooped seven other awards – best director , original song, original score , film editing, sound mixing, adapted screenplay and cinematography. .
The film’s producer accepted the award alongside the cast and crew from the film, some of whom were flown to Los Angeles for the ceremony – a world away from their lives in Mumbai’s shantytowns.
Academy voters were reportedly bowled over by the film’s uplifting finale.
But Slumdog Millionaire – based on novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup – was the favourite to take out the top honour, already earning a swag of awards from critics and industry groups whose members include actors, directors, producers and writers.
She fought back tears when accepting her trophy and remembered a time as an eight-year-old when she dreamed of winning Oscars gold.
– Other awards –
Kate Winslet was named best actress for her dramatic turn as a former Nazi prison guard in The Reader. It’s not a shampoo bottle now,” she quipped.
“I think I was probably eight-years-old and staring into the bathroom mirror and this would have been a shampoo bottle.
“Thank you.
Sean Penn earned his second Oscar for best actor , portraying slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk in Milk. You commie, homo-loving sons-of-a-gun. Thank you.
Early honours went to Penelope Cruz who became the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award for her supporting role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I did not expect this,” Penn said in his acceptance speech.
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Meanwhile, Australian Heath Ledger was posthumously named best supporting actor for his role as the villainous Joker in Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight

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The Moon · The Whirlpool galaxy, M51 · Andromeda galaxy M31, M32 and M110 · Messier 33 – NGC 598 in Triangulum. Messier 82 – Cigar galaxy · ► November (8). Pleiades, M45.

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.Jim Carrey outed his new movie I Love You Phillip Morris at the Sundance Film Festival this week, taking a risk in the gay romantic comedy by sharing passionate moments with co-star Ewan McGregor.
Based on a true story, Carrey plays cop-turned-conman Steven Russell, who falls in love with his cellmate Phillip Morris (McGregor) and escapes four times from the Texas jail where he is being held in a bid to be with his partner.
For Carrey, one of Hollywood’s biggest box office draws in mainstream comedies such as Liar, Liar and Bruce Almighty, taking the role in an independent film like Philip Morris could prove to be a real gamble.
In the past, when he has starred in a movie that is not a comedy, it often has flopped.
Carrey, 47, risks losing the audiences that flock to his movies.
Yet, early reviews are good for Phillip Morris. .
Carrey, McGregor and the directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa told reporters at a news conference at Sundance – the top US independent film festival – that the movie should not be pigeonholed. “It really is about the lengths we go to for acceptance and love.
“I don’t think it’s a gay movie,” Carrey said.
“If I were to be really honest, there’s a homophobic voice that rises up inside me and goes ‘Gee this is kind of scary’,” he said.”
While McGregor has played gay roles before, Carrey has not and the actor acknowledged a few initial fears.
– ‘Strangely usual’ –
McGregor said he and Carrey performed intimate scenes together on the first day of filming.
“First of all, what will people think? And second of all, will I like it? Will I like kissing Ewan?” he added with a laugh.
He described it as “strangely usual.
He described it as “strangely usual.
“We’ve all been lovesick and I think anybody – whether you’re gay or straight – can identify with that,” he said.”
Phillip Morris producer Andrew Lazar said he was drawn to the love story of the movie and believed it had universal appeal.
The Hollywood Reporter said “Carrey is at his nimble best” and Daily Variety said the movie will leave “audiences both laughing and stunned.
So far, critics like what they see.”
Still, the critics suggest the film could be a hard sell to broad audiences because of the gay storyline.”
The Times Of London gave the movie four out of five stars, describing it as an “extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good Carrey can be when he’s not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser.
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The “sexual bluntness of Carrey and Ewan McGregor’s onscreen romance could limit the film’s exposure,” wrote Daily Variety