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By James Mottram THE first time Benicio Del Toro ever heard the name Che Guevara, he was 12.

The Casey Anthony story has become a play, "Tot Mom," that will open in December in Australia.

STEVEN Soderbergh, director of Che, Ocean's Eleven and Out of Sight, among many other films, will be in Sydney next month to rehearse actors for his upcoming Sydney Theatre Company production, Tot Mom.

Time: 2009 Nov 02 19:00 - 21:15 Summary: THE ARGENTINE. France/Spain/USA. 2008. 134 min.

The films are based directly on Che's own writings, Part I on Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War and Part II on The Bolivian Diaries .

The director's two newest films, The Informant! and The Girlfriend Experience, rely entirely on two old-favourite themes Sex and lies.

French Golden Globe winner Alexandre Desplat was a double honoree at the ninth World Soundtrack Awards on Saturday as he was named film composer of the year and picked up the prize for score of the year for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Oscar winner A.R. Rahman accepted the award for best original song written for film for "Jai Ho," from ...

A labour of love for Academy Award-winning director, Steven Soderbergh Che features a career defining performance from Benicio Del Toro in the title role which won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2008.

Cuban freedom fighter Ernesto "Che" Guevara's legacy lives on. On Monday his children, Aleida Guevara March and Camilo Guevara March, landed at OR Tambo International Airport to lobby South Africans to put pressure on US President Barack Obama to release five Cubans languishing in American maximum security prisons.

In The Informant, Matt Damon stars as the Executive Mark Whitacre, the first person involved in a price-fixing cartel to voluntarily give information to the FBI - though he was also an oddball and a liar.

Che **** Benicio Del Toro Directed by Steven Soderbergh The most persistent sound in Steven Soderbergh's two-part epic biography of the Argentine doctor and revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is not gunfire and explosions, the screams of the dying or the cry of Viva la Revolution! It is wheezing.

Mark Whitacre, the main character in Floyd Perry's self-published book, is the focus of the latest Hollywood movie, The Informant.

Even though everyone's all about what's hitting home video in October for Halloween, the good folks over at IFC gave us a look at what they're dishing out in terms of horror and thrillers for the month of November! Synopsis Lisa Vidal of ER and Star Trek delivers a startling performance as Deborah Martin, a former photographer turned stay-at-home ...

Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "extreme animal abuse." In a letter to Gov.

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Steven Soderbergh's CHE is a monumental, two-part, over four-hour epic about the campaigns of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, played by BENICIO DEL TORO, firstly in alliance with Fidel Castro, DEMIAN BICHIR, to take Cuba from its Mafia-backed President Batista, and then to 'liberate' Bolivia, a failed campaign which leads to his defeat and death.

Big business appears to be in the midst of a rough couple of weeks at the box office.

In Steven Soderbergh's new offbeat film "The Informant!", a rather incongruously sappy and dramatic piece of music plays during the opening credits while images of tape recorders, notebooks and assorted surveillance equipment appear on screen.

Matt Damon as a bumbling corporate whistleblower in The Informant! ,Steven Soderbergh keeps it varied.

STEVEN Soderbergh's upcoming production for Sydney Theatre Company, An Untitled Project, will use a recent and notorious child murder case as its subject.