Fireflies in the Garden News

Julia Roberts' production shingle Red Om Films has acquired screen rights to "In the Neighborhood," a nonfiction book by Peter Lovenheim to be published next April by Perigee.

It's difficult to tell the moment at which rambling becomes absorbing in director Dennis Lee's tale of a very, very messed-up family.

Hayden Panettiere may be wearing a new cheerleading uniform. The "Heroes" actress is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox's genre label Fox Atomic to star in the teen coming-of-age movie "I Love You, Beth Cooper." Chris Columbus is in talks to direct, and will also serve as a producer.

Hayden Panettiere knows everything there is to know about cheerleaders. After playing sis-boom-bah girls on TV's "Heroes," and in the films "Bring It On: All or Nothing" and "I Love You, Beth Cooper," she's happy to hold forth on the power of the pompom.

Ryan Reynolds, Mr Scarlett Johansson, is Hollywood's new go-to hunk, equally at home in horror and rom-com. By Lesley O'Toole Getty Ryan Reynolds enlarge Sandra Bullock knows exactly who to thank for the most successful American opening of any of her films ever .

The Informers , from the author of Less Than Zero , comes a new tale of 1980s Los Angeles' lost generation, drifting through a world of lust, greed and addiction.

Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here. Ryan Reynolds has been the source of many surprises in my movie-going world of late, and he continues that streak with THE PROPOSAL, a film that by all rights should be as disposable as most of romantic-comedies of late but isn't because Reynolds' type of funny is funnier than most.

"Year One" : Jack Black and Michael Cera are ancient types who hit the road after they're banished from their primitive village.

Mark Urman has ankled his post as president of Senator Entertainment's distribution company.

The money crunch afflicting indie distributors may delay the release of Antonine Fuqua 's "Brooklyn's Finest,'' one of the highest profile acquisitions at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Oscar winner Javier Bardem is poised to join Julia Roberts on new romantic drama Eat, Pray, Love .

Ryan Reynolds must be one of the luckiest blokes alive. He famously split up with one of the most successful musicians of the '90s , only to fall into the arms of one of the world's most beautiful women .

Thanks to the gruesome fashion for 'torture porn' - horribly explicit violence in films like Hostel and the Saw series - horror has become a debased genre reflecting the worst instincts of society.

When people smoke in films these days, it either means they're bad or troubled. In Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynold 's character smokes like a chimney.

When people smoke in films these days, it either means they're bad or troubled. In Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynold's character smokes like a chimney.

But he has picked up a thing or two directing the monstrously successful Spider-Man films, not least access to larger budgets, and Drag Me to Hell is a B-movie served up with almost disconcertingly lavish special effects.

AN all-star cast adorn Fireflies in the Garden , a tale of a dysfunctional American family - but the likes of Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Watson cannot save this turgid melodrama, writes Conor Nolan .

Director: Dennis Lee Running time: 120 minutes ** HOW does a film starring Julia Roberts fly so low under the radar? That is the question Fireflies In The Garden had me asking until I saw this glum story of throttled fury and ancient regret where a family get together initially to celebrate their mo ther Lisa gaining a belated university degree, ...

Ryan Reynolds gives a riveting performance as the ruthless, wisecracking Wade Wilson, later known as Deadpool in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which stars Hugh Jackman.

This is going to be some international family! Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd and his wife, English actress Alice Evans, are expecting a baby, his rep confirms to PEOPLE.