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Poster for Brothers to be released on December 4, 2009 . According to pop-culture pundit Pete Hammond, Jim Sheridan, the director of the movie Brothers which is due in theaters December 4, 2009: ...received a tremendous ovation Sunday afternoon when he was introduced for a Q&A after a very well-received Directors Guild of America screening.

With Lionsgate understandably basking in the glow of this weekend's $1.8-million, $100,000-per-screen, record-shattering opening of "Precious," the already stratospheric Oscar buzz is likely to soar even higher.

Lionsgate has released a new trailer for theA family drama Brothers , which is directed by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan , from a screenplay by David Benioff , and starsA Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Clifton Collins, Jr., Carey Mulligan, and Ethan Suplee .

Carey Mulligan received rave reviews for her role in An Education. Next up is Wall Street 2 for Oliver Stone, and Jim Sheridan's Brothers.

Director Shane Meadows has explored the British condition in a series of funny, moving, gritty movies, culminating in This Is England.

Emily Blunt ends TIFF with a flourish as Young Victoria. Many of the A-list talents have abandoned the city, leaving behind messy hotel rooms and dozens of juicy sound bites, not to mention some gorgeous photos.

Three hard-edged movies about young women screening this week at the Toronto film festival depart from Hollywood formulas by avoiding sentimental or romantic cliches that often define movies about teenagers.

"The five crying men stand at the fence, crying. 'Look at the sad, large rage of the doomed men,' they think.

"Brothers", the new film from Jim Sheridan , has such a wonderful premise for an honest story of emotional conflict: Natalie Portman plays a wife and mother whose husband goes missing while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan and presumed dead.A She finds solace in his brother played by Jake Gyllenhaal.A But then, it turns out that Maguire and the ...

This is aiming for one of those five extra Best Picture nomination spots. I can already tell.

Here's the new trailer for Brothers , directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire.

At 7 p.m. Friday, July 3, the Belfast Free Library is offering a special Independence Weekend movie, as part of its Friday Night Flix series.

Jim Sheridan will direct. Dream House is the story of a family man who moves away to a seemingly perfect small town, only to discover that his new home is haunted by former inhabitants who were murdered there.

Daniel Craig can shake, but can he stir? The latest James Bond has proved a critical and commercial success in his two turns in the iconic role, for "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace." But he has been deliberate in choosing his next live-action role.

Shohreh Aghdashloo grew up in Iran, infuriating her mother with the outrageous dream of being a Hollywood star.

BURTON actor Paddy Considine looks set for a bumper year - with two major films lined up and the screening of a long awaited side project at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Dynamic actress Samantha Morton so convincingly played American, Irish, Scottish, and even mute, that fans of her international independent films may not have even known that she hailed from Northern England.

The worlds of diplomacy and celebrity were united in a sun-drenched churchyard in Co Kildare at the weekend as the society wedding season kicked off in style.

Last January the engagement was announced at a farewell party before Mr Foley stepped down as ambassador.

Oscar-nominated actor Samantha Morton has told how she was convicted at the age of 14 of making threats to kill in Nottingham.