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AP - John Daly, the British-born producer of 13 Oscar-winning movies including "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor" who helped launch the careers of many A-list directors and actors, has died. He was 71.

In "The Golden Boys," David Carradine, Rip Torn, and Bruce Dern share a big, dirty house on the water in Chatham. They're seamen. They're single. They're crotchety, and they're acting up a squall. The three also appear to be having a decent time skirting the earnestness, more or less, that's guiding this story of senior citizens breaking down and falling ...

Film News: credits include 'Platoon,' 'The Last Emperor' -- John Daly, the British-born producer of 13 Oscar-winning movies including "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor" who helped launch the careers of many A-list directors and actors, has died. He was 71.

Interviewing Charlie Kaufman is like sprinkling salt on a slug. Each question seems to lay a psychic burden on the 49-year-old writer-director's soul; answers emerge painstakingly from some dark well within. Often he'll scrunch his eyes tightly shut as he speaks, as though trying to read his thoughts on the back of his eyelids.

In "I've Loved You So Long," Kristin Scott Thomas is like a flower opening in extreme slow motion. Her character, a recently paroled murderess named Juliette Fontaine, is drab and desiccated when we first meet her - a dead thing - yet by the final frames she's fully among the living, and the transition has been so subtle it's impossible ...

The polling places are closed. Winner of the popular vote for America's most beloved chief executive is - President Ford.

'I don't need to be mentored," says Charlie Kaufman, a touch indignant, when asked if Spike Jonze helped out with advice on Synecdoche, new york. The film, which marks the famously idiosyncratic screenwriter's directing debut, was originally going to be helmed by Kaufman's pal - and his Being John Malkovich and Adaptation director - Jonze.

Film News: Saturday bump puts Disney pic back on top -- Disney's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" enjoyed a massive rebound from Halloween to place No. 1 at the North American box office for the second weekend in a row, pushing its worldwide total to an estimated $146.8 million in just 10 days.

Film News: 'Two Lovers' to be actor's last film -- The writing on Joaquin Phoenix's fists said it all. The words "Good Bye" were penned on the actor's knuckles at a premiere Saturday night for his latest film, "Two Lovers," and Phoenix confirmed a surprise announcement he made last week: He's giving up movies.

Visit any movie theater right now and you're likely to find at least one movie with Elizabeth Banks. The talented and super-busy actress says it's not that she's nabbing every...