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Film News: Contract sit-down would be first since July 16 -- Efforts by a federal mediator to break apart the contract stalemate between SAG and the majors have led to a face-to-face meeting Thursday -- the first such confab between the two side in over four months.

Film News: Awards odds boosted by submitting several pics -- In 2001, when the Academy added its animated feature category, the org included a clause by which it would withdraw the award in years when fewer than eight toons were eligible to receive it.

There's no place like home for the holidays. But if it's Hollywood's depiction, you might want to head for the hills instead ...

Waste management never looked so good. A comprehensive 33-disc collection of the entire run of HBO's landmark series The Sopranos ...

In Quantum of Solace (* *1/2 out of four), the stunts are as muscular and the film as handsome to look at as the hero who so ...

"Quantum of Solace" prompts the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?

Film News: Program run by Jordan Film Commission -- The Sundance Institute tapped eight projects for its fourth annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab.

After two and a half hours in the thrilling, exhausting company of the characters in "A Christmas Tale," the intimacy we feel with them is wired with surprise.

RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)The World Unseen: Drama. Starring Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Parvin Dabas, Nandana Sen, David Dennis and Grethe Fox. Directed and written by Shamim Sarif. (Not rated. 94 minutes. At the Roxie.) The history of South Asians in South Africa...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)JCVD: Satire. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. In English and French with English subtitles. (R. 96 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) As a sophisticated moviegoer, you probably aren't thinking about seeing...