EVERY now and then a movie comes out of nowhere, made on the cheap, and becomes a classic.

TO WRITE about Harvey Weinstein is to face, first, the history of past brutalities.

IRISH television audiences can now use their internet connection to access one of the world’s biggest movie and TV-streaming websites.

Film and television fans are set for greater competition in the home entertainment market after the world’s biggest internet streaming service launched in Ireland and the UK today.

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Walt Disney today unveiled a $660m (€791.4m) deal to sell Miramax Films - the movie studio behind hits such as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Shakespeare In Love'.

Rob Lowe is said to be involved in a bid to buy Miramax Films.

The Academy Awards will have 10 best-picture nominees instead of the usual five starting next year.

Members of the US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) are planning to protest the release of Julianne Moore's new movie 'Blindness' - because the film portrays the blind as "monsters".

One of Hollywood’s largest independent film producers says it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers.

Organisers of the Oscars insisted the show would go on next month despite the Golden Globe ceremony being cancelled due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.

AN Irish movie is being tipped for Oscar nominations after sweeping the board at a prestigious American film festival.

THE UK release of Ben Affleck’s new film about a four-year-old girl’s disappearance has been delayed indefinitely because of its similarities with the Madeleine McCann case, distributors said.

A FILM shot entirely in Cork, featuring Hollywood stars Richard Chamberlain and Patrick Bergin, is to get its US premiere on September 19.

US Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing September 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, Sicko.

Walt Disney will reduce its workforce substantially and slash its annual output of films from 18 to eight in cuts greater than Hollywood had anticipated, it was reported today.

Elton John's film project Gnomeo And Juliet has been given the green light by Miramax Films and will star Kate Winslet.

BOB and Harvey Weinstein returned to the box-office lead as Scary Movie 4 debuted with $41 million (€33.44m), the first number-one opening for the company founded by the former Miramax bosses.

Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins plans to quit acting after starring in William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.

A Wexford author’s best-selling children’s book, Artemis Fowl, is to be translated into the Irish language, it was confirmed today.

Director Terry Gilliam almost walked out during the final stages of filming The Brothers Grimm after an artistic disagreement with Miramax bosses.

Hollywood star Matt Damon is still amazed he was given a part in Terry Gilliam film The Brothers Grimm, as he was convinced movie bosses would have preferred Johnny Depp.

Movie mogul brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein will cease to be co-chief executives at the Disney-owned film production company Miramax in September.

Modest growth in the gross domestic product and a drop in oil prices gave Wall Street its best day of 2005 today as investors at least temporarily set aside inflation fears and picked up bargains in a heavily sold-off market.

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor has hit out at Hollywood for snapping up the cream of European movie film-makers and then preventing them from doing what they're good at.

Hollywood bosses Harvey Weinstein and Graham King have branded Martin Scorcese's Oscar snub "ridiculous" and "disgusting".

Miramax bosses Harvey and Bob Weinstein have quashed rumours they will dissolve their partnership and close working relationship following the movie distribution company's sale to Disney.

Arts Minister John O’Donoghue is expected to officially confirm today that a new feature film on the world’s most famous dog, Lassie, will be shot on location in Ireland.

Chicago producer Marty Richards claims he's still awaiting payment for his work on the film version of the stage musical - even though it raked in more than $304m (€233.2m) at the box office.

Recently-divorced Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein is dating a British starlet 24 years his junior.

Movie mogul Hatvey Weinstein is plotting a major Broadway, New York, musical based on Johnny Depp film Finding Neverland.

Mel Gibson has been named the most powerful person in Hollywood following the success of his controversial movie The Passion of the Christ.

Hollywood stars Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp will tonight attend the premiere of Finding Neverland, the movie about the life of Peter Pan author JM Barrie.

Usher is set to make his feature-starring debut in a movie described as an R'n'B version of Eminem's gritty hit 8 Mile.

Nicole Kidman and Italian motor racing boss Flavio Briatore finally met for the first time last week - rubbishing reports they're a couple in the passionate throes of budding love.

Organisers of the Venice Film Festival pledged today to improve security for the arrival of Nicole Kidman, after the premiere of Al Pacino’s film descended into chaos.

John Travolta has lashed out at Hollywood's big studio culture, accusing them of ruining good scripts "by committee".

Director Michael Moore is laughing in the face of Disney bosses, after his controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 went on to reap more cash then any of the company's movies this year.

MATT Damon’s The Bourne Supremacy, the sequel about the amnesiac assassin he played in The Bourne Identity, racked up $53.5 million (€44m) at the weekend, double the opening for the Bourne Identity.

Controversial director Michael Moore claims Mel Gibson backed out of financing his hit documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 after Republican sources told the actor he would never be invited to the White House again.

Michael Moore’s controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 is now on general release in Ireland.

Miramax studio chief Harvey Weinstein, the hard-headed genius who has backed some of Hollywood’s biggest box office hits in recent years, looks like he is about to walk out on the company he founded because of a row with Disney boss Michael Eisner.

Latina superstar Jennifer Lopez has axed the duet she recorded with Marc Anthony for her new movie Shall we Dance - because movie bosses don't want their marriage to overshadow the film.

FAHRENHEIT 9/11, Michael Moore’s assault on US President George W Bush, is on track for an opening weekend that would surpass the $21.6 million (€17.7m) total gross of Mr Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, the 2002 film that earned him an Academy Award for best documentary.