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Stars: Casper Van Dien, Lisa Ciara, Johnny Hawkes, Leah Bateman, John Mack, Jeff Clarke, Bryan Rasmussen, Joe Regalbuto, Tom DeTrinis, Brandy Redd, Eileen Dietz | Written by Larry Bain | Directed by George Erschbamer

When ex-firefighter Scott Nylander (Casper Van Dien) and a group of ecologists approach a silo filled with oil to hang a banner with an eco-message, they suddenly realize they came to the wrong place at the wrong time. There’s a bomb attached which is going to explode in a few seconds! As our heroes are hiding, a mass explosion causes a huge flaming tornado, which starts to destroy everything in its way. It turns out that the silo contained an experimental fuel called Mt-11 crafted by the Synco Company. Scott and his friends are accused of being terrorists that caused the explosion. Chased by Synco mercenaries, they have to stop the fire twister, before it destroys La.

This year, controversy over the repeated snubbing of African-American actors from the Oscars has once again dominated headlines.Twenty years ago, a special report in People examined diversity in the movie industry and labeled Hollywood's "continued exclusion of African-Americans" as "a national disgrace".The report was reexamined five years later in a follow up exposé, and while People uncovered encouraging signs of improvement, the African-American actors interviewed made it clear they felt the industry still had a long way to go.Now, another fifteen years later, and with calls to boycott the award show gaining traction, the original article appears...

This year, controversy over the repeated snubbing of African-American actors from the Oscars has once again dominated headlines.Twenty years ago, a special report in People examined diversity in the movie industry and labeled Hollywood's "continued exclusion of African-Americans" as "a national disgrace".The report was reexamined five years later in a follow up exposé, and while People uncovered encouraging signs of improvement, the African-American actors interviewed made it clear they felt the industry still had a long way to go.Now, another fifteen years later, and with calls to boycott the award show gaining traction, the original article appears...

Part I: The Lawrence Bureau

T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) ranks among the 20th Century’s oddest heroes. This short, smart, and mischievous British soldier helped organize the Arab Revolt against Turkey, a secondary front of the First World War. He became Emir Feisal’s trusted ally, painfully conscious that the Allies wouldn’t honor promises of independence. After the Paris Peace Conference, Lawrence retreated into the Royal Air Force and Tank Corps as a private soldier, T.E. Shaw.

Lawrence lived a curious double life, befriending both private soldiers and notables like Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. He wrote memoirs and translated Homer while repairing boats and seaplanes. His intellect, warmth, and puckish humor masked internal torment – guilt for failing to secure Arab freedom, regret for two brothers killed in the war, shame over an incident where Turkish soldiers sexually assaulted him.

In his autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence...

When John Mack Carter died yesterday at age 86 (read his New York Times obituary), he left behind an impressive media legacy that included his reigns as editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's plus his creation of new magazines Marie Claire and Country Living, and, believe it or not, in an indirect way, GoldDerby, too. That's because Mr. Carter – I would never dare to call him John Mack to his face – was my career mentor in the 1980s and 1990s when I worked for Hearst Magazines and, secretly on the side, explored my obsession with Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Golden Globes, which he encouraged and even (shhhh!) subsidized. -Break- Technically, I worked for Mr. Carter as an editor of magazine development, but we helped each other out on the sly: I ghost-wrote many of his speeches and he tossed me enough freelance bones to pay the bills while...

Bankers invited by Guardian to watch film find it to be a parody while women among them say sector's macho culture persists

We are just minutes into Martin Scorsese's financial black comedy, The Wolf of Wall Street, when the investment banker next to me starts slowly shaking his head.

On the screen Leonardo DiCaprio's character, the crooked stockbroker Jordan Belfort, is waxing lyrical about his millions, his cars and his trophy wife and combining those two latter passions in a characteristically prurient scene.

"This is what gives the City a bad name," says my viewing companion, one of a group of senior City bankers gathered to compare their own career experiences with the excesses in Scorsese's film, released in UK cinemas on Thursday.

As the story romps on through lavish beachside parties, office orgies and increasingly criminal dealings, the head shaking and seat-shuffling intensifies.

"I hope that people...

WireImage Ari Emanuel seen on the streets of Manhattan on August 2, 2010 in New York City.

Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel’s latest casting coup wasn’t in service of the next blockbuster film.

On the lush grounds of a Southern California resort, Emanuel last month quietly gathered more than a dozen of the world’s top names in politics, business and technology for a private confab.

Guests from political circles included Karl Rove, Al Gore, Rahm Emanuel, former CIA director Gen.

The film based on the bestselling expose 'Too Big To Fail' gets an all-star cast as reported by 'The Hollywood Reporter's LiveFeed'. Tbtf will surely be another big hit for the cable giant. The list of cast members will go a long way to insure that success. The Cast: -- Paul Giamatti (Iron Clad, now in post production) as Ben Bernanke -- Topher Grace (Predators) as Jim Wilkinson -- Ed Asner as Warren Buffett -- Tony Shalhoub (Monk) as John Mack -- James Woods (Strawdogs remake) as Dick Fuld -- Dan Hedaya (Puppy Love) as Barney Frank -- Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) as...

James Woods and Paul Giamatti have joined "Too Big to Fail", the HBO telemovie about the 2008 Wall Street meltdown according to The Live Feed.

The project is described as an intimate look at the financial crisis and the group of powerbrokers who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

Most of the focus will be on William Hurt as Bush's Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and those around him - Kathy Baker as Paulson's wife Wendy, Topher Grace as his chief of staff Jim Wilkinson, Cynthia Nixon as his spokeswoman Michele Davis and Ayad Akhtar as his senior advisor Neel Kashkari.

Woods will play Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld while Giamatti is Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.

Also onboard are Billy Crudup as Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Dan Hedaya as House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, Tony Shalhoub as Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack,...

HBO has assembled the cast of Too Big to Fail, the Curtis Hanson-directed movie about the 2008 financial crisis and the power brokers who decided the fate of the world's economy as the system teetered on collapse. Joining William Hurt, previously set to play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, are James Woods as Dick Fuld, the last chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers nicknamed the "Gorilla" on Wall Street; HBO regular Paul Giamatti as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke; Billy Crudup as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Ed Asner as Warren Buffett; Kathy Baker as Wendy Paulson and Cynthia Nixon as Michele Davis. Also cast in the movie, set to begin production in mid-October, are Ayad Akhtar as Neel Kashkari, Topher Grace as Jim Wilkinson, Dan Hedaya as Barney Frank, Michael O’Keefe as Chris Flowers, Tony Shalhoub as John Mack and Joey Slotnick as Dan Jester. Peter Gould wrote the script,...

HBO plans to make a television movie about the 2008 financial meltdown, based on the book "Too Big to Fail" by a New York Times journalist, the cable network said on Thursday.

Andrew Sorkin's book chronicles the credit crisis by focusing on such figures as Richard Fuld, former chief executive of the now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers, John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his predecessor Henry Paulson.

HBO, owned by Time Warner, had no details on when the TV movie is expected to air, or which actors would play the principal parts.

The movie version of the financial crisis is expected to bear similarities to HBO's 2008 TV movie "Recount," which also dramatized recent events -- in that case the disputed 2000 U.S. presidential election and recount of votes in Florida.

The financial crisis continues to resonate in U.S. politics with many Americans...

Andrew Ross Sorkin poses with a Colossal Gram signed by Warren Buffett. Photo by Daniel Paik. Mystery solved! While a number of media outlets have speculated in highfalutin editorial tones about why there weren’t more grateful-to-be-bailed-out Wall Street fat cats attending Barack Obama’s twin fundraisers last night in New York, it turns out the answer was simple: the president wasn’t the biggest draw in town. What was? Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s cocktail party at Manhattan’s Monkey Bar celebrating the release of New York Times business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin’s sprawling and cinematic tome, Too Big to Fail. It is, surely, the first time so many Wall Street tycoons have been under one roof outside of Washington hearing rooms since the crash. Even before that, the only thing that comes close was Blackstone chief Steve Schwarzman’s over-the-top birthday party in early 2007. But those were different times.