Cloud Atlas

"Cloud Atlas," the pricey and sprawling adventure tale from Lana and Andy Wachowskis, has surpassed its North American haul at the Chinese box office. As of Thursday, "Cloud Atlas" had taken in $28.6 million with just a few days left in its run in Chin more

Cloud Atlas is a huge, sprawling novel, so it wasn't much of a surprise that the movie version clocked in at 172 minutes — but Chinese audiences will get a much tighter version of the film, lasting just 137 minutes. Unfortunately, thanks to state censors more

The Art Directors Guild has announced nominees for excellence in production design. A wide cross-section of work was selected, though high-profile exclusions include "The Master," "Django Unchained" and "Moonrise Kingdom." http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/in-c more

A rundown of Gregory Ellwood's top 10 films of 2012 including "The Impossible," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Holy Motors," "Cloud Atlas," "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and more. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/awards-campaign/posts/the-impossible-zero-dark-thirty-and more

The Best Adapted Screenplay category is always the more crowded and competitive of the Oscar writing categories, but this year it feels as if the contenders should be judged the same way diving competitions are: with one score for how artful the film is, more

The Academy has announced its shortlist of seven Best Makeup and Hairstyling contenders. The films will proceed to the "bake-off" stage, where reels of the work put into the makeup and hairstyling effects will be screened for the branch and three nominees more

This weekend’s major movie release, Cloud Atlas, is making a lot of waves because each of its stars plays six characters in the film. That includes Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant and Halle Ber... http://www.starpulse.com/news/Fred_Topel/2012/10/27/ha more

"Argo" is winning the box office in its third week of release as four wide-opening movies, including the Tom Hanks sci-fi epic "Cloud Atlas," failed to generate much enthusiasm Friday. Ben Affleck's Iran hostage thriller took in $3.9 million from 2,855 more

If there was a category for the longest, most unique, confusing, ADD-ridden, yet, enjoyable film with awesome scenery at The Golden Globes or Academy Awards… “Cloud Atlas” would win! http://www.starpulse.com/news/PrinzLee_Romero/2012/10/27/review_up_do more

'Cloud Atlas' is a film that some people like myself will find absolutely brilliant, while others like John (the other half of 'Two Jews On Film') will feel just the opposite. http://www.starpulse.com/news/Two_Jews_On_Film/2012/10/26/review_cloud_atlas_ more

This week at the multiplex, we've got time-spanning connectedness (the Wachowski's "Cloud Atlas," starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry); a Halloween escapade ("Fun Size," starring Victoria Justice and Chelsea Handler); a legendary surfer ("Chasing Mavericks more

No one can accuse "Cloud Atlas" of lacking ambition: Clocking in at nearly three hours and weaving together six disparate storylines (with cast members playing multiple roles, often while crossing gender and/or racial boundaries), this is a rare American more

Cloud Atlas  is a cornily enthralling sci-fi kaleidoscope. Adapted from the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, it tells six stories over the course of nearly three hours, and most of them would come off as fairly conventional on their own. But when you sl more

The epic  Cloud Atlas  is unconventional, defying what we're used to seeing in a studio film. It's complex, weaving varied stories from multiple eras together and linking them with theme and intent. And it's ballsy; this film should get credit r more

'Cloud Atlas' is easily one of the most ambitious films released by a studio or independently this year, and the collaboration of Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer yields remarkable results. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/review-to more