In making a documentary about how the nation votes, actress Kirsten Dunst and filmmaker Jacob Soboroff were drawn to North Dakota, the only state without voter registration.

"It's different than any other state in the United States, and what we're looking at is best and worst (voting) practices," Soboroff said Monday. "I don't know if it's a best practice or ... a worst practice, and that's why we're here."

Dunst, who has starred in three "Spider-Man" movies, and Soboroff are directing and producing a documentary, not yet titled, that explores why American voter participation lags behind turnout in most other countries.

"What we're looking to do is give a nonpartisan look around the United States, and around the world, at how people are affected by voti

by Michael Joshua Rowin (November 4, 2008)

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

For a little, promising while, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" seems to be a welcome, if belated, response to "Life Is Beautiful." Whereas Roberto Benigni's self-deifying exercise in Holocaust schmaltz--one of the most repugnant and false movies ever made--sincerely believes obliviousness (not imagination, as its defenders claim) can shield the innocent from horror, Mark Herman's film understands this is not only impossible, but that any attempt to do so is unconscionably insulating and opposed to developing human awareness.

Benigni's coddling, regressive approach toward reality deserves to be combated, but "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" succeeds as a corrective for only so long until a

Nixon's back. So are Kate and Leo, Nicole and Baz, a herd of stranded zoo animals and a very vengeful James Bond.

Despite the harsh economy, Hollywood has been on a box-office roll the last month, and studios head into the year's homestretch with a solid lineup of returns, reunions and promising newcomers that could uphold the old saw about movies as a recession-proof business.

Lighthearted fare such as "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" provided a brisk prelude to the holiday season, of which the first big offering is the animated sequel "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa."

The movie reunites a voice cast led by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer as the foursome of zoo buddies, now stuck on a wildl

Steven Soderbergh is executive-producing a movie based on the true story of an FBI undercover agent who nearly became a made man in the mob.

"Making Jack Falcone" is based on a memoir of the same name published last month. After a barrage of publicity that included a "60 Minutes" segment, it has landed on the New York Times extended best-seller list.

The Simon & Schuster/Touchstone tome tells the story of Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, also known as Jack Falcone, a Cuban-American FBI agent who successfully went undercover in the Gambino crime family.

Garcia, now retired, came close to becoming the first FBI agent to be officially inducted into the mob, but his handlers pulled him off the case when they feared he had been compromise

Ginnifer Goodwin and Nicholas Hoult are about to make fashion designer Tom Ford less of "A Single Man."

The pair join Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode in Ford's directorial debut, an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel.

Goodwin is Mrs. Strunk, a suburban mom who doesn't share her husband's dislike of their neighbor, a gay professor (Firth). Hoult will play Kenny, a sexually ambiguous grad student who shows an unusual interest in the professor.

Principal photography begins this week in Los Angeles.

Best known as Hugh Grant's young co-star in "About a Boy," Hoult re-emerged as a star overseas on BBC America's hit UK series "Skins." "Big Love" star Goodwin next app