Love, passion and...the Civil War? Only in a flick helmed by Anthony Minghella could such a thing exist and we’re checking out his film "Cold Mountain" on Blu-ray Jan. 31 from Miramax and Lionsgate – review below!

Title: "Cold Mountain"

Grade: 4

Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger

Director: Anthony Minghella

Rating: R

Runtime: 154 minutes

Release Company: Lionsgate/Miramax

Website: www.lionsgatebluray.com

The Flick: "Cold Mountain," set in the battles of the Civil War, is no less a sprawling spectacle then Director Anthony Minghella’s "The English Patient,...

Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz, the late Heath Ledger and movie sensation Slumdog Millionaire were the big winners at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood.

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Penn scooped the Best Actor prize for his role as assassinated gay official Harvey Milk in Milk; ahead of hot favorite Mickey Rourke. The actor used his acceptance speech to criticize those who outlawed gay marriage in California and call for equal rights.

He said, "You commie, homo-loving sons of guns. I did not expect this. I do know how hard I make ...

In 2008 the United States dealt with a recession, a new President elect, and the passing of many great celebrities. Let's take a moment to remember these noted actors, comedians and musicians...

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Work by late director Anthony Minghella will be screened at the Shanghai Film Festival this summer. The British filmmaker, who the won Best Director Oscar for his 1996 movie The English Patient, died from complications following surgery for cancer of the tonsils and neck at London's Charing Cross Hospital on Tuesday. He was 54 years old.

Minghella was due to chair the festival's jury at the nine-day event in June, but organizers will instead pay tribute to the filmmaker.

Festival spokeswoman Crystal Yu says, "This happened so suddenly. We're in the process of looking for a replace...

Hollywood stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey and Ralph Fiennes have paid moving tributes to Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella who died on Tuesday. The British filmmaker - who the won Best Director Oscar for his 1996 movie The English Patient - died from complications following surgery for cancer of the tonsils and neck, which he underwent last week at London's Charing Cross Hospital. He was 54-years-old.

Paltrow, who starred in the director's Academy Award-nominated film The Talented Mr. Ripley alongside Jude Law and Matt Damon, stated she was "shocked" by the news, calli...

Singer/actress Jill Scott is to become a regular on TV after show producers decided to turn her small screen movie The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency into a series. The soul diva was asked to take on the role after starring as lead heroine Precious Ramotswe in the Anthony Minghella-directed TV film last year, which aired on the cable channel HBO.

The film and forthcoming 13-episode series has been adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's books, which follow the fortunes of the only female-owned detective agency in the African nation of Botswana. Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose will also r...

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is set to wed his designer girlfriend Georgina Chapman in a star-studded ceremony on Saturday. He proposed to his lover of two years last month, with the pair's nuptials taking place in a secret location in Westport, Connecticut.

Guests attending the ceremony are rumoured to include billionaire Ronald Perelman, Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman and director Anthony Minghella.

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A sexy and steamy story about a disparate group of Londoners connected by a string of burglaries and a passionate affair, Breaking And Entering makes its DVD debut on May 8 from Genius Products LLC. and The Weinstein Company.

A rash of burglaries weaves a tangled web that ensnares a group of unlikely bed-fellows, unlocking secret passions that threaten to unravel the lives of everyone involved. "A beautiful piece of work… Thumbs up," (Richard Roeper, "Ebert & Roeper"), Breaking And Entering is the first original screenplay from Oscar®-winner Anthony Minghella (Best Director, The Englis...

The Oscar-winning Best Foreign Film is to be remade as a Hollywood movie.

German espionage drama The Lives Of Others will be revamped as an English-language film with moviemakers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella coming together for the project.

Pollack tells trade paper Daily Variety, "We would just desperately love for that film to be something that reaches more people. We haven't gotten locked into making it yet, but we're working hard at trying to get it going."

The film's writer/director Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck claimed Oscar gold on Sunday night.

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