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  • Bradley Cooper Talks About The Fake Baby In 'American Sniper'

    "I couldn't believe that we were working with the plastic baby."

  • Bradley Cooper Finally Confronts American Sniper's ‘Fake Baby’

    Remember that hilariously bad fake baby from ‘American Sniper’? It was spotted pretty early on after the release of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated movie, which saw Bradley Cooper playing US Navy Seal Chris Kyle. The scene featured Cooper cradling the little tyke, and even wobbling its arm to make it seem like it wasn’t actually a doll. Many critics and movie-goers criticised the scene for disrupting the drama, the actors clearly uncomfortable with the situation.

  • Sienna Miller Finds The 'American Sniper' Baby Just As Funny As We Do

    "It looked like something from 'Alien.'"

  • HBO Now: Movies, TV coming and going in October

    Have an HBO Now account? Check out the TV and film titles that are coming to and leaving the streaming service in October.

  • How Donald Trump Sees The Globe

    A delusional billionaire's perception of a world map.

  • 'American Sniper' shoots back up to No. 1 on home-video sales charts

    By Variety: Five weeks after it came out, Warner's "American Sniper" regained the top spot on both national home video sales charts for the week ending June 21, bumping the surprise theatrical hit "Kingsman: The Secret

  • Clint Eastwood Says He And 'American Sniper' Are 'Anti-War'

    Speaking to students at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television in Los Angeles last week, Eastwood described "American Sniper," which became 2014's highest-grossing film and collected a Best Picture nomination, thusly: “I think it’s nice for veterans, because it shows what they go through, and that life -- and the wives and families of veterans. Eastwood admitted the film "glorifies" the sniping that its true-life subject, Chris Kyle, did during his tours in Iraq, but he said Kyle's actions are qualified by regrets.

  • The Moment Eddie Routh's Parents Learned He Killed ‘American Sniper' Chris Kyle

    Jodi and Ray Routh’s son, Eddie, a Marine Corps veteran, was recently convicted of murdering former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle — the man who inspired the movie American Sniper — and Kyle’s friend, Chris Littlefield. In the video above, Jodi takes Dr. Phil through the moment she found out her son killed Kyle and Littlefield.

  • How ‘American Sniper' Chris Kyle Met The Man Who Killed Him

    Weeks after Eddie Routh was convicted of capital murder for killing Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL who inspired the movie American Sniper, Routh’s parents shed light on their troubled son. Jodi says she reached out to Kyle, who had established an organization to help veterans with PTSD, to help her son as a last resort. Jodi had no idea that a week later, her son would murder Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield.

  • Dad Of Man Who Killed ‘American Sniper': ‘This Wasn't My Son That Did This'

    Speaking publicly for the first time since their son, Eddie Ray Routh, was convicted of killing former  U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, Ray and Jodi Routh, open up about their son, whom they say had been suffering from PTSD and severe mental problems. It was his body that did it, but it wasn’t him in his right mind," Ray tells Dr. Phil in the video above. Need Dr. Phil's help in your life? Share your story here.

  • 'American Sniper' passes 'Hunger Games' as top grossing 2014 release

    By VARIETY "American Sniper" is the highest-grossing 2014 domestic release. The R-rated drama has made $337.2 million since debuting in a handful of theaters last December. That puts it ahead of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

  • How To Sound Like You Know A Lot About This Year's Oscar Movies

    You may even find yourself in the company of others who care to discuss the rather odd slate of films that have defined Oscar season since it began in earnest. Because these last few months have been overloaded with Oscar fare, we're here to help. Three of the four acting races are locked up (early congrats, Julianne Moore, J.K. Simmons and Patricia Arquette!), so our cheat sheet puts an emphasis on the eight Best Picture nominees.

  • Fact vs. Fiction: 5 Oscar Movies Criticized for Taking Creative License

    Four of the eight movies nominated for Best Picture this year are adapted from true stories (American Sniper, The Imitation Game, Selma, and The Theory of Everything), and all of them, as well as one of major acting contenders (Foxcatcher), have come under fire from the fact-checking brigade.  Here’s an overview of the various complaints lodged against these Oscar contenders. What’s Different: Writer-director Bennett Miller loosely based this dark wrestling drama on Mark Schultz’s autobiography, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother’s Murder, John du Pont’s Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, and admitted in the press notes that his film is “fact to fiction as a vehicle back to truth.” Entertainment Weekly enumerated a handful of differences between Schultz’s and Miller’s accounts, including the fact that Schultz (Channing Tatum in the film) was initially recruited by du Pont (Steve Carell) to coach at Villanova before coming to live on du Pont’s Foxcatcher estate, never made that flattering speech about du Pont, and wasn’t hooked onto cocaine by the tycoon (according to Schultz’s account, du Pont ask him where he could find the drug).

  • Harvey Weinstein Defends 'American Sniper'

    Why would "American Sniper" need defending, you ask? After all, its $249 million domestic grosses have made it the most lucrative war film of all time, the best wide-release January opening and the now the record holder for strongest Super Bowl weekend (take that, Miley Cyrus). It also boasts six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

  • Howard Dean Apologizes To Veterans For 'American Sniper' Comments

    Appearing on "Real Time With Bill Maher" last week, Dean said that there was maybe "a lot of intersection" between people seeing the movie and the tea party. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. The film, directed by Clint Eastwood, tells the story of Chris Kyle, who may have been the deadliest military sniper in U.S. history.

  • Restaurant Bans Seth Rogen And Michael Moore

    Two celebrities who received backlash for their comments about the film “American Sniper” are facing further repercussions -- they’ve been banned from a Michigan steakhouse. “Michael Moore and Seth Rogan [sic] are NOT allowed in my place,” reads the large sign outside Brann’s Steakhouse and Grille in Wyoming, Michigan. Owner Tommy Brann said he put the sign up last week when he heard the director and actor’s remarks about “American Sniper,” the Oscar-nominated movie that tells the story of late Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle.

  • Clint Eastwood Says 'American Sniper' Makes An Anti-War Statement

    According to director Clint Eastwood, "American Sniper" makes an anti-war statement. Eastwood made the remark Saturday while attending the Producers Guild Award Nominees Breakfast, hosted by The Hollywood Reporter at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. "The biggest anti-war statement any film" can make is to show "the fact of what [war] does to the family and the people who have to go back into civilian life like Chris Kyle did," Eastwood said, per The Hollywood Reporter.

  • Bill Maher Says 'American Sniper' Is About A 'Psychopath Patriot'

    The film -- based on the autobiography of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history -- broke box office records when it raked in $90.2 million over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. On "Real Time With Bill Maher" on Friday, the host criticized the picture for what he views as a lack of nuance. "'Hurt Locker' made 17 million because it was a little ambiguous and thoughtful," Maher said.

  • Chris Kyle's Religious Faith Plays Small Part In 'American Sniper'

    The film offers a few similarities to “Unbroken,” Angelina Jolie’s recent World War II epic about POW Louis Zamperini. Both “American Sniper” and “Unbroken” include an early scene of their families sitting in church. As a Navy SEAL, Kyle reportedly recorded 160 kill shots during his four tours in Iraq.

  • See The Fake Baby In 'American Sniper'

    On Twitter, "American Sniper" screenwriter Jason Hall explained that director Clint Eastwood had planned to use a real baby for the film, but the first child was ill and the second didn't show up at all. As a result, a doll was used instead.