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By David Foxley 12/28/07 4:28pm

Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn to Divorce

Sean Penn and his wife of over a decade, Robin Wright Penn, will divorce, a rep for the famous couple told People. The Into the Wild director, 47, and his actress wife, 41, who began dating in the early 90’s, have two children, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.

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By Gillian Reagan 12/20/07 2:45pm

Into the Wild Leads S.A.G. Awards

Into the Wild led contenders for the Screen Actors Guild Awards with four nominations, including honors for lead actor Emile Hirsch and supporting players Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener. The nominations were announced this morning.

Directed by Sean Penn, Into the Wild also was nominated for performance by its overall cast, along with the Read More

By Gillian Reagan 12/11/07 8:17pm

Critics Circle Goes Wild

They're wild for Sean Penn, those movie critics. Into the Wild received seven nominations for the 13th Critics Choice Awards, announced today by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The film got nods for picture, director, writer, actor, supporting actor for Hal Holbrook, supporting actress for Catherine Keener and best song for Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed" Read More

By Gillian Reagan 10/22/07 6:40pm

Sound, Into the Wild Top Gotham Award Noms

The IFP announced the 17th Annual Gotham Awards nominees today, spotlighting the breakthrough indie films of the year.

Great World of Sound, a comedy about a bumbling Southern duo who traverse the country to discover unsigned "talent" for a record label, garnered the most nominations for Best Feature, Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor. In Read More

By Hillary Frey 9/18/07 5:19pm

Penn’s Good Boy

Last Wednesday at the restaurant in the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, Emile Hirsch was tucked into the corner seat at a corner table, windbreaker smooshed into a ball in his lap, eating chicken noodle soup. The 22-year-old actor looked worn and pale, his fair skin all the more porcelain-like under a thick swoosh of Read More

By Rex Reed 9/18/07 5:09pm

I Was Beguiled by Into the Wild! My Tremendous Week in Toronto

There were so many war films at the Toronto Film Festival that all I could think of was Virginia Mayo’s line in King Richard and the Crusaders: “Oh, fight, fight, fight! That’s all you ever think of, Dickie Plantagenet!” After witnessing bloody battles in Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq, Elizabethan England, Northern Ireland, Vietnam and the ghettos Read More