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New spies for film “Knockout”

The latest in spy movie news is all about the star-studded cast of Steven Soderbergh’s new revenge espionage flick “Knockout.” The film, which starts shooting next month, is about a spy who works for a security contractor not...

Cruise and Diaz start filming new s...

Cruise and DiazLooking for the next big blockbuster spy film? Well, 2010’s got a couple coming your way. First, there’s Salt, in which a CIA agent played by the sultry Angelina Jolie is accused of being a Russian spy and has to jump through...

American reporters freed from N. Ko...

Euna Lee reunited with her familySo, what happens when two American journalists are arrested in a communist country in which the U.S. has no diplomatic presence, and – following accusations of espionage – are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in...

Spy flick to feature Chanel head de...

karl_lagerfeldIt's not often that folks mention spies and haute couture in the same sentence, but here it is: Haute Couture icon Karl Lagerfeld (the designer at the helm of the fashion house Chanel) has agreed to voice for one of the characters in...

Hilton Hotels Spying on Starwood?

It seems luxury hotels can play the spy game too.

Starwood Hotel & Resorts has sued Hilton Hotels and two of its top executives (who used to work at Starwood) for corporate espionage. The accusation brings to mind amusing scenarios – think Hilton corporate employees snooping around Starwood hotels, taking notes on the thread count of …

Brad Pitt to Produce Spy Thriller

This just in: Turns out Angelina’s role in spy thriller Salt (to be released in 2010) may be inspiring husband Brad to take a stab at the espionage movie genre from a production side. News on the street has Pitt’s production company, Plan B, teaming up with Paramount to adapt author John LeCarre’s spy novel The

CIA Wanted Gloria Estefan

Turns out your favorite Cuban-American singer could have been not very famous at all…if she had accepted an offer to join the CIA back when she was working as an interpreter for U.S. Customs at Miami’s international airport.

She recently shared the story of her alternate career path in the shadowy world of international espionage and …

Boyle to Direct Next Bond?!

The movieland rumor mill has been turning at warp speed yet again, this time getting every Slumdog Millionaire fan out there (and heavens knows there are a lot of us) signing up to purchase über-advanced tickets to the next 007 flick.

That’s right, tabloids and e-zines on both sides of the Atlantic had British director Danny …

Angelina Jolie to Play CIA Agent / ...

Can’t get enough of those CIA agent spy dramas? Well, you’ve already got something to look forward to in 2010, when Columbia Pictures’ espionage thriller Salt is due to hit the big screen. There’s already been a lot of chatter about this movie, and it hasn’t even started shooting. Filming’s due to begin on Long Island, …

Feb/March Spy Movie Roundup

Push

Don’t be put off by the title – this film has nothing to do with giving birth. It’s Summit Entertainment’s latest action thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning; it opened in theaters Friday 6, 2009.

Quickie Summary: Paranormal agents touting powers like telekinesis, predicting the future, creating alternate dimensions and eliminating rivals without so …

Spying in the Tech Age: iPhones and...

Gone are the days of incriminating paper trails. People’s entire lives – from daily schedules to flight information to offshore bank account numbers to top secret passwords – are stored on their remarkably hack-able mobile devices.

While some people are developing tools to trace and spy on the technology trails people create every day, others are …