"Every movie needs a rabbi," Samuel Goldwyn once wrote. His comment seems relevant to two movies bowing this weekend, both in urgent need of help. One has a world-class rabbi, the other an invisible one. Oprah Winfrey, as mega-energized as ever, has gone multimedia pitching her new film, whose title is as complex as…

Survival Pictures' The Promise, the drama starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale about the Armenian Genocide, will donate all proceeds from the film to various non-profit organizations including Sir Elton John’s AIDS Foundation and other humanitarian and human rights groups. The film will be…

EXCLUSIVE: What a fitting legacy for Kirk Kerkorian. Because of the late Armenian mogul, the first mainstream film about the genocide of Armenians at the hand of the Turks has finally been produced in Hollywood. Terry George’s The Promise starring A-list talent including Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale had its its…

On Monday morning, The Birth Of A Nation is gone from the Toronto Film Festival (at least until a last screening on Saturday), and there's finally time for somebody else's problems. Today’s Globe And Mail said the film is leaving as it arrived: with a question mark. A side-stepping press conference with star-director…

UPDATED: Kirk Kerkorian was a major Hollywood force over two decades before 1986 when he sold MGM Studios to Ted Turner, and then again for nearly a decade in 1996 when he regained control. He died Monday, nine days after he turned 98. “Kirk Kerkorian will be forever linked to the history and success of MGM,” CEO Gary…