Friday night movie news dump…: And, for a change, it’s barely even night here on west coast as I begin. *  We’re seeing some major league “New Moon” girl-power at the box office, already. $26.3 million, to be specific. That’s just for midnight shows. * Just a few days back I noted the casting of Japanese star Tadanobu Asano as Hogun in [Continued at Premium Hollywood. Comments?]

“New Moon” to rise over the box office: Jolly Carl DiOrio, my favorite box office prognosticator, appears to be taking the weekend off, and Variety isn’t getting specific. However, it’s not like even someone as bad at guessing these things as I am really needs a guru to figure out that, barring the sudden disappearance of all females between the ages of 10 [Continued at Premium Hollywood. Comments?]

Hollywood, land of confusion: Today, much of the confusion appears to be ethnic. * Patrick Goldstein presents the U.K. based “Case of the Vanishing and Less Famous African-Americans.” * Universal is “circling” a director of commercials named Carl Erik Rinsch for a shot at the big time for a new action flick, writes Michael Fleming. Rinsch, who I never heard of [Continued at Premium Hollywood. Comments?]

RIP Edward Woodward: I was very sorry to hear earlier this morning of the death at age 79 of a personal favorite of mine, Edward Woodward.  Although he may still be best known for his roles in the acclaimed fact-based war drama, “Breaker Morant,” the espionage/crime-vigilante TV series, “The Equalizer,” and by our friends in England as the [Continued at Premium Hollywood. Comments?]

Film geek Sunday: A segment from an English TV documentary about director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone’s collaboration on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“  and “Once Upon a Time in the West” and more good stuff, including Claudia Cardinale and food, and Rudy Giuliani-loving Republican actor James Woods’ apparent semi-agreement with the European Marxist interpretation [Continued at Premium Hollywood. Comments?]