LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies for this weekend's event, regarded as among the top U.S. movie gatherings of the year and an early highlight for Oscar hopefuls.
The festival, which takes place over four days in the ski resort town of ...
T.I. whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., 29, was arrested with his wife on Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night after police smelled marijuana coming from a car in which the Grammy award-winning rapper was a passenger.
He was booked for possession of a controlled substance and was released after ...
VENICE (Reuters) - The lives of four Arab-Israeli women spanning three generations against the backdrop of conflict are at the center of "Miral," a film by Julian Schnabel based on his Palestinian partner's biographical book.
From the 1948 creation of the Jewish state to the 1993 Oslo ...
VENICE (Reuters) - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie "Black Swan," the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, with one review saying the performance "elevates her ... to a major star."
The 29-year-old plays a New York ballerina ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed on as executive producers after the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere in 2009.
"Precious" ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The soon to be ex-wife of "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and a pair of Paris Hilton's aunts are among the women who make up the cast of the "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."
The reality show, slated to premiere on U.S. cable network Bravo on October ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nobody ever said Hollywood relationships were easy, and the on-again off-again affair of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore certainly proves that out.
Are they still on? Are they off? This Friday, as the pair's romantic comedy "Going the Distance" debuts in theaters, ...
VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival opened on Wednesday with "Black Swan," a dark psychological drama starring Natalie Portman as a ballerina who finally lands the lead role but loses her grip on reality as the pressure builds.
The arrival of a rival dancer, played by Mila Kunis, ...
The embattled U.S. comedian, who was replaced by Jay Leno after a short-lived stint as host of the popular late-night "Tonight Show" program on NBC, said his new talk show on cable TV network TBS would premiere November 8.
In a video announcement posted on showbiz website variety.com, ...
In a written statement to the festival, where his short film "The Accordion" is screening, Panahi said that he had been officially banned from making films in the past five years.
"Despite having been released, I am still not free to travel outside my country to attend film ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hit television show "Glee" and credit card company American Express have joined forces on a new social action campaign to inspire viewers to make a difference in their communities.
The call to charitable action -- a partnership between U.S. TV network Fox, which ...
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which acquires and preserves cultural materials, launched a public appeal earlier this month to raise $30,000 to restore five dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in the Oscar-winning film.
The costumes, from the collection of filmmaker David ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones admits having a hard time watching husband Michael Douglas battle throat cancer and has told People magazine she is furious with doctors for not detecting his disease sooner.
Douglas, the Oscar winner of "Wall Street" and a veteran of ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movies, has vowed to continue fighting the Australian tax office which has barred him from leaving Australia until he pays a massive bill, saying he's victim of a witch hunt.
Hogan, 70, was served with a departure ...
The 65-year-old "Wall Street" actor told TV talk-show host David Letterman that a biopsy indicated that his cancer was at stage IV, which he described as "intense, and so they've got to go at it ..."
Letterman asked whether stage IV was a good diagnosis.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was returned to the hospital after slipping into unconsciousness on Tuesday following a series of health-related setbacks since breaking her hip in July.
Gabor, 93, was in "a great deal of pain" Tuesday morning and her husband, Frederick ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second straight year, "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf topped a Forbes.com list of Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck with women claiming five of the top 10 spots compared to zero last year.
Based on the financial news site's own calculations, for every ...
Lohan, 24, recently released early from jail and a rehabilitation program and now ordered to attend behavioral therapy classes twice a week, told Vanity Fair magazine in an interview conducted one week before her jail term began that she would cut back on hedonistic ways to revive her ...
"There are many actors and actresses who are afraid of animals. I try to help them overcome their fears and communicate with animals," says Amir Rahbari, a 37-year-old professional trainer who chooses to live among his animals.
In a cramped 20-square-meter (215 sq ft) flat in a tower ...
In a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday, more than three quarters of Americans said they would not be affected by audiotapes of phone calls, widely reported to be Gibson ranting at his estranged ex-girlfriend, when deciding whether to see one of the Oscar winner's films.
Asked if they ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Picture's heist film "Takers" grabbed the No. 1 spot at North American box offices over the weekend, overtaking psychological thriller "The Last Exorcism" in a turnabout from early studio estimates.
Final box office figures released on Monday showed ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The primetime Emmy awards telecast on Sunday night was watched by 13.5 million U.S. viewers, up slightly from a total audience of 13.3 million that tuned-in one year ago for U.S. television's top honors.
The show, which aired on the NBC network, was hosted by Jimmy Fallon ...
The annual event, one of the world's top film festivals, runs from February 10-20 next year.
"She (Rossellini) is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema," said festival director Dieter Kosslick.
Clooney was presented with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his work to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur, and fund-raising efforts for causes ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the Haiti earthquake and the victims of the September 11 2001 attacks on New York ...
LONDON (Reuters) - What the Venice film festival lacks in star power this year it hopes to make up for with an unusually young list of directors and the appearance of some of Hollywood's more enigmatic figures.
With the irrepressible Quentin Tarantino heading the jury that hands out the coveted ...
