Independent films that may have been years in the making get their first audiences at this week's Sundance Film Festival. That could also mean careers in the making for unknown directors and actors whose movies connect with the right (...)
LOS ANGELES — Academy Awards overseers have the expertise and memorabilia. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has the know-how to run a world-class exhibition space. So the two outfits have hooked up to create what they hope will be the finest (...)
There's a broader vibe than the usual Hollywood A-listers this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world's top cinema showcases and a prelude for contenders at the Academy Awards.
Stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, (...)
One of the world's top film showcases is starting on a musical note as a documentary portrait of the rock band U2 opens the Toronto International Film Festival.
Organizers say the Canadian festival will launch Sept. 8 with "From the Sky Down," a (...)
If the young cast of the "Harry Potter" films received report cards for their school days at Hogwarts, probably all of them would earn the notation, "plays well with others."
Cast as impressionable children in Hollywood's biggest fantasy (...)
Laura Ziskin was a "Spider-Man" novice when she first met with her future producing partner on the blockbuster film franchise.
She quickly became an expert on the Marvel Comics superhero and his alter-ego Peter Parker, applying the same tenacity (...)
American director Terrence Malick's expansive drama "The Tree of Life" won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, while Kirsten Dunst took the best-actress prize for the apocalyptic saga "Melancholia."
The Palme d'Or prize was (...)
LAS VEGAS: Johnny Depp's tour guide on his "Pirates of the Caribbean" voyages is plotting the course for a fifth installment even before the fourth movie sails into theaters.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says he has a screenplay in the works for a (...)
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas predicts 3-D filmmaking eventually will take over at the movies the way color replaced black and white.
But Lucas and fellow technology pioneers James Cameron, the maker of "Avatar," and DreamWorks Animation boss (...)
"The King's Speech" was crowned best picture Sunday at an Academy Awards ceremony as precise as a state coronation. The monarchy drama won an expected four Oscars, and predictable favorites claimed acting honors.
Colin Firth as stammering British (...)
The ballet thriller "Black Swan" won four prizes Saturday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film, including best picture, best actress for Natalie Portman and director for Darren Aronofsky.
James Franco was picked as best actor for the (...)
The filmmakers behind Academy Awards favorites "The Social Network" and "The King's Speech" were nominated Monday for the Directors Guild of America's top prize.
Along with David Fincher and Tom Hooper, nominees were Darren Aronofsky for the (...)
If there were a Hollywood Remakes 101 college class, "True Grit" directors Joel and Ethan Coen no doubt would be in violation of a basic lesson: Never remake a film people know and love.
John Wayne's 1969 Western "True Grit" was one of his choice (...)
The studio bills Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway's "Love & Other Drugs" as an unconventional love story.
Maybe a bit, in its unusual setting, the world of prescription drug sales, and in its attempt to inject drama by arbitrarily giving an (...)
LOS ANGELES: Harry Potter has cast his biggest box-office spell yet with a franchise record $125.1 million domestically over opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" also added $205 (...)
Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival has hooked up scores of eager young directors with theatrical distributors.
Now Redford has succeeded at the same independent game he helped establish with Sundance: He came to the Toronto International (...)
Naomi Watts has gotten used to playing unstable women. But with the Cannes Film Festival entry "Fair Game," Watts is playing a woman as steady as they come in Valerie Plame, whose secret CIA identity was leaked by the George W. Bush (...)
Love, death, the terrible pitfalls of aging, romance between older men and younger women — they're all part of the Woody Allen canon, whether in his films or when he's just shooting the breeze.
Allen's latest mix of comedy and drama, "You Will (...)