PARIS (Reuters) - James Bond fans with deep pockets will soon have the chance to get their hands on the ultimate piece of 007 memorabilia, as the martini-sipping, daredevil spy's Aston Martin DB5 goes up for auction next month.
The sleek silver sports car, driven by the British secret agent played ...
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - James Bond fans with deep pockets will soon have the chance to get their hands on the ultimate piece of 007 memorabilia, as the martini-sipping, daredevil spy's Aston Martin DB5 goes up for auction next month.
The sleek silver sports car, driven by the British secret agent ...
VENICE (Reuters) - A film based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, a woman brought from what is now South Africa to Europe in the early 1800s and paraded as a freak of nature thanks to her appearance, has impressed audiences in Venice.
"Venus Noire," directed by Tunisian-born ...
MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - One of India's most popular actors, Aamir Khan, is considered Bollywood's man with the Midas touch.
The 45-year-old actor was last seen in the 2009 comedy "3 Idiots," India's biggest blockbuster to date, with 4 billion rupees ($85.6 million) in box-office ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Caine is finalizing a deal to join the cast of "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," New Line's sequel to its 3-D remake of the sci-fi classic "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
Brad Peyton is directing the movie, which is moving ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Comic actress Amy Poehler returns later this month to the set of "Saturday Night Live," this time as guest host for the launch of the show's 36th season on NBC.
NBC's "Parks and Recreation" star and former "SNL" regular takes over ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and former Beatle Paul McCartney top the list of show business luminaries to be saluted for their contributions to U.S. arts and culture at this year's Kennedy Center Honors.
Rounding out the roster of 2010's honorees announced by organizers on ...
VENICE (Reuters) - A dearth of big Hollywood stars, Venice's notoriously high costs, fierce competition from Toronto -- this year's film festival on the Lido is fighting to keep its place on the map as one of cinema's most prestigious events.
The venue itself is a building site, with completion of ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After starring with his daughter Miley on the Dinsey Channel's hit series "Hannah Montana" for four years, singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus is now teaming with another one of his children.
"UFO: Unbelievably Freakin' Obvious" for cable network ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Veteran actress Betty White is the latest Hollywood star to get the comic book treatment.
The 88-year-old performer will be drawn as a cartoon for "Female Force: Betty White," to be produced by Bluewater ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch survived the start of her eight-year captivity in an underground cell by asking her kidnapper to read bedtime tales in an "illusion of normality," according to her new book.
Kampusch's memoirs "3,096 Days," which appeared ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A veteran Syrian director who has shocked audiences by portraying a religious zealot who abuses women says his popular television series could help stop an Arab slide toward extremism.
Najdat Anzour's "What your right hand possesses," whose heroine Leila is forced by ...
"The American," in which Clooney plays a laconic gunslinger holed up in a picturesque Italian village, earned $16.4 million across the United States and Canada during the four days beginning September 3, distributor Focus Features said on Monday.
"Machete," a violent fantasy ...
VENICE (Reuters) - A powerful Chinese film on the plight of political prisoners condemned to forced labor camps in the late 1950s wooed critics in Venice on Monday, with some tipping it as a strong contender for the festival's top prize.
"The Ditch" tells the little-known story of some ...
Schimmel, 60, was a passenger in his 19-year-old daughter's car on August 26 when she lost control after swerving to avoid another accident on a Phoenix highway. The daughter was hospitalized, but is expected to recover. Schimmel's 11-year-old son was also a passenger in the car and was uninjured, ...
VENICE (Reuters) - Martin Scorsese's latest film pays a personal tribute to Elia Kazan, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's most influential directors but also a controversial figure who turned anti-communist informant in the McCarthy era.
In "A Letter to Elia," an hour-long documentary ...
Nathan Lee Parada, 31, of Redlands, California, could face up to six years in prison if convicted.
Police said they do not know if Parada specifically targeted Hilton's home or if the burglary was ...
Klein, 31, also was sentenced to the four days he had already served in a Los Angeles jail and agreed to attend 18 months of alcohol education classes, officials said.
The actor broke into Hollywood's ranks of young actors playing a naive teenager named Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 ...
VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival on Friday honored Hong Kong director John Woo, one of the few Asian filmmakers to enjoy box office success in Hollywood as well as at home.
The 64-year-old was awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Lion at the world's oldest film festival on the same day ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Social media" is among today's most popular catch phrases thanks to the success of, among other things, networking website Facebook -- the favored way for today's youth to communicate on a global level.
Now Facebook is the subject of what's expected to be the ...
VENICE (Reuters) - Sofia Coppola's latest movie is a Hollywood insider's look at the life of an A-list actor -- five star hotels and Ferraris, adoration and sexual advances, but also loneliness, tiresome media attention and boredom.
"Somewhere" is part comedy and part examination of a ...
The Australian singer, 42, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and underwent surgery and hair-losing chemotherapy.
But Minogue, whose career began on the TV soap opera "Neighbours," returned to the stage within a year and continues to perform. She toured 21 countries last year, and ...
The show, which earned wide acclaim in London's West End, is based on the popular Norwegian novels that tell of a pair of mismatched roommates, their friendship and their relationships with pizza, poetry and women.
A movie based on the books was nominated for foreign language film Oscar in 2001, ...
The 93-year-old actress remains in a great deal of pain from being bedridden for around seven weeks, said spokesman John Blanchette.
Gabor, who is as famous for her lavish lifestyle and number of husbands -- she married nine times -- as for acting, broke her hip on July 17 and had replacement ...
