Unbeknownst to any but a handful of Canadian film honchos, Columbia's $40-million-plus mega-comedy "Ishtar" was screened at a Toronto theater Sunday night, according to Daily Variety and Canadian newspapers.
A statue of Oscar by any other name is still copyrighted, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday when it went to court to stop a Santa Monica store from selling crystal souvenir statuettes.
"Star Wars" trilogy star and show-biz scion Carrie Fisher already has a film deal for her first novel, "Postcards From the Edge," due out in August by Simon and Schuster.
Sean Penn, frequently in hot water over his public scuffles, found himself on the right side of the law Saturday, signing autographs at a celebrity match for the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation.
Mia Farrow's pregnancy isn't the only news on the maternal front in Hollywood.
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Brubaker (ABC Sunday at 8 p.m.), a strong, provocative prison drama, stars Robert Redford as a feisty, uncompromising warden appointed by the governor to clean up the prisons of an unnamed Southern state.
The Enforcer (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) brought back Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" for the third time.
Motown Productions is in post-production on what it calls "a new art form"--a 45-minute, "mini-movie" music video in which classic Motown hit songs are woven into the story line.
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San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein has appointed a 15-member Film Advisory Council to bolster the city's position as a major film production center and fend off growing competition from other areas.
The members of Monty Python are getting together again, according to Pythonist Terry Jones--but only as business partners.
Soviet movie fans will be able to see films by Federico Fellini, Milos Forman and other Western directors following a shake-up in the state film hierarchy, a leading Soviet film maker said Tuesday.
A Jacksonville, Fla., theater was firebombed after receiving threats about Jean-Luc Godard's "Hail Mary," a film about a modern-day Virgin Mary, the Florida Times-Union reported Monday.
Oscar ballots should hit thousands of mailboxes this weekend, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Robert E.
"A bastardization . . . a travesty . . . butchery at its most blatant," are just a few comments from a national survey of movie critics on the process of colorizing black-and-white films.
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Movie-going is more popular than ever, judging from the 20% jump in domestic box-office sales this spring break over last year, Daily Variety reported this week.
June is busting out all over a little early in Rome, where Italy's best-known porn star, Ilona Staller, is running for Parliament as a member of the unorthodox Radical party.
Eddie Murphy is the subject of a paternity suit brought by 19-year-old Nicolle Rader, it was learned late last week.