Los Angeles' own Cassandra Peterson will co-write and star in the first movie to be made by NBC's new movie-production unit.
Woody Allen says in the April issue of Esquire magazine the Oscar-nominated "Blue Velvet" is his pick for best picture this year.
The South African government banned Oscar-nominated "Witness to Apartheid," a documentary on how political violence has affected South Africans, on Friday.
Indian film star-turned-politician Sunil Dutt ended a 1,200-mile walk for peace Monday, meeting with Sikh high priests in the religion's holiest shrine, the Golden Temple.
Actor Griffin O'Neal began serving 416 hours of community service over the weekend for his part in the 1986 boating death in Maryland of the son of film director Francis Coppola.
The science-fiction blockbuster "Aliens" received eight Saturn awards Sunday at the 14th Annual Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films presentation.
Woody Allen said that the child he and actress Mia Farrow are expecting was unplanned.
Actor James Dean's original gravestone, missing since it was stolen about four years ago, is back in Fairmount, Ind., his hometown.
"Sid & Nancy," entered by Broyles, Garamella and Kavanaugh of Los Angeles, won best movie poster in the 16th annual Key Art Awards for movie posters and trailers announced by the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
A Vietnamese radio broadcast alleged Monday that violent and erotic films from Europe, Hong Kong and Taiwan--shown by the government under the pretext of research--are triggering an "alarming rate" of student misbehavior.
"Platoon" continued its remarkable box-office pace during its second weekend in wide national release, taking in $8.2 million from 856 theaters and running its total to $38.3 million.
Howard Johnson, 63, a trainer of exotic animals for use in films, television and stage shows, was attacked and killed by a camel Wednesday at his compound in the Riverside County community of Mead Valley.
The Directors Guild of America--maneuvering for bargaining power in coming contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)--has offered independent producers a special contract.
A Chinese state-owned film company is making China's first motion picture on the thousands of illegal immigrants who sneak across the border into Hong Kong.
Filming in a newly built prison camp near Trebujena, Spain, Steven Spielberg is providing impoverished townspeople with jobs, money and a little limelight.
Not surprisingly, "Beverly Hills Cop II" turned in the biggest opening day of the year so far Wednesday, grossing $4,206,144 at 2,326 theaters for a per-screen average of '$1,808, Paramount Pictures announced Thursday.
Actor Eddie Murphy is scheduled to be at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at 2 p.m. today as the 171st celebrity to press the cement of the theater's landmark courtyard--and the first since Clint Eastwood in October, 1984.
A freelance photographer Tuesday renewed his challenge to go three rounds in a boxing ring with actor Sean Penn, upping the ante to $6 million.
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