Katharine Hepburn will be coming out with a book this fall chronicling the filming of "The African Queen," the 1951 motion picture that paired her with Humphrey Bogart and was shot during three months in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and in Uganda.
The estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," is working with a New York literary agent on an authorized novel continuing the story of Scarlett and Rhett.
A judge has ruled against the mistress of Darryl F.
Willie Nelson's latest movie, "Red Headed Stranger"--based on Nelson's 1975 narrative LP--was to open Thursday night at a benefit in Austin, Tex., where suggested dress was black tie or blue jeans.
The California Film Office and the state's Motion Picture Council merged last week into the California Film Commission.
Composer Leslie T.
A planned movie reunion for "9 to 5" co-stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin has been shelved because of script problems, Parton said in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean.
Actor Anthony Quinn, 71, is scheduled to receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s Cecil B.
The author of a noteworthy history of black soldiers in Vietnam called best picture-nominee "Platoon" an "abysmal racist disaster" Wednesday.
When His Honor Clint Eastwood said in a recent interview that his political activities might have drawn less attention if he'd been elected mayor in Paso Robles instead of Carmel, Nick Russell took it personally.
A Soviet-made documentary about the Chernobyl nuclear accident was not shown as scheduled Friday at the Berlin Film Festival because the film failed to arrive at the theater on time, organizers said.
Eddie Murphy's $30-million breach of contract trial continued in Mineola, N.Y., Tuesday with theatrical agent King Broder conceding that his business certification had been revoked by the American Federation of Musicians and the American Guild of Variety Artists.
His Honor Clint Eastwood on Wednesday marks his first anniversary as mayor of Carmel.
Actor Helmut Berger was acquitted by an Italian appeals court in Florence Tuesday on drug charges for which a lower court sentenced him to 20 months in prison, Reuters reported.
A treasure of 250 silent films discovered in a barn in Temperance, Mich., include a full version of Thomas Ince's "The Italian" and a comedy featuring Oliver Hardy as a villain, according to workers at the Library of Congress film restoration laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.
In the new American Film magazine, editor Peter Biskind traces some of the gossip about the approaching (yes, still approaching) Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman-Elaine May comedy "Ishtar," which may well be the most expensive comedy ever made.
"Beverly Hills Cop II" busted box-office records right and left as grosses swelled close to $41 million in only six days of release.
The ashes of film maker Orson Welles, packed in an old blue suitcase, arrived in Madrid Monday on their way for burial at the ranch of retired bullfighter Antonio Ordonez.
"Gone With the Wind" will run every day in a new Atlanta movie theater because it's the favorite movie of the theater's owner--media mogul Ted Turner.
In "The Color of Money," Tom Cruise learned a thing or two about pool from Paul Newman.