In Vietnam's first recognition of the film "Platoon," Radio Hanoi Wednesday said, "The film depicts U.S. soldiers' crimes during the Vietnam War.
Writer-Director Oliver Stone received two Writers Guild of America screenwriting awards nominations Thursday.
"Platoon" continued to be the hottest movie on per-theater basis in America.
Clint Eastwood, a gun-toting cop on screen, is a gun-toting mayor when he's off.
Jury selection in a $30-million lawsuit starring Eddie Murphy and entertainment manager King Broder was under way Thursday in Mineola, N.Y.
Sylvester Stallone said "Rambo III" will go into production in five or six weeks in the United States, with a script rewritten by the actor to make the character "more realistic and less of a cartoon figure."
Indian film star Sunil Dutt defied death threats from Sikh extremists and entered the holy city of Amritsar on Sunday after leading a 1,250-mile peace march across north India.
British film maker Peter Watkins' Oscar-winning 1965 nuclear war documentary, "The War Game," was so horrifying it was banned in 1967 by the British Broadcasting Corp., which had hired him to produce it.
The makers of "Platoon" are planning a sequel focusing on the painful homecoming of a Vietnam War survivor.
A Tennessee boot company has filed a lawsuit against the producers of Sylvester Stallone's "Over the Top," saying the film makers failed to include Laredo Boot products in the movie as promised in a contract.
Pioneer film maker Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced, directed and distributed more than 35 silent and sound films, has become the first black director to be honored with a star on the Walk of Fame.
Melvin Simon Associates of Los Angeles has been selected to develop a proposed $53-million museum to Hollywood's past.
Oliver Stone, having made what many consider the compleat Vietnam movie with "Platoon," will take on Wall Street next.
Walt Disney Productions and Filmation Associates settled a copyright-infringement suit over Filmation's plans to produce and distribute "The New Adventures of Pinocchio," several lawyers reported.
Ireland's film censor banned "Personal Services," a film about the exploits of Cynthia Payne, a London woman nicknamed "Madame Cyn" who was acquitted last month of controlling prostitutes.
Director Elia Kazan, 77, is to receive the Directors Guild of America's D.W.
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The three men accused of luring porn queen Traci Lords into performing sex acts on film as a teen-ager pleaded innocent to child exploitation charges.
Bui Xuan Nhat, Vietnam's top diplomat in the United States, thinks the Oscar-winning "Platoon" would be a hit in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), but said his country probably couldn't afford to buy the foreign rights to show the film.
The Seasonal Film Corp., a Hong Kong film company, has filed a civil suit seeking damages from the British colony's government for banning a film about the Vietnam War, the company said last week.