
Jolie joins G-8 to urge end to sexual violence
Angelina Jolie brought her celebrity wattage to London on Thursday to back an urgent cause: fighting sexual violence in military conflicts.
Fans get early look at 'Elysium' footage
The year is 2154, and Earth belongs to the poor. The wealthiest citizens live on "Elysium," an idyllic, disease-free utopia they built in space.

Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture
Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon — skewered by comedians, transformed into a puppet and played to ...

Spanish film star Sara Montiel dies at age 85
Sara Montiel, a famed, sultry-voiced Spanish actress who became the first to also achieve Hollywood stardom, died Monday. She was 85. Her biographer, ...
Tributes pour in for Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna
Spaniard Josep Joan Bigas Luna was lauded as a brilliant and "truly special" filmmaker a day after his death, with some of the highest praise coming ...

Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, 87, dies in NYC
The Irish actor Milo O'Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," an evil scientist in ...
Spanish film director Bigas Luna dies, aged 67
Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who discovered actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and whose 1992 movie "Jamon, Jamon" launched their ...

Depardieu a no-show in court over drunk driving
Gerard Depardieu again couldn't make it to trial to face drunken driving charges, but a lawyer for the combative French actor wrested yet another ...

Queen Elizabeth II honored for supporting UK film
Queen Elizabeth II has received an honorary British Academy award in recognition of her support of British film and television. John Willis, chairman ...

Indian actor files suit against Shah Rukh Khan
Indian actor and director Manoj Kumar has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan for releasing a popular 2007 film ...

Oscar winner, author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies
Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died. She was 85. Firoza Jhabvala said Wednesday that her mother died ...
Judge: Jolie didn't plagiarize 'Blood and Honey'
A federal judge says actress Angelina Jolie didn't steal the story for her movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" from a Croatian author. City News ...
Filmmaker who rescued Romanian orphans is killed
A documentary filmmaker known for helping rescue children from squalid Romanian orphanages in the early 1990s was fatally shot following an apparent ...

'Harry Potter' actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65
Richard Griffiths was one of the great British stage actors of his generation, a heavy man with a light touch, whether in Shakespeare or Neil Simon.

TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt
With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, a television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the ...

Sanjay Dutt says he'll go to prison as ordered
Breaking down repeatedly, popular Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt said Thursday he will serve his prison sentence for a 1993 weapons conviction in a case ...

Leonardo da Vinci gets 'Batman' treatment on Starz
In these 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci, he has upstaged every genius multi-tasker in his wake. Da Vinci was a whiz as a painter (hint: "Mona Lisa" ...
5 jailed in UK for inventing movie in tax scam
Five people were jailed Monday in Britain for pretending to make a Hollywood movie in a scam to defraud tax authorities of millions of pounds.
Jolie meets with women, girls in eastern Congo
Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant. Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, ...
Buyer found for UK Blockbuster stores
The DVD and games rental store Blockbuster has been sold to restructuring specialists Gordon Brothers Europe after filing for a form of U.K.

'Book of Mormon' already breaks record in London
The seemingly unstoppable hit "The Book of Mormon" has broken another record — this time on the other side of the Atlantic. The quirky, profane ...

Tom Cruise sets up page on Russian social network
Tom Cruise has become the first Hollywood star to set up a page on the popular Russian social network Vkontakte. The "Mission Impossible" actor's page ...

India court upholds actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction
India's Supreme Court upheld the weapons conviction of Bollywood leading man Sanjay Dutt and ordered him to report to prison within four weeks in a ...

Oscar winner gets Austria geriatric society prize
It isn't an Oscar or any other film industry prize, but Austrian director Michael Haneke says he is grateful for his award from the Austrian Society ...

Captain Peacock actor Frank Thornton dies
British actor Frank Thornton — best known as Captain Peacock in the long-running television comedy "Are You Being Served?" — has died at age 92, his ...