Entertainment: World and national breaking news

Mira Sorvino's list of awards includes an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a host of nominations reserved for the world's best actors and actresses. She's had meaningful roles in ... 

Everyone who's had a fender bender knows the cost of repairs is going up. But few cars can be as costly to fix as "Mr. Bean" actor Rowan Atkinson's rare McLaren F1. It took ... 

Matt Damon hopes "Promised Land," his drama on the divisive practice of fracking, will win over international critics, despite a U.S. reception that disappointed the actor. 

No wonder they're endangered. Galapagos tortoises at London's zoo lumbered around impassively as famous French pianist Richard Clayderman serenaded them with music from his ... 

The Wanted is trying to keep it real: The British boy band has signed on to do a reality series on E! The fivesome announced Wednesday that their show will debut in June. 

When famed viola player Yuri Bashmet declared that he "adored" President Vladimir Putin, he stirred little controversy in a country where classical musicians have often ... 

Thousands converged Saturday on the world's largest bacon showcase, a festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. Some people wore Viking hats and others walked ... 

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint says he enjoyed a change of scene from the young wizard's adventures when he starred alongside Shia LaBeouf in "The Necessary Death of Charlie ... 

Paris fashion's enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier, has inaugurated his first international exhibit at Europe's largest port: the Dutch city of Rotterdam. The location is ... 

When I learned of the news that Pope Benedict XVI was going to become the first pope in six centuries to resign from office,  I immediately thought, I wonder what Alex Gibney ... 

The first thing I thought when I saw this trailer for Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem was, oh good, someone's finally made a movie about what it was  like to live on ... 

Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z,  in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film world, TV animation ... 

Nothing sucks worse in Hollywood than being out of work. Even worse when you just won a BAFTA Award and an Oscar nomination for Life Of Pi. So the VFX industry ... 

Ari Karpel and David Mermelstein are AwardsLine contributors From the homemade, unpolished qualities of and The Gatekeepers to the journalism of How To Survive A Plague and ... 

This season’s supporting actor and actress Oscar races can be summed up in one word: Winners! A remarkable seven of the 10 nominees actually already have at least one Oscar ...