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Mel Brooks to receive AFI life achievement honor
It'll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award. The writer and ...
Who's a busy boy? Actor-playwright Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo is finishing a new play that he also stars in. That might be enough work for some. But not Colman Domingo. He can be seen in Spike ...
Spielberg to speak at 'Gettysburg Address' event
Director Steven Spielberg will deliver the keynote address at an observance commemorating the 149th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's ...
Online channel TakePart TV: relevant, entertaining
Hey, YouTubers! Have you danced your fill to "Gangnam Style"? Have you seen enough versions of "Call Me Maybe"? Now video grazers can check out a ...
Abe, 'Argo,' 'Les Mis' jockey for Oscar attention
Hollywood is in its usual hazy head space when it comes to the Academy Awards race. The dilemma: Handicapping the players when so many of the ...
Italian police report 'Catch Me If You Can' ruse
Italian police describe it as a real-life sequel to "Catch Me If You Can," the hit movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the true story about an ...
De Palma reminisces on the Hollywood 'genius' era
On a sunny afternoon this past week at the Toronto Film Festival, Brian De Palma finishes holding court at a reporters round table. As he moves to the ...
Shark expert Ron Taylor dies; helped make 'Jaws'
Ron Taylor, a beloved Australian marine conservationist who helped film some of the terrifying underwater footage used in the classic shark thriller ...
Highlights of Hollywood's fall, holiday lineup
Here are highlights of Hollywood's fall and holiday movie lineup: SEPTEMBER: — "Arbitrage": Richard Gere stars in a Wall Street thriller about a ...
Hollywood's 3 Bs for fall: Bond, Bella, Bilbo
The B-list rules Hollywood's fall and holiday movie season: Bond, Bella and Bilbo. Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in "Skyfall," the super-spy's ...
Italian special effects master Rambaldi dies at 86
Carlo Rambaldi, a special effects master and three-time Oscar winner known as the father of "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," died Friday in southern ...
Travolta, Spielberg light up Foreign Press lunch
Steven Spielberg talked movies with Harvey Weinstein. John Travolta chatted with Bradley Cooper. Dustin Hoffman and Jack Black shared cellphone photos
Veteran Hollywood publicist Dale Olson dead at 78
Veteran Hollywood publicist Dale Olson, who represented such Hollywood legends as Marilyn Monroe, Gene Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock, and such current ...
Film critic Judith Crist dies at 90
Judith Crist, a blunt and popular film critic for the "Today" show, TV Guide and the New York Herald Tribune whose reviews were at times so harsh that ...
Obama effort spends more in June than it takes in
Amid a heavy barrage of advertising by opposing "super" political groups, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign spent more than it collected ...
Despite June spending, Obama has $97.5M in bank
President Barack Obama's presidential campaign spent more than it raised in June, illustrating both the fierce pace of campaigning during the month ...
Jackson confesses: he's no superhero comic fan
Peter Jackson does not expect he'll ever get into the superhero business. The filmmaker behind "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the upcoming ...
Hollywood reacts to Richard Zanuck's death
Celebrities share their reactions to the death Friday of Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck: — "In 1974, Dick Zanuck and I sat in a boat off ...
Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck dead at 77
Film producer Richard Zanuck, who won the best picture Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" and was involved in such blockbuster films as "Jaws" and "The ...
'ParaNorman' conjures up zombies at Comic-Con
The makers of the animated tale "ParaNorman" like to think of their film in terms of odd combinations. Horror and comedy. John Carpenter meets John ...