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Award-season hopefuls stop in Palm Springs
The Award Season Express made its first stop of the new year in the middle of the desert a couple hours east of Hollywood at the annual Palm Springs ...
Canadian who sheltered Americans in Iran dies
John Sheardown, a former Canadian diplomat who sheltered fugitive American Embassy staffers at his Tehran home at great personal risk during the 1979 ...
Ben Affleck won't run for US Senate in Mass.
Ben Affleck is taking his name off the list of possible candidates for U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat, which would be open if the Democratic senator from ...
Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo
With an atypical audience — members of Congress — actor and director Ben Affleck read from a script with a pointed message: A desperate humanitarian ...
AP critics pick the year's best movies
The top 10 films of 2012, according to AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire: 1. "Argo" — Directing just his third feature, Ben Affleck has come up with a ...
Reactions to 70th annual Golden Globe nominations
Reactions to the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards nominations, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.: — "Don't ask me what I'm gonna wear.
Globes go big with heavy lineup of studio films
A fairly predictable Golden Globes lineup has one thing that's become rarer in awards season: a solid presence of big studio favorites to balance the ...
List of nominees for the Golden Globe Awards
Nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif.: MOTION PICTURES — Picture, Drama: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ...
'Lincoln,' 'Les Mis,' 'Playbook' lead SAG awards
The Civil War saga "Lincoln," the musical "Les Miserables" and the comic drama "Silver Linings Playbook" boosted their Academy Awards prospects ...
'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Lincoln' make AFI top-10 list
Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln" and Christopher Nolan's superhero tale "The ...
'Amour' takes top prize from LA film critics
The French-language drama "Amour" was chosen as the year's best film Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a ...
NBR Awards name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the ...
Child star of 'Beasts' back in bayou
She was just nominated for a Spirit Award for her leading role in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," and there's buzz that Golden Globe and Oscar nods ...
Force is strong with dream 'Star Wars' directors
It's the question we've all been pondering from the second we heard that three more "Star Wars" movies were planned: Who will direct them? When George ...
Not wrecked by Sandy, 'Ralph' tops box office
The weekend box office was not only undeterred by the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, it was buoyed by it. Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" opened strongly ...
'Argo' reigns at the box office in its third week
"Argo" finally reached the top of the box office in its third week in theaters. The Warner Bros. thriller, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, had ...
'Argo' finally tops box office with $12.4M
It took three weeks, but "Argo" finally found its way to the top of the box office. The Warner Bros. thriller from director and star Ben Affleck, ...
De Niro, Gere, Affleck feted at early film awards
Hollywood warmed up for its awards season with a love fest that recognized top actors and directors for films that haven't been released yet.
Box-office activity slows for 'Paranormal,' Perry
Scary movie fans are still into "Paranormal Activity," though the horror franchise looks as though it's starting to run out of steam at the box office
'Rust and Bone' named best picture at London fest
"Rust and Bone," Jacques Audiard's soaring story of love, loss and killer whales, was named best picture at the London Film Festival on Saturday.
'Taken 2' repeats at No. 1 with $21.9M weekend
Liam Neeson remained the top gun at the weekend box office as his action sequel "Taken 2" took in $21.9 million. "Taken 2" edged out Ben Affleck's ...
'Taken 2' takes down 'Argo' in close weekend
Liam Neeson's "Taken 2" has defended its box-office title with a narrow win over Ben Affleck's "Argo." Sunday studio estimates put 20th Century Fox's ...
Burton's 'Frankenweenie' opens London Film Fest
This year's London Film Festival has Ben Affleck, Dustin Hoffman and the Rolling Stones — and it's bookended by one of the city's premiere cinematic ...
Review: Ambitious 'Argo' one of year's best films
A movie about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis probably doesn't sound like it would be a laugh riot — or should be — but that's just one of the many ...
Ben Affleck: Republicans 'had a chance'
Ben Affleck is comparing U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to past campaign losers Al Gore, Michael Dukakis and Bob Dole. But the ...