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Toronto film fest goes into action with 'Looper'
Sundance is the festival for low-budget filmmaking. Cannes and Venice are glitzy industry showplaces. The Toronto International Film Festival is both ...
In 'H+' a possible blueprint for digital series
How much does a good Web series cost? That's been an evolving but constant question as digital series multiply. Increasingly, Internet-based series ...
Gentle-giant star Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54
Michael Clarke Duncan was one big, irresistible jumble of contradictions. His presence was formidable, even intimidating: The former bodyguard had a ...
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54
Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in ...
Hollywood reacts to Michael Clarke Duncan's death
A sampling of the outpouring of love and memories from the Hollywood and sports worlds Monday following the death of Michael Clarke Duncan, many of ...
Astronauts, family mourn humble hero Armstrong
Neil Armstrong was a humble hero who saw himself as a team player and never capitalized on his celebrity as the first man to walk on the moon, ...
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 ...
Tom Hanks makes surprise visit to N. Dakota diner
The owner of a diner in North Dakota got a surprise Friday when actor Tom Hanks showed up for an early breakfast. Tammy Hagensen says she got a call ...
Levinsohn leaving Yahoo after second CEO snub
Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO who was snubbed in the search for a permanent leader at Yahoo, is leaving the Internet portal. Yahoo announced the ...
Stars from Hanks to Seinfeld enter digital fray
As a new wave of big names enter the growing field of Web series, leave it to Larry David to keep enthusiasm in check. "I wouldn't say I'm excited, ...
Terror often disrupts movies within movies
There's something about the dark and quiet of a movie theater that allows us to make ourselves vulnerable. We enter into an implicit pact, giving over ...
Kid Dyn-o-Mite is a senior citizen, still on road
Just like in the theme song, Jimmie Walker is scratchin' and survivin'. At 65, "Kid Dyn-o-Mite!" is a senior citizen, and his comedy career has come ...
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 ...
Producer 'committed' to staging Nora Ephron play
A lead producer of Nora Ephron's new play, "Lucky Guy," says he is "committed" to getting her biography of a newspaper columnist on a Broadway stage ...
In honoring Ephron, here are 10 of her best lines
Nora Ephron's characters were highly verbal and hyper-analytical. They had a head for the absurd and a heart for romance. But above all, they were ...
Celebrities react to the death of Nora Ephron
Celebrities share their reaction to the death Tuesday of author, essayist and filmmaker Nora Ephron: — "Nora was a person whose gifts of mind, amply ...
Writer-filmmaker Nora Ephron dies at 71
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie ...
Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie ...
Moments we remember in Nora Ephron films
Some memorable scenes from the films of Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday at age 71: "When Harry Met Sally" (1989): The scene in Katz's Delicatessen when ...
Actors, writers react to Ephron's death on Twitter
Actors and writers react to the death of writer-director Nora Ephron on Tuesday at age 71: — "So sad to hear that the brilliant Nora Ephron passed ...
Yahoo, Liquid set to publish motion comics
Yahoo said Wednesday it is expanding its original offerings, partnering with Liquid Comics to offer motion-comics. The two companies said they'll make ...