Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.
The Cannes Film Festival has a big place in Aishwarya Rai's heart.
All the major film festivals are conducted at a frenetic pace.
Angelina Jolie is indeed expecting twins, and it was Jack Black who let the news slip with a "Brady Bunch" crack.
Palm trees, mild weather, the Mediterranean -- what more could you want? For film aficionados, the answer is movies, movies and more movies.
It's indie movies versus Indy's movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
Michael Moore is taking America's temperature again.
James Garner, who was hospitalized late last week after suffering a minor stroke, is doing well and should be going home shortly, the veteran television and film star's publicist said Tuesday.
Rounding up a lot of the usual suspects, the Cannes Film Festival presents a lineup from an illustrious if somewhat predictable gang of regulars, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, Woody Allen, Atom Egoyan and Wim Wenders.
It is one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the year and after years of feverish speculation, Sex and the City the movie, premieres in London Monday night.
Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.
The Cannes Film Festival has a big place in Aishwarya Rai's heart.
All the major film festivals are conducted at a frenetic pace.
Angelina Jolie is indeed expecting twins, and it was Jack Black who let the news slip with a "Brady Bunch" crack.
Palm trees, mild weather, the Mediterranean -- what more could you want? For film aficionados, the answer is movies, movies and more movies.
It's indie movies versus Indy's movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
Michael Moore is taking America's temperature again.
James Garner, who was hospitalized late last week after suffering a minor stroke, is doing well and should be going home shortly, the veteran television and film star's publicist said Tuesday.
Rounding up a lot of the usual suspects, the Cannes Film Festival presents a lineup from an illustrious if somewhat predictable gang of regulars, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, Woody Allen, Atom Egoyan and Wim Wenders.
It is one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the year and after years of feverish speculation, Sex and the City the movie, premieres in London Monday night.
Morgan Freeman has returned to Broadway with one goal in mind: to try to kill the Morgan Freeman you know and love.
The first Le Festival de Cannes opened September 1, 1939, an attempt to extend the tourist season and bring a little film flash to the little French Riviera town.
"Speed Racer" was lapped in its opening weekend at the box office as "Iron Man" continued to fire its jets with $50.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in "What Happens in Vegas."
"Speed Racer," the Wachowski Brothers' first film as writer-directors since "The Matrix Reloaded" five years ago, is a dizzying pop-art confection.
French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign.
Early on in the new "Sex and the City" film -- and don't worry, we're not spoiling the plot here -- Carrie and longtime love Mr. Big are in bed together.
Terrence Howard is having a dream season for an actor, starring in one of the summer's biggest movies with the superhero flick "Iron Man" and collecting critical acclaim for his Broadway role in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Will "Sex and the City" have a "Death in the City"? It's been a persistent rumor in cyberspace as the buzz kicks into overdrive for the film opening later this month.
When Gwyneth Paltrow made the rounds to promote "Iron Man," the buzz wasn't about the Oscar winner's return to the screen after an extended hiatus. It wasn't about the curious casting of a serious actress as a superhero's secretary.
Marion Ravenwood might have been speaking for us all when she set eyes on Indiana Jones for the first time in years.
Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend, Ryan Reynolds, are engaged.
Bad dubbing, angry men with extraordinary facial hair, balletic fighting and more blood than you can shake a nunchuck at: just some of the key ingredients to make a perfect kung fu flick.
"Iron Man" was pure gold at the box office.
Lindsay Lohan is not exactly toasting her latest public appearance.
You might attribute it to 9/11, or simply blame director Joel Schumacher, whose camp take on "Batman" derailed that franchise for several years. But, lately, Hollywood superhero movies have taken themselves awfully seriously.
Imagine the ultimate chick-flick leading man. He's foxy and a bit dangerous, with merry dancing eyes and a way of caressing a barbed wisecrack just so.
A former nanny for actor Rob Lowe took part in a dramatic, tear-filled news conference Thursday regarding her lawsuit that accuses his wife of sexual harassment.
J.J. Abrams grew up more a fan of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo than of James Kirk and his Vulcan buddy Spock. So why is a self-professed "Star Wars" kid directing "Star Trek"?
They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He's hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon's tea.
Ian McKellen will again take up the robes of Gandalf the Wizard in the cinematic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic "The Hobbit," a British film magazine reported Wednesday.
The classic superhero is polished, brave and morally righteous. Strong and unerring, he is perfection personified -- a superhuman ideal.
It's not that John Cusack isn't trying.
Studio executives hope they've trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.
"This is an event in world history," is how Hollywood producer Avi Lerner hyperbolically proclaimed the news that Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were to star in his new film.
By all accounts, Rocky was one of the most gentle and affectionate animals to be found in Hollywood's vast exotic menagerie of performing lions, tigers and bears -- until the day the 700-pound grizzly bit down on the neck of a veteran trainer and killed him.
He's the butt-kicking, karate-chopping, kung fu superstar who rose from nowhere to conquer Hollywood in a spectacularly visual style.
"Baby Mama," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Shirley Temple Black quietly celebrated her 80th birthday this week after breaking her arm in a fall at her suburban San Francisco home.
Western cinema's relationship with martial arts has been a rocky one. Like many genres, kung fu has drifted in and out of fashion, but it has never regained the same popularity as its glorious heyday in the early 1970s.
"Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," a stoner comedy that became a cult favorite on DVD, was a slacker quest movie -- as wonderfully oxymoronic as that sounds.
Guillermo del Toro is directing "The Hobbit" and its sequel, New Line Cinema announced Thursday.
A stuntman was seriously injured in a car crash while filming an action sequence for the new James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" on a famously windy lakeside road in northern Italy, a local official said Thursday.
American directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to headline the streamlined competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which features fewer big-name directors and more emerging voices from across the globe.
Megan Fox is the sexiest woman in the world -- at least according to FHM magazine.
The 13-year-old son of Tom Cruise is following in his father's footsteps.
"Good Time Charlie's" recovering from the blues.
In 2007, the Tribeca Film Festival underwent a modern-day rite of passage: the backlash.
Wrong as it is to objectify the male body, I'll make an exception for that of Jason Segel in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
From Ernest Borgnine in "Marty" to Jon Favreau in "Swingers," Hollywood has long portrayed sensitive men humbled at the feet of cold-hearted women.
It was a classic case of monster envy that led to the rise of "Cloverfield," the horror hit about a 350-foot creature stomping through New York City.
A martial arts dream team -- Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- won the weekend as their movie matchup "The Forbidden Kingdom" debuted at No. 1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The car being used in the latest James Bond film plunged into a lake in northern Italy while being driven to the set.
An Aston Martin was fished out of Italy's Lake Garda Saturday after it plunged into the water while being driven to the set of the latest James Bond film.
Morgan Spurlock scored a breakout hit with his documentary "Super Size Me" a few years ago, mixing satire, reportage and advocacy in the tabloid style popularized by Michael Moore. Spurlock may not have finished off junk food as we know it, but at least he could claim some responsibility for highlighting the flaws of fast food.
The world-famous HOLLYWOOD sign that has been used by TV and movie directors in more scene-setting shots than a film student could ever count was first erected in 1923 to promote real estate in the fledgling capital of celluloid.
Hazel Court, an English actress who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies of the 1950s and '60s, has died. She was 82.
The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.
Sitting in a SoHo coffee shop, Norah Jones looked across the table at the elegant and mysterious Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, who sat quietly behind dark sunglasses that don't come off, even indoors.
Ollie Johnston, the last of the "Nine Old Men" who animated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Bambi" and other classic Walt Disney films, died Monday. He was 95.
Audiences made a date with "Prom Night," a remake of a 1980 slasher flick that took in $22.7 million to debut as the weekend's No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Charlton Heston, one of the last lions of Old Hollywood, was remembered at his funeral Saturday as devoutly religious and patriotic, a man who was an imposing figure both in his politics and on the big screen.
A lawsuit against a photo agency and two paparazzi who allegedly filmed Heath Ledger in a hotel room where drugs were being taken claims that the late actor was also using cocaine that night.
In "Street Kings," Keanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does.
Jodie Foster grew up on-screen in the 1970s, acting beyond her young age in such films as "Taxi Driver" and "Freaky Friday." Now Abigail Breslin, who starred in "Little Miss Sunshine," is doing the same.
Sean Penn and his wife, Robin Wright Penn, have withdrawn their divorce petition.
After getting the bad end of his own ax in a fight, a bloodied villain limps alone in a stark desert.
Harry Potter is headed to The Great White Way.
The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio is committing to 3-D and will release all of its movies in the format beginning with "Up" next year.
Asked about the difference between a cinematographer and a director of photography -- two terms often used interchangeably -- Robert Elswit cracks a joke.
It's a storm in a Stormtrooper's helmet. Lawyers for George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. and a British prop designer faced off in London's High Court Tuesday over rights to the molded white Stormtrooper uniforms from the "Star Wars" films.
United Artists said Tuesday it has pushed back the release of "Valkyrie," starring Tom Cruise as a World War II German officer, from October 3 until President's Day weekend starting February 13, 2009.
Rosie Perez says shooting a steamy sex scene with her good friend John Leguizamo for their new movie, "The Take," was "very awkward."
Rob Lowe and his wife are suing their former nanny, claiming she told secrets and lies about their family.
Nancy Reagan was heartbroken over Charlton Heston's death. President Bush hailed him as a "strong advocate for liberty," while John McCain called Heston a devotee for civil and constitutional rights.
The gambling tale "21" kept up its winning streak as it took in $15.1 million to stay on top of the box office for a second-straight weekend, leaving George Clooney's "Leatherheads" and the family tale "Nim's Island" to scrimmage for second place.
Nicolas Cage has settled a libel suit in a London court against Kathleen Turner, who claimed in her autobiography that he had twice been arrested for drunken driving and had stolen a dog.
Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as "Frosty Freeze" whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 hit movie "Flashdance" set off a worldwide breakdancing craze, has died. He was 44.
We're not exactly starved for sports comedies these days. Will Ferrell, in particular, seems to be working his way through every form of competition that's been devised.
A woman who was ordered to stay away from John Cusack was charged Wednesday with a felony count of stalking.
Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to reach the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest and climb the seven summits of the world, took on a different challenge in 2004: He guided six blind Tibetan teenagers toward the 23,000-foot summit of Lhakpa Ri, the peak next to Everest.
Filmmakers seem determined to bring out Audrey Tautou's sweetness and spunk. She dispensed random acts of kindness as "Amelie," set off in search of her fiance in "A Very Long Engagement" and played a street-smart but sensitive police cryptologist in "The Da Vinci Code."
Roger Ebert will resume writing reviews later this month, but will not rejoin his syndicated TV show because he's still unable to speak.
American director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie "Never on Sunday" and six more of his films, died late Monday at an Athens hospital, officials said. He was 96.
As the people of Kazakhstan know all too well, mockery of culture and religion seems to be kosher in Hollywood, under the following conditions:
Adam Sandler may wish he stuck to being "The Waterboy."
A woman who was ordered to stay away from John Cusack has been arrested on suspicion of stalking the actor and violating a restraining order.
The bitter weekend divorce between two actors unions in upcoming contract talks with Hollywood producers mirrors a scene from a daytime soap opera -- and casts stars from the genre in pivotal roles.
Movie-goers laid their money down on "21," a gambling romp that was the weekend's box-office high roller with a $23.7 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf the Wizard in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is hoping to reprise the role in another tale from Middle Earth.
Heath Ledger's frenzied reinvention of the Joker had fans and colleagues buzzing. His dreadful clown face was seen online by millions, and stood as the goosebump-raising image upon which nearly all early marketing of "The Dark Knight" hinged.
Through 2006, at least 81,000 U.S. military have been "stop-lossed" since September 11, 2001. That means they have been refused discharge and compelled to serve another tour of active duty, even though their original term has expired.
The truth about "The X-Files" sequel -- some of it, anyway -- is now out there.
After nearly 19 years of marriage, Robin Williams and his wife are getting divorced.
Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a Hollywood leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, has died after a long illness. He was 93.
Denise Richards is officially rubbing the Sheen off her last name.
Audiences are still listening to Horton and his Who pals.
Jamie Lee Curtis went shirtless to pose for AARP The Magazine.
