LOS ANGELES - Steven Spielberg will bring a Hollywood veteran’s eye to the more art-house Cannes Film Festival next week - but he insists he has no preconceptions and will be a strictly “democratic” jury head.The legendary filmmaker, who first came to Cannes for the premiere of ...

MADRID/LOS ANGELES (AFP) Sara Montiel, the first Spanish actress to make it in Hollywood and best known for her roles in international blockbusters such as “Vera Cruz”, died at home in Madrid aged 85, her family said. Meanwhile, US actress Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a ...

THE weather may not be what you call beach friendly, but that is not stopping a horde of Hollywood stars from invading the shores of Weston-super-Mare. With legends such as King Kong, Alfred Hitchcock and Scarface all scrambling for the best spot on the seaside, it is set to be the most densely ...

Chris FrancescaniThey hover over Hollywood film sets and professional sports events. They track wildfires in Colorado, survey Kansas farm crops and vineyards in California. They inspect miles of industrial pipeline and monitor wildlife, river temperatures and volcanic activity.They also locate ...

HOLLYWOOD’S A-list has banded together in a new video campaigning against gun violence in the US.  Approximately 50 high profile celebrities including ‘Diva’ singer Beyonce, Selena Gomez, ‘We’re The Millers’ star Jennifer Aniston, Michelle Williams, Steve ...

EDDIE Murphy has been named the most over-paid actor in Hollywood.The 51-year-old actor - whose recent films ‘Imagine That’, ‘A Thousand Words’ and ‘Meet Dave’ were all labelled flops - is reportedly no longer popular at the box office despite being paid a huge ...

PROLIFIC Hollywood producer Richard Zanuck has died aged 77, suffering a heart attack at his Beverley Hills home.Dick Zanuck, as most people called him, was best known for his work on films such as The Sound of Music, Driving Miss Daisy and Jaws. Son of Hollywood royalty, he became the youngest ...

Samantha Barks has landed one of the lead roles in the film version of Les Miserables. She will star as Eponine alongside Hollywood actors Russell Crowe (Javert) and Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean) in the glittering production, which is bound to catapult her to global superstardom. Casting for the ...

JOAN Collins blames ego for many Hollywood splits. The ‘Dynasty’ star was not surprised that Russell Brand and Katy Perry recently announced their 14-month marriage is to end because she thinks famous people in relationships with one another can find it difficult. She said: “It ...

LOS ANGELES -BBC Director George Lucas says it took 20 years to get his latest film made, “because it’s an all-black movie”. Speaking on The Daily Show, Lucas said he had to self-fund Red Tails, the true story of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. He ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson’s three children are to sink their father’s shoes and famous sequined glove into the cement outside a storied Hollywood cinema and tourist site, organizers said Thursday. In a rare public appearance, Prince, Paris and Blanket will make their late ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - For many people, the images of commercial airliners hitting the Twin Towers, and of Manhattan engulfed in a huge dust cloud as they collapsed, looked like a Hollywood apocalypse-style movie. But despite that or maybe in part because of it 9/11 has not generated as large a ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - American actor Danny DeVito, known for his Emmy-winning role on Taxi and his turn as Batmans nemesis The Penguin on the big screen, was honoured Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 66-year-old actor, who divides his time between films and television and is ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Jennifer Aniston, the A-list actress who shot to stardom on the hit comedy show Friends, joined the ranks of Hollywood royalty Thursday with her handprints on a storied sidewalk. Aniston imprinted her hands and feet at a ceremony outside the iconic Graumans Chinese Theatre ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Grammy-winning Canadian singer Bryan Adams was honored with a star on Hollywoods storied Walk of Fame on Monday with a little help from fellow countryman and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky. The pair braved an unseasonal Los Angeles downpour to celebrate the 51-year-old being ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five Hollywood studios are suing a website that streams movies, accusing it of copyright infringement on a massive scale. Disney Enterprises Inc, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp, Universal City Studios Productions, Columbia Pictures Industries and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc ...

HOLLYWOOD is a world of fawning sycophancy and downright deceit. Theres one exception: for 35 years, British critic David Thomson, Editor of The Biographical Dictionary Of Film, has been compiling compellingly unvarnished critiques of the stars. In the latest edition, this is how he describes the ...

CANCER-stricken Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones have been named the top celebrity couple of 2010. The Wall Street legend dominated headlines in August this year when he revealed he had been diagnosed with a throat tumour. Zeta-Jones has been a constant support to her husband of 10 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disney/ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney earned the top spot on The Hollywood Reporters list of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment, for the second year in a row. In 2009, Sweeney shared the honour, which is widely watched in media circles, with Sony ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Hollywood film studios lost a landmark court bid Thursday to hold an Australian Internet provider responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers, in a serious blow to their fight against piracy. In a world-first judgement, a Federal Court judge ruled Internet Service ...

CLAIRE Danes insists everyones feeling the pinch during the global economic downturn - even Hollywood. The Me and Orson Welles star says she and her fellow actors have been fighting for roles to keep the money coming in. I think its a difficult time right now in a lot of industries, because of the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie is Hollywoods top earning actress, banking $27 million in the past year to beat out her partner Brad Pitts ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, who raked in $25 million, a Forbes.com study showed Wednesday. Most of Jolies income came from her share of the profits from her ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Movie-goers hungry for escapism could fuel a record year at the box-office as Hollywoods summer blockbuster season gets underway on Friday, analysts say. Wearied by a relentless tide of gloomy headlines about the recession-hit economy, Americans have flocked to the movies in ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Australian actress Cate Blanchett on Saturday accepted the role of an Oscar-winner honored with her own star on Hollywood's old-school Walk of Fame. The new name on star number 2,376, Blanchett was joined for the ceremony by directors Steven Spielberg, with whom she worked on ...

Paul Newman, known for his piercing blue eyes, boyish good looks and stellar performances in scores of hit Hollywood movies, has died, his foundation said Saturday. He was 83. Newman, who had been battling cancer, passed away on Friday, Newman's Own Foundation said in a statement from Westport, ...

DENVER, Colorado (AFP) - Oscar-winning singer and actress Barbra Streisand will perform at a glittering and lucrative Hollywood fundraiser for Democrat Barack Obama Tuesday, aides said. The White House hopeful will host a dinner costing 28,500 dollars per person in a Beverly Hills mansion, and ...

VENICE (AFP) - Hollywood megastars Brad Pitt and George Clooney kick off this year's Venice film festival on Wednesday with the world premiere of the latest quirky offering from Oscar-winning Coen brothers. The festival, running through September 6, is set to bring a bevy of stars to one of the ...

The extremists blew off a link-bridge in Swat, while a curfew break from 12.00 noon to 8.00 P.M. in the night throughout the district was announced. Unknown persons blew up the link-bridge at Seenpura area here cutting off all the vehicular traffic. Security forces throughout the night kept bombing ...

Two persons were killed and two others injured when armed men opened fire on them in Bilyamin area of Kurram Agency on Tuesday. Two persons of Tori tribe were killed while two others received injuries by firing of armed men in Bilyamin, sources said. Tori tribe and attackers exchanged fire and used ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama stole the show at a star-studded fundraiser here Tuesday, paying fulsome praise to former rival Hillary Clinton and mocking Republican foe John McCain. Obama, appearing at a fundraiser in California for the first time since clinching ...