[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country music singer Don Williams, one of the biggest stars of the 1970s and 1980s, died on Friday at the age of 78, his publicist said. Williams, known as “the…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Vivian Qu hopes her new film “Angels Wear White” (“Jia Nian Hua”) will generate a discussion on sex education and child protection in her home country, the Chinese director said at…

[ad_1] TORONTO (Reuters) – A tale of real-life rivalry on the tennis court kicked off the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday in a scaled-back line-up of movies that focus on tales of survival amid…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Italian director Sebastiano Riso said he chose to make it a gay couple who refuse to adopt a terminally ill child in his new film to show how a person can…

[ad_1] TORONTO (Reuters) – A tale of real-life rivalry on the tennis court kicks off the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday in a scaled back line-up of movies that focus on tales of survival…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince George, the great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth and third-in-line to the throne, started school on Thursday but without his pregnant mother Kate to support him because she is suffering from…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Donald Sutherland, the star of “MASH,” “The Hunger Games” and more than 140 other movies, is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar, along with Belgian director Agnes Varda, Oscar organizers…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The film franchise features Bond, James Bond. And Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc have joined a bevy of suitors bidding for distribution rights for the lucrative movies depicting the exploits…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – It has been 27 years since a deranged killer clown terrorized a town on the small screen in “It” and ushered in a generation’s fear of clowns. Now, Stephen King’s…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The “Star Wars” movie franchise has parted ways with another director, Walt Disney Co announced on Tuesday, saying that director and writer Colin Trevorrow would no longer be involved in…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Playing Andy Kaufman in “Man on the Moon” was a chance for Jim Carrey to reflect on his own identity and the impact the late cult comedian had on him, the…

[ad_1] XIAMEN, China (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that there was no censorship or official pressure behind the arrest of a film and theater director whose edgy work has angered traditionalists…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Music video “Thriller” was not the product of a brilliant idea but was made because pop star Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster, director John Landis said at the Venice…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – A disastrous domestic summer box office is ending on a low note. Without any fresh competition in wide release, “Hitman’s Bodyguard” appears the be the holiday weekend’s movie of choice.…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Grammy-winning rap star Lil Wayne was taken to hospital on Sunday after suffering a seizure and being found unconscious in his Chicago hotel room, TMZ said on its web site. Lil Wayne,…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Walter Becker, co-founder of the influential jazz-rock band Steely Dan, died on Sunday at age 67, according to his website, which did not disclose the cause of death. Becker, who played lead…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Breaking the brittle veneer of the picture-perfect suburbs of 1950s America, George Clooney’s new satire tackles racial prejudice which the actor and director said on Saturday continues to erupt in today’s…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – A lonely teenager takes to the road with an aging race horse he has saved from slaughter, in a movie that premiered in Venice on Friday that, according to its star,…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Jane Fonda wishes the sex scene in her new movie with Robert Redford lasted longer, the 79-year-old American actress said as their latest screen collaboration “Our Souls at Night” premiered at…

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Harry Potter’s magical world is coming alive like never before. Fans of the best-selling books and films can now fly through the boy wizard’s Hogwarts School and its quidditch pitch, in an…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Rudimentary iPhone shots of people huddled in rubber boats approaching a Greek island was what led to the creation of refugee epic “Human Flow” which Chinese artist Ai Weiwei premiered at…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Damien Chazelle, the Oscar-winning director of hit movie “La La Land,” has another musical in the works, this time a multilingual television series set in Paris. Streaming company Netflix (NFLX.O)…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Ethan Hawke’s great-grandmother had wanted him to become a priest, but the American actor prayed that he would never get the calling, he said at the Venice film festival on Thursday.…

[ad_1] Richard Anderson, who played the boss of both “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” in an on-screen career stretching some 50 years, died on Thursday, a family spokesman said. He was…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – A fairy tale in which a mute cleaner in a government laboratory falls in love with an aquatic creature facing dissection there – an appeal to embrace differences – premiered at…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Syndicates of Lloyd’s of London insurance market filed a countersuit to Kanye West’s claim that he was owed $10 million after canceling his tour last year, saying it found “substantial…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing”, a satire about shrinking humans to five inches tall as a solution to over-population and global warming, opened the Venice film festival on Wednesday. It kicked off days…

[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – A refugee documentary by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, a horror film starring Jennifer Lawrence and George Clooney’s latest directorial effort are all tipped as must-sees at the Venice film fest set…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kim Kardashian and her family on Tuesday donated a collective $500,000 to storm Harvey relief efforts, joining celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Dwayne Johnson, NFL player J.J. Watt and comedian Kevin…

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Taylor Swift’s vengeful new music video “Look What You Made Me Do,” is smashing records on YouTube, garnering more than 43 million views in its first 24 hours of release.…