With the city's more traditional industries on the decline, Detroit's police-fire and general retirement funds have decided to plunk $4 million worth of investment into "The Rosary Murders," a mystery movie to be filmed in Detroit.
Island Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Diane Keaton's feature film directorial debut, "Heaven," from RCA Productions.
Actress Shirley MacLaine, 59, drew a gathering of 500 people who paid $300 each over the weekend for a Seattle seminar on human potential and the so-called New Age movement.
In a People magazine poll of 9,759 readers (published this week, just in time for Hollywood's centennial), Katharine Hepburn was chosen as the greatest female star ever, garnering 36% of the tally.
"Top Gun" star Tom Cruise was the top box-office draw of 1986, according to a poll of U.S. motion picture exhibitors.
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez says he reconstructed a script written 25 years ago for Mexican actress Silvia Pinal and it turned out much better this time.
In addition to a Toronto screening already reported, Columbia president David Picker acknowledged Tuesday that his company's $40-million-plus comedy, "Ishtar," received two American test previews as well: one last week in Orange, Conn., and another Monday night in Paramus, N.J.
The Screen Actors Guild has become the first entertainment union to issue $1 billion in residual payments.
Unbeknownst to any but a handful of Canadian film honchos, Columbia's $40-million-plus mega-comedy "Ishtar" was screened at a Toronto theater Sunday night, according to Daily Variety and Canadian newspapers.
A statue of Oscar by any other name is still copyrighted, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday when it went to court to stop a Santa Monica store from selling crystal souvenir statuettes.
"Star Wars" trilogy star and show-biz scion Carrie Fisher already has a film deal for her first novel, "Postcards From the Edge," due out in August by Simon and Schuster.
Sean Penn, frequently in hot water over his public scuffles, found himself on the right side of the law Saturday, signing autographs at a celebrity match for the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation.
Mia Farrow's pregnancy isn't the only news on the maternal front in Hollywood.
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Haing Ngor, who portrayed Cambodian journalist Dith Pran in the film, "The Killing Fields," announced in Brussels Wednesday that he is seeking $300,000 to organize an emergency medical supply relay from Thailand to refugees in Cambodia.
NBC affiliate WNYT-TV in Albany, N.Y., canceled its broadcast of the situation comedy "Valerie" Sunday night because the episode dealt with a teen-ager using condoms.
Director Bernardo Bertolucci was cleared in Rome on Monday of obscenity charges relating to his 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
Kris Aquino, the 16-year-old youngest daughter of President Corazon Aquino, has been offered a role in an as-yet-untitled Cannon Films movie starring Chuck Norris.
Arthur Cohn, four-time Oscar-winning producer (three times for best foreign film, once for best documentary), fielded questions from the audience after a screening of his 1976 film "Black and White in Color" Wednesday night at the American Film Institute Film Festival--and got a particularly interesting question from an audience member:...