Freddy Krueger, the dream-killing anti-star of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, is back in town with a vengeance: the latest installment, the third (subtitled "Dream Warriors") grossed $8.9 million its first weekend, the biggest opening weekend of 1987 so far, according to Exhibitors Relations Co.
Paul Newman, who enjoyed critical success in the hit movie "The Color of Money" for Walt Disney Pictures' Touchstone Films, has signed a three-year contract with the company for movie development and production.
Screen Actors Guild President Patty Duke says running the 67,000-member union is quite enough without emulating a former guild president--Ronald Reagan--and aspiring to higher office.
Columbia Pictures' megabuck comedy "Ishtar"--still in post-production and lumbering toward its May 15 national release date--is the talk of the town after New York magazine outlined the $40-million film's production delays and on-set peccadilloes.
"The Decline of the American Empire," the first Canadian film nominated for an American Academy Award as best foreign film, swept Canada's movie awards Wednesday night.
Plans to colorize "Some Like It Hot" have been shelved for the time being, MGM/UA Chairman Lee Rich told Daily Variety on Monday.
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Mega-millionaire producer-director George Lucas has a few choice words for the "gray-flannel types" who run Hollywood studios.
Albert Broccoli, who produced 15 of the highly successful James Bond films, is to receive the Order of the British Empire at the British Embassy in Washington today.
Katharine Hepburn will be coming out with a book this fall chronicling the filming of "The African Queen," the 1951 motion picture that paired her with Humphrey Bogart and was shot during three months in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and in Uganda.
The estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," is working with a New York literary agent on an authorized novel continuing the story of Scarlett and Rhett.
A judge has ruled against the mistress of Darryl F.
Willie Nelson's latest movie, "Red Headed Stranger"--based on Nelson's 1975 narrative LP--was to open Thursday night at a benefit in Austin, Tex., where suggested dress was black tie or blue jeans.
The California Film Office and the state's Motion Picture Council merged last week into the California Film Commission.
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A planned movie reunion for "9 to 5" co-stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin has been shelved because of script problems, Parton said in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean.
Actor Anthony Quinn, 71, is scheduled to receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s Cecil B.
The author of a noteworthy history of black soldiers in Vietnam called best picture-nominee "Platoon" an "abysmal racist disaster" Wednesday.
When His Honor Clint Eastwood said in a recent interview that his political activities might have drawn less attention if he'd been elected mayor in Paso Robles instead of Carmel, Nick Russell took it personally.