Principal photography was completed on Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" on Thursday in Trebujena, Spain, five days ahead of schedule.
Elizabeth Taylor will play an aging opera singer in Italian director Franco Zeffirelli's new film "The Young Toscanini," based on the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini's early years in Italy and Brazil.
More than $100,000 in prizes was awarded to 84 students by the UCLA Theater, Film and Television Department at its official student screenings and awards ceremony, New Visions, on the UCLA campus held over the weekend in Melnitz Theater.
A newly elected member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Ilona Staller--who is also the country's leading porno-film star--is being sued by an ex-policeman, who alleges Staller is holding parliament up to public ridicule.
Richard Gere joined Buddhist monks and members of the nation's tiny Tibetan community in Bloomington, Ind., to dedicate a shrine in memory of the more than 1 million Tibetans who have died since China's takeover of their homeland.
Detroit's grimy back alleys were on the screen, but the hometown audience was glittering as "Beverly Hills Cop II," Paramount Pictures' sequel to the 1985 Eddie Murphy hit, opened Tuesday night in the Motor City.
Brothers Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov, Soviet-born directors, said in Cannes on Thursday that they hope for a more liberal attitude in the Soviet film industry under Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, creator of a New Yorker magazine cover depicting Manhattan dominating the rest of the United States, Wednesday won a federal copyright lawsuit against Columbia Pictures over a poster for the Columbia film "Moscow on the Hudson."
Most animal trainers believe that physical abuse is the only way to train chimps to act, according to a recently completed Humane Society of America investigation into allegations of chimpanzee abuse on the set of "Project X."
Whoopi Goldberg put the first brass star in cement Monday for the San Francisco Studios' new "Walk of Fame," a knockoff of Hollywood's more famous sidewalk of the stars.
In Vietnam's first recognition of the film "Platoon," Radio Hanoi Wednesday said, "The film depicts U.S. soldiers' crimes during the Vietnam War.
Writer-Director Oliver Stone received two Writers Guild of America screenwriting awards nominations Thursday.
"Platoon" continued to be the hottest movie on per-theater basis in America.
Clint Eastwood, a gun-toting cop on screen, is a gun-toting mayor when he's off.
Jury selection in a $30-million lawsuit starring Eddie Murphy and entertainment manager King Broder was under way Thursday in Mineola, N.Y.
Sylvester Stallone said "Rambo III" will go into production in five or six weeks in the United States, with a script rewritten by the actor to make the character "more realistic and less of a cartoon figure."
Indian film star Sunil Dutt defied death threats from Sikh extremists and entered the holy city of Amritsar on Sunday after leading a 1,250-mile peace march across north India.
British film maker Peter Watkins' Oscar-winning 1965 nuclear war documentary, "The War Game," was so horrifying it was banned in 1967 by the British Broadcasting Corp., which had hired him to produce it.
The makers of "Platoon" are planning a sequel focusing on the painful homecoming of a Vietnam War survivor.
A Tennessee boot company has filed a lawsuit against the producers of Sylvester Stallone's "Over the Top," saying the film makers failed to include Laredo Boot products in the movie as promised in a contract.