Pioneer film maker Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced, directed and distributed more than 35 silent and sound films, has become the first black director to be honored with a star on the Walk of Fame.
Melvin Simon Associates of Los Angeles has been selected to develop a proposed $53-million museum to Hollywood's past.
Oliver Stone, having made what many consider the compleat Vietnam movie with "Platoon," will take on Wall Street next.
Walt Disney Productions and Filmation Associates settled a copyright-infringement suit over Filmation's plans to produce and distribute "The New Adventures of Pinocchio," several lawyers reported.
Ireland's film censor banned "Personal Services," a film about the exploits of Cynthia Payne, a London woman nicknamed "Madame Cyn" who was acquitted last month of controlling prostitutes.
Director Elia Kazan, 77, is to receive the Directors Guild of America's D.W.
The International Documentary Assn.'
The three men accused of luring porn queen Traci Lords into performing sex acts on film as a teen-ager pleaded innocent to child exploitation charges.
Bui Xuan Nhat, Vietnam's top diplomat in the United States, thinks the Oscar-winning "Platoon" would be a hit in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), but said his country probably couldn't afford to buy the foreign rights to show the film.
The Seasonal Film Corp., a Hong Kong film company, has filed a civil suit seeking damages from the British colony's government for banning a film about the Vietnam War, the company said last week.
Michael Franklin, 63, will step down as national executive director of the Directors Guild of America at the end of the year, the union announced late Friday.
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.