Zac Efron felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role "The Paperboy" — and he says that's the way he wanted it. The "High School Musical" actor has moved into decidedly grown-up territory with the film by "Precious" director Lee Daniels, which screened Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. It's a swampy ...
Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend — TV reality star Kim Kardashian — in Cannes, the only place for anyone famous to be this week. The American rapper walked hand-in-hand with Kardashian at the launch of "Cruel Summer" on Wednesday night. The couple didn't stop ...
Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does. The actors met on the black carpet at the premiere of "Men in Black 3" Wednesday night, with Jones twice asking Smith, "How's life in Moscow?" Representatives from Sony Pictures ...
At 8 years old, Ria Cheruvu, can't make up her mind whether she should become a software engineer like her parents or the president of the United States. Asked which way she is leaning, the Gilbert girl replied, "I think I'll become the president of the United States. But both ...
Viola Davis is addressing graduating seniors at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up. The Academy Award nominee is expected to speak to Central Falls High School's class of 2012 on Thursday morning. She was a member of its class of 1983 and has ...
Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does. The actors met on the black carpet at the premiere of "Men in Black 3" Wednesday night, with Jones twice asking Smith, "How's life in Moscow?" Representatives from Sony Pictures ...
Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend in Cannes. The rapper walked hand in hand with Kim Kardashian at the launch of "Cruel Summer" on Wednesday night. The couple didn't stop to talk to media but some of the cast revealed what it was like to ...
Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71. Carroll's son, George Brown, said the actress died Tuesday in New York after a long illness. Carroll worked steadily since that breakthrough role with Cruise in 1983. Her film ...
An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Raffaello Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday from a prison in Loretto, 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. Follieri pleaded guilty ...
A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed a case against two major Hollywood film studios brought by one half of the legendary soul music duo Sam and Dave. Sam Moore filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company and MGM studios claiming the 2008 film "Soul Men," starring the late actor ...
A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, a Republican, first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer, ...
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker. Surely, life lessons will be learned by all and an unlikely friendship will form across racial and socioeconomic lines and we'll ...
Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen. Everyone from Marlon Brando to Jean-Luc Godard to Brad Pitt has circled the classic 1957 novel over the last six decades, but Walter Salles' adaptation is the first to actually get made. The ...
Berenice Marlohe, the newest Bond girl, has been making the red carpet at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival look like a day at the beach. One day it was a gold lame gown by Emilio Pucci with a black lace insert on the halter top; on another it was ...
The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films — the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free — is at its most effective in a while in "Moonrise Kingdom." The director and co-writer's tale of first love, filled ...