DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Saudi movie "Wadjda," a tale of a girl's quest to own a bicycle in the kingdom where women are deprived of many rights, won the best Arabic feature film at the Dub

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Scottish hardman actor Gerard Butler, known for thrillers and action movies, has softened up for his latest role, in a romantic comedy set in smalltown America.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - The first film on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs since his death, with Ashton Kutcher in the title role, will debut in January at the Sundance Film Festival,

​SYDNEY (AFP) - (AFP) - John Travolta and his "Grease" on-screen love Olivia Newton-John have recorded together for the first time in 30 years, making a Christmas album honouring the US

SINGAPORE (AFP) - (AFP) - South Korean pop music sensation Psy admitted Saturday that he sometimes gets sick of his massive hit "Gangnam Style" but will continue performing the number t

​TOKYO (AFP) - (AFP) - Japan's widely-watched year-end TV show will feature only Japanese acts this year, with popular South Korean performers left out of the line-up amid territorial frictions w

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - An actor on "Two and a Half Men" has lashed out at his own hit US television show, urging viewers to stop "filling your head with filth," after ap

ROME (AFP) - (AFP) - The world premiere of Indian director Mira Nair's political thriller "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" based on a bests

BRUSSELS (AFP) - (AFP) - A Belgian filmmaker said Monday officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo had refused him entry to the country when he

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Veteran actor Ernest Borgnine, the star of dozens of films and television shows who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Oliver Stone's latest movie pits a pair of Californian neo-hippy cannabis growers against Mexican drug barons aiming to

LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Most London shoppers rush by 165 Oxford Street without a second glance -- but it was there 50 years ago that The Rolling Sto

SARAJEVO (AFP) - (AFP) - US superstar Angelina Jolie, whose recent directorial debut dealt with the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, arrived on Saturday as a

NEW YORK (AFP) - (AFP) - From the boxing ring to Broadway -- Mike Tyson said he's teaming up with director Spike Lee to take his one-man show "

ROME (AFP) - (AFP) - Left-wing Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci has died aged 65 after a long illness, his brother and longtime collaborator B

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - French actor Jean Dujardin, star of this year's best film Oscar winner "The Artist," is in talks to co-star i

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey was named US poet laureate on Thursday, an annual honor aimed at promoting poet

BELGRADE (AFP) - (AFP) - Big Brother and the Holding Company the band once fronted by 1970s rock icon Janis Joplin, kicks off a European tour Friday with a concert at a festival in Uzice, Ser

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Was alleged Canadian "psycho killer" Luka Rocco Magnotta inspired by Hollywood? That's a growing question fue

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - The United States has cut funding to a popular Pakistani version of the children's program "Sesame Street" ami

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - The Walt Disney Company, in a first for a US media giant, said Tuesday it will ban junk-food advertising on its TV chann

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - The actors who played Captain James T. Kirk and Spock in the 2009 film reboot of "Star Trek" will give voice

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - "Snow White and the Huntsman" was the fairest o

​ABU DHABI (AFP) - (AFP) - US pop icon Madonna hit the stage running at Abu Dhabi's Ya

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - Mexican Carlos Reygadas, whose puzzling "Post Ten

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of the film "Love&qu

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - The third edition of the "Men In Black" franchi

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - Two high-profile documentaries exposing the impact of

​RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Brazil's children's television show host Xuxa has reve

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - Brad Pitt returned to Cannes on Tuesday as a humane hi

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - Isabelle Huppert plays three roles in "In Another

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - Roman Polanski on Monday delivered as promised his lat

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - An Iranian film noir about an academic who returns hom

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - A Romanian nunnery tale, a killer whale of a drama and

​MANILA (AFP) - (AFP) - Lady Gaga's Philippine concerts will go ahead as planned, orga

​CANNES, France (AFP) - (AFP) - "The Hunt", a taut psychological thriller st

LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Robin Gibb's wife and youngest son were at his hospital bedside on Monday as the Bee Gees singer remained in a coma, having contracting pneumonia in his battle against canc

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - US police have recovered five stolen guitars belonging to Tom Petty and Heartbreakers, they said, earning thanks from the US rock veteran on the eve of his latest tour

LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Author William Boyd is to follow in the footsteps of fellow novelists Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks by penning a new adventure for 007 superspy James Bond, it was reve

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Guns N' Roses star Axl Rose will not attend a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony this weekend to be inducted into the prestigious music pantheon, he said in an open

VIENNA (AFP) - (AFP) - Five opera premieres and three for ballet will pepper next season at Vienna's State Opera, which continues to see its profits and spectators rise since French director Domi

LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - "Titanic" director James Cameron hit the red carpet in London for the launch of the Oscar-winning film's 3D version, as the 100th anniversary of the legendary shi

NEWCASTLE, United Kingdom (AFP) - (AFP) - Susan Boyle made a triumphant return to the stage on Tuesday at the premiere of a musical charting her rise from humble church volunteer to global supers

​PARIS (AFP) - (AFP) - Post-apocalyptic teen movie "The Hunger Games", adapted from a bestselling fight-to-the-death novel, hits screens worldwide from Wednesday in one of the most-anti

ROME (AFP) - (AFP) - Italian script-writer and poet Tonino Guerra, who worked with renowned directors such as Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, died Wednesday aged 92 in Rimini in cent

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Boxing legend Mike Tyson will debut a one-man show in Las Vegas next month, and could take it to Broadway and London's West End, according to the show's co-writer.

HONG KONG (AFP) - (AFP) - Hong Kong director Ann Hui will be honoured for her life's work at the Asian Film Awards on Monday, in recognition of classics such as "Song of the Exile".

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - The youthful policemen of 1980s remake "21 Jump Street" seized the head of the North American box office this weekend, according to preliminary industry figu

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" topped the North American box office for a second straight week, earning $38.8 million over the weekend, industry data showed Monday.<

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Country star Taylor Swift racked up the biggest US earnings last year, followed by Irish rockers U2 -- while British sensation Adele made it into the top 10 despite h

BOGOTA (AFP) - (AFP) - Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez turned 85 on Tuesday, spending a quiet day at his home in Mexico City, the Colombian literary giant's relatives and aides said.

​PARIS (AFP) - (AFP) - Inhabited by lonely little monsters, dancing corpses and boggle-eyed creatures from the underworld, Tim Burton's cult universe comes to Paris this week with a show that jou

PARIS (AFP) - (AFP) - Rare photographs of Bob Dylan, shot over a year-long period in the mid-1960s, go on show in Paris next week in an exhibition that captures the moment the protest folk singer

NEW YORK (AFP) - (AFP) - The funeral on Saturday for pop superstar Whitney Houston will be broadcast live from the New Jersey Baptist church where she grew up singing in a gospel choir, the funer

Silent movie "The Artist" and US actress Meryl Streep continued their march towards Oscar glory on Sunday after scooping top awards at the BAFTAs, the biggest night of the British film in

The Grammy awards show opened on Sunday with a prayer for legendary US singer Whitney Houston, whose death cast a cloud over the event, due to feature a comeback performance by British soul diva Ad

Iconic 1960s group The Beach Boys and award-winning songstress Adele will stage comeback performances this weekend at the Grammys, the music industry's annual star-studded awards bash.  

Pop legend and actress Whitney Houston died in a Beverly Hills hotel, triggering shock and tributes as the music world gathered for the annual Grammy awards show. She was 48.   H

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Cable television is the leading source of US political news for Americans, according to a study released Tuesday, but fewer people are closely following the presid

WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - More than two million US viewers watched the first-ever live stream of the Super Bowl over the Internet, the NBC television network said Tuesday.   <

ROME (AFP) - (AFP) - Sixty works by leading post-war American artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol feature in a new exhibition opening on Tuesday at the Palazzo delle Es

LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - The organisers of the BAFTA film awards in Britain have unveiled Miss Piggy as one of the show's hosts, promising spiky questions for Hollywood luminaries George Clooney an

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AFP) - (AFP) - Madonna dazzled the Super Bowl crowd with a high-octane half-time show that started with an army of Roman gladiators and ended with plea for world peace writ

WARSAW (AFP) - (AFP) - Hardy fans of swimming in the frozen lakes of northern Poland have decided to call off a mass outing this weekend due to the vicious cold snap gripping the country, organis

PARIS (AFP) - (AFP) - Controversial US director Abel Ferrara says he is to make a film on the sex scandal that destroyed Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn's political career -- with Gerard Depardi

SYDNEY (AFP) - (AFP) - Two celebrated filmmakers working on a documentary with Oscar-winning director James Cameron and National Geographic have died in a helicopter crash in Australia, according

​NEW YORK (AFP) - (AFP) - US media giant Disney announced it will take a controlling interest in India's leading television producer, UTV, and delist the Indian media and entertainment group.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Silent movie "The Artist" was given yet another Hollywood award  though this one not from the Oscars or Golden Globes organizers, but from city fathers in Ti

ATHENS (AFP) - (AFP) - Greece's award-winning film director Theo Angelopoulos died after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing a street, a hospital official said. He was 76. Angelo

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Silent film "The Artist" added 10 Oscar nominations to its Hollywood haul on Tuesday -- and is part of a distinctly Gallic flavor to the Academy Awards short

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Martin Scorsese's lavish 3D adventure "Hugo" earned 11 Oscar nominations, just ahead of hotly-tipped silent movie "The Artist" with 10 nods for Hol

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - Legendary US blues and soul singer Etta James, best known for her 1960 hit "At Last," died Friday from complications of leukemia aged 73, her manager said.<

TOKYO (AFP) - (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was sporting a literal black eye Monday as he sought to avoid a metaphorical one in a fight over tax policy. Noda appeared

​LOS ANGELES (AFP) - (AFP) - British comic Ricky Gervais vowed Friday to pull no punches at this weekend's Golden Globes show, which he is hosting for a third straight time despite ruffling feath