LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Has Telluride done it again? As the film festival wrapped its 37th year in Colorado's San Juan mountains Monday, the prevailing wisdom was that the event had launched yet another serious Oscar contender in the British royalty drama "The King's Speech."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner has settled his lawsuit against a California RV dealership that failed to deliver his $300,000 trailer in time for the shoot of his latest movie. According to USmagazine.com, McMahon's RV has agreed to pay $40,000, which ...

Auctioneer Sotheby's auctioneer expects the 14 works, to be sold as part of its contemporary-art sales on October 15 and 16, to fetch over 1.5 million pounds ($2.3 million). The highlight is Freud's "Eight Months Gone," depicting Hall eight months pregnant with her fourth child Gabriel ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Seagal is back on patrol for a second season of his reality show "Lawman." Production of the suburban New Orleans-based law enforcement show was shut down in April after the martial-arts star was accused of sexual harassment. The suspension order ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As a thriller, "The Debt" performs many if not all the right moves. The suspense builds nicely, the twists come as surprises and its key characters are vivid enough. Where the John Madden-directed film gets into trouble is in wanting to deal with the ...

McKagan, 46, performed a few concerts with the band, and worked on new material for its first album in seven years, but musical differences cut short his tenure. "Hey we wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record," the band said via email. "We love the songs ...

NASSAU (Reuters) - A judge in the Bahamas on Monday dismissed the charges against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from John Travolta over his son's death after the Hollywood actor requested the case be dropped. Senior Justice Jon Isaacs made the ruling after prosecutor Neil ...

"The American," in which Clooney plays a laconic gunslinger holed up in a picturesque Italian village, earned $16.4 million across the United States and Canada during the four days beginning September 3, distributor Focus Features said on Monday. "Machete," a violent fantasy ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A powerful Chinese film on the plight of political prisoners condemned to forced labor camps in the late 1950s wooed critics in Venice on Monday, with some tipping it as a strong contender for the festival's top prize. "The Ditch" tells the little-known story of some ...

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road. He died instantly in the freak accident on Friday afternoon.

Schimmel, 60, was a passenger in his 19-year-old daughter's car on August 26 when she lost control after swerving to avoid another accident on a Phoenix highway. The daughter was hospitalized, but is expected to recover. Schimmel's 11-year-old son was also a passenger in the car and was uninjured, ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Martin Scorsese's latest film pays a personal tribute to Elia Kazan, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's most influential directors but also a controversial figure who turned anti-communist informant in the McCarthy era. In "A Letter to Elia," an hour-long documentary ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox announced Friday what media reports have speculated for weeks: Kara DioGuardi is leaving "American Idol." "I felt like I won the lottery when I joined 'American Idol' two years ago, but I feel like now is the best time to leave 'Idol," ...

LONDON (Billboard) - At a recent media showcase in London, KT Tunstall offered an unusual description of the songs from her forthcoming third album: "Like Eddie Cochran working with Leftfield," she told the assembled press. After hearing Tunstall's new release, the reference to such ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rosanne Cash has worn many hats through the years -- country music star, acclaimed singer-songwriter, mother of five and firstborn child of the legendary Johnny Cash. Now, with her long-awaited memoir "Composed," Cash is a best-selling author as well.

Nathan Lee Parada, 31, of Redlands, California, could face up to six years in prison if convicted. Police said they do not know if Parada specifically targeted Hilton's home or if the burglary was random.

Klein, 31, also was sentenced to the four days he had already served in a Los Angeles jail and agreed to attend 18 months of alcohol education classes, officials said. The actor broke into Hollywood's ranks of young actors playing a naive teenager named Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 ...

Hogan, 70, has been barred from leaving Australia for nearly two weeks after the Australian Taxation Office served him with a departure-prohibition order while he was in the country to attend his 101-year-old mother's funeral. The office has refused to comment on reports that it was seeking tax on ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Directors Peter Weir, Danny Boyle, Mark Romanek and Errol Morris will headline the Telluride Film Festival, the annual Labor Day holiday weekend event that kicks off Friday in the Colorado mountain resort. Romanek's "Never Let Me Go," based on the Kazuo ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival on Friday honored Hong Kong director John Woo, one of the few Asian filmmakers to enjoy box office success in Hollywood as well as at home. The 64-year-old was awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Lion at the world's oldest film festival on the same day ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Social media" is among today's most popular catch phrases thanks to the success of, among other things, networking website Facebook -- the favored way for today's youth to communicate on a global level. Now Facebook is the subject of what's expected to be the ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Sofia Coppola's latest movie is a Hollywood insider's look at the life of an A-list actor -- five star hotels and Ferraris, adoration and sexual advances, but also loneliness, tiresome media attention and boredom. "Somewhere" is part comedy and part examination of a ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - If the new "Date Night" DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch -- or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter -- that figure represents a blockbuster. The ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Before summer began, no one had heard of Montana Fishburne. But the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Fishburne, now the main guy on "CSI," was eager to make a name for herself. On August 18, Vivid Entertainment released the aptly titled adult ...

Irish concert promoters MCD and the O2 Arena said that despite every effort to get the band on stage on time on Wednesday night, it did not arrive until nearly 90 minutes after the support act. During the second song, singer Axl Rose asked members of the crowd who were throwing plastic glasses ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - More than a half-century ago, the Cat in the Hat was on a mission. Challenged to create a figure that would make children more interested in reading, Dr. Seuss came up with an engaging feline with a red- and white-striped top hat. With his anarchic style and ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Food and travel provocateur Anthony Bourdain is celebrating the 100th episode of his genre-busting Travel Channel series "No Reservations" on Monday. The host, chef and author critiques other cooking reality shows, defends his pork enthusiasm, reveals ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The famously unflappable Cameron Bailey is looking a touch puzzled, and has for weeks. The Toronto International Film Festival co-director is standing in his Carlton Street office, studying a giant film schedule as if it were an abstract gallery painting.

The show, which earned wide acclaim in London's West End, is based on the popular Norwegian novels that tell of a pair of mismatched roommates, their friendship and their relationships with pizza, poetry and women. A movie based on the books was nominated for foreign language film Oscar in 2001, ...

The 93-year-old actress remains in a great deal of pain from being bedridden for around seven weeks, said spokesman John Blanchette. Gabor, who is as famous for her lavish lifestyle and number of husbands -- she married nine times -- as for acting, broke her hip on July 17 and had replacement ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies for this weekend's event, regarded as among the top U.S. movie gatherings of the year and an early highlight for Oscar hopefuls. The festival, which takes place over four days in the ski resort town of ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eminem led Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a seventh week on Thursday with "Love the Way You Lie," while Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" moved up one to No. 2, swapping places with Taio Cruz's "Dynamite." A day earlier, Perry's album, also ...

T.I. whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., 29, was arrested with his wife on Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night after police smelled marijuana coming from a car in which the Grammy award-winning rapper was a passenger. He was booked for possession of a controlled substance and was released after ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The lives of four Arab-Israeli women spanning three generations against the backdrop of conflict are at the center of "Miral," a film by Julian Schnabel based on his Palestinian partner's biographical book. From the 1948 creation of the Jewish state to the 1993 Oslo ...

Robert Joel Halderman, a former producer on the CBS news show "48 Hours", pleaded guilty in March to attempted grand larceny as part of a deal with prosecutors. He was sentenced to six months in a New York City jail, but was released early after serving four months due to good behavior, ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie "Black Swan," the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, with one review saying the performance "elevates her ... to a major star." The 29-year-old plays a New York ballerina ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed on as executive producers after the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere in 2009. "Precious" ...

The two sides had still not reached a deal early on Thursday morning according to an email from Time Warner Cable spokeswoman Maureen Huff. She said both sides were still working on a deal. The programing fee dispute between the two sides is over how much the cable operator would pay Disney for ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There was an age in television where spine-tingling and spell-binding anthology shows ruled the air. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Twilight Zone" scared the little boys who would grow up to become the Stephen Kings and Steven Spielbergs ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Dwayne Johnson is strapping on a backpack to replace Brendan Fraser in a 3D sequel to the 2008 remake "Journey to the Center of the Earth." Brad Peyton is on board to direct "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," in which Josh Hutcherson will ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Sandman," the Neil Gaiman-written comic book series considered a seminal work in the medium, is in the early stages of being developed into a TV series. Warner Bros. TV is in the midst of acquiring television rights from sister company DC ...

Paul Lieberstein, who plays Toby on the show and serves as one of its executive producers, tells E! News that Keitel "is probably the only guy who can do it, and he's doing TV now ... That's what a very smart/eager man once called a 'win-win-win.'" (Keitel recently starred on ABC's ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The soon to be ex-wife of "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and a pair of Paris Hilton's aunts are among the women who make up the cast of the "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." The reality show, slated to premiere on U.S. cable network Bravo on October ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nobody ever said Hollywood relationships were easy, and the on-again off-again affair of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore certainly proves that out. Are they still on? Are they off? This Friday, as the pair's romantic comedy "Going the Distance" debuts in theaters, ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - First there was the Phantom of the Opera. Now, in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," you get the Terror of the Ballet. The movie combines horror-movie tropes with "The Red Shoes," "All About Eve" and every movie about show business ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The title of "The Winning Season" is, of course, the first spoiler in this movie about a down-and-out, alcoholic ex-basketball player who gets hired to coach a girls' high school team. In reality, you could have called the movie "Clippers ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival opened on Wednesday with "Black Swan," a dark psychological drama starring Natalie Portman as a ballerina who finally lands the lead role but loses her grip on reality as the pressure builds. The arrival of a rival dancer, played by Mila Kunis, ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Katy Perry achieved her first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday, ending Eminem's reign of seven nonconsecutive weeks. Perry's third album "Teenage Dream" sold a career-best 192,000 copies during the week ended August 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan. ...

The embattled U.S. comedian, who was replaced by Jay Leno after a short-lived stint as host of the popular late-night "Tonight Show" program on NBC, said his new talk show on cable TV network TBS would premiere November 8. In a video announcement posted on showbiz website variety.com, ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A tale of illegal Mexican immigrants, corrupt U.S. politicians, nasty drug lords and vigilantes turns pulp movie in Robert Rodriguez's "Machete," which had the audience laughing out loud at the Venice festival. The unlikely action hero of the blood-filled film is a ...

In a written statement to the festival, where his short film "The Accordion" is screening, Panahi said that he had been officially banned from making films in the past five years. "Despite having been released, I am still not free to travel outside my country to attend film ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hit television show "Glee" and credit card company American Express have joined forces on a new social action campaign to inspire viewers to make a difference in their communities. The call to charitable action -- a partnership between U.S. TV network Fox, which ...

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which acquires and preserves cultural materials, launched a public appeal earlier this month to raise $30,000 to restore five dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in the Oscar-winning film. The costumes, from the collection of filmmaker David ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones admits having a hard time watching husband Michael Douglas battle throat cancer and has told People magazine she is furious with doctors for not detecting his disease sooner. Douglas, the Oscar winner of "Wall Street" and a veteran of ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The major broadcast networks are serious about splitting the Primetime Emmys into two shows, and they have support among cable networks who share a frustration about HBO so thoroughly dominating the longform categories. One ceremony would honor all series and air ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Poor Lindsay. She can't catch a break. Released early from rehab and free again to pursue personal and professional rehabilitation, Lindsay Lohan has an opportunity to re-enter the public consciousness with the seriousness of a newly clean starlet intent on ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - We've seen who will cut a rug on the next "Dancing With the Stars." But do you know who turned ABC down? According to a source involved with casting, the network approached Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg to join the dance card for the show's 11th ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movies, has vowed to continue fighting the Australian tax office which has barred him from leaving Australia until he pays a massive bill, saying he's victim of a witch hunt. Hogan, 70, was served with a departure ...

The 65-year-old "Wall Street" actor told TV talk-show host David Letterman that a biopsy indicated that his cancer was at stage IV, which he described as "intense, and so they've got to go at it ..." Letterman asked whether stage IV was a good diagnosis.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fans of MTV's "Jersey Shore" love the outsized personalities and the occasional fisticuffs. But it's hard to throw a punch without making some enemies, and chief among them might be New Jersey-based attorney Eugene Lavergne. He isn't the only lawyer ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC is renewing summer reality hit "America's Got Talent" for a sixth season. The network is bring back the competition series for another round next summer after a strong performance this year that has "Got Talent" ranking as the ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Politically minded actor John Cusack has picked a fight with Fox News, and both of them have dealt the "death" card from the bottom of the deck. Cusack started the war of words when he tweeted to his 209,000 followers -- in all capital letters no less: ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Back in the 1970s, a film like "The American" would be labeled existential. Today it feels merely pointless. An assassin wants to give up the life; a priest likes to reclaim lost souls for God; a prostitute looks for a man to free her; two mysterious ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was returned to the hospital after slipping into unconsciousness on Tuesday following a series of health-related setbacks since breaking her hip in July. Gabor, 93, was in "a great deal of pain" Tuesday morning and her husband, Frederick ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second straight year, "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf topped a Forbes.com list of Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck with women claiming five of the top 10 spots compared to zero last year. Based on the financial news site's own calculations, for every ...