Entertainment
Disney's Pixar movies moving to 3-D format
The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio is committing to 3-D and will release all of its movies in the format beginning with "Up" next year. Chief Creative Officer John
'Potter's' Radcliffe to do 'Equus' on Broadway
Harry Potter is headed to The Great White Way. Daniel
Are people ready for an emo Bond?
After getting the bad end of his own ax in a fight, a bloodied villain limps alone in a stark desert.
Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn withdraw divorce petition
Sean Penn and his wife, Robin Wright Penn, have withdrawn their divorce petition. A Marin County Superior Court commissioner has dismissed the divorce proceedings between the couple, who call the co
Breslin, Foster talk about being child actors
Jodie Foster grew up on-screen in the 1970s, acting beyond her young age in such films as "Taxi Driver" and "Freaky Friday." Now Abigail Breslin, who starred in "Little Miss
Review: 'Street Kings' is all too by-the-book
In "Street Kings," Keanu Reeves' bad-boy cop Tom Ludlow may not play by the rules, but the film sure does.
Lawsuit alleges Ledger used cocaine
A lawsuit against a photo agency and two paparazzi who allegedly filmed Heath Ledger in a hotel room where drugs were being taken claims that the late actor was also using cocaine that night.
Famous friends lay Heston to rest
Charlton Heston, one of the last lions of Old Hollywood, was remembered at his funeral Saturday as devoutly religious and patriotic, a man who was an imposing figure both in his politics and on the
'Prom Night' dances to No. 1
Audiences made a date with "Prom Night," a remake of a 1980 slasher flick that took in $22.7 million to debut as the weekend's No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Legendary Disney animator dies at 95
Ollie Johnston, the last of the "Nine Old Men" who animated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Bambi" and other classic Walt Disney films, died M
'X-Files' movie title revealed
The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.
Wait a minute, wasn't Captain America dead?
It turns out you can't keep a good man down -- or even dead and buried -- when he wears a red, white and blue uniform and calls himself Captain America.
John Grisham has no illusions about writing
Some things John Grisham knows: He got 15 rejections before his first book, "A Time to Kill," was published. He made $9 million last year. He's not James Joyce or William Faulkner. He's an
'Things Fall Apart' still teaching lessons 50 years later
At age 77, author Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his native Nigeria and the people for whom his stori
Trove of Margaret Mitchell papers in secret location
A legal battle over prized documents purportedly belonging to "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell has blown over, but the final resting place of the disputed papers is still a se
New Oprah pick her hottest yet
Even for an Oprah Winfrey book pick, "A New Earth" has been a sensation.
Actresses overcome injury, challenges for show
The biggest acting role of Lily Rabe's life ended with an abrupt thud. During a rehearsal for her role as Babe in a revival of Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," a piece of the set fell
Rowling sues publisher, says she's upset by fan
As the creator of the Harry Potter books sees it, her kindness to fans might come back to haunt her.
Author: My best-selling Holocaust book is a hoax
A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers sa
Memoir of gangbanging, drug dealing is fake
A memoir by a white woman who claimed she was raised in poverty by a black foster mother and sold drugs for a gang in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood has turned out to be pure fiction, a newspaper
Fake memoir not going to change book business
Two years after the fall of James Frey, a publisher has again been conned by a memoirist with a life that proved too bad to be true.
Junot Diaz wins big award for 'Oscar Wao'
Stories from the island of Hispaniola were winners Thursday night at the National Book Critics Circle awards: Dominican-American Junot Diaz took the fiction prize for "The Brief Wondrous Life o
Author Arthur C. Clarke dies
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide sai
Author Arthur C. Clarke dies
Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age
Sci-fi guru Clarke to have secular funeral
Even in death Arthur C. Clarke would not compromise his vision.
