Tag: Movies

TOKYO — The princess laughs and floats in sumie-brush sketches of faint pastel, a lush landscape that animated film director Isao Takahata has painstakingly...

BUFFALO— "Fifty Shades of Grey" hasn't even opened in US theaters yet but already it is getting a big thumbs-down from religious and other...

LOS ANGELES- Sony and Marvel/Disney are finally bringing Spider-Man and the Avengers back together. The studios announced a deal late Monday night in which the next...

  LONDON- From a wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking taking to the stage to an emotional tribute for late director Richard Attenborough, it was a memorable night at...

NEW YORK- Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Inarritu won the top Directors Guild Award on Saturday for "Birdman," his satirical take on show business, raising...

  The team of Akshay Kumar's Baby is in a state of shock over the film's ban in Pakistan. While producer Bhushan Kumar is still...

  Robert Downey Jr. and Jennifer Lawrence emerged the biggest movie star winners at the People's Choice awards Wednesday, while on the small screen "The...

LOS ANGELES- Tolkien fantasy epic "The Hobbit" enjoyed a second week at the top of the North American box office, comfortably beating out newcomers...

  Egypt has banned a Hollywood film based on the Biblical book of Exodus because of what censors described as "historical inaccuracies". The head of the...

  Anurag Kashyap’s “Ugly” is a dark thriller about the aftermath of a child’s kidnapping. The characters in the film are dysfunctional and messed up...

  LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK- The last movie of Peter Jackson's three "Hobbit" films rode to the top of U.S. and Canadian weekend box office charts, selling...

LOS ANGELES- All was calm on Los Angeles premiere of Sony Pictures' parody film "The Interview" on Thursday, which had been in the spotlight...

  From "Birdman" to "Unbroken," the American Film Institute (AFI) selected an eclectic range of films already gaining momentum in the Hollywood awards race as...

LONDON- The final movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is here for the holidays and while the creators of the popular franchise admit...

  LOS ANGELES — "Boyhood" is on a roll. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Richard Linklater's 12-year experiment their best picture of 2014...

TOKYO — Godzilla is stomping back. And this time, it's Made in Japan, like the original. The announcement this week from Japanese film studio Toho...

ALBUQUERQUE- Hollywood is paying a tribute of sorts to the largest American Indian-speaking population in the United States by translating the wildly popular children's film...