Under the title Once Upon a Time, Lebanon: Visions of Postwar in New Lebanese Cinema, Lebanese filmmakers will participate in the Toronto International Film Festival that will be held in Toronto at the (TIFF) Bell Lightbox between June 14- June 17.

Curated by Rasha Salti, Toronto International Film Festival programmer of African and Middle Eastern Cinema, Once Upon a Time, Lebanon: Visions of Postwar in New Lebanese Cinema, features an exciting line-up of fifteen films (8 features and 7 shorts) from the most promising and internationally acclaimed national cinema in the Middle East.

Andie MacDowell will be a pioneer for the Hallmark Channel, starring in the network's first prime-time series.

Hallmark said Wednesday that MacDowell will portray municipal court Judge Olivia Lockhart in "Cedar Grove." It will start with a two-hour movie airing later this year and continue with a 13-episode series early in 2013.

A court has found a French magazine violated singer Celine Dion's privacy and awarded her 8,000 euros ($9,940) in damages after it wrote in 2010 that she was in hospital with pregnancy-related problems.

The court in Toulouse ordered celebrity magazine Ici Paris to pay the damages, and 2,000 euros in court fees, after it wrote in September 2010 that the Canadian star had been rushed to hospital and doctors feared for the twins she was expecting.

Colombian superstar Juanes said singer-songwriter-producer Juan Luis Guerra got him out of his comfort zone when the musician started rearranging his songs for his "MTV Unplugged" taping.

And Juanes was happy to take on the challenge.

U.S. detectives plan to question Justin Bieber after a press photographer claimed the teen idol hurt him during a scuffle over the weekend, a sheriff's department spokesman said.

The alleged incident occurred on Sunday at a shopping center near Bieber's home in Calabasas, northwest of Los Angeles, as the lensman tried to take pictures of the singer and his actress girlfriend Selena Gomez.

Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo, known for hard-hitting works dealing with human nature and the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has died at his home in Tokyo, his office said Wednesday.

Shindo, who celebrated his 100th birthday last month, died early Tuesday, producer Tetsuo Satonaka said.

“It’s All in Lebanon” is a documentary by Wissam Charaf that will be screened at Metropolis Empire Sofil for 2 weeks starting the 31st May.

“It’s All in Lebanon”, is one of the most exciting documentaries about Lebanon done these past 10 years, and a must-see for all those involved in politics, advertising, public relations and the media!

Grammy-winning U.S. folk legend Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, who branched out from his Appalachian musical roots blending in bluegrass, country, gospel and blues, died in North Carolina Tuesday, his promoters said. He was 89.

Watson, a National Medal of Arts winner who hailed from Deep Gap, North Carolina, passed away following abdominal surgery last week at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, promoters Folklore productions announced.

As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK.

During a 15-minute address that was by turns sincere and irreverent, De Niro drew a steady stream of laughter from the 463 graduating seniors and more than 2,000 onlookers at the private, liberal arts college's campus.

Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker — a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."

The "Twilight" heartthrob stars in David Cronenberg's Cannes Film Festival entry as sleek, self-centered moneyman Eric Packer, who sees his fortune and sense of self evaporate during an eventful day in his stretch limo.