Filming of the French version of the hit reality TV show "Survivor" has been cancelled after a contestant died of a heart attack on a tropical Cambodian island on the first day.
French broadcaster TF1 said it had axed the 2013 season of the show, called "Koh Lanta", after 25-year-old Gerald Babin fell ill on Friday during filming on Koh Rong off Cambodia's southwestern coast.
Full StoryIt's not the kind of performance that will win her another Academy Award, but British actress Tilda Swinton certainly has people buzzing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
But keep quiet, please. She's trying to sleep.
Full StoryFilm fans can already mark their calendars for the Academy Awards in 2014 and 2015.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that next year's Oscar ceremony will be held on March 2. The 2015 trophies will be handed out Feb. 22.
Full StoryAngelina Jolie joined British Foreign Secretary William Hague to visit Rwanda on Monday in a bid to encourage world powers to do more on tackling rape and sexual assault in war zones.
Britain's Foreign Office released a picture of the U.S. film star and Hague getting off a British-flagged jet in the central African country.
Full StoryThe caveman comedy "The Croods" left an indelible mark on the wall, opening at No. 1 with an estimated $44.7 million.
The 3-D adventure from DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox features a voice cast including Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Catherine Keener. They play a prehistoric family encountering danger and strange new creatures when they're forced to find a new cave.
Full StoryFormer Sex Pistols front man John Lydon told his Chinese fans to "be perverse" Monday ahead of highly-anticipated concerts in China with his band Public Image Ltd.
Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten from his days as lead singer of the British punk band in the 1970s, said he would take time out from his gigs in Beijing and Shanghai this weekend to talk to Chinese fans.
Full StoryThe curtain is about to go up at a new theater dedicated to Japan's centuries-old kabuki-za performing art, sited in a high-tech venue in a 29-storey Tokyo office building.
The theater in the upscale Ginza shopping district, which will open to the public at the start of next month, will let audiences use portable monitors to read subtitles to explain the sometimes difficult to understand art form.
Full StoryU.S. alternative rock band My Chemical Romance have split up after 12 years together, the group confirmed on their website Saturday.
The band was founded in New Jersey in 2001, comprising members Gerard Way, Ray Toro, Mikey Way and Frank Iero.
Full StoryThere's popcorn and movies, there's the infamous frozen TV dinner, and then, in one corner of New York, there's getting a top chef to feed you delicacies that echo the story unfolding on the big screen.
Old fashioned junk food won't cut the moviegoer's mustard in the hipster hotbed of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Full StoryTom Cruise has become the first Hollywood star to set up a page on the popular Russian social network Vkontakte.
The "Mission Impossible" actor's page appeared Friday, announced by a message on Twitter saying "See you there!" in Russian.
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