All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard once said. It's also the formula for a best-selling book of portraits of American women and the guns in their lives.

Saucily titled but seriously presented, "Chicks with Guns" is going into its third printing, after selling about 12,000 copies since its October 1 release -- and no-one is more surprised than the photographer herself.

Angelina Jolie's directorial debut about the Bosnian war and a drama made by and starring her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton will feature at the Berlin film festival next month, organizers said Monday.

Jolie will present her harrowing drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey" out of competition after winning praise in Bosnia for its unflinching take on the brutal 1992-1995 conflict, filmed in local languages with a home-grown cast.

Veteran U.S. actress Kim Novak accused the French makers of silent film hit "The Artist" of "rape" Monday for using music from Alfred Hitchcock classic "Vertigo" in their movie vying for Oscars glory.

Novak, who starred in the 1958 Hitchcock thriller, said the makers of "The Artist" -- up for a clutch of prizes in Hollywood's current awards season -- had cheated by only giving a relatively small credit for the music.

On what would have been Elvis Presley's 77th birthday on Sunday, hundreds of fans from around the world made the annual pilgrimage to the Graceland mansion where the "King of Rock and Roll" lived.

This year, the birthday celebration also served as the kick off to what is expected to be a year of global Elvis mania marking the 35th anniversary of the beloved icon's death.

Both Ryan Seacrest and Fox executives say they want Seacrest to remain as host of "American Idol" beyond this season. But Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly says it's been a "tough negotiation" to make that happen.

Both sides were tight-lipped about the state of those talks at news conferences on Sunday, a few weeks before the nation's most popular television show begins its 11th season.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and other red-carpet veterans joined some Hollywood newcomers in the Southern California desert this weekend to kick off the two-month-long movie award season at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

"When you're of age: drink," Clooney noted to the newcomers at Saturday night's gala awards ceremony. "That's good advice to pretty much anybody."

The Duchess of Cambridge will celebrate her 30th birthday on Monday with a "low-key and private" event, an official at St James's Palace says.

Catherine has reached the milestone after a tumultuous year that has seen her marry Prince William, embark on her first official overseas tour and take on several commitments to voluntary work.

The newly-released horror flick "The Devil Inside" topped the North American box office at the weekend, according to estimates published Sunday by the film industry group Exhibitor Relations.

The dark tale about a girl trying to lead an exorcism on her mother took $34.5 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada, and knocked Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," off the top spot.

U.S. pop diva Beyonce has given birth to a girl named Ivy Blue Carter, media reports said. The baby and mother are doing well.

The New York Daily News reports the singer checked into Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's upper East Side on Friday night under the name "Ingrid Jackson."

An actress who filed an anonymous lawsuit against Amazon.com and its Internet Movie Database for revealing her age identified herself in a federal court filing Friday.

Huong Hoang of Texas, may be better known by her stage name, Junie Hoang. She has appeared in such films as "Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver" and "Hoodrats 2: Hoodrat Warriors."