U.S. director Steven Spielberg is planning to produce a film set partly on the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, a report said Tuesday.

Spielberg, who is currently in India's entertainment capital Mumbai, told The Times of India that the film would be produced by his DreamWorks Studios and its Indian partner Reliance Entertainment, which is headed by tycoon Anil Ambani.

A defense lawyer says prosecutors are not seeking jail time for actor Stephen Baldwin, who's accused of not paying his New York income taxes for three years.

There's a court conference Monday in the case against Baldwin, the youngest of the four acting Baldwin brothers.

Taylor Swift has visited a young cancer patient in Nebraska.

The singer was at Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha on Saturday to see 10-year-old Lauren Hacker. The fifth-grader at St. Margaret Mary School has cancer.

With his Hollywood career in high gear and his new film "Mud" out soon in U.S. theaters, Matthew McConaughey said he feels no pressing need to put acting aside for a turn behind the cameras.

Speaking at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival Sunday, McConaughey -- a native Texan who graduated from college in Austin and now resides here -- said he has a couple of ideas in the back of his head that he'd like to personally direct.

Rihanna had to back out of a concert this weekend due to a case of laryngitis.

Rihanna canceled her Boston show because of a bout of laryngitis on Sunday, according to TMZ. The "Diamonds" singer was set to perform at the TD Garden arena, but Live Nation postponed the show, saying, "Unfortunately, following her sold-out concert on Friday, Rihanna has contracted laryngitis and per doctor's instruction is unable to perform this evening."

Big-budget 3D fantasy adventure flick "Oz the Great and Powerful" debuted atop the North American box office with a huge $80.3 million in weekend ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.

Starring James Franco as a circus magician who ends up on the Yellow Brick Road, "The Wizard of Oz" prequel easily topped last week's leader, "Jack the Giant Slayer," according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Tiffani Thiessen is probably best known for her role as Kelly Kapowski on "Saved by the Bell," but the actress says she had no idea at that time how popular the teenage sitcom was.

"I mean, I was so young. I was 15 when I started that show," Thiessen, now 39, said in a recent interview.

Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber has cancelled one of two scheduled concerts in Portugal next week, just after completing what he admitted had been a rough week in London, promoters said Saturday.

Within a few days, the 19-year-old pop sensation angered some of his fans for being late on stage, then suffered a health scare and was involved in a foul-mouthed confrontation with a photographer.

Hollywood star Sean Penn, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and a pair of U.S. politicians joined mourners at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's funeral Friday, with the reverend praying for better U.S.-Venezuelan relations.

A somber-looking Penn, wearing a black suit and tie, sat among the crowd of foreign dignitaries who paid tribute to the leftist firebrand leader, who bonded with several American movie stars during his 14-year presidency.

Rubber-faced comic Jim Carrey returned to the big screen in fan-pleasing form Friday by way of the opening feature of the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival.

"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" stars Steve Carrell as a washed-out Las Vegas magician in ghastly sequined suits whose refusal to change with the times nearly costs him his life-long friendship with stage partner Anton Marvelton, played by Steve Buscemi.