"Short Term 12," a drama set in a center for troubled teenagers, took top honors for narrative feature film Tuesday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and based on an eponymous short he made in 2008 that won a Sundance jury prize, the film stars Brie Larson as a twenty-something foster home supervisor with a difficult past of her own.
Full StoryU.S. authorities were investigating Tuesday after hackers leaked personal financial data apparently belonging to first lady Michelle Obama, the head of the FBI and several A-list celebrities.
Hackers using a Russian web address published what they said were the credit reports of Obama, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and Los Angeles Police Chief Charles Beck.
Full StoryIranian media say authorities are planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country.
Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said on Tuesday that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. Coutant-Peyre is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.
Full StoryThe One World international human rights documentary film festival which opens in Bucharest on Tuesday will give special focus to the Holocaust to highlight the devastating consequences of hatred and intolerance.
"The 6th edition of the (One World Romania) festival aims to be an antidote to hatred", organizers said.
Full StoryThe Cannes Film Festival has an American flavor this year, with a Hollywood icon heading the jury and a quintessential U.S. literary figure opening the event: The Great Gatsby.
Organizers said Tuesday that the film "The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann, will open this year's Cannes festival — in 3D, no less.
Full StoryBritish singer and ex-Smiths frontman Morrissey has postponed a U.S. show due to double pneumonia, his publicist said Monday, but denied he had been hospitalized.
In the latest rejig of U.S. tour dates due to health woes, Saturday's canceled concert in San Francisco will now take place on May 1. The 53-year-old was hospitalized in Michigan for a bleeding ulcer in January.
Full StoryU.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.
Full StoryA 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.
Full StoryTaylor 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.
Full StoryWith 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.
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