Aniston's divorce from Pitt becomes final
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The divorce between former Hollywood golden couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston is now official.
Aniston filed the initial divorce petition in Los Angeles six months ago and the judge's dissolution of the marriage, approved in August, became final Sunday, E! Online reported Monday.
Neither Pitt, 41, nor Aniston, 36, sought alimony and their Beverly Hills mansion is on the market for $28 million.
Pitt is now living with his "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" co-star Angelina Jolie and her two adopted children at his Malibu home.
Unpublished Bell story gets film treatment
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- An unpublished story by British author Mary Haley Bell is being turned into a movie by Gold Circle Films.
Bell is the widow of the actor John Mills and the mother of actresses Juliet and Haley Mills.
Her grandson, Crispian Mills, is co-writing the script for "The Winged Boy," which is being directed by Luis Mandocki, the Hollywood Reporter said Monday.
"The Winged Boy" will be a family film about an Irish boy who grows wings and learns to fly, the Reporter said.
The film is scheduled to start shooting in Ireland in the spring.
Mandoki's latest film, "Innocent Voices," is getting a rare screening at the United Nations Wednesday with actress Jennifer Connelly and Jordan's Queen Noor as hosts.
British journal blames film for STD rise
LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Britain's Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine blames Hollywood for the rise in sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies.
The Journal article singles out the 2003 James Bond thriller "Die Another Day" and Sharon Stone's 1991 "Basic Instinct," saying both films have several instances of unprotected sex without mentioning any of the potential dangers involved, the World Entertainment News Network reported Monday.
"The social norm being presented in movies is concerning, given the HIV and illicit drug pandemics in developing and industrialized countries," wrote Dr. Hasantha Gunasekera.
"The motion picture industry should be encouraged to depict safer sex practices and to depict the real consequences of unprotected sex."
Cult film director Richard Cuhna dies
OCEANSIDE, Calif., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Low-budget cult film director and cinematographer Richard E. Cunha has died in Oceanside, Calif., at age 83.
The director of "Giant From the Unknown," "She Demons," "Giant from the Unknown" and "Frankenstein's Daughter" died Sept. 18 of heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
The Honolulu native had a decade of industrial films, commercials and TV experience -- including director of photography for the popular Westerns "Death Valley Days" and "Branded" -- when he moved into low-budget feature filmmaking in 1957.
His drive-in cult classics were all shot in six days with budgets of $65,000 or less, the Times said.
Cunha is survived by his wife of 62 years, three sons, a daughter, a sister, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
