NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- Sundance Channel says it has ordered a 10-episode second season of the Georgia-set drama "Rectify," its first wholly owned original scripted series.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson admits he was initially disappointed to learn he was too old to play the lead in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Benjamin Bratt has replaced Al Pacino as the villain in Hollywood's animated sequel "Despicable Me 2," Deadline said Tuesday.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. cable network Spike TV says it will start airing fresh episodes of the police-themed reality program "Cops" in September.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked revenge film "Django Unchained" is the top-selling DVD and No. 1 rental in the United States for a second week, Rentrak said.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Tom Cruise has signed on to star in a fifth installment of the blockbuster "Mission: Impossible" film franchise, EW.com reported.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- Claire Danes, Kim Kardashian and Michelle Williams were among the stars who attended the glitzy Costume Institute gala at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley are to co-star with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in "No Man's Land" and "Waiting for Godot" on Broadway, producers said.
ATLANTA, May 7 (UPI) -- The Atlanta Police Department says it did not gift actress Reese Witherpoon with the "awful" A.P.D. baseball cap she has been sporting since they arrested her.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Attorney Shawn Holley agreed to represent Lindsay Lohan again only if the U.S. actress pays $150,000 she owes her for prior work, TMZ reported.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Amanda Bynes said via Twitter she is so happy with her nose job she doesn't want the media to use photos of her from before she had it.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- The Broadway production of "Orphans," starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, is to close six weeks earlier than planned, producers said.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- Longtime Los Angeles broadcast journalist Mario Machado, who played newsmen in several films and TV shows, has died at the age of 78, his family said.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (UPI) -- "American Idol" Season 9 runner-up Crystal Bowersox and musician Brian Walker have announced they split up after more than two years of marriage.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 7 (UPI) -- Margaret Groening, who married one cartoonist, gave birth to another and inspired the cartoon character Marge Simpson, has died in Oregon. She was 94.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- Jamaican saxophonist Cedric Brooks, who had been seriously ill for three years, has died of cardiac arrest in a New York hospital, his sister said. He was 70.
NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- Having grown up with ambition, but not monetary wealth, actor Leonardo DiCaprio says he can relate to the character he plays in the big-screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel "The Great Gatsby."
NEWARK, N.J., May 6 (UPI) -- Rapper-actress Lauryn Hill, sentenced to jail Monday in New Jersey for evading federal taxes, likened having to pay taxes to slavery.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6 (UPI) -- Dannielynn Birkhead, the 6-year-old daughter of Larry Birkhead and the late Anna Nicole Smith, dressed as Mary Poppins for the Kentucky Derby.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 6 (UPI) -- Police say Jennifer Lopez was safe in her vehicle while they investigated a report of gunshots fired near the Florida park where she was taping a music video.
JAKARTA, May 6 (UPI) -- Boston rockers Aerosmith canceled their May 11 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, after a bomb threat was made at the Myanmar Embassy, E! News reported.
A trader wears a DOW 15,000 hat on the floor of the NYSE before the closing bell on Wall Street In New York City on May 7, 2013. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first time in history. UPI/John Angelillo
