BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it has extended the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations by one day.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Mark Wahlberg's R-rated stuffed bear comedy "Ted" is the top-selling DVD in the United States for a second week, Rentrak announced Monday.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- "Skyfall," the latest installment in the British superspy James Bond film franchise, has earned $1 billion at the worldwide box office, Variety reported.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is the No. 1 movie in North America for a third week, raking in $32.9 million this week, receipts show.
LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Film star Ewan McGregor and fashion designer Stella McCartney have made Queen Elizabeth II's list of Order of the British Empire honorees.
ROME, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- International Rome Film Festival organizers said they will present "Django Unchained" director Quentin Tarantino with a lifetime achievement award.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Bradley Cooper said he planned to quit the acting business if he wasn't successful in a difficult Broadway production of "Three Days of Rain."
GROTON, Mass., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Denzel Washington has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2012 in Quigley Publishing Company's 81st annual Poll of Motion Picture Exhibitors.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Harry Carey Jr., a staple in big-screen westerns such as "The Searchers" and "Three Godfathers," has died at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, Calif.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" has set a record for highest-grossing R-rated Christmas release in the United States, its producers said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Writer-director Quentin Tarantino says his new slavery-themed, revenge picture-spaghetti western "Django Unchained" is meant to be an entertaining look at a shameful era in American history, one which Hollywood frequently ignores.
2012 saw its share of finely crafted prestige films sure to join next month's Oscar race, as well as Hollywood blockbusters that made millions at the global box office.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Hollywood writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams says he talked with Lucasfilm about helming the seventh "Star Wars" film, but decided against it.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- "Ted," an R-rated comedy about a man whose best friend is a stuffed bear, is the top-selling DVD in the United States, Rentrak reported.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for Hollywood's 85th Academy Awards, organizers said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Actress Jessica Chastain says she didn't meet the real CIA agent on whom her "Zero Dark Thirty" character Maya is based because she is still working on top-secret missions for the U.S. government.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Kristen Stewart says she will reprise her role of Snow White in the sequel to 2012's "Snow White and the Huntsman."
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Director Peter Jackson's return to Middle Earth, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," is No. 1 at the North American box office, receipts show.
KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Jewish leaders Saturday demanded a Ukrainian politician take back what they said was an anti-Semitic slur against actress Mila Kunis.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Playwright Larry King, who wrote the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," has died in Washington of emphysema, his wife said. He was 83.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Paramount Pictures and the estate of Mario Puzo, the author of "The Godfather," have settled a legal battle in New York over the publication of a prequel.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The Walt Disney Co.'s purchase of Lucasfilm was officially completed with a cash payment of $2.21 billion and about 37.1 million Disney shares, officials said.
Greek national flags fly over Tiananmen Square during Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras state visit to Beijing on May 16, 2013. Samaras is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country's recession-battered economy. UPI/Stephen Shaver
