PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 25 (UPI) -- "Argo" actor-director-producer Ben Affleck will receive an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island's Brown University, the Ivy League school said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 25 (UPI) -- AMC Entertainment Inc. is selling advance "Iron Man 3" tickets again after settling with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on how to split U.S. ticket income.
SAINT-TROPEZ, France, April 25 (UPI) -- Former movie star Brigitte Bardot says she is thrilled to be reunited with her lost cat, which had been missing for almost a month.
CANNES, France, April 24 (UPI) -- This year's Cannes International Film Festival jury features Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman, Christoph Waltz and Ang Lee, the organization said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES, April 23 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson announced via Twitter he is scheduled to undergo surgery next week to repair an abdominal tear.
LOS ANGELES, April 23 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor-filmmaker Ben Affleck says he will take the Live Below the Line challenge next week and spend no more than $1.50 on food and drink in a day.
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Actor Matthew McConaughey says he is working with Canada's Grand National Apparel on a clothing collection inspired by his active lifestyle.
ATLANTA, April 22 (UPI) -- Film star Reese Witherspoon was charged with disorderly conduct after her husband was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in Atlanta, police say.
LOS ANGELES, April 21 (UPI) -- "Oblivion," starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $38.152 million in gross receipts.
BEIJING, April 21 (UPI) -- The Walt Disney Co. pledged $1 million in aid to China where an earthquake left more than 180 dead, LucasFilm president Kathleen Kennedy said.
LONDON, April 20 (UPI) -- British movie star Jude Law has written the World Trade Organization asking the body to uphold a ban on trade in seal skins, an animal rights group says.
LONDON, April 20 (UPI) -- A former BBC official says British schools should teach filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock as well as Shakespeare because film is the "major means of communication."
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino says after working with Christoph Waltz on 2009's "Inglourious Basterds," he found himself writing a role specifically for Austrian actor in "Django Unchained."
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) -- Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks has extended his run in the Broadway play "Lucky Guy" through July 3, producers announced.
BOSTON, April 19 (UPI) -- "The Heat" director Paul Feig said he is setting up a Boston screening -- for the city's first-responders -- of the Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy FBI comedy.
LOS ANGELES, April 19 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Harrison Ford jokingly called Chewbacca a "Wookie sack of [expletive]" and suggested his one-time "Star Wars" co-star slept with his ex-wife.
LOS ANGELES, April 19 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Edward Norton and Canadian film producer Shauna Robertson secretly married in 2012, a source told Us Weekly.
CANNES, France, April 18 (UPI) -- Movies by Steven Soderbergh, Roman Polanski and Alexander Payne will be competing at France's Cannes Film Festival next month, organizers said.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Los Angeles police say they arrested an alleged knife-wielding woman who refused to leave the home of "American Pie" actor Eddie Kaye Thomas.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Actor Corey Feldman says he wants to buy back his stolen leather jacket from a man who found it at a Massachusetts flea market, TMZ reported.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- "Star Wars" creator George Lucas plans to marry his longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson at the Chicago Peninsula Hotel in June, The Hollywood Reporter said.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- The David Geffen Foundation has donated $25 million to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Beverly Hills, Calif., it was announced.
BURBANK, Calif., April 16 (UPI) -- Sibling filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski have begun shooting their science-fiction epic "Jupiter Ascending" at England's Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden.
NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- Designer Georgina Chapman, wife of film producer Harvey Weinstein, confirmed she has given birth to their second child, a son, in New York.
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