SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Spanish actor Antonio Banderas is to play a pirate in the movie "SpongeBob SquarePants 2," The Christian Science Monitor reported.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- "Star Trek: Into Darkness" is the No. 1 video-on-demand title in the United States, Rentrak announced Monday.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- "Prisoners," a thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, was No. 1 at the weekend box office with $21.43 million.
MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Russia's Oscars nomination commission said it chose Fyodor Bondarchuk's World War II drama "Stalingrad" as its entry for the foreign-language Academy Award.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Walt Disney Studios has announced plans to end its partnership with the U.S. film and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer next year.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Australian actress Cate Blanchett is to make her big-screen directorial debut on a film adaptation of Herman Koch's novel "The Dinner," EW.com reported.
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Sandra Bullock is to be honored at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif., next month, organizers announced Thursday.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Patsy Swayze's publicist says the choreographer and dance instructor has died at her home in California's Simi Valley. She was 86.
By KAREN BUTLER, United Press International
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, an Emmy Award-winning actress widely regarded as one of the funniest women in the world, says she was thrilled to demonstrate her more serious side in writer-director Nicole Holofcener's big-screen relationship dramedy, "Enough Said."
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Zac Efron completed a stint in rehab about five months ago and has been staying away from the nightclub scene since, People.com said Tuesday.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Morgan Freeman and Jesse Eisenberg's magic-themed heist flick "Now You See Me" is the No. 1 video-on-demand in the United States, Rentrak announced Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Leonardo DiCaprio is to produce and possibly star in the film adaptation of "Wilson," A. Scott Berg's biography of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Variety said.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Production of adult films will resume at the end of the week for performers who have tested negative for HIV, a trade industry group announced.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor and writer Justin Theroux says fiancee Jennifer Aniston won't let him keep his wax replicas of medical oddities in their home.
By KAREN BUTLER, United Press International
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Mireille Enos says she was eager to star in the zombie-apocalypse movie "World War Z" because it is an intelligent action flick that never loses sight of the humans at the center of its story.
