Sony Pictures Classics has announced it acquired the rights to and will distribute Ralph Fiennes' ballet biopic "The White Crow."

Filming began this week on "Collateral," a four-part, British thriller starring Carey Mulligan.

British actor Daniel Craig is to star in a limited series based on Jonathan Franzen's novel "Purity," Showtime announced.

Carey Mulligan says she sees a connection between the women she plays in the big-screen drama "Far From the Madding Crowd" and the Broadway play "Skylight."

Production has officially begun in London on the television movie "The Dresser," Starz and the BBC announced Tuesday.

U.S. film actress Uma Thurman reportedly is to star in a small-screen adaptation of David Hare's play "My Zinc Bed" to be shown on BBC Two.

Actors Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes have signed on to star in "The Reader," the big-screen adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's best-seller.

A study by Australian cardiologists has found resistance training helps people with chronic heart failure.

Author Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" is being adapted for the stage, it was reported Tuesday.

Robert Zemeckis is developing, and may direct, a movie based on Jonathan Franzen's National Book Award-winning "The Corrections," Daily Variety said Thursday.

With the Screen Actors Guild Awards off the table, it's a straight shot to the Oscars next Sunday and the end of another awards season in Hollywood.

Screenwriter David Hare and author Michael Cunningham won the 15th USC Scripter Award for the Oscar-nominated movie "The Hours."

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The Orange British Academy Film Awards will present producer Saul Zaentz with one of the highest honors in film, the Academy Fellowship, in London Sunday.