From underworld figures and political activists to famous artists and star athletes, Bollywood is going biographical with a series of films based on, or inspired by, real lives. The first to hit screens is "Once Upon A Time in Mumbai", a thriller set in the 1970s about a power struggle between two gangsters, complete with big hair, even bigger moustaches ...

Rapper-turned-underwear model-turned-Oscar-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg has been enshrined in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 39-year-old actor was presented with a star Thursday on Hollywood Boulevard's famed sidewalk monument. Will Ferrell, who stars with Wahlberg in the action-comedy "The Other Guys" being released next week, was on hand for the ceremony ...

Gabourey Sidibe (GA'-buh-ray SIH'-dee-bay) is pinching herself over her unexpected life, which includes an Oscar nomination and a new TV series. At a meeting Thursday of the Television Critics Association in Beverly Hills, Sidibe described herself as a "middle-of-the-lane, very normal" person who'd planned ...

The new generation of filmmakers will come into its own at this year's Venice film festival, where 41-year-old US director Darren Aronofsky will raise the curtain with "Black Swan", organisers said Thursday. "Venice is getting younger," said director Marco Mueller as he presented the selection for the world's oldest moviefest, set for September 1-11. The average age of ...

British actor Tom Hardy says he had gay flings in his younger years.

Hardy currently stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page in Inception, but the thirty-two-year-old actor got his big break starring in Star Trek Nemesis and is well known for his role as ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Cop Out," a buddy cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, may have underperformed at the box office, but the DVD topped the national sales and rental charts during its first week in stores, according to data issued Wednesday. The fact that "Cop Out" ($44.9 million at the box office) debuted at No. 1 ...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is giving money away. The group behind the Golden Globe Awards presented $1.5 million in grants to nonprofit film organizations at a star-studded luncheon Wednesday at the Four Seasons Hotel. Eva Longoria Parker helped HFPA president Philip Berk hand out ...

The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of burned-out houses, the Jewish ghetto totally flattened. It is Warsaw in the spring of ...

British actor Daniel Craig will star in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Hollywood's first adaptation of one of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's record-setting Millennium Trilogy, a Sony Pictures official said. The newest James Bond impersonator will play journalist-sleuth Mikael Blomkivst in the upcoming production, a version of which has already been filmed in Sweden, a Sony ...

France's first lady, a former supermodel turned songstress, is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris." Even her busy husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy, wasn't about to miss the action. He showed up on the Left Bank set ...