SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - Helen Mirren won some geek points at the annual Comic-Con convention on Thursday when she joined her co-stars to tubthump her upcoming movie "Red." The spy action-comedy, opening October 15, is based on a DC/Wildstorm comic by Warrren Ellis and Culley Hamner, who shared the stage during a panel session with Mirren and co-stars Bruce ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Twilight" is likely not very high on Helen Mirren's movie list. Because, when it comes to romance on film, the Oscar winner just doesn't like it. In that way, Mirren said, she feels more like a man. "I don't really like romantic movies very much...And I hate talking about feelings, so I'm ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - One can't make up characters like this: Joe Conforte, who owned the first legal brothel in the U.S., the Mustang Ranch outside Reno, Nev.; his wife, Sally Burgess Conforte, daughter of a prostitute; or world-class Argentine boxer Oscar Bonavena, shot dead at that ranch in 1976, allegedly for having an affair with Sally. Then ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedy stars Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the first duo to share the Oscar stage as co-hosts in the television age, traded punch lines and barbs in Sunday's show as they gently roasted this year's nominees. Working the room like a pair of Hollywood insider insult comics, Martin and Baldwin singled out many of the ...

Expect a hangover at the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which puts on the Globes, says the cast of the summer comedy "The Hangover" will serve as presenters at Sunday's ceremony, along with Felicity Huffman, Helen Mirren and Samuel L ...

A Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group won top honors Friday at the Rome Film Festival, while Helen Mirren won the best actress award. Mirren won for her depiction of Leo Tolstoy's wife in Michael ...

Whimsy shouldn't be overwhelming. It shouldn't be a busy, messy cacophony. By definition, there should be something delicate about it. Charming, even. "Inkheart" has long since slammed the book shut on that concept, with director Iain Softley cramming in more literary characters and mystical creatures than would seem humanly possible ...

It gives "stage-to-screen" a new meaning. Britain's National Theatre announced Wednesday it will beam live performances to movie theaters around the world in a bid to widen its audience and test the public's appetite for watching stage plays onscreen. The first ...

Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her role as the Queen in Stephen Frears' 2006 film, is to return to the stage of the National Theatre to play another royal figure, but one of a different order to the repressed, dignified Elizabeth II. Mirren will play the title role in Racine's Phèdre. In the ...

Helen Mirren is a shoo-in to win the best actress Oscar, at least according to bookies William Hill - she's their 1/12 favourite to pick up the statuette on February 25, the shortest odds they've ever offered at this early stage. Fellow Britons and best actress nominees Judi Dench and Kate Winslet only rate 14/1 and 25 ...