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 ...

The late writer and director John Hughes is being honored at the Traverse City Film Festival. The Lansing native died last year at the age of 59 and is this year's recipient of the Michigan Filmmaker Award. It's given to Michigan natives for their contributions ...

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on Tuesday made her acting debut with Hollywood star Owen Wilson in a Woody Allen film being shot in Paris. The veteran US director greeted the former model on the set of "Midnight in Paris" before shooting, which lasted several hours, at a small grocer's shop in the central fifth ...

Today is Monday, July 26, the 207th day of 2010. There are 158 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. On this date: In 1775, Benjamin Franklin became America's first Postmaster-General. In 1788, New ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Saw" horror movie franchise is getting a place in the Guiness World Records as the "Most Successful Horror Movie Series," one of the film's producers, Mark Burg, said on Thursday. "I'm still in shock," Burg told Reuters. "The fact that we beat out (such horror franchises as) 'Friday the 13th,' 'Nightmare on Elm Street ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted an undisclosed amount of damages on Thursday after suing a British tabloid newspaper which had claimed they were separating. In January, the News of the World reported the couple planned to part and had agreed on custody of their six children and the division of their assets estimated by the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Romantic comedies might provide 90 minutes of light-hearted fun but the happy-ever-after movies are also impacting people's real love lives, according to an Australian survey. A poll of 1,000 Australians found almost half said rom-coms with their inevitable happy endings have ruined their view of an ideal relationship. One in four Australians said they were now ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed actress Geena Davis to a California commission established to promote women's equality. Schwarzenegger on Tuesday named the 54-year-old actress to the Commission on the Status of Women. The nonpartisan panel advocates for women and girls in areas such as education and ...

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday. The Academy Award-winning director of "Born on the Fourth of July" and "JFK" said that ...

Director Roman Polanski, freed this week after Switzerland refused a US extradition request, made his first public outing Saturday to see his wife perform at the Montreaux Jazz Festival. High security prevented the media from getting close to the 76-year-old film director as he arrived to attend Emmanuelle Seigner's concert with festival founder Claude Nobs in a 4x4 with ...