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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quentin Tarantino shot his movie about wartime France in Germany to save money but now directors like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese are returning to glamorous Paris thanks to generous tax breaks. The city has just got a major cinematic outing with the worldwide release of the partly Paris-set sci-fi blockbuster "Inception" and is now set for more celluloid exposure ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After three weeks at No. 2, "Toy Story 3" reclaimed the top spot at the foreign box office during the weekend, drawing $62 million. The Pixar cartoon has earned $351 million from 43 markets. Driving the weekend action were record openings in U.K. and Spain. In the U.K., the threequel grossed a huge $30 ...

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 ...

Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages on Thursday from a Sunday newspaper in Britain over claims they were separating, their lawyer said. The unmarried actors had sued the News of the World on privacy grounds over a front-page story in January that claimed they had consulted a lawyer and were dividing up their assets and ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - 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 ...

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 ...