Soviet movie fans will be able to see films by Federico Fellini, Milos Forman and other Western directors following a shake-up in the state film hierarchy, a leading Soviet film maker said Tuesday.
Los Angeles' own Cassandra Peterson will co-write and star in the first movie to be made by NBC's new movie-production unit.
A Jacksonville, Fla., theater was firebombed after receiving threats about Jean-Luc Godard's "Hail Mary," a film about a modern-day Virgin Mary, the Florida Times-Union reported Monday.
Oscar ballots should hit thousands of mailboxes this weekend, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Robert E.
San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein has appointed a 15-member Film Advisory Council to bolster the city's position as a major film production center and fend off growing competition from other areas.
The Richard Pryor comedy "Critical Condition" barely edged out Oliver Stone's Vietnam film "Platoon" in the weekend box office standings, according to figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations Co.
Actor-director Robert Redford will be honored in Hanover, N.H., today with the Dartmouth Film Award for his notable career and for founding the Sundance Institute in Salt Lake City.
The members of Monty Python are getting together again, according to Pythonist Terry Jones--but only as business partners.
Actress Jane Fonda and her husband, California Assemblyman Tom Hayden, declared their support for the outlawed Solidarity labor movement after beginning a visit to Poland on Sunday that is to include a meeting today with its leader, Lech Walesa.
"Platoon" continued its remarkable box-office pace during its second weekend in wide national release, taking in $8.2 million from 856 theaters and running its total to $38.3 million.
Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" closes tonight in Stockholm after a record run of 573 straight weeks, the distributor said Wednesday.
Howard Johnson, 63, a trainer of exotic animals for use in films, television and stage shows, was attacked and killed by a camel Wednesday at his compound in the Riverside County community of Mead Valley.
Movie-going is more popular than ever, judging from the 20% jump in domestic box-office sales this spring break over last year, Daily Variety reported this week.
Not surprisingly, "Beverly Hills Cop II" turned in the biggest opening day of the year so far Wednesday, grossing $4,206,144 at 2,326 theaters for a per-screen average of '$1,808, Paramount Pictures announced Thursday.
June is busting out all over a little early in Rome, where Italy's best-known porn star, Ilona Staller, is running for Parliament as a member of the unorthodox Radical party.
Actor Eddie Murphy is scheduled to be at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at 2 p.m. today as the 171st celebrity to press the cement of the theater's landmark courtyard--and the first since Clint Eastwood in October, 1984.
Eddie Murphy is the subject of a paternity suit brought by 19-year-old Nicolle Rader, it was learned late last week.
The Little Tokyo Cinemas, 333 South Alameda in downtown Los Angeles, which were to open Friday, failed to pass fire inspection, said a theater official.
Producer Arnold Kopelson said Sunday he would not allow "Platoon" to be released in Singapore because of cuts demanded by censors.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wants one Academy Award winner from each of its 59 annual ceremonies to give back his or her Oscar--but only for a few weeks.