The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 17 winners of scientific or technical awards, given to those whose inventions or discoveries proved valuable to the film industry.
Meanwhile, in Urbana, Ill., another annual film festival--the Insect Fear Film Festival--closes today at the University of Illinois.
The West Berlin International Film Festival opened Friday, with Martin Scorsese's "The Color of Money" and Oliver Stone's "Platoon" representing the United States and several previously suppressed films representing the Soviet Union--yet another indication of the cultural thaw spreading over that country.
Tri-Star Pictures intends to appeal the X rating given to Alan Parker's "Angel Heart" by the ratings board of the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
French actor-singer Yves Montand will head the jury at the 40th international film festival in Cannes May 7 to 19, festival officials announced Monday.
A 1971 movie banned by Imelda Marcos because it features her husband's alleged mistress makes its Manila debut today.
Bette Midler, whose film career was foundering until last year's hit Touchstone comedy, "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," has found a home at Walt Disney Studios, and now she is moving in.
Dino Di Laurentiis will pay $1 million to the moviegoer who can guess where the money is hidden in "Million Dollar Mystery," due this summer.
The Walt Disney Co. will make its first venture into retailing later this month when it plans to open shop in the Glendale Galleria shopping mall, studio officials said.
Talking with reporters during a break in his Mineola, N.Y., trial, Eddie Murphy compared his former agent Wednesday to "the guy with the big cigar who turns around and says, 'I'll make you a big star'."
"What happened to screenwriting in American movies?
When Benson reviewed "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" in 1982, she proclaimed it "the film of the double-decade."
The strangest cut of all was the omission of so many outstanding scores of the '80s, such as Jerry Goldsmith's inspired score for "Under Fire," featuring pan pipes and the guitar artistry of Pat Metheny.
Thank you for an insightful and timely examination of the cinema of the '80s.
Christopher Reeve is being sued for $45 million by two men who claim he plagiarized their story and "palmed" it off as his own for "Superman IV."
Benji is back and Disney's got him.
Vietnam will allow an American movie crew to shoot a film in the country for the first time since the Communists took power in 1975, director Christopher Crowe said Wednesday night during shooting in Bangkok of the movie "Saigon."
Taking a cue from her good friend Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor is now using her name to sell a scent--but it costs more than a few cents to get it.
"Platoon" may reap an additional $20 million at the box office after its four Oscar wins but the awards meant little on Wall Street.
Frankie and Annette are back and Paramount Pictures has 'em.