Just as they did at the Academy Awards, independent films reined in the six top awards given over the weekend at the ninth annual Houston International Film Festival.
Hemdale Film Corp., the producer and distributor of the Oscar-winning film "Platoon," does not have to turn over prints of the movie to Vestron Inc. so they can be converted to videocassette, a Los Angeles judge ruled Monday.
In Brothers-in-Law (ABC on Sunday at 8 p.m.), the first of two made-for-TV movies airing back to
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Kris Aquino, the 16-year-old youngest daughter of President Corazon Aquino, has been offered a role in an as-yet-untitled Cannon Films movie starring Chuck Norris.
A judge has ruled against the mistress of Darryl F.
Willie Nelson's latest movie, "Red Headed Stranger"--based on Nelson's 1975 narrative LP--was to open Thursday night at a benefit in Austin, Tex., where suggested dress was black tie or blue jeans.
Columbia Pictures' megabuck comedy "Ishtar"--still in post-production and lumbering toward its May 15 national release date--is the talk of the town after New York magazine outlined the $40-million film's production delays and on-set peccadilloes.
Arthur Cohn, four-time Oscar-winning producer (three times for best foreign film, once for best documentary), fielded questions from the audience after a screening of his 1976 film "Black and White in Color" Wednesday night at the American Film Institute Film Festival--and got a particularly interesting question from an audience member:...
Freddy Krueger, the dream-killing anti-star of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, is back in town with a vengeance: the latest installment, the third (subtitled "Dream Warriors") grossed $8.9 million its first weekend, the biggest opening weekend of 1987 so far, according to Exhibitors Relations Co.
The California Film Office and the state's Motion Picture Council merged last week into the California Film Commission.
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Disneyland's first Snow White--subject of a nationwide search--has been found living happily ever after in Newport Beach.
The ashes of film maker Orson Welles, packed in an old blue suitcase, arrived in Madrid Monday on their way for burial at the ranch of retired bullfighter Antonio Ordonez.
The Cannes Film Festival opens today in the south of France, and numerous celebrities who stayed away from last year's festival because of terrorism in Europe are expected this year, among them Academy Award-winner Paul Newman (bringing his version of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie"), Diane Keaton (who will show...
A bitter dispute between a leading still photographer of Hollywood's Golden Age and his daughter over 7,000 pictures of celebrities has ended with the return of the collection to the artist.
"Repentance"--a film about tyranny with oblique references to the dictatorship of the late Joseph Stalin--won the first prize at the Soviet film festival in Tbilisi, the Soviet news agency Tass reported Sunday.
A group of parents, clergy and social workers in Seattle claim that "Raising Arizona" encourages child abuse, neglect and kidnapping.