The co-producer of "My Dinner With Andre," who turned down a $2-million divorce settlement, has been awarded $7 million in a New York decision lawyers say could break new legal ground.
Wells Fargo Bank, claiming it is trustee for publicity rights of the late actor Clark Gable, has filed a licensing suit against seven corporations, including Hallmark Cards Inc. and MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc. for manufacturing products bearing the actor's likeness without the bank's consent.
"Gone With the Wind" will run every day in a new Atlanta movie theater because it's the favorite movie of the theater's owner--media mogul Ted Turner.
David Lynch's film "Blue Velvet" will continue to be shown in South Africa despite the objections of the apartheid government's home affairs minister, a board of government censors ruled Monday.
Two-year-old Junior Merced upstaged a movie shoot in Chicago on Friday when he fell from a second story window while trying to get a better view of the action.
Mega-millionaire producer-director George Lucas has a few choice words for the "gray-flannel types" who run Hollywood studios.
Paul Newman, who enjoyed critical success in the hit movie "The Color of Money" for Walt Disney Pictures' Touchstone Films, has signed a three-year contract with the company for movie development and production.
Actor Anthony Quinn, 71, is scheduled to receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s Cecil B.
The author of a noteworthy history of black soldiers in Vietnam called best picture-nominee "Platoon" an "abysmal racist disaster" Wednesday.
Albert Broccoli, who produced 15 of the highly successful James Bond films, is to receive the Order of the British Empire at the British Embassy in Washington today.
When His Honor Clint Eastwood said in a recent interview that his political activities might have drawn less attention if he'd been elected mayor in Paso Robles instead of Carmel, Nick Russell took it personally.
Haing Ngor, who portrayed Cambodian journalist Dith Pran in the film, "The Killing Fields," announced in Brussels Wednesday that he is seeking $300,000 to organize an emergency medical supply relay from Thailand to refugees in Cambodia.
Katharine Hepburn will be coming out with a book this fall chronicling the filming of "The African Queen," the 1951 motion picture that paired her with Humphrey Bogart and was shot during three months in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and in Uganda.
NBC affiliate WNYT-TV in Albany, N.Y., canceled its broadcast of the situation comedy "Valerie" Sunday night because the episode dealt with a teen-ager using condoms.
Director Bernardo Bertolucci was cleared in Rome on Monday of obscenity charges relating to his 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
Screen Actors Guild President Patty Duke says running the 67,000-member union is quite enough without emulating a former guild president--Ronald Reagan--and aspiring to higher office.
The estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," is working with a New York literary agent on an authorized novel continuing the story of Scarlett and Rhett.
Actor Warren Beatty donated 20 acres and television mogul Dick Clark provided 54 acres to help the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy extend a network of hiking trails in Southern California, officials announced Thursday.
China is co-producing a film on the life of a heavy-drinking, womanizing, Communist Canadian doctor eulogized in a poem by Mao Tse-tung.
A treasure of 250 silent films discovered in a barn in Temperance, Mich., include a full version of Thomas Ince's "The Italian" and a comedy featuring Oliver Hardy as a villain, according to workers at the Library of Congress film restoration laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.