A La Costa, Calif., mother who says Ewoks are too violent for children wants to pull a book titled "Ewoks Join the Fight" from library shelves featuring the fuzzy little creatures created by George Lucas.
Orson Welles' ashes were entombed in Ronda, Spain, Thursday at a country house of retired bullfighter Antonio Ordonez where the American film maker once spent his vacations.
The Soviet Union will enter five films at the Cannes International Film Festival this month, including the movie "Repentance"--a film so blunt in depicting the horror of the Stalin era it was banned for two years immediately after its completion.
Omar Sharif attended the Polish premiere of "Doctor Zhivago" last week as part of an Omar Sharif festival given by a student organization in Warsaw.
David Mattina, a Biloxi, Miss., nightclub owner, said Wednesday he'll drop the name Oscar's and eliminate the Oscar statuette and other trademark references in his bar because the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences "is a lot bigger than me."
In the new American Film magazine, editor Peter Biskind traces some of the gossip about the approaching (yes, still approaching) Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman-Elaine May comedy "Ishtar," which may well be the most expensive comedy ever made.
"Beverly Hills Cop II" busted box-office records right and left as grosses swelled close to $41 million in only six days of release.
"Pure coincidence" is how West Germany's national television network called the broadcasting of "Law and Order," a 1953 Western starring Ronald Reagan, on the day after the President's appearance in that country.
In "The Color of Money," Tom Cruise learned a thing or two about pool from Paul Newman.
The Directors Guild of America said Monday it has no immediate plans to hold hearings on director John Landis' role in the "Twilight Zone" deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children.
The only known copy of a 1916 silent film made by Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish director who brought Greta Garbo to Hollywood, has been found in cardboard boxes in Oslo, Norway, destined for a flea market.
Porn star John Holmes, 44, is recovering from cancer surgery and will never make an X-rated film again, his manager said in a United Press International interview on Saturday.
"Beverly Hills Cop II" passed the $100-million gross mark last week, just 29 days after its North American premiere.
A cornucopia of movie and pop memorabilia--including two suits worn by Ronald Reagan in the 1941 movie "King's Row"--was auctioned off Saturday at Sotheby's in New York.
"Buried Alive," a Janis Joplin biopic based on Myra Friedman's 1973 biography, will finally make it to the screen, says "Dragnet" producer David Permut, who bought the rights to Joplin's life story in 1976--six years after the singer died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.
Salt Lake City may be rather far from Hollywood, but mere geography hasn't stopped police and lawyers involved in the case of one Mark W.
Any Chinese home with a television will be filled with "The Sound of Music" later this year under an agreement between News Corp.
A Soviet-made documentary about the Chernobyl nuclear accident was not shown as scheduled Friday at the Berlin Film Festival because the film failed to arrive at the theater on time, organizers said.
A planned movie reunion for "9 to 5" co-stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin has been shelved because of script problems, Parton said in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean.
"The Decline of the American Empire," the first Canadian film nominated for an American Academy Award as best foreign film, swept Canada's movie awards Wednesday night.