A statue of Oscar by any other name is still copyrighted, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday when it went to court to stop a Santa Monica store from selling crystal souvenir statuettes.
"Star Wars" trilogy star and show-biz scion Carrie Fisher already has a film deal for her first novel, "Postcards From the Edge," due out in August by Simon and Schuster.
The Seasonal Film Corp., a Hong Kong film company, has filed a civil suit seeking damages from the British colony's government for banning a film about the Vietnam War, the company said last week.
Sylvester Stallone said "Rambo III" will go into production in five or six weeks in the United States, with a script rewritten by the actor to make the character "more realistic and less of a cartoon figure."
Director Elia Kazan, 77, is to receive the Directors Guild of America's D.W.
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Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez says he reconstructed a script written 25 years ago for Mexican actress Silvia Pinal and it turned out much better this time.
The three men accused of luring porn queen Traci Lords into performing sex acts on film as a teen-ager pleaded innocent to child exploitation charges.
Indian film star Sunil Dutt defied death threats from Sikh extremists and entered the holy city of Amritsar on Sunday after leading a 1,250-mile peace march across north India.
In addition to a Toronto screening already reported, Columbia president David Picker acknowledged Tuesday that his company's $40-million-plus comedy, "Ishtar," received two American test previews as well: one last week in Orange, Conn., and another Monday night in Paramus, N.J.
British film maker Peter Watkins' Oscar-winning 1965 nuclear war documentary, "The War Game," was so horrifying it was banned in 1967 by the British Broadcasting Corp., which had hired him to produce it.
Bui Xuan Nhat, Vietnam's top diplomat in the United States, thinks the Oscar-winning "Platoon" would be a hit in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), but said his country probably couldn't afford to buy the foreign rights to show the film.
With the city's more traditional industries on the decline, Detroit's police-fire and general retirement funds have decided to plunk $4 million worth of investment into "The Rosary Murders," a mystery movie to be filmed in Detroit.
Island Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Diane Keaton's feature film directorial debut, "Heaven," from RCA Productions.
Actress Shirley MacLaine, 59, drew a gathering of 500 people who paid $300 each over the weekend for a Seattle seminar on human potential and the so-called New Age movement.
Pioneer film maker Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced, directed and distributed more than 35 silent and sound films, has become the first black director to be honored with a star on the Walk of Fame.
In a People magazine poll of 9,759 readers (published this week, just in time for Hollywood's centennial), Katharine Hepburn was chosen as the greatest female star ever, garnering 36% of the tally.
In Vietnam's first recognition of the film "Platoon," Radio Hanoi Wednesday said, "The film depicts U.S. soldiers' crimes during the Vietnam War.
Melvin Simon Associates of Los Angeles has been selected to develop a proposed $53-million museum to Hollywood's past.
Writer-Director Oliver Stone received two Writers Guild of America screenwriting awards nominations Thursday.