Actress Amanda Bynes leaves facility after psychiatric treatment
(Reuters) – Troubled former teenage star Amanda Bynes has left a California facility after court-ordered psychiatric treatment and is recovering at her parents’ home in...
Tag : Film
A Minute With: Penelope Cruz on not playing it safe on set
(Reuters) – Penelope Cruz plays a barren wife in one of her new movies and a doomed fiancée in another, but her own family life...
French-born film artist Prouvost wins 2013 Turner Prize
(Reuters) – French-born film installation artist Laure Prouvost won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize on Monday for a short film clip that in part tells the...
Study finds most US silent films have been lost
WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of feature-length silent films made in America have been lost due to decay and neglect over the past 100...
Bruce Lee’s famous yellow jumpsuit up for auction
HONG KONG (AP) — Bruce Lee fans who covet the original yellow jumpsuit that the martial arts legend wore onscreen will get a chance to...
A Minute With: Vichit-Vadakan on her Thai prostitution docudrama
(Reuters) – Thailand has racked up more clichés about prostitution than most countries. But in her film “Karaoke Girl”, director Visra Vichit-Vadakan goes beyond the typically one-dimensional...
‘Mandela’ marks Elba’s cinematic maturity
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — When portraying South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela in the biopic, “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” Idris Elba embraced the harsh...
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation gives $3 million grant to save tigers
(Reuters) – Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s conservation foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population....
Actor Hugh Jackman reveals skin cancer scare on Instagram
(Reuters) – Australian actor Hugh Jackman said on Thursday that he had a skin cancer scare when doctors diagnosed a mark on his nose as...
With cotton and corn husks, actress connects to her ’12 Years a Slave’ character
(Reuters) – In preparing for her first film role as a petite, hard-laboring slave in “12 Years a Slave,” actress Lupita Nyong’o sized herself up...