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Chan marks anniversary of Peking Opera school
Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children ...
Studio settlement reported for fake movie news
Universal Pictures has agreed to pay $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club to settle complaints about fake news archives used to promote the movie "The Fourth Kind," the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. The Anchorage lawyer who negotiated the settlement...
Film honors NYC defense attorney William Kunstler
They grew up in a home like no other _ where bullets arrived in the mail and where their father went to the basement to open packages he feared could contain explosives. That was life for the daughters of the late civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, ...
Lucy Liu film highlights child trafficking
Actress Lucy Liu, who has produced a film about children sold into the sex trade in Cambodia, says the fight against human trafficking will be long. Liu praised several projects funded by the U.N. children's agency in Egypt, where she was promoting the...
The end is near as Hollywood does the apocalypse
It's the end of the world as we know it, and Hollywood feels fine. Global warming, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing terrorist threats and the economic meltdown have people in a gloomy, even end-of-days frame of mind. Filmmakers are tapping into...
Review: `Pirate Radio' rolls when it should rock
No movie can be all bad when juiced up with a soundtrack of more than 50 classic rock tunes. The best thing to say about Richard Curtis' "Pirate Radio" is that it's all about the music, man. The Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Jimi H...
Review: The end not soon enough for `2012'
Cataclysmic disaster and apocalyptic doom, as foretold by Hollywood, have a way of bringing together broken families, revealing the unseen heroism of deadbeat dads and neatly disposing of their rivals. This, too, is the micro-level drama of "2012," the...
Review: Humor falls flat in 'Women In Trouble'
"Women In Trouble" follows a day in the life of 10 different females, united by their uncanny ability to look fabulous in their underwear while in the throes of emotional crisis. Imagine Russ Meyer directing a Lifetime movie and you get an inkling of t...
Gheorghe Dinica, well-known Romanian actor, dies
Gheorghe Dinica, a Romanian actor who delighted his country by portraying characters such as villainous politicians and defiant Gypsies in dozens of plays and movies, died Tuesday. He was 75. Dinica, famous throughout Romania, died at Floreasca Hospita...
Yen says he enjoyed exploring villain role
Action star Donnie Yen says he signed on to play an ancient Chinese secret service agent in his new film _ even though it was another kung fu epic _ because he wanted to tackle the role of a villain who discovers his humanity. Historical or martial art...
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