LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Global movie ticket sales hit $29.9 billion last year, up 7.6 percent, with the most growth in the Asia Pacific region, the leading U.S. movie industry representative said on Wednesday. The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents Hollywood's major studios on ...

Haim, who rose to the fame alongside fellow teen star Corey Feldman and became known for his hard partying ways, was pronounced dead at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank early on Wednesday, according to Los Angeles police. "It was an apparent ...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said on Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia. Filming of "Coriolanus" will start in Belgrade on March 17 in ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow wrapped her fingers around that little golden man called Oscar on Sunday and cracked one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, but truly shattering it may take more time. Studies show that the number of jobs for women behind the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Comparisons with the original were inevitable when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to write a sequel to his record-breaking musical "Phantom of the Opera." After Tuesday night's world premiere at the Adelphi Theater in London's West End, the consensus among critics was ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS. Robert Joel Halderman, a former producer for the CBS news program ...

The cable TV network's division, ESPN Films, said it signed De Niro to portray Lombardi as he took the Green Bay Packers from worst to first in the National Football League. Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump") has been hired to work on a screenplay starting in 1959 when Lombardi was given his ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlie Sheen is expected to return to work on CBS' "Two and a Half Men" on Tuesday, according to his publicist. The actor is said to be in the process of exiting the rehab facility he checked into February 23. On Monday, Sheen is scheduled to appear in ...

The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, told a probation officer that he used cocaine and was not complying with the terms of his treatment plan, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Reuters. He faces five counts of violating probation.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side." Goodwin (HBO's "Big Love") stars as a Manhattan attorney, the consummate good girl, who ...