Hollywood star Tom Hanks has started shooting portions of his newfilm "A Hologram for the King" in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the country's state news agency...

Ron Howard will direct a documentary on the Beatles that focuses on the band's touring years during the early 1960s.   Howard announced the project Wednesday. The film is being...

Guillermo del Toro is helping to open the "Book of Life."   The Oscar winner is producing the animated feature by first-time director Jorge Gutierrez, and joined him at Fox Studios...

"There's the Mooch," says Ben Falcone brightly as his wife, Melissa McCarthy, enters the room.   It's a term of endearment, a long-used nickname between the two who have...

Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," shot over 12 years, has already been hailed as a landmark without parallel in movie history. It took a rare feat of commitment from Linklater and his...

When Zach Braff took to Kickstarter to fund his new movie, "Wish I Was Here," he explained to fans where their money would go: It would ensure his creative control, allow him to cast the...

Kathy Bates calls herself "an old lion."   The actress says she also plays one in the big-screen comedy "Tammy," in theaters this weekend. Bates portrays Lenore, a...

Two months into its most lucrative season, Hollywood's summer is down nearly 20 percent from last year at North American theaters.   WHAT'S WORKING   — Sequels....

Digital characters have by now long populated our movies like unwanted house guests. Some of these CGI inventions, like Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings," have been pleasant, even precious...

The road movie is refitted for a charming spin around scenic Iceland in "Land Ho!," a serio-comedy of very modest ambition but a distinct character of its own. At its most reductive, a buddy...