In the end, Hollywood made it through a precarious minefield of summer box-office bombs with a heftier wallet. The summer concluded with a record $4.7 billion in box-office revenue despite much...

Dakota Johnson will play Anastasia Steele in the big-screen adaptation of E L James' "Fifty Shades of Grey."   Focus Features and Universal Pictures announced the casting...

After bringing the history-making U.S. baseball player Jackie Robinson to the big screen, Chadwick Boseman is going to try another icon: James Brown.   Boseman has been cast to play the...

The Italian film "Sacro GRA," a documentary about life along the highway that circles Rome by director Gianfranco Rosi, won the Golden Lion for best film at the 70th edition of the Venice...

The 1980s had New Kids on the Block; the '90s had the Backstreet Boys; and now boy bands are resurgent again with British group-of-the-moment One Direction, currently a chart-topping global pop...

Tate Taylor, who directed "The Help," said Monday that he'll make a biographical feature film about James Brown, starting this autumn.   Filming will take place...

Sci-fi movies, we all know, create unlikely heroes, and this summer's no exception.   Remember Brad Pitt as a U.N. inspector in "World War Z"? He just wanted to hang at home...

Tom Hanks didn't know where the cameras were.   "Captain Phillips," a based-on-a-true-story tale about a cargo ship taken by Somali pirates, was Hanks' first time working...

We're all being watched. All the time.    That's a key message of "Closed Circuit," an entertaining and well-crafted if not overly heart-stopping British conspiracy...

"You're Next" is a nasty little slasher film that starts poorly but gets better once most of the cast has been butchered.   Indie film figures Joe Swanberg and Ti West play two...