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Forest Whitaker, who is onscreen in 'The Last King of Scotland,' will host the Opening Night Gala of the 15th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival. The lest runs [...]

The AFI Fest continued to bring cinephiles to Hollywood this past week for nightly premieres and parties. On Nov. 2, Penelope Cruz was honored following a screening of her film, [...]

Caption: Hongkong star Andy Lau helped launched the 11th Pusan Intl. Film Festival on Oct. [...]

Catch the UK premieres of some of the most celebrated films from this year's international festival circuit. Provocative French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prix at Cannes for Flanders, [...]

More than 2,000 queer cinema lovers turned out Thursday at downtown's historic Orpheum Theatre to kick off the 24th annual Oufest: the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, running […]

Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' political docudrama 'The Road to Guantanamo' took home best narrative feature and best ensemble acting honors at the ninth annual Newport International Film Festival. At […]

Nickelodeon has chosen Shawn and Marion Wayans as judges of the third annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. Also set as judges at the fest, to take place the weekend of [...]

Hollywood is gearing up for war. it's called the Cannes Film Festival. While two weeks on the French Riviera watching foreign films might seem like a treat to outsiders, those [...]

In the city that never sleeps, the southern end of Manhattan all but shuts down when Wall Street closes--with a few notable exceptions. Here's a guide to the nightspots where [...]

TORONTO -- The Just For Laughs comedy festival on Monday said Jason Alexander, John Cleese and Bill Cosby headline its upcoming 24th edition in July. The early additions, which precede […]

CANNES -- Twenty years after it was fumed down for selection by the Festival de Cannes, Oliver Stone's Vietnam drama "Platoon" will be presented on the Croisette next month to […]

New Look: Actor-director-producer Forest Whitaker, showing off his slim new frame, and his model wife, Keisha, attend the 14th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival opening night gala at [...]

The Bangkok International Film Festival will honor Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J. Werner's contribution to Asian cinema by presenting their company, Fortissimo Films, with a Golden Kinnaree during the fest's [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly celebrated its 15th year as a Sundance Film Festival sponsor at a star-studded bash at Park City, Utah, yoga studio The Shop. (L [...]

The retrospective of the 56th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 9-19, 2006) will be dedicated to screen heroines of the 1950s. Forty-five films from the United States, Europe and Asia [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- While no one used the opportunity at Tuesday's 30th anniversary Academy screening of 'Dog Day Afternoon' to chant 'Attica! Attica! Attica!,' the evening did feature a panel hosted [...]

WHAT: The opening gala for the Times BFI London Film Festival, featuring a screening of 'The Constant Gardener' on Oct. 19 WHO: An assortment of British industryites; helmer Fernando Meirelles; [...]

WHAT: The Rio Intl. Film Festival, which wrapped Oct 5 with an unspooling of Fernando Meirelles' 'The Constant Gardener.' WHERE: Rio de Janeiro WHO: 'Gardener' Ralph Fiennes; Danny Glover and [...]

KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic Stars at Central Europe's Karlovy Vary film test haven't been slay about talking politics as the nine-day gala reaches its midpoint. Robert Redford, attending as recipient [...]

'This was the first play my father took me to 20 years ago,' Liev Schreiber said of 'Glengarry Glen Ross.' 'I saw Joe Mantegna. I'm not afraid to say that [...]

Movielink will show Movieokes, a karaoke-type activity in which participants act out movie scenes, from the Gen Art [...]

Emerging Palestinian-American filmmaker Jacqueline Salloum was named the recipient of the first Chicago Palestine Film Festival completion fund award, given to filmmakers of Palestinian origin or filmmakers working on Palestine-related [...]

The Entertainment Technology Alliance's Todd Brockman is launching the Intl. Film Festival Summit, Tuesday and Wednesday, as a forum for fest brass to meet with corporate marketing execs and local [...]

World Picks on Demand senior VP and GM Cynthia Burrell (1.) presents the service's 'Lifetime Achievement Award' to Russian actress Elena Solovey (r.), a Cannes Film Festival award [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- 'Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera' will have its Asian preem Jan. 20 at the Bangkok Intl. Film Festival, where director Joel Schumacher is being honored [...]

TOKYO -- The 17th Tokyo Intl. Film Festival wrapped Sunday with low-budget brotherhood drama 'Whisky' taking the grand prize. Pic, by Paraguayan helming duo Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, [...]

Just days before the kickoff of the Carthage Film Festival, due to run Oct. 1-9 in Tunisia, organizers pulled Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay's anti-regime doc "A Flood in Baath Country" […]

HOLLYWOOD -- A slew of countries, including Italy and Russia, rushed to submit their entries for consideration in the foreign-language Oscar category before today's deadline. Spain is running down to [...]

After 28 years, the Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) has hit a fork in the road and as the U.S. baseball philosopher Yogi Berra would say--it has to take it. [...]

Helmer-scribe Todd Solondz will receive the Stockholm Intl. Film Festival's first Visionary Award at the fest's open forum Face2Face in November. His pic, 'Palindromes,' will have its Nordic premiere at [...]

TORONTO What with all the soirees and swag to be had here, who had time to sit in dark screening rooms? "It's become crazier than Cannes," sighed one weary festgoer […]

TORONTO -- The Toronto Film Festival closes Saturday night, but things began to wind down as early as Wednesday. There was a lot less activity at the hotels that host [...]

TORONTO -- Public screenings at the Toronto Film Festival are generating boffo box office action with a large number of sellouts. Of the 224 public screenings held from the opening [...]

PARIS France honored the American movie biz last week, decorating Steven Spielberg and Jack Valenti with Legion d'Honneur medals. President Jacques Chirac gave Spielberg his Chevalier's medal at a Sept. […]

PRADA UNVEILED ITS WILD REM Koolhaas/Ole Scheeren--designed Rodeo Drive store with an iibercool do full of party goers and celebs. Milla Jovovich, Pamela Anderson, Gwen Stefani, and Anthony Kiedis oohed […]

HOLLYWOOD -- Jeff Bridges, Peter Fonda, John Dahl and Rick Schroeder will co-host the first Hatch Audiovisual Arts Festival in Bozeman, Mont., Sept. 9-12. HatcH will showcase Fonda's work including [...]

ROME -- U.S. helmer Dylan Kidd's romance 'P.S. I Love You' will open the Venice Film Festival's 19th Critics Week sidebar. The section, featuring first-time helmers, will showcase seven in-competition [...]

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian director Tawfik Abu Wael's 'Atash-Thirst' and Israeli Keren Yedaya's 'Or' shared the $35,000 Wolgin Award for best film at the Jerusalem Film Festival (July 8-17). Separately, Philadelphia [...]

Russia rolled out a blue carpet for movie industry celebrities including director Quentin Tarantino at the start of the 26th Moscow International Film Festival. Film figures including Tarantino, whose 'Kill […]

As Washington buried a president, Turner Classic Movies celebrated an actor--with a 24-hour Ronald Reagan film fest June 10. The 15 movies included the late president's favorites, King's Row and [...]

SEATTLE -- The 30th Seattle Intl. Film Festival winds down this week, wrapping up 25 days of movie-watching. B.O. figures already put ticket sales at 15% higher than previous years, [...]

JOHANNESBURG The seventh Zanzibar Intl. Film Festival, commonly known as the Festival or the Dhow Countries, opens June 25 with one of Bollywood's most innovative film projects, Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation […]

The 2004 Nantucket Film Festival has announced its full slate for the ninth annual test to be held June 16-20. Zach Braff's comedy 'Garden State' will serve as opening night [...]

CANNES -- How you say 'razzle-dazzle' in French? After MGM's 'De-Lovely' screened as the Cannes Film Festival's closing-night attraction, the studio invited 2,500 intimate friends to a whoop-de-doo bash on [...]

CANNES -- The Hotel du Cap became the center of gravity for New York's independent film scene Tuesday night, when IFC marked its 10th anni with a rollicking party co-sponsored [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- With a mix of black clothing and colorful African garb, the Pan African Film Festival kicked off Thursday in Culver City with the L.A. bow of Vondie Curtis-Hall's [...]

Colin Farrell, left, and Oliver Stone attend the Bangkok International Film Festival on Saturday at the Royal Thai Navy Academy where Stone received a career achievement […]

BERLIN -- Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams are among the growing list of stars expected in the German capital next month for the Berlin Film Festival. [...]