Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools

Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help …

Interactive: Summer movies

Associated Press

An interactive shows box office figures for the biggest summer blockbusters in movie history looks at some of what are expected to be this sum…

Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'

By THOMAS ADAMSON

Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1…

Photos: Bare shoulders and more (or less) at Cannes

Actresses went sleeveless at Cannes and in some cases it looked like more than sleeves were missing.

Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska'

By JAKE COYLE

For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and consid…

Takei says Cho good choice for latest 'Star Trek'

By HEATHER TAN

Portraying USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in the latest "Star Trek" movie comes with big shoes to fill, but the man who played the part i…

JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with 'All Is Lost'

By JILL LAWLESS

J.C. Chandor may just have saved someone's life during an interview in Cannes.

WikiLeaks leaks `We Steal Secrets' doc transcript

WikiLeaks characterizes the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," as biased and accuses its director, Alex Gibney of "e…

West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'

By SIAN WATSON

One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of…

Photos: Largest Lego model unveiled

Visitors to New York's Times Square saw the unveiling of the world's largest LEGO Model, a 1:1 replica of the LEGO Star Wars X-wing Starfighte…

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics

By JAKE COYLE

Ladies? Don't make him laugh.

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics

By JAKE COYLE

Ladies? Don't make him laugh.

Cannes crime: 2nd jewel theft during film festival

By SARAH DiLORENZO

Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggerin…

Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is…

Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes

By JAKE COYLE

Shooting the Midwest in monochrome came naturally for Alexander Payne in his father-son road trip "Nebraska."

The Hollywood Reporter's best stories of the week

By The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week:

Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes

By JILL LAWLESS

Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food _ appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty."

Debbie Reynolds: We all knew Liberace was gay

By MICHAEL CIDONI LENNOX

In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complica…

'Hangover' ends on a dark note

Christy Lemire The Associated Press

"Daring" isn't a word you would use very much to describe 2011's "The Hangover Part II," the disappointingly lazy, beat-for-beat rehash of the…

Nogales goes Hollywood

Cathalena E. Burch Arizona Daily Star

NOGALES, Ariz. — Hollywood came calling last fall, and this border city answered. Nogales landed a starring role in "The Hangover Part III" - …

'Renoir' a lovely portrait of the legendary artist

Joe Williams St. Louis Post-dispatch

Photography - and thus filmmaking - is painting with light. The connection is illuminated in the lovely "Renoir," a twilight-years biography o…

Original 'Cleopatra' is back on big screen, DVD

Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal

Public fascination with Elizabeth Taylor endures. "Cleopatra," famous as much for launching her romance with Richard Burton as for any cinemat…

Despite oh-wow animation, 'Epic' doesn't match its title

Roger Moore Mcclatchy-tribune News Service

Derivative as all get out and plainly concocted by a committee, "Epic" is a children's animated film that is more entertaining and emotional t…

Photos: Cannes — party city

Everyone is familiar with the red carpet at Cannes and the movie premieres, but there are plenty of parties to attend.

Photos: Men of Cannes

Although much of the attention was on the women who strolled the red carpet at Cannes, the men were around, too.