A late flurry of independent U.S. pictures at the Venice film festival has blown the competition wide open ahead of the awards ceremony on Saturday.

Angelina Jolie might ooze Hollywood glamour, but if she's armed and looking dangerous, the actress is not welcome in Britain.

The advertising watchdog has upheld complaints about posters advertising the film "Wanted" starring Angelina Jolie, saying they glamorised violence and gun crime.

MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney's blockbuster franchise "High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date.

An amateur film of Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Some Like It Hot" has surfaced in Australia almost 50 years after it was shot and is being put up for auction.

Brad Pitt and George Clooney hit the red carpet on Wednesday with their latest movie "Burn After Reading", a satirical comedy by Oscar winners the Coen brothers which opens this year's Venice film festival.

U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual events on broadcast television, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Batman movie star Christian Bale will not face charges after his mother and sister alleged he had assaulted them in a London hotel last month, Britain's prosecution service said on Thursday.

The release date for the sixth Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," was pushed back on Thursday to July 2009 from its original slot in November 2008, movie studio Warner Bros. said.

A 33-year-old woman arrested on charges of stalking actor John Cusack is mentally competent to stand trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Actor Orlando Bloom said on Tuesday he was stepping aside from the big productions that made him a star to work in a film about life in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo during the 1992-95 siege.

Oscar winner Morgan Freeman said he was feeling "real good" on Thursday after his release from a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital where he was treated for broken bones and other injuries from a weekend car crash.

Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" smashed yet another Hollywood record as it cleared the $400 million (204 million pounds) domestic box office mark in 18 days, less than half the time it took "Shrek 2" to reach that milestone, Warner Bros. Pictures said on Tuesday.

Oscar-winning U.S. actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized on Monday with a broken arm and other injuries after the car he was driving careened off a highway and rolled several times, authorities said.

The first pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newborn twins have been sold to entertainment news magazines People and Hello!, with all proceeds going to charity.

Actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman braved the spectre of armed kidnappers and fierce hyenas when they set out on a motorcycle journey in Africa but what they encountered was quite different: little violence and curious kids.

"Indiana Jones" star Shia LaBeouf was cleared of blame in a weekend collision because the other driver ran a red light, police said on Tuesday.

"Indiana Jones" star Shia LaBeouf was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after an auto accident in which he was injured early Sunday, a police official said on Sunday.

Film director Guy Ritchie broke his silence on Friday over rumours that his marriage to Madonna is on the rocks, telling People magazine it was "fine".