LOS ANGELES – It was a star-studded affair at "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" movie premiere held Monday night at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
NEW YORK – Lincoln Center will pay tribute to one of New York's favorite sons, the late director Sidney Lumet.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced Monday evening that it will hold a weeklong retrospective titled "Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet." It will screen July 19-25 at the Walter Reade Theater.
Among the 16 features to be shown are Lumet's "Dog Day Afternoon," "Network," "The Pawnbroker," "Prince of the City" and "Running on Empty."
Lumet died in April at the age of 86 in his Manhattan home after suffering from lymphoma.
LOS ANGELES – Let's say in some alternate reality, Tom Hanks winds up working at a Wal-Mart-style retail chain. Here's how his day goes: He bounds out of his car with a beaming grin, stooping to pick up stray trash in the parking lot.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian moviegoers are facing a bleak year of second-rate foreign releases and lowbrow local productions as Hollywood studios, the government and movie importers remain locked in a protracted standoff.
FORKS, Wash. – A popular spot for "Twilight" fans to have their pictures taken in Forks is gone.
The facade of Forks High School came down this month as the building is demolished to make way for a new school.
LOS ANGELES – "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer's next big-screen project has a release date.
Distributor Open Road Films announced Monday that the movie adaptation of Meyer's apocalyptic sci-fi novel "The Host" will arrive in theaters March 29, 2013.
LOS ANGELES – Pixar Animation remains undefeated at the box-office races.
The Disney unit's animated sequel "Cars 2" cruised to a No. 1 finish with a $68 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That makes 12 wins in a row for Pixar since the company's first feature film, 1995's "Toy Story."
LOS ANGELES – The creator of Michael Myers and "Halloween" is returning to horror after a 10-year hiatus.
John Carpenter is back to his beloved genre with "The Ward," opening July 8.
LOS ANGELES – Whitey Bulger was an FBI informant. His life also informed one of modern Hollywood's more-memorable crime stories.
LOS ANGELES – Director Michael Bay promises that the third "Transformers" movie is way better than the second.
LOS ANGELES – "Bad Teacher" is exactly the one-joke movie that you probably expect it to be, but there are enough variations and shadings of that one joke to sustain its brief running time - just barely.
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