Reuters - U.S. pop singer Cyndi Lauper and husband David Thornton share the big screen as actors at Tribeca Film Festival for the first time since the couple met on a movie set nearly 20 years ago. -- read full article
AP - Mary-Kate Olsen is taking her duties as a juror at the Tribeca Film Festival as seriously as an A-student getting ready for the first day of school.
Reuters - Oscar-winning American actress Meryl Streep will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Rome film festival, organizers said on Friday. -- read full article
AP - It's the time of year when most films go "bang" and "crash" and "zoom" and "snap," when the multiplexes are packed on multiple screens with animated movies and blockbusters and animated blockbusters.
AP - Indian police said they would not charge the father of a child star in the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire," and ended their investigation into claims he tried to sell his 9-year-old girl to a reporter posing as a wealthy sheik.
Reuters - Like lambs to the slaughter, "Twilight" actor Kellan Lutz, "Terminator" TV show star Thomas Dekker and Rooney Mara have joined the cast of the reimagined version of 1984 horror movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street." -- read full article
AP - Ken Annakin, the British-born director whose credits included the World War II epics "Battle of the Bulge" and "The Longest Day" and the family classic "Swiss Family Robinson," has died. He was 94.
AP - The first rule of "Fight Club," if you recall, was that you don't talk about "Fight Club." The first rule of "Fighting," it seems, is that you talk only to fill the gaps between all the fighting.
Reuters - Joseph Gordon-Levitt is signing on for "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan's "Inception," a thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio. -- read full article
Reuters - The words "casting couch" spring to mind when you hear the concept of a new German reality show: 12 young actresses compete for a role in a Hollywood production. -- read full article
Reuters - Comic Michaela Watkins, who recently joined "Saturday Night Live," has been cast in the romantic comedy "The Back-Up Plan" opposite Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin. -- read full article
Reuters - Alan Ayckbourn's early-1970s trilogy "The Norman Conquests" has been acclaimed for the genius of its elaborately conceived structure, with the plays fitting into one another like the pieces of a Swiss watch. But the revelation of this Broadway revival, imported after an acclaimed run at London's Old Vic Theater, is how deeply moving -- as well as uproariously funny -- these comedies of manners are. -- read full article