Reuters - A former television producer who tried to extort $2 million from talk show host David Letterman over his affairs with women was released from jail on Thursday, a city correctional department spokesman said.

Reuters - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie Black Swan, the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, with one review saying the performance elevates her to a major star.

US filmmaker Julian Schnabel, a New York Jew, tells it like it is from the Palestinian point of view in Miral screening as the Venice film festival got into full swing on Thursday.

Reuters - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed on as executive producers after the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere in 2009.

Grammy award-winning US rapper T.I. and his wife were arrested for drugs possession overnight in Los Angeles, police said Thursday.

An independent film company is developing a movie about Gloria Trevi, the fallen pop singer dubbed Mexico's Madonna.

Rapper T.I. has been released from jail after being arrested on suspicion of possessing ecstasy, police said on Thursday.

ers - Throw another name in the hat of rumored replacements for Steve Carell on The Office -- Harvey Keitel.

Nobody ever said Hollywood relationships were easy, and the on-again off-again affair of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore certainly proves that out.

God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new book.

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