Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box office draws of Hollywood's Golden Age with fans that included Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91. Family friend Bob Koster of Los Angeles told The Associated Press that Durbin died on about...

Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sometimes you just can't wait for Comic-Con — whether you're a fan or a filmmaker. With the summer movie season now beginning in early May ("Iron Man 3" opens Friday), studios are co-opting the July pop-culture convention's model of stoking interest in anticipated films...

Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

ATLANTA (AP) — Actress Reese Witherspoon recalls that she panicked and said "crazy things" the night she was arrested in Atlanta on a disorderly conduct charge. During an interview on Good Morning America, Witherspoon repeatedly apologized for her behavior during the April 19 traffic stop. A...

Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deanna Durbin, the teen sensation whose sparkling soprano voice and girl-next-door looks made her a star during Hollywood's Golden Age, has died, a family friend said Wednesday. She was 91. Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris where she had lived, out of...

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

The message behind most romantic comedies is the simple-minded sentiment that love is all you need. So when Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier takes that title for a departure from somber drama to romance, you might expect her to deliver it with some serious irony. Yet in Bier's "Love Is All You...

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The home video market showed further signs of recovery in the first quarter, rising 5 percent thanks to growing sales of Blu-ray discs and the rise of subscription streaming services like Netflix. That's according to an industry consortium, The Digital Entertainment Group....

Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan would spend $50 million on tax incentives to lure moviemakers and not bank on savings from making more poor people eligible for government-backed health insurance under a budget bill approved Tuesday by the state Senate. Those were among some key moves made by...

associated press

Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Candice Bergen is producing a film about her late father, the famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The big-screen project will tell the story of Bergen's dad and his ventriloquist's dummy that became an unlikely celebrity, spokeswoman Heidi...

DAVID GERMAIN

Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Iron Man 3" was the heavy-lifter at theaters with a colossal overseas debut that overshadowed a gang of mercenary bodybuilders in a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office. The Marvel Studios superhero sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. got a head-start on its...

Kelly Jane Torrance

Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

Chris Nicola did an astonishing thing. The New Yorker and amateur spelunker went to Ukraine soon after the Soviet Union collapsed, looking to explore both his Eastern Orthodox heritage and the gypsum caves of the region. He found an incredible story of Jewish heritage that involved the caves...