LONDON (Reuters) - Christian Bale, star of the latest Batman blockbuster, has been released on bail by British police after being questioned on allegations of assault, media reported.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Three weeks after the expiration of their contract, the Screen Actors Guild and the studios appear to be living on different planets.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," raked in $66.4 million in its opening day to set the single-day box office record, according to its distributor Warner Bros.
LONDON (Reuters) - British folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, on Friday accepted libel damages and an apology from a news agency which reported he refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil.
Jesse Washington, entertainment editor for The Associated Press and a former magazine editor, has been named race and ethnicity writer for the news cooperative.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," grossed a record $18.5 million from midnight preview screenings ahead of its official opening on Friday, according to box office tracking service Media By Numbers.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - From chilling close-ups of Heath Ledger's Joker to heart-pounding aerial photography, few summer movies have attracted filmmakers' attention like Christopher Nolan's landmark addition to the Batman franchise.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood writers on Wednesday launched a protest against U.S. television's No. 1 show, "American Idol," claiming the Fox network talent contest underpays workers and subjects them to sweatshop conditions.
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - In a move that signals a possible thawing of Google Inc's relations with Hollywood, its YouTube unit has reached a deal to feature film clips from Lions Gate Entertainment Inc on the video-sharing site.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Organizers of the New York Film Festival said on Tuesday they will open this fall's event with the North American premiere of French director Laurent Cantet's "Entre les Murs" (The Class), winner of this year's top prize at Cannes.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When the new Batman movie "The Dark Night" began screenings last month before its U.S. debut on Friday, some moviegoers saw Heath Ledger as an instant Oscar candidate as the deranged villain, The Joker.
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday its YouTube unit reached a deal with Lions Gate Entertainment Inc to feature film clips from the studio on the video-sharing site.
North Carolina must start planning immediately to spend money on a dozen new sound stages from the coast to the mountains or risk losing its entertainment industry, a Hollywood film producer said Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. took the wraps off what is arguably its biggest movie of the year Monday, unveiling "The Dark Knight" in a splashy Manhattan premiere.
