Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Show business satire “Birdman” took the lead in what promises to be a competitive race for the best picture Oscar by winning the top award from Hollywood producers on Saturday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oscar-nominated war film “American Sniper” continued to punish the competition at U.S.

(Reuters) – Politicians, writers and Bollywood film-makers linked to the Bharatiya Janata Party have been named to the censorship panel, battling allegations they were hand-picked by a pro-Hindu government with a partisan agenda.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna’s victory in a legal case against Topshop over the use of her image has been upheld by Britain’s Court of Appeal, which backed an earlier judgment against the British fashion chain.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – A Live Earth music event to demand action on climate change will be held on June 18 across seven continents, including Antarctica, former U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The male-centric universe of the original “Star Wars” gives way to a woman warrior and a female version of Yoda in the much-ballyhooed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” that will inevitably take the planet – this one – by storm as it opens this week.

(Trinidad Express) None of the 40 songs carded to perform at the Chutney Soca Monarch semi-final competition last night would have had lyrics glorifying either alcohol or domestic abuse, Southex chief executive officer George Singh said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian film that features a self-styled spiritual leader in jewel-studded costume riding motorbikes and sending the bad guys flying has prompted the chief of the country’s censor panel to quit, citing government interference.

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar   (Reuters) In an industry that typically sidelines actresses as they age, Bipasha Basu has reinvented herself, going from sex symbol to the queen of Bollywood horror movies, a genre that most mainstream stars avoid.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (Reuters) – Show business satire “Birdman” and colorful caper “The Grand Budapest Hotel” led the Academy Award nominees today with nine nods apiece, including best picture, in the quest for Hollywood’s top film prize.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Richard Linklater’s 12 years of toiling on coming-of-age tale “Boyhood” reaped a coveted nomination yesterday for the top Directors Guild Award, which has correctly predicted the best director Oscar for 10 of the last 11 years.

BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif (Reuters) – Coming of age tale Boyhood won the coveted Golden Globe for best drama yesterday, while the quirky period caper The Grand Budapest Hotel was the surprise winner for best comedy or musical, in a big upset to awards season front-runner Birdman.

ROME, (Reuters) – Anita Ekberg, the striking blonde Swedish actress whose sashay through Rome’s Trevi fountain in “La Dolce Vita” made her an icon of cinema, died today at 83 at a clinic near the Italian capital, her lawyer said.

(AAP) PAKISTAN’S legendary cricket star and politician, Imran Khan, has tied the knot, ending weeks of speculation about whether one of the country’s most famous bachelors was getting married for a second time.

(Reuters) – Rod Taylor, the Australian-born actor who helped actress Tippi Hedren battle swarms of vicious birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film “The Birds”, has died at the age of 84, his daughter announced on a fan website.

Reuters) – Hollywood star Cameron Diaz and rocker Benji Madden got married in their Los Angeles home on Monday, People magazine reported.

(Reuters) – Luise Rainer, the German-born actress who made cinema history by winning back-to-back Oscars as best actress for the 1936 musical “The Great Ziegfeld” and the 1937 drama “The Good Earth” during a brief, stormy Hollywood career, died on Tuesday at age 104.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actor Bradley Cooper is quick to say that “American Sniper,” his film about Navy Seal sharpshooter Chris Kyle, is not about the Iraq conflict but an intimate character study of the harrowing impact of war on a soldier and his family.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The last movie of Peter Jackson’s three “Hobbit” films rode to a second consecutive win atop U.S.

(Reuters) – Sony Pictures said on Sunday that the “The Interview” had been purchased or rented online more than 2 million times, generating more than $15 million in the first four days after the controversial comedy’s wide theatrical release was shelved.