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Producer, actor, comedia Tyler Perry was one of the featured guests during the 2008 Essence Music Festival Empowerment Seminars.

Alberta moviemakers have added reason to celebrate this season. A record-breaking year that generated an estimated $200 million in movie production -- up $70 million from 2004 -- is culminating this month with the release of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, shot here last year, and the wrap of filming of Brad Pitt's The Assassination of Jesse James.

MICHAEL JACKSON was a pop legend in his own time and his musical genius will be greatly missed with his untimely death.

Hugh Jackman, Seth Rogen, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway and Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle have been invited into the exclusive Hollywood club that votes on the Academy Awards.

When Heath Ledger died while filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus , his colleagues mourned in the best way they knew how: "For a couple days we locked ourselves in a room with red wine and prosciutto and Parmesan," Amy Gilliam, the daughter of director Terry Gilliam and a producer on the project, tells Vanity Fair this month.

Fresh-faced Linda Cardellini racked up acting credits with parts in film and television before landing a breakthrough role as an honor student in the midst of an identity crisis on NBC's acclaimed high school drama.... Fresh-faced Linda Cardellini racked up acting credits with parts in film and television before landing a breakthrough role as an ...

Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York City apartment Tuesday afternoon, a police spokesperson has confirmed.

Cast party Diners at Oyamel in Penn Quarter were all atwitter Monday night after Jack Nicholson walked in and was ushered to the back room, where he joined a private cast party for the James L. Brooks romantic comedy being filmed around town.

Last week, Farhan Akhtar had a happy surprise when director Ang Lee dropped in on the sets of his film Karthik Calling Karthik at Film City.

A new generation of directors from Taiwan are exploring the strength and frailty of the island nation's people and institutions as never before.

The romance novel, a static and predictable genre, is undergoing an evolution of sorts: storylines written by straight women for straight women .

Mike Tyson is married -- reports Retired boxing legend Mike Tyson has married his girlfriend Lakiha Spicer in a secret Las Vegas ceremony, according to online reports.

Heath Ledger may've been a serious dramatic actor for most of his career, but before "Brokeback Mountain," "Dark Knight" and everything else he did later in his short life, he starred in a little teen comedy called "10 Things I Hate About You." After nearly a decade since its release, ABC Family has created a half-hour series based on the movie, ...

The Venice film festival will open with an Italian movie for the first time in 20 years, with the latest picture from "Cinema Paradiso" director Giuseppe Tornatore, organisers said Wednesday.

AFTER ALL THE booze, babes and bad behavior, something finally got the best of Poison 's Bret Michaels .

The Hollywood Reporter says that Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, who starred together in Brokeback Mountain , will reunite for Love and Other Drugs at Fox 2000/New Regency.

From NY Daily News: If you've ever fantasized about Jake Gyllenhaal rocking out to Whitesnake while swinging his mullet, you may just get your wish.

Jack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award.

As a teenager, Larry Reese was a guitar-playing would-be rock-star. He lived in Bangladesh and got pointers on playing the sitar from Ravi Shankar.

CANNES, France - Ang Lee and James Schamus have two of the best jobs on the planet.