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Giving fresh starts to film franchises such as 'Spider-Man,' 'Batman' and even 'The Wizard of Oz' is the latest fad in the movie business. To some, it's a sign of the industry's creative poverty.

Redford's historical drama on the Lincoln assassination is still looking for a distributor. 'I'm not uneasy, it feels good,' says the director.

The box office hit in France, starring Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis, has plenty of seductive charm. Slick entertainment is rarely as, yes, slickly entertaining as it is in "Heartbreaker," a French romantic farce that is commercial cinema at its most successful.

The late director's personal papers and other materials have been released by the Swedish Film Institute for a new L.A. exhibition at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. There's a line in Kris Kristofferson's song "He's a Pilgrim" that poetically describes Swedish director Ingmar Bergman: "He's a walking ...

Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel are the mismatched couple at the center of what is a largely unlikable cast of characters, though Katie Holmes adds some much-needed fire to a lackluster film. If the idea of yet another wedding-gathering movie feels less than inspired, "The Romantics" won't do much to ...

A review of some of the latest M-rated video games offering violence for the sake of violence.

"Resident Evil: Afterlife" is the fourth entry in a series of consistently solid performers based on the horror video-game series.

All we know for sure is that anything involving Joaquin Phoenix in the coming days is going to have the feel of a real three-ring fun-house media circus.

VIENNA (AP) - Amid tight security and applause, an Austrian kidnap victim presented a book about her 8 1/2 year ordeal Thursday, saying she wrote it to start a new life. Natascha Kampusch was abducted as a 10-year-old schoolgirl and held in an underground cell in a Vienna suburb ...

VIENNA (AP) - Amid tight security and applause, an Austrian kidnap victim presented a book about her 8 1/2 year ordeal Thursday, saying she wrote it to start a new life. Natascha Kampusch was abducted as a 10-year-old schoolgirl and held in an underground cell in a Vienna suburb ...