Iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor said in a post on micro-blogging site Twitter that she was going into a hospital for heart surgery to repair a "leaky valve" and asked for prayers.
Barbie is set to be the star of an upcoming movie, according to Variety magazine. The US toy maker Mattel have reportedly reached a deal with Hollywood studio Universal in order to make a "family movie" about the classic American doll.
YouTube, owned by Google, is in talks with several Hollywood studios over a possible movie rental service on its site, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. If it happens, it would be the Internet giant's first online paid service.
Hollywood giant 20th Century Fox has asked the French region of Auvergne to prove within 10 days that a new spoof website to promote tourism in the region is not a plagiarism of Fox's successful reality-TV show "Temptation Island".
US actress Jessica Biel, known for her part in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", has overtaken Brad Pitt to become the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the Internet, the spyware and virus watchdog McAfee says.
The vault above Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles is still up for grabs after a bidder withdrew his $4.6 million offer during an online auction organised by eBay.
American director and screenwriter John Hughes, who directed a series of hit films in the 1980s including 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and penned the screenplay for 'Home Alone', has died in New York at the age of 59.
Several major movie studios, such as Disney and Columbia, are suing the founder of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The studios accuse it of supporting the illegal exchange of movie files; the founders have already been sentenced to jail.
Sony Pictures is close to agreeing a 50-million-dollar deal for the worldwide rights to make a Hollywood film using 80 hours of footage showing Michael Jackson rehearsing just before his death in June by the end of this year.
The sixth Harry Potter movie scored the biggest midnight gross of all time, as fans of the wizard schoolboy (pictured) lined up to see its US premiere, bringing in a staggering 22.2 million dollars, according to the US entertainment magazine Variety.
