The cable TV network's division, ESPN Films, said it signed De Niro to portray Lombardi as he took the Green Bay Packers from worst to first in the National Football League. Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump") has been hired to work on a screenplay starting in 1959 when Lombardi was given his ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Avatar" may have failed to repeat the Academy Award success for "Titanic," but James Cameron's latest hit film proved once again: nothing draws eyeballs to the Oscars like the nomination of a blockbuster. Sunday night's Oscars drew 41.3 million U.S. ...

The film, which picked up an Oscar for best documentary feature in addition to a series of other awards, follows a group of activists who struggle with Japanese police and fishermen to gain access to a secluded cove in Taiji, southern Japan, where dolphins are hunted. It features shocking footage ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan's design career has ended after a single collection for Parisian label Emanuel Ungaro, leaving the fashion world divided over whether her work was a disaster or a much-needed bit of fun. Ungaro designer Estrella Archs, who worked with Lohan on last ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood finally entrusted a female director with an Oscar on Sunday. Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in the 82-year history of the Academy Awards to take the prize as her gritty Iraq War movie "The Hurt Locker" outshone "Avatar" after a ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Argentina's drama "The Secret in Their Eyes" won the best foreign-language film Oscar on Sunday in an upset that brought the South American country its second Academy Award. "The Secret in Their Eyes" (El secreto de sus ojos) stars Argentine actor ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twelve years ago, James Cameron declared he was "king of the world" when "Titanic" won the Oscar for best picture. But on Sunday, his hopes for a repeat with the 3D blockbuster "Avatar" were blown up by "The Hurt Locker," a low-budget ...

The triumph of "The Cove," among the best reviewed films of the year but relatively unpopular with U.S. audiences due to its disturbing subject matter, came days after its distributor announced the film would open in theaters across Japan for the first time later this year. "The ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedy stars Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the first duo to share the Oscar stage as co-hosts in the television age, traded punch lines and barbs in Sunday's show as they gently roasted this year's nominees. Working the room like a pair of Hollywood insider insult comics, ...

In a true Hollywood twist, Bigelow edged out her ex-husband, "Avatar" filmmaker James Cameron, and both were widely considered the front-runners for the honor. Singer and filmmaker Barbra Streisand, who once saw her 1991 movie "The Prince of Tides" nominated for a best picture ...