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For the fourth consecutive year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is underwriting the Telluride Film Festival's Guest Director program, the Academy announced on Wednesday.

The 68th annual Venice Film Festival has commenced in Venice, Italy from Aug. 31, 2011 with the American film, The Ides of March, directed by George Clooney.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is venturing into an area in which it has never had much presence, adding a weekend acquisitions program to its 2012 schedule.

Twentieth Century Fox has set its sights on John Moore to direct Die Hard 5, TheWrap has confirmed.

Sounds like Rihanna could have used an umbrella-ella-ella big enough to cover her entire home.

The addition of Chaz Bono in the Season 13 cast of Dancing With the Stars has started a flood of negative reactions in social networks.

Husband and wife songwriting team Marilyn and Alan Bergman have won three Academy Awards and two Grammys, but their biggest reward in a long career just may be writing for Barbra Streisand.

Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. was released after almost a year in prison Wednesday, and a TV network swiftly announced a reality show deal with him.

Actor Mel Gibson will pay the mother of his 22 month-old daughter $750,000 and get joint custody of the child, ending a bitter custody and financial dispute that badly damaged his Hollywood career.

Oscar-nominated Actor Robert Downey, Jr., star of the Iron Man movies, and his wife Susan are expecting their first child together, his spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.

A re-edited version of reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills will premiere on September 5 with a new introduction covering the suicide of cast member Taylor Armstrong's estranged husband, Bravo said on Wednesday.

After a summer filled with superheroes, apes running amok and trash-talking comedians, Hollywood's upcoming fall movies focus less on effects-filled blockbusters and more on performance-driven films.

Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, well known for creating controversy and raising eyebrows, has revealed her sexual frustration in a series of blog and Twitter posts, much to the amusement of her followers.

The Venice film festival promises a pop superstar and a whiff of scandal Thursday, with Madonna presenting her second feature and Roman Polanski notable by his absence at the world premiere of his new picture.

Cher took to Twitter to defend her son Chaz Bono's decision to compete on Dancing With the Stars, after some fans hit the show's Web site and other blogs and message boards to protest the the casting of the singer's son on the show.

Oscar-nominated actor Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan Levin are expecting their first child together.

It is unclear what Hollywood Leaks hopes to gain

The Dancing With the Stars 2011 cast features some controversy figures.

The following books are about transgender, transition experiences.

Watch out for a hurled tomato in Bunol, Spain. The annual Tomatina festival brought in five truckloads of tomatoes for one hour of messy fun.

Just because everyone speaks English, doesn't mean we all speak the same language. Here are some well known (and some surprising) vocab differences between American and British English.

Rapper T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr., was welcomed by well-wishes from family, friends and fans after he was released from federal prison Wednesday a month earlier than expected.

Lucimar Pereira, the world's oldest living person, is set to celebrate her 121st birthday on Sept. 3 with her family in an indigenous Amazonian community.

Akwaaba. Welcome, to the road less traveled!

Archeologists at the Archaeological Park Carnuntum, east of Vienna, have uncovered a massive amphitheater that reportedly rivals that of Rome's Colosseum.

There was no damage to the car or the Bieber

It's cool (literally), and the glaciers won't be here forever!

ABC network has drawn criticism in many unfamiliar forms this week for its decision to cast transgender Chaz Bono, real name Chastity Sun Bono, the only child of famed entertainers Sonny and Cher, on its upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars. Although, one organization commended the network.

Chad Ochoncino previously gave a ring to his Dancing With the Stars partner Cheryl Burke