TELLURIDE, Colo. -- On an early September afternoon, Angelina Jolie sat in a sunlit room in a scenic mountainside hotel, clearly feeling relieved.

The day before, Jolie's latest directorial effort, the emotionally wrenching Cambodian-genocide drama "First They Killed My Father," had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of Sept. 11:

1. Baywatch (2107) -- Paramount

2. Rough Night -- Sony

3. First Kill -- Lionsgate

4. It Comes at Night -- Lionsgate

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 -- Disney

6. Snatched -- Fox

7. All Eyez on Me -- Lionsgate

8. The Boss Baby -- Fox

9. Megan Leavey -- Universal

10. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The legal battle over the Mel Gibson movie "The Professor and the Madman" has grown messier, with a new complaint filed Tuesday by director Farhad Safinia alleging copyright infringement and defamation against Voltage Pictures, one of the production companies behind the independently financed movie.

Safinia directed and wrote the...Read more

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (...Read more

One new DVD looks at saving the world while another looks at saving lives. Then there's also a classic holiday selection hitting stores.

"Transformer: The Last Knight"; 2.5 stars: You've heard this story time and time again: Humans and Transformers are at war and the humans aren't doing so well. That's because their big gun of Optimus Prime is ...Read more

From variety hours to talk shows to dedicated specials, stand-up comedy on television is just about as old as television. Millions (I am guesstimating) who have never seen a comic work a nightclub or theater have seen dozens upon dozens of them on TV. Some of these people decide to become comedians themselves.

"When I was a kid and a comedian ...Read more

If "The Tiger Hunter" had been presented as the pilot for a new network television show, it would have had a decent chance of making one of the schedules. It has the nostalgic feel of "The Goldbergs" as it takes place in the early '70s in Chicago. "The Tiger Hunter" also embraces the same kind of diversity in casting that got shows like "Fresh ...Read more

TORONTO -- Two days before the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival got under way, the news broke that Colin Trevorrow would no longer be directing "Star Wars: Episode IX," marking the latest high-profile split between Lucasfilm and a filmmaker hired to steer one of its most closely guarded properties. One week later, it was announced that ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes, who this year said she was raped in July 2013 by Fox Business Network host Charles Payne, made that allegation in a civil lawsuit filed Monday.

Payne was suspended from his role as an on-air host July 6 while the allegations, made to Fox News and its parent, 21st Century Fox, were being ...Read more

MEXICO CITY -- As a location scout for Hollywood projects filming in his native Mexico, Carlos Munoz Portal spent his workdays roaming the country, searching for landscapes that would look great on screen. By age 37, he had racked up an impressive list of credits that included the drug war thriller "Sicario" and the James Bond film "Spectre."

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