If box office takings have stagnated in recent years, one US cinema is wooing back film lovers with big, fat, leather recliners... reminiscent of well, beds.
Hobbit fans will get a sneak peek at the second film of the trilogy -- "The Desolation of Smaug" -- after director Peter Jackson announced a global live presentation next month.
A Syrian film that has scooped a string of prestigious awards in recent months barely made it to screens because of the dangers the crew faced in the war-ravaged country.
The London Film Festival (LFF) closed on Sunday with the world's first screening of "Saving Mr Banks", the humorous and moving tale of Mary Poppins's adaption for the big screen.
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron said Wednesday he was surprised by the success of his space thriller "Gravity" and insisted that it was too soon to think about the Oscars.
Australian actor Hugh Jackman, the star of "Wolverine" and "X-Men", received a lifetime achievement award on Friday at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain.
Comedy stars grabbed early prizes at the Emmys Sunday, while the TV world waited to see if Netflix drama "House of Cards" could become the first online-only show to take a major prize.
A taboo-breaking Russian film tackling the topic of gay love may have earned critical plaudits but its makers fear few will ever see the movie given the crackdown on so-called "homosexual propaganda".
The Fardos cinema used to attract poor customers from the outskirts of Damascus, but war has driven its clientele away and forced it to show the same films for two years.
Karaoke parties, fancy dress and spaghetti at dawn: Hollywood's prima-donna stars have brought light relief to a Venice film festival plagued by dark tales of incest, necrophilia, cannibalism and suicide.
French animators are enjoying global success, most recently with the blockbuster comedy "Despicable Me 2", US studio Universal's most profitable film ever.
"The Butler," about an African American who watches civil rights history in the making as a White House butler, debuted at the top of the North American box office.
A long-lost silent film directed by Orson Welles in 1938 has been recovered from a warehouse in northeastern Italy, where it will be screened in public for the first time in October.