“The Ravine of Goodbye,” a Japanese film by director Tatsushi Omori, won the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival that ended Saturday, while “The Particle,” a drama by Turkish director and writer Erdem Tepegoz, won the best film prize. “The ...

Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf on Saturday won a pan-Arab singing contest that has had millions of viewers glued to their TV screens since March, sparking celebrations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. As Palestinians took to the streets to celebrate Assaf’s “Arab Idol” ...

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez was honored June 20 with the 2,500th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, joined by celebrities including Jane Fonda and watched by screaming fans. “I really am overwhelmed,” she said at the ceremony on Tinseltown’s star-studded sidewalk, a tourist favorite. ...

Hollywood legends Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have sparked a surge of debate in Tinseltown after warning that the film industry is set to implode, amid soaring budgets and cable TV rivalry. “E.T.” icon Spielberg revealed that his Oscar-winning political biopic “Lincoln” almost didn’t ...

Ethan Hawke is out and about in New York, the city he’s lived in for 30 years, a place where famous faces slide past every day. He’s wearing a baseball cap, a hoodie and a pair of cords. It’s an outfit you might think ...

Rino Sashihara on Saturday captured the coveted No. 1 spot within the all-female pop group AKB48 and its sister groups in this year’s popularity vote. Sashihara, 20, who last year moved from AKB48 to HKT48, a sister group based in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, garnered ...

The U.S. presidential election may be three years away, but speculation is already rife about the runners and riders in what is sure to be an epic battle for the White House. Some of the fiercest debate has emerged not from the corridors of ...

The British are coming — actually, they’re already here. And they’re running some of America’s top media and entertainment companies and successfully peddling their shows, newspapers and magazines to the former colonies. There are so many Brits at the highest echelons of the American ...

“Like Father, Like Son,” directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, received the Prix du Jury at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday. It was the first Japanese film to receive an award in the competition division since Naomi Kawase’s “The Mourning Forest,” which won ...