BRAD Pitt rode into town yesterday as Jesse James, while Woody Allen and French director Claude Chabrol offered dark comedies out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.

A new technique for freezing human eggs could usher in the widespread postponement of motherhood as a lifestyle choice. It is said to offer women the same chance of becoming pregnant through IVF as if they were using fresh eggs

THE Hollywood director, Ridley Scott, warned yesterday that new technology is killing off the big-screen experience. The Oscar-winning County Durham-born movie mogul said mobile phones and computers threatened movie-making on an epic scale.

AUSTRALIAN actor Heath Ledger and his American fiancee Michelle Williams have split.

IT'S set to be a battle of the babes as David Jones darlings Megan Gale and Kristy Hinze go face to perfect face for the hosting role on pay TV series Project Runway.

ANDREW O'Keefe has had the Midas touch since he first appeared on TV four years ago but has run into his first set back.

FORMER child star Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keaton in the TV comedy Family Ties, was given two years probation over an attack on his girlfriend.

DUAL Academy Award winner Jodie Foster may have slipped in and out of Australia undetected, but the Hollywood megastar warns she'll be back.

THE woman who took up with Olivier Martinez after he dumped Kylie Minogue says she didn't steal the French actor away from the Australian pop princess.

Once caught, always a suspect? Yet another rootkit has been discovered in a Sony product, which just goes to show you: some might forgive, but few forget. Read More...

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The well-known American film editor Richard Nord ( The Watcher , Species 2 , Passenger 57, The Fugitive ) who is editing the film In Search of t.A.T.u. in Mosfilm, carried out several master-classes for lung men being taught in

Knocked Up went from barely making the top 30 to nearly hitting the top five after adding $6.89 million on 1628 screens in 19 markets. The film now has a total of $25.54 million internationally while its worldwide total hit

With all the traveling I've been doing lately it's been hard for me to play any new games and probably won't get much of a chance for a few more weeks. Some good titles coming out this week though and

Gamasutra has an interesting take from a couple of analysts on which publishers have hopped on the Nintendo DS/Wii bandwagon (and profited from it) and who's been slow to try and get a piece of the pie, as well as

Arts & entertainment: Director declares 97% of modern films 'stupid' and claims modern technology is killing cinema.