Oscar-winning Frenchman Michel Gondry on Thursday premiered his latest work -- which follows a bunch of schoolkids on a bus through the Bronx -- at the Cannes film festival.

Taiwanese pop prince and Hollywood star Jay Chou dominated nominations for Asia's top Mandarin chart music honours, the Golden Melody Awards, organisers said Friday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Cameron Diaz is attached to join Colin Firth in "Gambit," a remake of the 1966 British caper that starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Natalie Portman, already riding high during awards season with "Black Swan," took the No. 1 spot at the North American box office on Sunday for the first time in five years with her romantic comedy debut.

BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) - Jay Chou upstaged his "Green Hornet" co-star Seth Rogen on the first leg of their Asian tour to promote the film, in which the Taiwanese pop star plays the sidekick role once essayed by Bruce Lee.

Superhero movie "The Green Hornet" flew to the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, final figures showed Tuesday, thrilling audiences with special effects but leaving some critics cold.

Hollywood is usually the place to see and be seen, but for Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, star of the smash hit "The Green Hornet," Tinseltown offers a welcome break from the paparazzi in Asia.

Superhero movie "The Green Hornet" leaped to the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, preliminary estimates showed Sunday, thrilling audiences with special effects but leaving some critics cold.

French director Michel Gondry, best known for directing brainy indie movies, makes his Hollywood blockbuster debut this weekend with "The Green Hornet," an action-comedy that refuses to take its comic book hero too seriously.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - January isn't a time that usually sees big midnight grosses, so Sony was pleased that "Green Hornet" - which earned an estimated $550,000 at midnight showings - did comparable business to summer titles "Salt," "Grown Ups" and "The Other Guys."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Edward Furlong - who returns to the big screen Friday in "The Green Hornet" - has axed an upcoming trip to Mexico to promote the Olallo Rubio drama "This is Not a Movie," the film's co-producer Mantarraya Producciones said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Leaving behind a long list of previously attached talent from stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Jake Gyllenhaal to filmmaker Kevin Smith, the Black Beauty finally roars into theaters this weekend with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou behind the wheel and director Michel Gondry in charge of its course.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Seth Rogen, whose movies include "Knocked Up" and "Superbad," stars in new 3D, action comedy "The Green Hornet," based on characters that appeared in a 1930s radio serial, a 1960s TV show and a comic book series.

SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - The stakes are high at Comic-Con, the pop-culture marathon that took over the San Diego Convention Center -- and much of the surrounding town -- for the past five days.

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Comic book movie fans who are mad at Hollywood in a summer season bereft of many superheroes, fear not. Help is on the way.

Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry put their stylized, 3-D stamp on `The Green Hornet'. Seth Rogen is a superhero who wields a blowtorch and has a Chrysler equipped with hood-mounted machine guns in "The Green Hornet."