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The Toronto film festival will open this year with a documentary about Irish rockers U2, and will see world premieres of new works by Luc Besson and Francis Ford Coppola, organizers said Tuesday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Irish rockers U2 and American grunge band Pearl Jam will have the Toronto International Film Festival rocking this year, while George Clooney and Brad Pitt bring some A-List star power to the event that helps launch Hollywood's Oscar season.

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola is ready to remind fantasy movie fans why they fell in love with him in the first place with a chilling return to the horror genre, "Twixt," featuring his own twist on 3D.

Charity and ÔPawn Stars' cast bickering over value of the written word . Diane Hutton, who operates one of the largest thrift store operations in town, went head-to-head with the folks at the popular cable TV show "Pawn Stars," and anyone who saw the episode this week may wonder who got the better of whom. .

US film maker Francis Ford Coppola will make a star appearance at a festival of American film in Deauville, northwestern France, in September, organisers said on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heading into this year's giant Comic-Con International pop culture convention in San Diego, media watchers believed Hollywood might play a smaller role because some heavily promoted movies there in 2010 fizzled at box offices.

Construction cranes are as ubiquitous as wine critics in Bordeaux?s prized vineyards as leading chateaux brand their estates by transforming their cellars into architectural show pieces.

10 disc set offers 9 movies, extras. The Stanley Kubrick Collection on Blu-ray A Special Odyssey by Jim Bray TechnoFile.com Fans of the legendary Stanley Kubrick can get nearly all of his films together on Blu-ray in a nice boxed set that's a fitting tribute to the filmmaker. It's called the "Stanley Kubrick Limited Edition Collection," a 10 disc set available in stores now and also sold on DVD; if nothing else it can save you some shelf space from having all nine of these films in their own packages. Most of the films aren't new to Blu-ray, though "Lolita" and "Barry Lyndon" are newly available, as is the 40th anniversary edition of "A Clockwork Orange" that appears in the set. I've been a Kubrick fan ever since 2001: a Space Odyssey mesmerized me on its first run. I've had every video incarnation of Kubrick films I can get my hands on since then ? and of course when the high definition Blu-ray disc was introduced I could hardly wait to see the films as they should be presented, espec

US film director Sofia Coppola will marry French rock singer Thomas Mars in August in her family's ancestral town of Bernalda in southern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Belgium's Dardenne brothers on Sunday premiered their "Kid With a Bike" at Cannes, with the two-times Palme d'Or winners showing again their stunning capacity for unsentimental storytelling.

Italian director Marco Bellocchio will get the lifetime achievement award at this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers said on Sunday, hailing him as "one of the biggest names in modern cinema".

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Nicolas Cage has avoided prosecution in New Orleans three weeks after he was arrested following a drunken argument with his wife, People magazine reported on Thursday.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage has been arrested in New Orleans after a drunken argument with his wife outside a residence in the French Quarter, police said on Saturday.

US actor Nicolas Cage has been arrested in the southern city of New Orleans "after getting drunk" and having a heated argument with his wife in the French Quarter, police said.

US actor Robert De Niro will chair the jury of this year's Cannes film festival, which opens May 11 on the French Riviera, organisers announced Thursday.

Dennis Hopper's art collection set for NYC auction, including bullet-ridden Warhol work. Dennis Hopper shot two bullet holes through an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong but instead of earning the wrath of the artist, Warhol called the "Easy Rider" star a collaborator.

Dennis Hopper's art collection set for NYC auction, including bullet-ridden Warhol work. Dennis Hopper shot two bullet holes through an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong but instead of earning the wrath of the artist, Warhol called the "Easy Rider" star a collaborator.

Dennis Hopper's art collection set for NYC auction, including bullet-ridden Warhol work. Dennis Hopper shot two bullet holes through an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong but instead of earning the wrath of the artist, Warhol called the "Easy Rider" star a collaborator.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sofia Coppola grew up around movies as the daughter of "Godfather" maker Francis Ford Coppola. The 39-year-old has written, directed and produced her fourth film, "Somewhere," due in theaters on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Back Stage) - In just four films -- two original and two adaptations -- Sofia Coppola has proved herself one of the most fascinating American auteurs working today.