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Disney is known for traditional holiday-season movies about princesses and fairy tales -- but this year it has turned to the world of video games for its latest animated blockbuster.

Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer and John C. Reilly have joined the cast of the Los Angeles premiere of the play '8'. ?Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer and John C. Reilly have joined the cast of the Los Angeles premiere of the play 8. 8, which was written by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, is based on the trial over the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. The 13-day trial held last year in San Francisco resulted in federal Judge Vaughn Walker, now retired, declaring the ban unconstitutional. A federal appeals court earlier this month upheld Walker's ruling. ?People need to witness what happened in the Proposition 8 trial, if for no other reason than to see inequality and discrimination unequivocally rejected in a court of law where truth and facts matter,? said Black in a statement. ?I've built my career around exposing and uncovering 'the real story.' The goal of 8 is to show the world that marriage equality is a basic constitutional right and that those who wou

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Roman calls, Kate goes to work. Holidays can wait.

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Highbrow trumped Hollywood at the Venice film festival this year, with Russian director Alexander Sokurov's demanding German-language "Faust" taking top prize and Roman Polanski and George Clooney overlooked.

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Highbrow trumped Hollywood at the Venice film festival this year, with Russian director Alexander Sokurov's demanding German-language "Faust" taking top prize and Roman Polanski and George Clooney overlooked.

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - - Russian film "Faust," loosely based on Goethe's classic German text, won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday.

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - The Venice film festival has largely lived up to its billing so far, providing a steady stream of A-list actors on the red carpet and a lineup of movies which has pleased most critics.

Madonna jokingly defended her title as "Queen of Pop" Thursday, quipping she would never give up her throne for love like King Edward VIII -- the subject of her latest film screened in Venice.

Madonna jokingly defended her title as "Queen of Pop" Thursday, quipping she would never give up her throne for love like King Edward VIII -- the subject of her latest film screened in Venice.

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - He may have been absent, but Roman Polanski made his presence felt at the Venice film festival on Thursday with his comedy "Carnage," in which Oscar-winner Kate Winslet's projectile vomit prompted the biggest laugh.

Madonna jokingly defended her title as "Queen of Pop" Thursday, quipping she would never give up her throne for love like King Edward VIII -- the subject of her latest film screened in Venice.

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - He may have been absent, but Roman Polanski made his presence felt at the Venice film festival on Thursday with his comedy "Carnage," in which Oscar-winner Kate Winslet's projectile vomit prompted the biggest laugh.

Rounds of applause and riotous laughter met Roman Polanski's grotesque comedy of manners "Carnage" at the press screening in Venice on Thursday ahead of the world premiere in the evening.

CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - The irony in the title of Lynne Ramsay's film, "We Need to Talk About Kevin," is that no one ever does.

The race for the Palme d'Or began Thursday with Scottish director Lynne Ramsey's powerful "We Need to Talk About Kevin" -- the first of a record four films from women in competition at Cannes.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Wanton cruelty and twisted family dynamics took center stage in Cannes Thursday with "We Need to Talk About Kevin," a dark drama in which Tilda Swinton plays the mother of a sadistic son.

(Reuters) - The 2011 Cannes film festival opened on May 11 with Woody Allen's film "Midnight in Paris."

COLOGNE (Hollywood Reporter) - Cannes' 2011 slate seems designed to avoid the pitfalls of last year's competition, which failed to produce a single Oscar winner, crossover commercial success or grand cinema scandal -- the three boxes any great film festival worthy of the name needs to tick.

COLOGNE (Hollywood Reporter) - Cannes' 2011 slate seems designed to avoid the pitfalls of last year's competition, which failed to produce a single Oscar winner, crossover commercial success or grand cinema scandal -- the three boxes any great film festival worthy of the name needs to tick.

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Like other directors, Miguel Arteta borrowed money to make his first movie, 1997's "Star Maps, which shown at the Sundance Film Festival and launched a career that included independent hits, "The Good Girl" and "Chuck and Buck."