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A-list stars and Olympians mingle at Oscar after-parties. With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.

Star says Wong Kar-wai's kung fu biopic will be action-packed. Hong Kong art-house filmmaker Wong Kar-wai is known for his slow, moody dramas, so when he announced his next project would be a kung fu flick, some were worried it would be more tears and talking than fists of fury.

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - Newmarket Films is back in the film-festival market, picking up domestic rights to the Natalie Portman-produced drama "Hesher," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in a deal in the $1 million range.

Gordon-Levitt goes from '3rd Rock' to Sundance kid with string of indie-fest films. Joseph Gordon-Levitt charmed Sundance Film Festival fans a year ago with the romance "(500) Days of Summer."

LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuter) - "Avatar," now the biggest international release of all time, extended its run at the top of the British box office, taking another five million pounds, Screen International said on Tuesday.

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - Beatings, prostitution, rough sex, knifings, car wrecks, arson, self-destructive despair, chain smoking, suicide.

PARK CITY, Utah - The snow has returned to this ski town just as the film festival it hosts has returned to its roots. Again. Every couple of years the folks at Sundance implicitly accept the fact that this festival has gotten away from itself and promotes the idea that it's not just a market for hit-hungry studio executives but, once more, a pure haven for independent moviemaking. This year that assertion at least carries a patina of plausibility. For the first time in two decades, Sundance has a new leader, John Cooper, who's been with the festival for many years, and the campaign he's approved for this year is ``cinematic rebellion.'' The new campaign sounds like a dig at the festival's previous director Geoffrey Gilmore, who left early last year for New York's Tribeca Film Festival, which some are hoping he'll remake as a sort of Sundance East. For better and worse, Gilmore helped transform Robert Redford's modest independent festival into a commercial juggernaut. New talent was in

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Canadian actress Emmanuelle Chriqui has topped an annual poll of the world's 99 most desirable women, with organizers saying her appeal was boosted by the fact that she does not feature heavily in celebrity magazines.

Highlights of Hollywood's 2010 movie lineup. Highlights of Hollywood's 2010 film slate. Some films open in limited release, and release dates are subject to change:

Stuart Townsend departs Marvel Comics tale `Thor'; Joshua Dallas takes over role. Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production.

Stuart Townsend departs Marvel Comics tale `Thor'; Joshua Dallas takes over role. Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production.

Stuart Townsend departs Marvel Comics tale `Thor'; Joshua Dallas takes over role. Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of "Thor" because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production.

'Blind Side' eclipses 'New Moon' with $20.4M weekend to take over top box-office spot. The football-inspired drama "The Blind Side" has become the underdog hit of the season with a $20.4 million weekend and a box-office victory over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood has finally realized that Tobey Maguire has grown up. The actor who gained fame as a teenager in the "Spider-Man" movies has embraced fatherhood and a new role as a soldier whose family is torn apart by war.

Despite a career which has included a string of critical hits such as "My Left Foot" and "In the Name of the Father," Jim Sheridan admits he was daunted by his latest film.

Despite a career which has included a string of critical hits such as "My Left Foot" and "In the Name of the Father," Jim Sheridan admits he was daunted by his latest film.

`Twilight' star Stewart, `Sopranos' pals Gandolfini, Falco bound for Sundance competition. Dramas featuring "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, Natalie Portman and "The Sopranos" co-stars James Gandolfini and Edie Falco are in the hunt for awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

Early on in the new film ``The Family Jams,'' the camera zooms in on Devendra Banhart's face, a thick tangle of dark hair, darker eyes, and a beard straight out of the Book of Exodus. The interviewer wants to know what kind of music Banhart makes, trotting out the tired labels that Banhart and his kindred spirits would never use to describe their art. Banhart bristles. He's heard these tags before - freak folk, New Weird America - but he decides his music should be called New Age. Not in the Yanni sense, but rather some astral approximation of pastoral folk, psychedelic '60s pop, a splash of old-school soul, and Latin American singers he idolized growing up in Venezuela. That, in one long string of genres, is about as good a place as any to start with Banhart, who plays at Berklee Performance Center tonight with a full band he's recently christened the Grogs. Banhart, 28, has been an elusive figure who has bewitched audiences and critics since he surfaced in 2002 as an unwashed phenome

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox Searchlight is going to the ballet.

Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood's holiday spirit; season also has vamps, aliens, doomsday. Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?