Robert Duvall

VENICE (Reuters) - Author Cormac McCarthy's haunting vision of a desolate, post-apocalyptic world in "The Road" has made it to the big screen in an equally bleak film, starring Viggo Mortensen as a father struggling to keep his son alive.

Walmart near Civil War's Wilderness Battlefield wins final approval in central Virginia. Officials in central Virginia approved a Walmart Supercenter early Tuesday near one of the nation's most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and hundreds of historians.

Canadian director Adam Egoyan's psychological drama "Chloe" starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore will open the San Sebastian film festival next month, the organisers announced Friday.

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The Natalie Portman-starring "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," from writer-director Don Roos, and Rodrigo Garcia's "Mother and Child," a dramatic tale starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington, are to receive red carpet treatment as world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Hollywood came to Havana on Thursday as Cuban writers and artists gave an award to Benicio del Toro, star of the 2008 movie "Che," in a ceremony attended by fellow actors Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Hollywood came to Havana on Thursday as Cuban writers and artists gave an award to Benicio del Toro, star of the 2008 movie "Che," in a ceremony attended by fellow actors Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Havana's famous seaside avenue, the Malecon, could be mistaken for Hollywood Boulevard this week as four high profile film stars come to the Cuban capital in the splashiest sign yet of warming U.S.-Cuba relations.

World economic crisis doesn't stop glitzy line-up for Venice Film Festival. The world economic crisis hasn't dulled the glitz of the 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which hosts a line-up rich with Hollywood heavyweights.

Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany open Toronto film fest with `Creation,' life story of Darwin. Real-life couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will kick off the Toronto International Film Festival with the life story of Charles Darwin.

Ryan O'Neal as well as friends and co-stars react to the death of Farrah Fawcett. Reaction to the death of Farrah Fawcett:

Actor Duvall takes center stage in fight to keep Wal-Mart away from famed Virginia battlefield. Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has fired a verbal salvo against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union's Ulysses S. Grant.

Virtuoso film directors Joel and Ethan Coen will remake the classic 1960s western "True Grit," which earned American screen icon John Wayne an Academy Award, Hollywood media reported Monday.

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Country stars TIM McGRAW and DWIGHT YOAKAM have joined the cast of JON FAVREAU's new festive comedy FOUR CHRISTMASES.

ROBERT DUVALL has credited his honed physique to marrying a much younger woman.

"He has a complete solidity with the character. He cannot be swayed. You cannot get him out of character. I've never seen anything like it. It's amazing." JOAQUIN PHOENIX on his WE OWN THE NIGHT co-star ROBERT DUVALL.

ROBERT DUVALL feels snubbed by TOM CRUISE - because he wasn't asked to star in the actor's new movie VALKYRIE.

The game begins with you roleplaying as an extra in the movie. You get to create your own mob look, from facial features to clothes. Once the game starts, you meet the Don quite early and start putting in work to rise up the ranks in the family and later in the game. And then, hopefully under good circumstances you get to meet the Don again. Will you avoid being whacked and become the boss of your own family?