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Two-time Olympic host Los Angeles plans to bid on hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, according to mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and the city's effort has some major celebrity backers.

Award-winning director Steven Spielberg will head up this year's Cannes Film Festival jury, the organisers announced on Thursday, just days after he missed out on his third best-director Oscar.

Oscar Pistorius is one of the few athletes who has managed to bridge the divide between disabled and non-disabled sport, shattering myths and preconceptions along the way about the limits of human achievement.

Washington's most famous mustache is no more. Senior Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod shaved his iconic lip hair live on TV Friday after raising $1 million for epilepsy research.

The refurbished Hollywood sign was presented in all its freshly painted glory Tuesday after its biggest makeover in 35 years, in time for 90th birthday celebrations next year.

The refurbished Hollywood sign was presented in all its freshly painted glory Tuesday after its biggest makeover in 35 years, in time for 90th birthday celebrations next year.

Pinball and slot machine wizard Joe Kaminkow is working his magic on the social games scene pioneered by Zynga and taking Facebook users along the yellow-brick road as his opening move.

The new James Bond movie "Skyfall" swept North American box offices this weekend, crushing second-place animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph", industry figures showed Monday.

The new James Bond movie "Skyfall" swept North American box offices this weekend, crushing second-place animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph", industry estimates showed Sunday.

Disney's animated romp "Wreck-It Ralph" rang up a huge weekend at North American box offices, taking in $49 million -- almost double the total of the number two film, industry data showed Monday.

Disney's animated romp "Wreck-It Ralph" rang up a phenomenal weekend at North American box offices, taking in $49.1 million -- almost double the number-two film, figures showed Sunday.

After a detour into animation, "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action film with "Flight," which starts with a plane crash but centers more on personal rather than airborne crises.

"Argo," based on a true story about six Americans spirited out of Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, topped North America's weekend box office takings with $12.1 million, figures showed Monday.

The iconic Hollywood sign overlooking Tinseltown is getting its biggest renovation for 35 years, ahead of its 90th birthday next year.

US actress Susan Sarandon says making "Cloud Atlas," adapted from the award-winning British novel, was a joyous theatrical experience in what seemed more like a "circus" than a movie set.

Heaps of makeup transformed the all-star cast of "Cloud Atlas," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, "startling" the cast members themselves, they said.

North America's largest film festival opens Thursday in Toronto with a wide-ranging trove of new movies and a spotlight on global conflicts and baby boomers' mortality.

Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "The Green Mile," an adaptation of a Stephen King work, died Monday at age 54, his representatives said.

Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "The Green Mile," an adaptation of a Stephen King work, died Monday at age 54, his representatives said.

'Juno' star Ellen Page has signed on to play gay in the big screen adaptation of the documentary 'Freeheld'. Juno star Ellen Page has signed on to play gay in the Hollywood adaptation of the documentary Freeheld. The 2007 Academy Award-winning documentary told the true story of a lesbian couple facing death while battling a discriminatory government. Lieutenant Laurel Hester fought for the right to leave her Ocean County, New Jersey police pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, who'll be played by Page in the upcoming film, as she faced terminal lung cancer. Hester's conservative detective partner Dane Wells stepped up to help her in her fight. Ron Nyswaner has signed on to adapt Cynthia Wade's short documentary into a feature film. Nyswaner's Philadelphia screenplay earned him an Oscar nomination. The 1993 drama featured Tom Hanks as an HIV positive gay man in his own gay rights battle. Producer James D. Stern called Freeheld's story ?powerful? and ?subject matter that will r