Entertainment

Order of Canada honours conferred
Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean presides over an Order of Canada investiture ceremony in Ottawa, bestowing the honour on four companions, 19 officers and 30 members.

Twilight film star accuses B.C. paparazzo
Police are investigating an alleged hit-and-run incident in Montreal involving the star of the Twilight Saga movies and a Vancouver celebrity photographer.

Rachel McAdams film The Vow shoots in Toronto
Australian actor Jessica McNamee will join the cast of The Vow, a romantic drama starring Rachel McAdams now shooting in Toronto.

Paul Hogan cleared to return to U.S.
Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan has reached an deal with Australian tax authorities that will allow him to return to the United States.

Gone With the Wind child actress dies
Cammie King Conlon, an American actress who played Bonnie Blue Butler, the daughter of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, has died at her home in Fort Bragg, Calif. She was 76.

Soldiers' children pay a toll, NFB doc shows
Children of Soldiers, which premiered Thursday at the Montreal World Film Festival, chronicles the toll on children of having parents serving overseas in Afghanistan.

TIFF hotel workers stage walkout
Hotel workers at the Hyatt Regency, the home of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, have started a one-day walkout.

Panahi 'mentally imprisoned' as Iran blocks travel
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was released from prison in May after an outcry by filmmakers from around the world, is still not free to travel.

Atlantic Film Festival opens with Score
The Atlantic Film Festival will open with Score: A Hockey Musical, Michael McGowan's light-hearted romp through Canada's national sport.

Lepage's Das Rheingold in Met's new HD season
New York's Metropolitan Opera plans to bring 12 of its operas to cinema screens in 2010-11, including a production of Das Rheingold by Canada's Robert Lepage.

Bollywood plans Jesus biopic
The life of Jesus, which has seen film adaptations by directors from Cecil B. DeMille to Mel Gibson, is now to get the Bollywood treatment.

Gone With the Wind fans give for gowns
People from across North America have donated enough money to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin to restore dresses Vivian Leigh wore as Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 movie Gone With the Wind.

Venice film festival to host novel films
The Venice Film Festival opens with its share of big-screen bound blockbuster potential, from Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, to Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated Somewhere and Ben Affleck's sophomore directorial effort, The Town.

Hollywood's best actors for the buck
Earning $20 million US upfront for a movie is so 2007. These days studios are squeezing every cent they can out of actors, and that means many stars only earn the big bucks after the studio gets back its money.

Icahn raises Lions Gate bid
Shares in Vancouver-based Lions Gate Entertainment reached a new high Tuesday after activist investor Carl Icahn raised his bid for the boutique film studio.

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