Spanish movie attendance in the first half of the year rose 8% over the same period in 2008 to 48.8 million viewers for an increase of 3.7 million people, reversing a five-year downward spiral, the Spanish Federation of Exhibitors (FECE)

Fresh from the success of highly acclaimed vampire movie "Let The Right One In," award-winning Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has signed on as director on Working Title upcoming project "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," the company announced Thursday.

Thanks to a super-heated boost this past weekend from "Ice Age 3," 20th Century Fox International became the first distributor to hit the $1 billion mark at the international boxoffice this year.

Lionsgate Entertainment hopes to add its biggest shareholder and longtime management ally to its board in a move that would help thwart a feared proxy fight by Carl Icahn.

Bruno," Sacha Baron Cohen's R-rated comedy about a fictional gay fashionista from Austria, already has Australia in a tizzy.

Arts Alliance Media declared its first season of showing opera and ballet releases in cinemas across Europe a success after more than 26,000 premium-priced tickets were sold for a performance of "La Traviata," which was recorded live at the Royal

Austrians could be forgiven for bristling at "Bruno."

FremantleMedia CEO Tony Cohen hit out at government plans to allow Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide to work together to become a major rights distribution body.

Actor George Clooney, touring the earthquake ravaged city of L'Aquila on the sidelines of the G8 mega-summit the town was hosting, said he intended to make a film in the city.

Local police have arrested Jason Kim, the head of management agency the Contents Entertainment, on Friday on charges of coercing, blackmailing and conducting physical violence on his client, the late actress Jang Ja-yeon, who committed suicide in March.

A Russian TV channel has reportedly cut a segment of the ribald U.S. cartoon comedy South Park that appeared to mock Vladimir Putin.

Cyber attacks slowing U.S. and South Korean Web sites could enter a new phase Friday by attacking personal computers and wiping out hard disks, a South Korean government agency and web security firm said.

For years it was the talk of the wireless industry: beaming television to the world's four billion cellphones would be the icon of the digital age. Now, just three letters are hastening the demise of that vision.

he Hong Kong Legislative Council Finance Committee approved on Friday an increase in Hong Kong government's equity in the joint venture with Walt Disney Co., through conversion of HK$6.25 billion ($806 million) of an existing loan to shares, for the

Chinese developers are commemorating Michael Jackson by building a scaled-down replica of his Neverland Ranch on an island off Shanghai.

Billionaire media tycoon Tarak Ben Ammar is mulling an offer to by Italy's La 7 network and MTV-Italia from Telecom Italia Media, according to an unsourced report that appeared in Friday's editions of the Turin daily newspaper La Stampa.

Canadian broadcaster Canwest Global Communications Corp. continues to post losses as it negotiates a debt restructuring deal with creditors to stave off bankruptcy protection.

Canadian cable and broadcast group Cogeco on Friday posted higher third quarter earnings on improved cable subscription and radio airtime sales.

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