Consumers beamed up "Star Trek" in droves the week ending Nov. 22, enough to make the summer boxoffice hit the top home-video seller and renter its first week in stores.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the former supermodel and wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, says she's agreed to be in Woody Allen's next film.

The Women's International Film & Television Showcase and TheWIFTS International Visionary Awards -- now in their second year -- will celebrate next week the talent and accomplishments of women in the film and TV industry worldwide with special screenings and

A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski bail on Wednesday, accepting $4.5 million to allow him to remain under house arrest at his chalet. The director will stay in prison for up to 10 days while the Swiss government decides whether

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards one prize Wednesday ahead of its centerpiece ceremony Thursday night, with Korea's Baek Seung-bin winning for "Members of the Funeral," ("Jang-rye-sik-ui").

Granada TV, the general entertainment channel operated by the U.K.'s ITV, will launch from next month on the StarHub cable platform in Singapore.

Sweden's Brixgate has signed up with Paramount Digital Entertainment to launch an online movie service for Sweden. The service, called Free Films Direct, will offer both paid movie downloads and streaming as well as a smaller, ad-supported lineup of library

Director Michael Dowse and lead actors Paul Spence and Dave Lawrence have re-teamed to shoot "Fubar 2," the sequel to their 2002 Sundance hit about two beer-addled headbangers.

TiVo has signed a deal with U.K. cable operator Virgin Media to launch jointly branded set top boxes here, six years after being outgunned in the U.K. by competition from News Corporation-owned BSkyB.

Scandinavian giant Svensk Filmindustri has picked up the rights to Swedish crime bestseller "The Hypnotist" with shooting set to start 2010/2011. Svensk will produce together with Swedish production group Sonet Film. Borje Hansson ("The Kautokeino Rebellion") and Peter Possne ("Patrick,

The Japanese authors' and composers' society JASRAC has won a lawsuit against a Tokyo-based video-sharing site.

German indie Constantin Film held steady in the third quarter, with local-language hits "Vicky the Viking" and "Wedding Fever in Campobello" helping boost group revenue to €71.7 million ($108 million) and net profits to €5.2 million ($7.8 million) from €1.9

2012" had a big opening over the three-day weekend (Nov. 21-23) taking 88 million yen (nearly $10 million) on 710,000 admissions, after bowing a week later than most other major territories.

Indie Network Releasing is purring after picking up all U.K. rights to Bahman Ghobadi's "No One Knows About Persian Cats" in a deal with sales banner Wild Bunch.

Olivia Thirlby will play the lead in "The No Game," the new feature from "Desert Flower" director Sherry Hormann, which Doris Kirch's Blue Angel shingle is producing.

More than a decade after Disney made a blockbuster animated film out of a folk tale about a young woman in ancient China who takes her father's place on the battlefield, a Hong Kong director is taking on the story

Disney's Latin America executive Carolina Lightcap has been named president of Disney Channels Worldwide. She replaces Rich Ross, who departed in early October to become chairman of Walt Disney Studios.

Ernie Grunwald ("King of the Hill"), Peter MacNeill, Tracey Dawson and Kathleen Munroe have joined the Jason Priestley-starring Canadian pay-TV comedy "Call Me Fitz," from producer-writer Sheri Elwood ("Defying Gravity").

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