HOLLYWOOD - A scholarship fund benefiting struggling Australian actors has been established in late star Heath Ledger’s memory.
Gregor Jordan, who befriended Ledger while directing him in 1999’s Two Hands, announced the fund’s formation at Thursday night’s Australians in Film Breakthrough Awards in Beverly Hills.
Jordan, who also directed Ledger in 2003’s Ned Kelly, told guests Ledger’s spirit had [...]

HOLLYWOOD - A stuntman has been killed on the set of Face/Off director John Woo’s latest film after a raging fire broke out during a crash scene.
Woo is currently making new movie Red Cliff in China with Lust, Caution star Tony Leung.
The crew was in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Monday filming a scene where two boats crash [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will attend the funeral of his murdered co-star Robert Knox.
The 18-year-old, who won the role of Marcus Belby in the forthcoming film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, died from multiple stab wounds following an altercation in Kent, England, last month.
Knox’s family has revealed the movie’s stars will attend [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Keira Knightley is in talks to play Eliza Doolittle in a feature update of the classic musical My Fair Lady. The film is set to be produced by Duncan Kenworthy, who worked with Knightley on 2003’s Love Actually. London theater bigwig Cameron Mackintosh, who has produced two stage revivals of My Fair Lady, is [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Fresh off his success with Iron Man, Jon Favreau is already looking ahead to the sequel, which is set to premiere in April 2010. Hollywood.com caught up with the director on the set of the new comedy I Love You, Man where, despite attempts to discuss his newest role, both journalists and Favreau had no problem staying [...]

HOLLYWOOD - A fire that ripped through the heart of Universal Studios in Hollywood on Sunday was an accident, fire chiefs have ruled.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief P. Michael Freeman says the blaze was accidentally sparked by workers using heating tools on a film set.
The fire destroyed a King Kong exhibit and the set from the [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Clint Eastwood has told Spike Lee to “shut his face” after the African-American filmmaker complained about the lack of black actors in Eastwood’s films.
Eastwood has rejected the Malcolm X director’s complaint that he had failed to include a single black soldier in his 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, about the 1945 [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Actor Hayden Christensen is set to return to last year’s blockbuster Jumper for two more movies.
The star is in talks to front two sequels to the sci-fi film and, although the production schedule has yet to be finalized, he is confident he will be reprising his role.
He says, “We’re talking about it. I know that [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Have critics been fair to the “Queen of All Chick Flicks,” Sex and the City? This Warner Bros property, based on the HBO series that debuted a decade ago, received a less than spectacular reception from America’s critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, this decidedly female-skewing film movie has received only 55 percent positive reviews. [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Males Under 25 hold the key to how well two new summer blockbusters will open this weekend. Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (Sony) is aimed squarely at young males, while Kung Fu Panda–the new family-friendly animated pic from Dreamworks–would need to score big in this quadrant to break out in a [...]