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A Fairy Tale From India", winner of the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and nominated for three Heartland Regional Emmy Awards; "The Sage and the Mouse", winner of the Gold Medal at the International Film Festival of...

Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand politician who briefly served as Thailand's prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular TV cooking show, died of cancer Tuesday...Samak died at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok after a...

NHK on Monday announced the names of the 50 artists and groups to perform on this year’s 60th NHK “Kohaku Uta Gassen” (red and White Song Contest), with four Johnny’s boy bands topping the list including, Arashi, Hey!...Arashi was scheduled...

The world’s first lacquered chess sets, all crafted by hand in Japan, were put on sale at a New York design house Monday, with their prices as high as $123,600. On display at the Fellissimo Design House in midtown Manhattan...

It just wouldn't be Christmas without a deluge of greatest hits albums flooding the music store shelves and Snow Patrol have beaten most bands to the punch with a 30-song wrap spanning 15 years. Most music purists would view the...

But it’s the edgier moments, such as the Single Ladies singer holding a toy gun up to the heads of bare-chested hooded men, that suggest she is determined to shake up her image. According to the Huffington Post , Gaga said...

Sell up for SkyCity's cinema interests Tuesday November 24, 03:13 PM SkyCity is selling off its core cinema businesses in New Zealand, including its joint venture interests in the Rialto group and in Fiji. Together they represent some three percent...

Theft, some 780,000 pirated DVDs were "shredded" in Sydney on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Police Minister Michael Daley told AAP. "People don't seem to realise the seriousness of copyright crime and that criminals use movie piracy to fund a range...

Commonly known as the Chinese film industry's "Oscars," the Golden Horse awards date back to 1962 and honor the very best offered by Chinese-language cinema over the previous 12 months. The awards carry justifiable cachet for filmmakers both domestically and...

The Temper Trap guitarist Lorenzo Sillitto might be a budding rock star, but he can't wait to get home to watch the latest season of Kiwi comedy Outrageous Fortune . Having moved to London in June, Aussie rockers The Temper...