IRONMAN star Robert Downey Jr has admitted seducing many of his co-stars in the past, and claims that many Hollywood stars often enjoy on-set romantic liaisons.
LAST time Tre Armstrong performed in Australia, it was as a backing dancer on hip hop superstar Missy Elliott's 2004 national tour. Now she returns as a movie star.
LORD of the Rings star Elijah Wood talks of the thrill of working with John Hurt on his latest film The Oxford Murders, and why he's a fully paid-up film nerd.
HER hair might be a mousy brown mess and in need of deep conditioning, but Natalie Imbruglia's role in South Australian-made movie Elise is still likely to turn heads.
WIN tickets to a special movie screening of How She Move, meet its lead Tre Armstrong and find out how she's gone from backing Justin Timberlake to the brink of movie stardom.
IS Bond going soft? It has emerged that, during 007's next outing in Quantum of Solace, the masterspy beds just one beauty due to having his heart broken by an earlier romance.
SHE'S been a Hollywood 'it' girl, a macrobiotic poster child and dated Brad Pitt, but Gwyneth Paltrow has settled into life as a rocker's wife and couldn't be happier.
HEATH Ledger is grabbing the spotlight from beyond the grave, as Batman's Joker in one of Hollywood's most anticipated blockbusters of the year, The Dark Knight.
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CHARLTON Heston, one of the last lions of Old Hollywood, was remembered at his funeral today as devoutly religious and patriotic - a man who was an imposing figure both in his politics and on the big screen.
BEN Affleck has made his share of bad career moves on and off the screen, but that hasn't prevented the actor from taking the biggest risk of his life.
HIGH in the Chilean desert, one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth, James Bond is saving the world again.
A JUDGE has tossed out a defamation suit brought by a businessman shown being chased through Manhattan by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the movie Borat.
THE Hollywood director of a new action film set around secret teenage fight clubs has rejected fears it will lead to an explosion of copycat clubs in Australia and the US.
JUST as fans prepare for the big-screen debut of Sex and the City, lead actor Chris Noth has sent them into a bigger spin, by hinting at news of a sequel.
Dirty Dancing was only supposed to run in cinemas for a few days before heading straight to VHS, but 20 years on, it's still a hit. Listen to our podcast with writer Eleanor Bergstein, who based the classic dance flick on her own youthful adventures, and read our review of the 20th anniversary edition DVD.
COLIN Firth co-stars with Rupert Everett in his latest film, a St Trinians remake, but the pair have only recently mended one of showbusiness's longest-lasting feuds.
AUSTRALIAN actor Hugh Jackman, who plays the mutant Wolverine in the X-Men movies, is creating a comic book series called Nowhere Man.
GREG Norman quotes self-help guru Dan Millman on the first page of his book. Sting hails his power to change lives and Jim Carrey has lauded his clarity.
IT'S a long way from Poowong to New York, but it's taken big-screen toilet technician Shane Jacobsen only 18 months to get there.
SCREEN siren Melissa George is heading back to Australia to take the lead role in a seafaring thriller.
AT THE age of 83 when most directors could be forgiven for mellowing, Sidney Lumet shows in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead that he's still firing on all screen cylinders.
JIM Carrey works hard for his money, whether it's spending hours in makeup for The Grinch, or writhing about for his new animated flick from the Dr Seuss storybook.
NICOLAS Cage has again shunned the bright lights of Hollywood to spend three months in Melbourne making sci-fi thriller Knowing.
STEVE Carell is an oddity in LA. In a city where "Do you know who I am?" is a threat not a question, he has managed to achieve superstardom without having his ego increase proportionally to his pay cheque.
ERIC Bana is set to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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Elijah Wood is revelling in his cinematic education, but even he admits he doesn't do maths.
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WE have seen the movie again and again. We know the words to all the songs and now Disney has turned its smash movie High School Musical into an ice spectacular.
THIS very British black comedy was panned by American critics, but lauded by most others, as is often the case with British comedy that makes it over the Atlantic.
A WOMAN ordered to stay away from John Cusack has been charged with stalking.
FOR Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, filming the Rolling Stones evoked memories of the rough, mob-tinged street life of his childhood.
LINDSAY Lohan, fresh from working on a movie about the assassination of John Lennon, has signed up to star in Manson Girls, a film about Hollywood murderer Charles Manson.
BEFORE the Frat Pack and $20 million paydays, before Old School and way before Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
EVERYONE has their fight to win, and no one wants to back down. Star of Blood Diamond Djimon Hounsou knows this scenario all too well.
RICHARD Widmark, who was the Hollywood leading man of more than 40 films, including Broken Lance and Two Rode Together, has died after a long illness aged 93.
HEIRS of the late actor Steve McQueen have gone to court to stop an apparel manufacturer based in Italy from using the King of Cool's name and likeness.
MOST acting couples rule out ever starring alongside each other on the big screen, let alone indulging in intimate liaisons for a movie. Not Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber.
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BRITISH actor Paul Scofield, who won an Oscar for his role in A Man For All Seasons and was one of his country's greatest Shakespearean actors, has died at the age of 86.
ON the release of Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger, Aussie star Keisha Castle-Hughes prepares to turn 18, and says that being a young mum is easier than expected
FIGURES from the world of film are paying tribute to Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director of The English Patient, who has died aged 54.
SARAH Jessica Parker claims fans will be "stunned" by the forthcoming Sex and the City film, and also reveals how she had to persuade her co-stars to get on board.
WHEN it comes to motherhood, Toni Collette is lost for words. In her first interview since giving birth to her first child - Sage Florence - in Sydney on January 9, the actor says motherhood is "so much more" than she expected.
THAT Ed Norton is a clever lad.
Herald Sun Online film critic Leigh Paatsch casts his eye over this week's local cinema releases. This week: Run away from Run, Fatboy, Run, and revel instead In the Shadow of the Moon.