Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak questioned the accuracy of a long-awaited film about Steve Jobs as the movie opened with a red carpet premiere Friday, while its makers stressed it was not a documentary.
Wozniak said the movie "jOBS -- which opened at the Sundance Film Festival -- erred in its depiction of the characters as well as the relationships between them -- especially the one between him and computer icon Jobs.
Full StoryWhile Hollywood-style Osama bin Laden manhunt movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has garnered controversy and awards, a lower-profile film seeks to tell the real story of finding the al Qaida chief.
"Manhunt," a documentary by U.S. director Greg Barker, was presented at the Sundance Film Festival this week, days after Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's dramatization won best actress Golden Globe for Jessica Chastain.
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The spoof genre hasn't exactly been thriving as of late. It's been milked to death in recent years with endless "Scary Movie" sequels and spinoffs like "Date Movie", "Epic Movie", and "Meet the Spartans". "A Haunted House" does little to reinvigorate the genre, and it's let down by an abundant amount of crudeness and lack of wit. You'll laugh, just not very often.
Full StoryTina Turner is on her way to becoming a Swiss citizen.
The American rock diva has lived in the Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht since the mid-1990s. The local Zuerichsee-Zeitung newspaper said on its website the local council announced its decision to grant the 73-year-old Turner citizenship in an official notice published in Friday's edition.
Full StoryOnline auction giant eBay has banned the sale of dolls linked to Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked western about a freed slave "Django Unchained," describing them as "offensive," on Thursday.
The toymaker who manufactured the dolls had already discontinued them, after protests from black advocacy groups, according to the celebrity news website TMZ.
Full StorySci-fi and action filmmaker J.J. Abrams has been tapped to direct a seventh "Star Wars" movie expected to be released by Disney in 2015, a Hollywood trade publication reported Thursday.
After purchasing "Star Wars" creator George Lucas's Lucasfilm for $4 billion in October, Disney announced it was planning a new trilogy in the wildly popular sci-fi saga, which has raked in an estimated $4.4 billion since 1977.
Full StoryNews that the global music industry has finally turned the corner and is on the road to recovery should help get the annual four-day gathering of many of the world's top music execs at the MIDEM trade fair that opens here Saturday off to a good start.
"I believe we can now say that the music industry globally is on the road to recovery and heading for growth for the first time since 1999," Frances Moore, CEO of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), the body that represents the interests of the international recording industry, told Agence France Presse.
Full StoryHollywood star Natalie Portman is swapping New York for Paris along with her French husband Benjamin Millepied after he secured the post of dance director at the French capital's Opera.
Millepied, a dancer and choreographer best known for a role alongside Portman in the film "Black Swan", was named as the replacement for Brigitte Lefevre on Thursday.
Full StoryIf his words were bullets, Ahmed el-Khalaf would have already brought down President Bashar Assad to end the bloodshed tearing apart his family's homeland of Syria.
But for now, this 23-year-old has to make do with setting the revolution to his own rap music, putting his indignation into stanzas slamming international inaction and calling for Assad's ouster -- his message to the world.
Full StoryHaute couture, fashion's most luxurious appellation, can only ever come from Paris.
One thing couture week's third and final day proved, however, is that despite these geographical limits, Paris punches high above its weight creatively, attracting designers the world over and evoking every culture under the sun.
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