Longtime film critic Roger Ebert wrote a record 300 film reviews this year. And he calls 2012 "one of the best recent years in cinema," pretty high praise for such a well-established critic.
Paramount Studios has made tweaks to its marketing campaign for the Tom Cruise film Jack Reacher in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Kurt Vonnegut, the counterculture author whose works include Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and Mother Night, was for several years an instructor at the well-respected Iowa Writers' Workshop.
The Australian government has put new incentives in place to urge TV networks to broadcast Australian programs. But for some producers, it's not enough.
With the news that Disney has purchased George Lucas' Star Wars franchise and is considering making new films, public speculation is flying over the content and the stars.