43 stories by "Jake Coyle"
TORONTO (AP) -- The 41st Toronto International Film Festival has gotten underway with Antoine Fuqua's remake of "The Magnificent Seven," an old-school Weste…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Good improv is like a magic act, conjured out of thin air. A handful of people step onto the stage with nothing prepared, and - poof! - an hour of laughs tumbles fort…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first time Steven Spielberg offered a role to Mark Rylance, the actor said no. That was 30 years ago for "Empire of the Sun." Now, Rylance can&a…
Blake Edwards, 88, died from complications of pneumonia Wednesday evening at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after being hospitalized for about two weeks.
TORONTO (AP) -- Anna Kendrick is done with musicals. No really. She swears....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a theatrical icon, has died, according to Brigade Market…
Roman Polanski. Sadomasochism. What could possible go wrong?...
Ahead of his Broadway adaptation "Jersey Boys" on Friday, Clint Eastwood, 84, shares his thoughts on how to stay young, his first time acting and why America is "floundering":...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amid the swirl of an early 1960s party scene in Clint Eastwood's latest, an adaptation of "Jersey Boys," the hit Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Season…
For a documentary subject as forceful as Elaine Stritch, filmmakers may need to turn to nature - a typhoon might do it - to find anything approximate. Even the camera must warily keep its di…
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a medium that prizes glamor and flash, Philip Seymour Hoffman offered the opposite in film: untidy, imperfect, shy, awkward and eminently real people....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Since directing "Garden State," Zach Braff has continually prepared music in an iTunes playlist titled, "For Next Movie." Nine years and hundreds of saved songs later, B…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elaine Stritch would rather get on with it....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Hooper, the director of intimate character studies like the Oscar-winning "The King's Speech," the HBO miniseries "John Adams" and the TV drama "Longford," would not…
NEW YORK (AP) -- They've both played superheroes. They've both hosted the Oscars. But what unites "Les Miserables" co-stars Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway most is a deep, some might even…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Omar, the shotgun-toting stick-up man of "The Wire," is finally getting his chance to belt out a solo....
After years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web are suddenly flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series.
Since living together as freshmen at Carnegie Mellon University, Gad and O'Malley, both nominated for Tony Awards, have been best friends. Now, they're at the center of the "Mormon" sensati…
