LONDON (AP) ― Organizers on Wednesday announced a lineup of 14 movies for Sundance London, a four-day British offshoot of the Utah-based indie film festival. The April 26-29 event will include Julie Delpy’s relationship comedy “2 Days in New York’’; Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos’ hip-hop drama “Filly Brown’’; So Yong Kim’s road movie “For Ellen’’; and Josh Radnor’s campus romance “Liberal ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― China is continuing its courtship of Hollywood, with government officials touting a new fund that aims to co-finance movies. Wednesday’s push comes just weeks after China’s leader-in-waiting, Vice President Xi Jinping, unveiled rules that would give foreign films better access to the country’s booming box office and a larger percentage of ticket receipts. Yang Buting, former ...

NEW YORK (AP) ― This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will feature many domestically oriented movies that deal with contentious contemporary issues, from the recession to James Franco’s artistic antics. Tribeca announced the first half of its slate for this year’s festival Tuesday: 46 feature films out of a planned 90. This half includes entries in the world narrative and documentary categories, as ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Kim Novak is clarifying why she used the word “rape’’ to describe how she felt about “The Artist.’’ The 79-year-old “Vertigo’’ actress, who will be honored next month at the TCM Classic Film Festival, said during a phone interview Monday that hearing the score from the Alfred Hitchcock film used in the recent Oscar-winning homage to the silent-film era reminded her of the same...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax’’ raked in all kinds of green, earning $70.7 million in its first weekend to score the biggest box-office debut of the year by far. The 3-D animated family film from Universal Pictures, featuring the voices of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift, is based on Seuss’ cautionary fable about the importance of preserving the environment. Of its opening ha...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ―Ralph McQuarrie, the cinematic designer known for the famous “Star Wars” characters such as Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2, has died at age 82, his website announced Sunday. McQuarrie, who died Saturday, collaborated with George Lucas on the original “Star Wars” trilogy in the 1970s and with Steven Spielberg on films including “E.T.,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind....

NEW YORK (AP) ― Fresh off his Oscar glory with “The Artist,’’ there’s no silence for Harvey Weinstein when it comes to his next film. The famously bellicose producer is protesting the R rating received by a documentary his Weinstein Co. is releasing. “Bully,’’ directed by Lee Hirsch, is an examination of school bullying that follows five kids and families over the course of a school year. It re...

Michael Douglas, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, is promoting a U.N. art contest for youngsters to help promote a nuclear-free world. Contestants age 5 through 17 are encouraged to watch a short, age-appropriate video online about the dangers of nuclear weapons, and then use their creative talents to imagine a world free of nuclear weapons, without wars, bombs or fear. "Art is the universa...