‘The Avengers’ takes top prize at MTV Movie Awards
By Sandy Cohen
With a cast of superheroes and villains, “The Avengers” beat out its competitors to become the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards.

With a cast of superheroes and villains, “The Avengers” beat out its competitors to become the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards.

The MTV Movie Awards are as much about the anticipated movies of the upcoming summer season as they are about the winning films of last year.

Just call him Mr. Sundance. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is attending his sixth Sundance Film Festival, this time as writer and star of his directorial debut and host of the festival’s closing awards ceremony.

The makers of three Golden Globe- and Oscar-nominated foreign films shared the secrets of their craft — and admiration for one another — at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 10th annual Foreign Film Symposium.

Bethenny Frankel and husband Jason Hoppy are separating.

Hollywood warmed up for its awards season with a love fest that recognized top actors and directors for films that haven’t been released yet.

Long before Kevin Costner, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks and Nicole Kidman were Emmy nominees, they were kids who loved watching TV.

Salma Hayek said she is proud to be Mexican and that comments suggesting otherwise were “lost in translation.”

Robert Downey Jr. made a Tony Stark-like entrance into the San Diego Convention Center’s largest exhibition hall, dancing up through the aisles among more than 6,000 fans.

There are lots of people dressed like Superman at Comic-Con, but the real guy — or at least the actor playing him in the latest Superman film — made a surprise appearance at the fan festival.
Richard Gere once saw Utah from horseback while moving cattle, but his trip to the Sundance Film Festival to premiere “Arbitrage” is his first actual visit to the state.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, “I’m With You” (Warner Bros.) The Red Hot Chili Peppers have remained musically relevant for almost three decades by tweaking their formula (and sometimes their lineup) from album to album. Their 10th effort, “I’m With You,” continues that evolution, reuniting the group with producer Rick Rubin and revealing that the funk-rockers [...]