South Korean film ‘Pieta’ wins Venice top prize

South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s morality tale “Pieta” won the Golden Lion for best movie at the Venice film festival Saturday, beating cult directors Terrence Malick and Brian De Palma.

South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s morality tale “Pieta” won the Golden Lion for best movie at the Venice film festival Saturday, beating cult directors Terrence Malick and Brian De Palma.

A lawyer for Tom Cruise has dismissed as “tired old lies” a magazine report claiming that the Church of Scientology had auditioned candidates to become a girlfriend for the star.

The film “The Master” kept viewers spellbound at the Venice festival on Saturday with Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a charismatic leader loosely based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

The Church of Scientology has remained tight-lipped about Tom Cruise’s shock divorce, grappling with a PR blow which has revived questions about the controversial celebrity-friendly religion.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached a “private” divorce settlement less than two weeks after she announced their bombshell split, vowing to protect their daughter, a lawyer said Monday.

Tom Cruise was named the highest paid actor in Hollywood on Tuesday, on his 50th birthday — but the “Mission Impossible” star has little to celebrate.

Fairytale Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announced Friday they were calling it quits after five years of marriage, ending an unexpected love story dogged by tabloid rumors.