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Trademark Films and The Weinstein Company have announced that principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn for seven weeks at Pinewood Studios and on location in and around London. Michelle Williams who got a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role in Brokeback Mountain (2006) plays Marilyn Monroe.

The Golden Globes on HiIary Swank's bookshelf remind her daily of her good fortune in being offered such powerful, award-winning roles. "I look at my Golden Globes and other awards on my bookshelf as I walk by them every day and I'm in awe of the fact that I get the opportunities to play such rich, deep emotional people," she told HFPA members when she met them at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills recently.

The Kennedy Center will present its 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey on Nov. 8 in Washington.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently talked to a very courageous Michael J.

Without doubt, David Fincher's "The Social Network" is one of the best reviewed films of the year. This despite the fact that insiders to the story of the creation of the world's number one social network, Facebook, have openly complained about the creative license taken by the filmmakers.

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The studio that helped make some of Wellington’s most famous films is on fire in Wellington. A huge fire at Portsmouth Miniatures Studio broke out at 3.

"My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages. He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him.

Georg Lucas’ announcement did not come as a surprise: “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” will return to theaters in 3-D in 2012 and will be followed in the stereoscopic format by the five other live-action movies set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Immediately after James Cameron’s “Avatar” won the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Drama Georg Lucas told Access Hollywood he was now planning to convert his Skywalker family epic into the trendy format.

“Glee” creator Ryan Murphy invited the HFPA to the Paramount Studios set of his hit series and revealed what’s coming in future episodes, which include a guest appearance by Javier Bardem as a Spanish rock star, a tribute to the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and a duet-themed episode in which Chris Colfer (who plays Kurt Hummel) duets with himself in “Le Jazz Hot” from Julie Andrews’ “Victor/Victoria. ” The interviews with Murphy and the main cast were held in a brand new theater set built on Soundstage 16.