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Patricia Clarkson has a regal bearing to match the aristocratic nickname she has gained in the movie business: queen of independent film.

Will Arnett and Oscar-nominated "Revolutionary Road" co-star Michael Shannon are boarding "Jonah Hex," a Western based on the DC Comics character.

Madonna left Malawi on her private jet Sunday after being rebuffed in an attempt to adopt a second child from the poor African nation, air traffic control officials said.

"Fast & Furious," the fourth film in Universal Pictures' hot-rodding franchise, raced to the top spot at the worldwide box office as movie fans with a need for speed snapped up an estimated $102.6 million worth of tickets, the studio said on Sunday.

Australian researchers sifting papers belonging to the author of "Schindler's List" discovered a yellowing roll of 801 men saved from the Holocaust by the German industrialist the very copy the writer used to bring the story to the world's attention, a curator said Monday.

Ethan Hawke might want to avoid crossing paths with Toby Keith in the near future.

Fox News columnist Roger Friedman is out after posting a review of a leaked full-length work print of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." Fox News said Monday that the company's representatives and Friedman "mutually agreed to part ways immediately."

Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard head the ensemble cast of "Red Tails," a feature film about the Tuskegee Airmen, the United States' first all-black aerial combat unit.

Writer-directors Jay and Mark Duplass have sold their pitch "Table 19" to Fox Searchlight.

Bollywood producers in India insisting on a greater share of box-office revenues are refusing to release new movies in multiplexes, piling on woes in an industry that is already battling a slowdown.