NORTH POLE: Many of us cannot recall the last time we got a letter in the post, but Santa will this year receive a record 8m of them, the UPU has said.

CIA thrillers 'Argo' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' won top screenplay honours from the Writers Guild of America last night.

The political brouhaha that continues to dog Kathryn Bigelow’s dramatisation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden might have cost her an Oscar nomination.

Three top US senators, including John McCain, the former White House hopeful, slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt film for suggesting torture helped find the al Qaeda chief.

Jessica Chastain is set to star in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden death movie.

OSAMA BIN LADEN’s death is blockbuster news for Hollywood, whose attempts to dramatise the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have largely bombed.

Kathryn Bigelow is working on a movie about the death of Osama bin Laden.

THE Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker are asking a judge to dismiss an Iraq war veteran’s lawsuit alleging the film is based on him.

Tom Hanks has signed up to star in ‘Triple Frontier’.

Johnny Depp is in talks to star in 'Sleeping Dogs'.

Tom Hanks is in talks to star in 'Sleeping Dogs'.

Kathryn Bigelow today celebrated winning a place in Oscars history after becoming the first woman to be named best director while her Iraq war drama 'The Hurt Locker' landed best film.

Dubliner Richard Baneham has won an Oscar for his work on visual effects on 'Avatar', but it was director Kathryn Bigelow and 'The Hurt Locker' who emerged as the victors from the battle of the blockbusters at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night.

Ireland's Richard Baneham was honoured at the Bafta awards last night, when Avatar won for special effects.

THE Hurt Locker emerged triumphant from the BAFTAs last night with Kathryn Bigelow pipping ex-husband James Cameron’s Avatar with a best director and best film double.

The Hurt Locker tonight swept to success at the Baftas with a best director and best film double.

James Cameron's sci-fi epic 'Avatar' is among 10 movies nominated in the Best Picture category for the 2010 Academy Awards, it was announced today.

The 65th Venice Film Festival gets under way today, with the premiere of a film starring heartthrobs George Clooney and Brad Pitt.