Pop superstar Lady Gaga will play a wealthy, fashionable hotelier with a “nefarious plan” when she makes her television series debut in a leading role in American Horror Story: Hotel, the show’s creator has revealed.

Even with Penny Dreadful back and in the golden age of television, horror’s reign of terror remains firmly on the big screen writes Ed Power

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Host Seth Meyers noted that the Emmys had moved to Monday night to avoid a conflict with Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards. But he said that MTV doesn’t really specialise in videos any more.

Reluctant gambler Mick Martin will rarely punt the full house: “You’d have put your kitchen sink on Hernandez to score there.”

Kate Winslet is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

ANYONE who has ever known anyone with an Irish wolfhound declares an Irish connection for St Patrick’s Day.

Kathy Bates has had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

'Mad Men' and 'American Horror Story' lead the nominations at this year's Emmy Awards with 17 each.

Charlie Sheen is "honoured"that Kathy Bates will play his ghost on 'Two and a Half Men'.

George Clooney is among the presenters at this Sunday's Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

Following his European jaunts around England and Spain, writer-director Woody Allen says bonjour to Paris for his new romantic comedy, his 41st movie.

MIDNIGHT in Paris (15A) stars Owen Wilson as struggling writer Gil, who travels to Paris in search of inspiration with his fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams).

Mini-series 'Mildred Pierce' starring Kate Winslet, has been nominated for 21 Emmies, it has been announced today.

France's first lady is making her debut as an actress, filming this week in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris".

Charlize Theron, Kathy Bates and Barbara Streisand are the latest stars to become presenters at the Oscars on Sunday.

A romantic drama set in 1920s Paris where a former courtesan, the now wealthy Lea (Pfeiffer), is asked by Bates to educate her callow 19-year-old son Fred (Friend) in the ways of love, women and the world.

People living lives of quiet desperation … and such a powerful performance from Winslet that surely an Oscar, rather than merely another lost cause, will come her way.

A remake of the classic l951 sci-fi film starring Michael Rennie as the silver-suited visitor from outer space … and one, for all the ultra-modern technical screen advances, that doesn’t live up to the thoughtful original.

Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker has made it into the top 10 of a poll of UK film fans to find the ultimate villain.

Sometimes you can milk the same formula too much.

HOLLYWOOD actress Kathy Bates, who is best remembered for smashing James Caan’s legs in the movie Misery, is to travel to Galway on Wednesday for the annual Film Fleadh.

Children, particularly those of a more advanced stage, simply don’t these days leave home.

With such fine - Oscar-winning - actresses as Hunter and Bates in the cast you would expect something more than this dismal, unfunny and unromantic comedy-romance.

Brittany Murphy is thrilled her latest movie Little Black Book features music by Carly Simon - because the singer has long been her idol.

When it comes to Hollywood re-making classic films from the past, this one must stand out as the least necessary.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s five-minute cameo as an egocentric, polygamist prince in Disney’s Around the World in 80 Days has fellow actors applauding his willingness to mock his Hollywood image.

It's going to be crowded in Dublin during July, not only with the usual summer visitors but with a host of top Hollywood actresses.

An American billionaire who has put almost €99m into filming a remake of Jules Vernes’s 1872 novel Around The World In 80 Days, has still not found a studio willing to share the costs, according to reports in Hollywood.

The British actor-comedian Steve Coogan and martial arts ace Jackie Chan have taken the unusual step of leaving the set of Around The World In 80 Days mid-way through production in order to promote it at the Cannes Film Festival.

Comedy star Steve Coogan is making a bid for international stardom with his new Hollywood film – because he’s bored with his success in Britain.

Hollywood was gearing up for the Oscars today but war with Iraq means the ceremony will be a strangely muted affair.

The aftermath of the suicide of his wife is a letter, which her grief-stricken husband (the excellent Hoffman) cannot bring himself to open.

Catherine Zeta Jones and Daniel Day-Lewis are leading hopes in the latest round of prestigious Hollywood movie honours.

Oscar-winner Kathy Bates – currently starring in About Schmidt – is keen to make her mark in the directing world.

A Golden Globe for Nicholson and much talk of yet another Oscar; as the Schmidt of the title, he does look a shoo-in.

Oscar winner Kathy Bates says she loves playing eccentric characters like her latest role as ageing hippy Roberta Hertzel in new movie About Schmidt.

Who ever thought that Rollerball was a good idea? I suppose there is sound logic to not wanting to remake a genuine classic, but aren’t there better, more adventurous properties lying around film producers’ vaults than Rollerball?

Jack Nicholson's turned up to the premiere of his new movie with his on-off girlfriend Lara Flynn Boyle.

The first indication of the front runners for this year's Oscars has been announced in America.

Actor-director Kevin Costner is recuperating at his Los Angeles area home following surgery last week to remove his appendix.