Burma’s government has removed 2,082 names from its notorious blacklist, opening travelling privileges to roughly a third of the people officially barred from entering or leaving the country, an official said today.

Truth may be stranger than fiction but it’s seldom more entertaining, especially when projected onto a big screen at 24 frames per second.

Officials in Burma said the military-backed government has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming film.

A bleak tale of twisted love in the frozen hinterland with ‘evil’ – according to the tribal Shamans – Saiva (Yeoh) wandering the wasteland with young companion Anja (Krusiec) and rescuing a badly-injured Loki (Bean).

The third film in The Mummy series opens in 200 BC with a brief history of the rise of the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) and his defeat at the hands of wily sorceress Zi Yuan (Michelle Yeoh).

There are moments, albeit too few, where this futuristic adventure yarn threatens to lift off: the storyline has much going for it, there is an excellent cast, some of the action is good … but somehow the film fails to click.

A dark drama set in the frozen wastes of the Arctic where two sisters (Yeoh and Krusiec) are forced to flee from rampaging soldiers to an isolated island.

Actress Michelle Yeoh is ecstatic after she was awarded the French Legion of Honour in her native Malaysia.

The Chinese government has cancelled the release of Memoirs of a Geisha – a decision made amid speculation officials are worried the sight of Chinese actresses playing Japanese geishas would stir a backlash.

The author of Memoirs of a Geisha is defending the film version amid criticism from some experts in the geisha world.

Cillian Murphy joins Chris Evans and Michelle Yeoh in Danny Doyle's Sunshine, about three astronauts on a deep space rescue mission.

American-Jewish director Woody Allen has said he could see no reason to boycott the Cannes Film Festival after far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen’s shock success at the French polls.

Hollywood star Nicole Kidman put her personal problems aside as she shone at the premiere of her new movie Moulin Rouge which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Hollywood glamour is coming to the UK as movie stars troop up the red carpet for Britain's answer to the Oscars - The British Academy Film Awards.