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Twenty-six years after the Oak Bay Theatre ran its last picture show, the Tweed Curtain is rising again for movie buffs.

Films about immigrants, retirees in Florida and ballet shoemakers are among the final films in the running for the Academy Award for Documentary Short, the academy announced on Thursday.

Call it the Canadian dynasty of teenybopper pop and movie stardom. Genealogists at Ancestry.com say they've discovered teen idol Justin Bieber is a distant cousin of movie star Ryan Gosling and singer Avril Lavigne.

Sammi Kane Kraft, whose baseball skills earned her the role of a youth league pitcher in the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears, has died in a Los Angeles car crash. She was 20.

Arrow's characters more important than 'superhero' stuff: star

Ralph Fiennes is eyeing a starring role in Wes Anderson's next film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, a person familiar with the project has confirmed. Anderson is producing the film with Scott Rudin and Indian Paintbrush.

Novelist Mo Yan known for bawdy, sprawling tales of rural China

Vivek J. Tiwary is writing and producing a feature adaptation of his upcoming graphic novel, The Fifth Beatle, which chronicles the life of the group's manager, Brian Epstein, Tiwary's publicist announced.

Turhan Bey, an actor whose exotic good looks earned him the nickname of "Turkish Delight" in films with Errol Flynn and Katherine Hepburn before he left Hollywood for a quieter life in Vienna, has died. He was 90.

Rihanna and Nicki Minaj are the leading nominees at the 40th annual American Music Awards with four nods each. Christina Aguilera announced the nominations Tuesday in Los Angeles. She also said she plans to perform at the ceremony next month.