Entertainment

MegaStar Media Ltd. Co. announced it would screen “Rio”, the first U.S. 3D film dubbed in Vietnamese, at theatres across the country on April. 8.

Rock legend Lou Reed and composer Philip Glass will perform next month in New York at a half-day concert to benefit victims of Japan's devastating earthquake.

After years of wrangling and delays, Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson finally called "action" on his latest Tolkien epic "The Hobbit".

Hundreds of objects, photographs and documents relating to the development of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union are being displayed in Hanoi.

Legendary American singer Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the 1960s anti-Vietnam War era, will play his first concert in the country.

A film entitled “Fate of a Songstress in Thang Long” won the prize for best film in 2010 at Vietnam’s Golden Kite Awards.

Nicaraguan-American disc jockey Craze, a six-time winner of the World DJ Championship, will perform in Hanoi this week.

YouTube on Friday began showing what it said was the first feature-length Hollywood movie created specifically for the Internet.

International Francophone Day will arrive on March 20, and will include many events aimed at cultural exchange among French-speaking countries.

An elephant from Yang Tao Village won the first ever race for pachyderms held yesterday in the Central Highlands.

A US film company is to make a movie about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, based on an article about events leading up to the explosion.

Critics have tipped one of the many historical films nominated to win this year's national Golden Kite awards.

An exhibition that opened in Hanoi on March 7 will bring the lives of single mothers, living in an outlying district, into focus.

Charlie Sheen has been sacked from the hit TV series "Two and a Half Men" after slamming its producers in outbursts.

A film named Inferno or Giao Lo Dinh Menh was omitted from the Golden Kite film competition because of “piracy suspicions”.

Thirty-one lecturers from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts are displaying their best works at an exhibition entitled ‘Beginning a New-year Writing’ in Hanoi.

Backstreet Boys will perform at the Military Zone 7 stadium in HCM City on March 24 and at the My Dinh national stadium in Hanoi on March 26.

A Vietnamese short film, A Superhero’s Choice, will join 144 short films from around the world in the 48 Go Green competition.

British historical drama "The King's Speech" was crowned with the best film Oscar.