Entertainment

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.

Britain's Christian Bale won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as a former boxer brought down by drug addiction in "The Fighter."

"The Last Airbender" swept the board at the pre-Oscar Razzie awards for worst movies of 2010.

Ballet thriller "Black Swan" and British drama "The King's Speech" won major awards at the Spirit independent movie awards.

Winning an Oscar will taste even sweeter for some films up for Hollywood's highest honors Sunday.

A made-for-TV movie told the story of Amanda Knox, a US college student convicted of killing her British roommate in Italy.

An increasing number of comedies are organised across HCM City, but audiences are not satisfied with the quality of scripts and performances.

The late President Ho Chi Minh was in the spotlight at Vietnam Poetry Day, held at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on February 17.