Jack Kerouac's cult novel On the Road, a sex and drug-fuelled hymn to youthful freedom, hit the big screen in Cannes Wednesday in what its stars called a tribute to today's revolutions.
The 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel A Confederacy of Dunces, posthumously awarded to the author, John Kennedy Toole, eleven years after his death, may finally make it to the big screen with Zach Galifianakis as the odd leading man.
Singer Katy Perry, who likes going over-the-top with her look sometimes, features sans make-up in her documentary Katy Perry: Part Of Me.
Actor Demi Moore has signed up her first film since a medical emergency put her career on hold. The 49-year-old has signed on to star in Very Good Girls opposite her former California school pals Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning.
Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan is planning to star in Rush Hour 4 and Karate Kid 2 in the next five to 10 years. The 58-year-old actor, who recently announced his latest film Chinese Zodiac would be his last big action movie, is keen to take a break from action movies.
Actor Ryan Reynolds will play the lead in a remake of the 1980s fantasy movie Highlander.