The music video for Michael Jackson's Thriller and the 1975 cinema classic Dog Day Afternoon will be preserved by the official federal film registry in the U.S.

Carly and Kris Pope, siblings who are both actors, were the victims of a bizarre carjacking attempt in downtown Vancouver on Tuesday morning, CBC News has confirmed, and police say charges have now been laid.

Singers Neil Young and Burton Cummings, and humanitarian James Orbinski have become officers of the Order of Canada, Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean has announced.

DisneyPixar.fr has posted a scan of a new image from Walt Disney Pictures' Rapunzel found in Studio CinéLive magazine.

The American Film Institute has hailed James Cameron's box office hit Avatar as one of the "moments of significance" it recognizes as having an impact on the world in 2009.

Relatives of inmates in a Mexican jail where Mel Gibson is scheduled to shoot a film in early 2010 have ended a 24-hour demonstration outside the facility.

Controversy-courting director Michael Haneke (CACHÉ) earned the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 2009 for this arresting drama set just before World War I. In a small German village, a number of unexplained accidents beset the schoolchildren and their parents. Though they at first appear coincidental, it begins to seem that they are not, in fact, accidents at all.

A new trailer for DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon has come online and can be watched using the player below. Opening in conventional 3D theaters and IMAX 3D, the animated film features the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig and T.J. Miller.