Robert K. Elder

Christian Bale What: Last year, Bale chewed out an assistant director who walked into his line of sight during filming for the movie "Terminator Salvation." The recording surfaced this week....

Director Ken Kwapis, a Belleville native, took time while promoting "He's Just Not That Into You," starring Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck and a host of others, to talk to the...

Even though both E! Online and "Access Hollywood" have reported that George Clooney will return for the "ER" finale, the cast and crew are still being cagey about their colleague's...

Punk poet and rock icon Patti Smith returns to her native Chicago Friday for a sold-out screening of the documentary "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" at Northwestern University's Mary and...

NBC has announced that the hospital drama "ER" will return to Chicago on Jan. 30 and 31 in its final season, to shoot some farewell exteriors. No announcements have been...

Starlet Odette Yustman ("Cloverfield"), a California native, talked recently with the Tribune about filming horror movie "The Unborn" (opening Friday) in Chicago last year -- in the winter. "I had...

Anthony Vizzari still sees dead people -- just not as often. We wrote about Vizzari and his wife, Andrea, who collect photographs of the deceased, and founded the Museum of...

Since the Tribune wrote about new American Gladiator Beth Horn, a.k.a. Venom, she went on two USO tours to entertain troops in Iraq and Africa. "We flew Black Hawk helicopters...

After a couple of weeks of uncertainty, Illinois has a new tax incentive aimed at luring films and TV series to the state. Embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed the measure...