LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Movie-going got more expensive last year with ticket prices hitting record highs in 2012, the National Association of Theatre Owners said Monday. The average ticket price hit $7.96, a three-cent bump from last year, but still the biggest annual number when not adjusted for inflation. For the fourth quarter of 2012, 3D releases, such as "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" and "Rise of the Guardians," pushed ticket prices to $8.05. That was a 3.4 percent bump from the $7.78 cents audiences shelled out on average over the three months ending in September. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Gary Rydstrom has been working with Steven Spielberg as a sound re-recording mixer since 1989's "Always," and his mantleful of seven Oscars includes four that he picked up working on Spielberg films, including "Saving Private Ryan" and "Jurassic Park." And last year he was nominated again for a Spielberg picture, "War Horse," which represented another chance to get loud. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The cast of "Chicago" will reunite as presenters on this year's Oscars telecast, the show's producers said Monday. Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere and Queen Latifah will all appear on stage together. "Chicago," the 2002 adaptation of the hit Broadway musical scored a Best Picture Academy Award, and a Best Supporting Actress statue for Zeta-Jones. John C. Reilly, Zelleger and Latifah were nominated, but did not win Oscars for their work in the film. ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Starz and Sony have announced a new first-run premium output agreement through 2021 that will bring films including "The Amazing Spider-Man," "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Men in Black 3" to the network. The deal gives Starz the exclusive pay television rights to Sony Pictures' theatrical releases, extending an agreement between the two companies that had covered films released theatrically through 2016. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Oscar-winning visual effects company Rhythm & Hues Studios will seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to an individual with knowledge of the situation. A deal for Indian-based Prime Focus to buy the Oscar-winning visual effects studio collapsed, forcing the company to file, the individual said. The news comes as Rhythm & Hues is being honored for its artistry. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Roger Deakins won the top feature-film award from the American Society of Cinematographers on Sunday night for "Skyfall," meaning that "Argo" only went two-for-three on a weekend of film awards ceremonies. While "Argo" won at the Scripter Awards on Friday and the BAFTA Awards earlier Sunday, it was not even nominated for an ASC Award, where Deakins' work on the James Bond movie "Skyfall" won out over Danny Cohen for "Les Miserables," Claudio Miranda for "Life of Pi," Janusz Kamninski for "Lincoln" and Seamus McGarvey for "Anna Karenina. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - From killing off film prints to designing fantastical CGI worlds, movies are going digital in every way except one - storytelling. Unlike the eras when the advent of photography inspired the fine arts to embrace abstraction, or when the rise of mass-media pushed writers into modernist and eventually post-modern terrain, movies remain largely impervious to the narrative techniques employed across the internet. ...

PARIS (AP) — Actor Bruce Willis has been awarded the Commander of the Arts in France for his contribution to cinema.

LONDON (Reuters) - Ben Affleck's "Argo" was crowned best film at the BAFTAs on Sunday while Daniel Day-Lewis bagged yet another leading actor award for the title role in "Lincoln" as an increasingly familiar awards season script unfolded in London. Affleck also won the best director trophy for "Argo", about the rescue of American hostages in Iran during the 1979 revolution, and the movie is now in pole position to win the biggest movie award of all on Oscar night. "You are remarkable at what you do. ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Actress Luminita Gheorghiu plays a domineering mother trying to save her son from jail in "Child's Pose", a stark family drama from Romania competing in this year's Berlin film festival. The movie, directed by Calin Peter Netzer, shines an unforgiving light on the casual corruption and flashy materialism of post-communist Romania's upper middle class which expects to be able to buy itself out of any difficulty. ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise the roles of Jesse and Celine in "Before Midnight", the third but not necessarily the last movie in their long-running series based on the same characters as they age over time. In this film, set 18 years after "Before Sunrise", the couple is on holiday in Greece and we learn that they live with their twin daughters in Paris while Jesse's son has stayed with his mother in Chicago. ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police Monday detained 10 women, including the sister of American comic Sarah Silverman, as they tried to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, the head of a liberal Jewish women's group said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - British actor Steve Coogan and director Michael Winterbottom reunite for "The Look of Love", a biopic of pornography publisher and night club impresario Paul Raymond that brings to the screen the sleaze, success and tragedy in his life. Dubbed the "king of porn", or, more politely, the "King of Soho" after the London area where his empire was based, Raymond began amassing his fortune in 1958 with the opening of the "Raymond Revuebar" and expanded to theatre and men's magazines. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Here is a list of winners in the main categories at the BAFTAs, Britain's top film awards, which took place in London on Sunday. BEST FILM: "Argo" OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM: "Skyfall" BEST DIRECTOR: Ben Affleck for "Argo" LEADING ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" LEADING ACTRESS: Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour" SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained" SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway in "Les Miserables" ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained" ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: David O. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 2,700 dogs are converging on New York City for the 137th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Monday and Tuesday, including at least 50 Labrador retrievers who can only be hoping for an historic upset. Each year, members of the Labrador-loving public tend to have only two questions for Thomas Bradley, the show's chairman. "Why did that little dog win?" is one, with the emphasis on 'little,' he said. "How come a Labrador never wins?" is the other, Bradley recalled with a laugh. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Good Day to Die Hard" is off and running overseas. The Bruce Willis action film took in more than $10 million in its debut in seven Asian markets for Fox. "Django Unchained" was the top international moneymaker for the fourth consecutive week, adding $18.7 million from 66 markets. Quentin Tarantino's slave saga has now brought in $187 million overseas. "Good Day to Die Hard" opens Thursday in North America. The leading market was Korea, where it made $4.2 million. It broke a Fox record in Indonesia with $1. ...

LONDON (AP) — Iran-hostage drama "Argo" continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.

LONDON (Reuters) - Ben Affleck's "Argo" was crowned best film at the BAFTAs on Sunday while Daniel Day-Lewis bagged yet another leading actor award for the title role in "Lincoln" as an increasingly familiar awards season script unfolded in London. Affleck also won the best director trophy for "Argo", about the rescue of American hostages in Iran during the 1979 revolution, and the movie is now in pole position to win the biggest movie award of all on Oscar night. "You are remarkable at what you do. ...

LONDON (AP) — Winners of the 2013 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:

LONDON (Reuters) - Ben Affleck's "Argo" won the BAFTA award for best film on Sunday, extending a winning run that has given it strong momentum as the Oscars loom. "Argo", a drama about the rescue of American hostages in Iran in 1979, had already won best movie drama at the Golden Globes and several other prestigious U.S. trophies. (Reporting By Estelle Shirbon, editing by Paul Casciato)