FILM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kerry Washington was a triple threat at the NAACP Image Awards.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kerry Washington and Don Cheedle are among the early winners at the NAACP Image Awards.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Sylvester Stallone says that despite his "Rambo" image and new shoot-em-up film "Bullet to the Head," he's in favor of new national gun control legislation.

NEW YORK (AP) — British actor Jude Law says he'll be taking part in a time-honored American tradition this weekend: Super Bowl Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Ed Koch once joked that days on which his name did not appear in the newspaper were days without news. And so it seemed fitting that Koch's death on Friday at age 88 came on the very day that "Koch," a documentary that traces his three terms as mayor from 1978 to 1989, opened in two Manhattan theaters. Zeitgeist Films, the distributor, said the film got a lot of attention on Friday, and more than a dozen theaters in the New York area have expressed interest in screening it. ...

ROME (Reuters) - A British filmmaker said on Friday he was a victim of censorship after a leading museum cancelled the Italian premiere of the documentary "Girlfriend in a Coma", which is highly critical of Italy's political and economic situation. The museum where the film was to have been shown on February 13 cancelled the showing and said it could not be held until after the country's elections on Feb 24-25. ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — An attorney says Indian movie star Salman Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail.

ROME (AP) — Producers of a documentary that takes a sharply critical view of the political, economic and social trends in Italy in recent decades are protesting they are victims of censorship after the culture ministry blocked the film's Italian debut during the run-up to elections.

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Julia Stiles has joined the cast of the Mary Pickford biopic "The First" to play famed screenwriter Frances Marion, Poverty Row Entertainment announced Thursday. Marion was the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, taking the prize in 1930 for "The Big House." She collaborated often with Pickford, writing the scripts for "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" and "The Poor Little Rich Girl." "The First," based on Eileen Whitfield's biography, "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood," tells the story of one of Hollywood's first superstars. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Is the tide turning for "Zero Dark Thirty?" After withstanding a barrage of criticism that turned the film into a political punching bag and may have seriously hurt its awards-season chances, Kathryn Bigelow's gripping procedural about the hunt for Osama bin Laden has in recent days picked up some high-profile endorsements from families of 9/11 victims, a liberal actor who was once counted among the film's critics and former CIA director Leon Panetta - whoessentially supported the film's narrative regarding enhanced interrogation techniques. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Mark Wahlberg and his teddy bear co-star "Ted" will be presenters at the Oscars, the telecast producers announced Friday morning. The duo, stars in Oscar host Seth MacFarlane's comedy about a man trying to turn his immature, hedonistic lifestyle around for a woman he is dating. His indulgent teddy bear, the eponymous Ted, proves to be an obstacle in that transformation. The film is now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British filmmaker Duncan Jones has signed up to direct a movie based on the popular videogame World of Warcraft, according to a statement posted on its Facebook page. The film, which industry estimates say will cost more than $100 million to make, would be a major step up for the director behind the acclaimed low-budget space drama "Moon" and sci-fi thriller "Source Code" starring Jake Gyllenhaal. "We are pleased to announce that Duncan Jones ... has signed on with Legendary Pictures to direct the upcoming live-action film based on the Warcraft universe," the statement said. ...

KOLKATA (Reuters) - British author Salman Rushdie has abandoned plans to attend a publicity event for the film adaptation of his award-winning novel "Midnight's Children" in the Indian city of Kolkata after Muslim groups took to the streets to protest his visit. Around a hundred protesters congregated outside the city's airport ahead of the Indian-born author's visit on Wednesday, airport officials said, the latest in a string of recent clashes over freedom of expression in India. ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard (koh-tee-YAR') has taken home the pudding pot after being honored as woman of the year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The teenage stars of an Oscar-nominated short film from Afghanistan hope to walk the red carpet at the Academy Awards in February thanks to donations that are pouring in to pay for their travel. A representative for the "Buzkashi Boys" film said on Thursday that an online campaign is two-thirds of its way to the $10,000 needed for 14-year-olds Fawad Mohammadi and Jawanmard Paiz to travel from Kabul to Los Angeles in time for Hollywood's biggest night on February 24. ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Zosia Mamet could have spent her hiatus from "Girls," shooting a movie, racking up guest spots on TV or doing commercials. Something lucrative that would have helped push her rising star farther into the stratosphere. But Mamet, whose father David Mamet lobbed lit sticks of dynamite at American theater more than three decades ago with his profane portraits of battered male egos in dramas like "American Buffalo" and "Glengarry Glen Ross," decided that the time was right to make her own mark on stage. ...