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The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated today as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail and pressed U.S. officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Zurich over a U.S.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said today. The Academy Award-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced.

John Hughes, whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his representative.

So last we heard, Neil Marshall was one of seven contenders according to AICN to direct the Alex Litvak penned reboot PREDATORS, based on Robert Rodriguez's treatment. LatinoReview has exclusively learned that director Nimród Antal, not only is he one of the seven names, but is also the top contender and the guy most likely to get the gig.Who?I said the same damn thing.

Stephen Sommers was never let go from project -- One day you're directing one of the summer's biggest tentpoles, the next you're not. Depending on which websites you read.

A lawsuit filed by the film director against American Apparel over a billboard was quickly settled on Monday morning for $5 million.

He is the king of the modern-day blockbuster, as he’s proven time and time again with the likes of “Armageddon,” “The Rock” and the “Transformers” films. There are few people who deal in explosions as huge, or technology as cutting-edge, as he does. But one thing that Michael Bay hopes to do before his career ...

A Hollywood film director who pleaded guilty three years ago to lying to the FBI in connection with the Anthony Pellicano investigation, then withdrew his plea, was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. John McTiernan is charged with perjury and making false statements to federal agents.

Here at MTV Movies, we’ve been following the status of Ben Stiller’s upcoming “Little Fockers” pretty closely. Maybe we just have an adolescent obsession with curse word puns. Perhaps we need to get out more. Or possibly the prospect of a third entry in the “Meet the Parents” franchise is simply the sort of news ...