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Believe it or not, this is the head of a multimillion-dollar film and TV empire that has revolutionised black entertainment in the US - and his name is Tyler Perry. Ed Pilkington reportsIt's Friday night at the 12-screen Cobble Hill multiplex in Brooklyn, New York, and the crowd are in high spirits. The largest auditorium is sold out. Bags of popcorn, heavy on the butter, are being crunched in the aisles; kids are slurping on giant Cokes; a baby is crying. But nothing distracts the almost exclusively African-american audience from the drama being played out in front of them. As the film gathers pace, it is as if the whole room is in interaction with the moving images. When the leading man rejects his spiteful fiancee at the altar, a huge cheer erupts. A few scenes later, when the same character holds his true love in his arms and says, 'I love you', several women stand up in their seats and shout at the screen: 'I love you, too!' The atmosphere is electric. This isn't cinema. This is

Michael Paul Stephenson was a 10-year-old schoolboy when he was cast to star in a film called Goblins, which was being shot near his home in Utah. 'As a child, I thought it was the best thing that ever happened to me,' Stephenson remembers. 'I was going to be a star - I was making the next Gremlins!'The film never came to his nearest cinema. It went straight to video, and it wasn't called Goblins any more; it had become Troll 2, even though it contained no trolls and had no connection to the 1986 movie Troll. Stephenson first watched the film on videotape when he was 11. 'Even though I was young, I was very aware that this was something different than a good movie,' he says.That's putting it mildly: Troll 2 is now hailed as one of the best bad films ever made. It has become a cult hit through fan parties and cinema screenings; for a long time it was No 1 on the IMdB's list of the worst 100 films.The cult is poised to grow even larger thanks to Best Worst Movie, Stephenson's documentary

Tom Rothman, chairman of Twentieth Century Fox, is speaking out about the internet leak of the film 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' -- read on for more details.The unauthorized version of the film that surfaced on the internet is an earlier and outdated copy of the new movie, Entertainment Weekly says on their website."The version that went out is unfinished," Rothman tells EW.com. "It's about 10 minutes shorter, doesn't have key scenes, it wasn't edited, and none of the effects shots were in any remotely final form. It's a complete misrepresentation of the film and is deeply unfair to the people who have worked on it for years."

The 2007 film 'Superbad' is remembered as many things - funny, sweet, obnoxious, lucrative. One thing it isn't remembered for, despite what the credits say, is being a Greg Mottola movie. Seth Rogen co-wrote it, and Judd Apatow produced it. As such, the film tends to get lumped in with all things Apatow. Like every director in the Apatow fraternity, ...

I'll now deliver the stunning news that 'Fast and Furious' is not a very good movie. Vin Diesel will not be nominated for an Academy Award.

Christophe Barratier was talking about of the tastes of the French movie-going public with two lunch companions recently. He wanted to be absolutely clear: 'French people are nervous about musicals. They say, 'Oh no, will there be singing?' ' He points out that Baz Luhrmann's 'Moulin Rouge,' while being something of a worldwide phenomenon in 2001, wasn't a big deal ...

Disney star Brenda Song is celebrating her 21s birthday in Vegas on Friday night! Read on for the dish. Brenda and friends will party at the Bank Nightclub at Bellagio. The birthday girl has appeared in numerous Disney Channel Original Movies, television shows ("The Suite Life of Zack & Cody") and on the big screen ('Like Mike').

An incomplete cut of the upcoming 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' was leaked online and many critics rushed to slam it - but just as many refused to review the film before it's finished.

Someone stole an 'incomplete and early version' of the next installment in the blockbuster 'X-Men' movie series and posted it on the Internet this week, according to the studio that owns the billion-dollar film franchise. Authorities are investigating.

Someone stole an 'incomplete and early version' of the next installment in the blockbuster X-Men movie series and posted it on the Internet this week, according to the studio that owns the billion-dollar film franchise. Authorities are investigating.