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A Bollywood director dubbed India's Quentin Tarantino has been attacked for stringing up gory dummies of corpses on his latest billboards.

Fresh from his Director's Fellowship at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah, director/producer David Drake welcomes actor Aaron Tone to star opposite Scott Douglas Cunningham in this summer's return engagement of 2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter's Night at the Art House Theatre in Provincetown, MA beginning Friday, August 7th and playing thru Labor Day weekend.

Take a brand new look at the latest film from visionary director Terry Gilliam.

Magic Theatre is pleased to announce Scott Hawkins as its new Managing Director. Mr. Hawkins comes to Magic with extensive experience in business and theatre, including a 20-year career as an organizational development consultant, and recent service as Co-President of the Board of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Mr. Hawkins was appointed after a 6-month search led by the Magic board of directors, and has already begun work getting ready for the 2009-2010 season.

The first thing Aviva Kempner, the director of the new documentary “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,’’ wants to tell you is what a huge Red Sox fan she is. “I’m meshuggeneh about them,’’ she says. “I hate the Yankees.’’

Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Managing Director Brian Colburn, continues its 2009 Season with The Year of Magical Thinking, adapted by Joan Didion from her memoir, directed by Sarna Lapine and starring Judith Roberts. Performances will begin at Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer Street at Seattle Center, on Friday, August 21 and continue through Sunday, September 20. The opening night performance is Wednesday, August 26 at 7:30 pm.

Journalists, including one who worked for Reuters, convicted over sedition and defamation over press union statementSix Gambian journalists, including one who contributed to Reuters, have been jailed for two years for sedition and defamation.The journalists were sentenced yesterday by a court in the country's capital city, Banjul, after backing a press union statement that criticised the government.The union today said it would appeal against their convictions, which have been widely condemned by press freedom groups.Reporters Without Borders called on the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, to draw attention to the case during her trip to Africa.'These journalists are prisoners of conscience, who are being punished for peacefully expressing their views,' said Erwin van der Borght, Amnesty International's Africa programme director. 'They should be released immediately and unconditionally.'On top of their prison sentences, the journalists were also fined 250,000 dalasi (£5,780).The

Beloved filmmaker John Hughes has died at the age of 59, his spokeswoman has confirmed. The director collapsed during a morning walk in Manhattan, new york City, where he was visiting family members, according to Michelle Bega.

From Pretty in Pink to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, John Hughes's movies came to define a generation in the 1980s. Paul MacInnes and Andrew Pulver discuss his legacy

Watch ETonline's exclusive clip from director John Boorman's doppleganger thriller, 'The Tiger's Tail,' on DVD August 11. Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall star in this chic thriller in which Gleeson plays Liam O'Leary, a successful Dublin, Ireland businessman whose good fortune starts to unravel when he discovers a homeless stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to him. When it appears that nobody can see this man but Liam, he must face the possibility that he may be losing his mind -- until he uncovers a shocking truth that forces him to question everything around him.