Ken Burns' series The Roosevelts earned PBS its biggest audience in two decades, making it the documentary maker's third most popular film after The Civil War and Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery.
The upcoming Big Hero 6, about a futuristic world of robots, will add to the growing trend of animated movies with sophisticated storylines. Reuters reports in Los Angeles.
Billionaire Jack Ma says Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is seeking partners in Hollywood as China's biggest e-commerce operator wants to acquire more content for smartphones and tablet computers.
Youku Tudou Inc, China's most popular video-streaming website, will collaborate with US entertainment companies to produce original content after regulators capped the amount of imported shows on the site.
As production crews shoot episodes for a popular US television series, locals in a small Spanish town enjoy a travel boost that they hope will last, Daniel Silvad reports in Madrid.
Song credits won't be the latest place to feature Mick Jagger's name. Instead, look to upcoming films and TV shows.
APEC leaders' biographies are selling well in China before the heads of state come to Beijing for the key Asia-Pacific meeting next month, with books on Russian President Vladimir Putin and South Korean President Park Geun-hye topping the list.
Iraqi-born poet Amal al-Jubouri may not have the Hollywood recognition of Angelina Jolie, but both women are artists who have decided to use their talents and profile to help victims of war.
Yan Lianke received the Franz Kafka Prize on Oct 22 in Prague, becoming the first Chinese author to win the award, established in 2001 in honor of one of the 20th century's most influential writers. The prize recognizes anyone "whose work addresses readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture".
Since Yan Lianke won the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize earlier this month, Chinese media have been discussing the influence Chinese authors wield on the global arena. Some literary critics and business insiders, however, are urging people to see things in perspective.
A father-and-son relationship, perhaps broken beyond repair, fuels Urban Waite's engrossing novel that skillfully exposes the complicated emotions that can stymie a once close family while also working as a superb action-adventure tale.
The papers of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison are now part of the permanent library collection at Princeton University.
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