The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The jump, from $27.8 billion a year earlier, was driven by a rise in ticket prices ...

Mexico has implemented a new program subsidizing filmmakers in a bid to attract more cinema business to the country. President Felipe Calderon says the government will reimburse producers 7.5 percent of their expenses if they spend more than $5.5 million during filming or $1.6 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - They conjured box office magic with their "Bourne" spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller "Green Zone" debuts on Friday. The action movie, which reunites A-list actor Damon and Greengrass, an accomplished director, aims to be the first big movie about the ongoing Iraq war ...

3-D BOOM: 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009. SCREEN COUNT GROWING: The number of screens able to show 3-D movies in the U.S. and Canada more than doubled to 3,548 ...