IBT Staff Reporter

Elvis may have left the building -- and the planet, for that matter -- but he's not done racking up accolades.

Comedian Frank DeCaro is best known for his stint on The Daily Show with John Stewart but the comedian and talk radio host is now dishing out recipes.

Gerard Butler is recovering after a surfing accident that took place Sunday afternoon on the set of the upcoming Fox 2000 movie Of Men and Mavericks, according to multiple reports.

A trade panel judge ruled that Motorola Mobility infringed Microsoft's patented technology in making its Android cellphones, Microsoft said on Tuesday.

Van Eck Global, a fund manager with wide experience in emerging markets, is preparing to debut in another risky sector it bets will offer competitive returns in 2012 -- Europe's high-yield corporate debt market.

China's Premier Wen Jiabao has told the nation's banks to clean up lending policies that have left some businesses struggling with excessive borrowing costs as slowing export growth and other pressures eat into profits, state newspapers said on Wednesday.

The Japanese government plans to take a stake of more than two-thirds in Tokyo Electric Power Co <9501.T> in a de facto nationalization of the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Wednesday.

HBO has canceled Hung, How to Make It In America, Bored to Death and renewed Enlightened.

Paramount's decision to start Mission: Impossible 4 small -- albeit through large-format screenings -- seems to be paying off.

Black Swan actresses Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis have danced past Johnny Depp on IMDb's annual list of most-viewed actors.

Reactions among Batman fans to a new theatrical trailer for Christopher Nolan's hotly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises ranged from euphoric to philosophical after the sneak peek went viral Monday.

Glee stars Lea Michele and Chris Colfer said on Monday night's Watch What Happens Live on Bravo that Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes will be the next big guest star on the Fox musical dramedy.

First, the good news for Fox: Its two-hour season finale of the dinosaur drama Terra Nova gave the network a first-place ratings tie with CBS on Monday.

FilmFunds -- a networking site for filmmakers, actors, financiers and fans -- has acquired post-production house Duran Duboi U.S. and will soon begin converting movies into 3D, TheWrap has learned.

In the year since buying the most valuable contemporary film library on the market, the new owners of Miramax have closed $325 million in new licensing agreements while resisting the urge to start making movies, according to Miramax executives.

I feel like the last person on earth not to have read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Over the last few years, I've watched mystery buffs and non-readers alike lugging around the adventures of Lisbeth Salander before eagerly watching the Swedish film adaptations at the movies or on DVD, but the whole phenomenon has been a dog whistle that I never heard until seeing David Fincher's much-anticipated The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Paul McCartney will kick off 2012 with an album of cover tunes and two original songs, he said on Monday, offering fans a glimpse of the music that inspired one of the biggest rock bands ever, the Beatles.

Gilberto Sanchez, who uploaded a pirated copy of Fox's superhero movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was sentenced to one year in federal prison Monday.

Avatar director James Cameron has been sued for the second time in nearly as many weeks by someone claiming to have come up with the idea for the sci-fi mega-hit.

A 67-year-old man from Las Vegas was charged on Monday with shooting at the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles in a violent outburst that left no one injured, authorities said.

With a budding acting career and a renewed passion for hip-hop, rapper Common delivers both fighting talk and inspirational messages on his latest album The Dreamer/The Believer, released on Tuesday.

ESPN and ABC's NBA pregame show is expanding Magic Johnson's role and moving to Los Angeles.

We all go into sentimental movies with certain pre-set buttons that directors try to hit -- some people lose it when a beloved doggie dies, others shed tears when long-estranged lovers are reunited, and then there are those who reach for their hankies when a gruff dad finally articulates his love for his child.

Classic episodes of Fawlty Towers and Miss Marple are just a few of the titles that will be available to Netflix customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland thanks to a new licensing pact with BBC Worldwide.

Immigrants founded or cofounded almost half of 50 top venture-backed companies in the United States, a new study shows, underscoring some of the high stakes in potential immigration reform.

Oracle Corp fell well short of Wall Street's expectations on both hardware and software sales in its fiscal second quarter, wiping more than 8 percent off its shares.

Oracle Corp's profit missed Wall Street's forecasts for the first time in a decade after new software sales sputtered, hammering its shares and stoking fears that a global economic slowdown is hurting tech spending.

AT&T Inc may look to Dish Network Corp or Clearwire Corp for its next deal as it recovers from its failure to buy T-Mobile USA.

The Justice Department is probing Verizon Wireless' multi-billion dollar deal to buy wireless airwaves from cable operators and let them resell its mobile service, the department said on Tuesday.