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John Scalzi's novel is about members of a spaceship crew who discover they are actually part of a television show.

Charlie Hunnam will play Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson will be Anastasia Steele in the movie adaptation of E.L. James's blockbuster novel.

Nadia Sablin is the winner of the Firecracker Award for her documentary project, "Two Sisters."

Changes in methodology by a British music industry trade group mean that "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul," among other albums, now get the designation.

Iran selects "The Past" as its foreign-language Oscar nominee, something of a surprise given the subject matter.

A few small controversies emerge as a record 73 countries plus three other entities offer submissions for for the foreign-language Oscar.

Blue Note Records is rereleasing 100 of its most "essential" albums. Which records should have been included and which should have been left off?

Online voters chose the baby giant panda from the National Zoo in a competition run by the Smithsonian Institution.

Joshua Oppenheimer, a newly minted MacArthur fellow, follows up his groundbreaking documentary "The Act of Killing," about the 1965 government-directed mass killing in Indonesia, with a companion film, "The Look of Silence."

The artist, who has Alzheimer's, is the subject of a film about his condition, and a production company alleges it was cut out of the project.

"Leviathan," a film criticized by the culture minister, is the Russian entry in a diverse field with no obvious front-runner.

The dispute over whether the woman James Brown long treated as his wife was also his legal spouse neared its conclusion, as a South Carolina judge found that the couple had been legally married.