LOS ANGELES -- They came from across town and across the globe -- all waiting in the same line at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theater to see the final "Star Wars" film.

GAS CITY, Ind. -- James Dean's movie career was brief. Interest in him is not. With the 50th anniversary of the actor's death approaching on Sept. 30, film crews from around the world are traveling to the area where the movie icon grew up to take a fresh look at the "Rebel Without a Cause" star.

Whoever would have thought that a gawky, gangly teen with moon boots and a red 'fro could define a generation?

LOS ANGELES -- Matthew McConaughey's "Sahara" heated up the weekend box office, with the action flick set in the African desert debuting at the top with $18.5 million.

An embarrassment of locally connected riches await film fans in Indianapolis starting April 21. After successfully holding Celebration II -- the only officially sanctioned "Star Wars" fan gathering in the world -- in Indianapolis in 2002, event organizers have decided to return to the city for Celebration III on April 21-24 at the Indiana Convention Center.

MAUMEE, Ohio -- Going to the movies no longer has to feel like you're riding in coach or sitting in the bleachers.

MAUMEE, Ohio -- Going to the movies no longer has to feel like you're riding in coach or sitting in the bleachers.

TOKYO -- Director Yoshitaro Nomura, whose 1974 suspense thriller, "Castle of Sand," has been ranked by critics as one of Japan's best films ever, died Friday at 85.

Stripped of almost all the brothers' usual crudeness, "Fever Pitch" proves what we've suspected all along: That beneath the gross-out gags and freak-show humor, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are just a couple of lovable romantics.

'Sahara" feels like it's jammed with more stuff -- characters, plot lines, sight gags, explosions, buddy banter and the romantic flutter of gorgeous people falling in love -- than there are grains of sand in the desert.

Alejandro Amenabar's "The Sea Inside," based on the true story of a Spanish quadriplegic who fought for 30 years for the right to end his life, isn't as much of a downer as its subject matter would suggest, thanks to some sly humor and a strong performance from Javier Bardem.

So here's the gimmick in Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda." Two stories -- one comic and one tragic -- are interwoven with some common details and themes. Each focuses on a woman named Melinda who's a little mysterious and wayward. Each features cheating spouses. Both are set against that classic Allen backdrop: the streets and social circles of sophisticated, artistic, angst-ridden New York.

To like "Schultze Gets the Blues," you have to like Schultze. It's almost impossible not to like the big German lug, a rotund, beer-drinking, accordion-playing retired salt miner who develops a love for American music while listening to the radio in his little apartment.

The makers of "Paper Clips" don't know where to stop the civics lesson and start the movie. Although you can't doubt the noble nature of their cause -- schoolkids collecting millions of paper clips to represent Jews and others who died in the Holocaust -- there's not enough material here for a full-length documentary.