The son of French movie star Gerard Depardieu had been hospitalized since Sunday night, said officials at the Raymond-Poincare de Garches hospital in the western suburbs of Paris.

Guillaume Depardieu won the prize in 1996 as the most promising young actor at the Cesar awards — France's equivalent of the Academy Awards — for his role in the film "Les Apprentis" (The Apprentices).

He starred with his father in a 1991 film, but they had a public falling-out in 2003. Guillaume Depardieu had his right leg amputated in 2003 to end years of pain from a bacter

After months of speculation over whether Stone's film biography would be a hatchet job on Bush, "W." arrives as a surprisingly empathetic — though hardly sympathetic — portrait of the president.

Stone, the historical revisionist behind the presidential sagas "JFK" and "Nixon," this time plays the provocateur by not doing what's expected of him, namely, putting Bush on a pillory.

"W." does present Bush as a man unfit to lead. And while Stone cannot resist injecting that theme with moments of sharp satire, he generally casts the president as a dee

It has taken less than a decade, but the concept of horror films filmed documentary-style has officially become a tiresome cliche.

"Quarantine," which opened Friday without advance screenings, follows quickly on the heels of such similarly themed items as "George Romero's Diary of the Dead" and "Cloverfield" and does little to enliven the genre. But Screens Gems' $12 million remake of an apparently far superior Spanish film called "REC," managed to take the No. 2 spot at the weekend box office with estimated sales of $14.2 million.

The simple story line cente

Although the road taken is a mighty familiar one, those bright performances help compensate for the onslaught of the sort of innocent sexism and good-natured homophobia that constitute too much of the humor, not to mention a prolonged 108-minute running time that qualifies as more of a relationship than a one-night-stand.

Summit Entertainment's R-rated Friday release might lure some packs of young males looking for titillation in a market saturated with date movies, but i

The Warner Bros. film, starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio as CIA agents battling a terrorist organization in the Middle East, had to settle for the No. 3 slot with $13.1 million, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

The Walt Disney Co family comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" logged a second weekend at No. 1 with $17.5 million, taking its 10-day haul to $52.5 million.

The low-budget zombie horror "Quarantine&qu