BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The heads of some of the biggest Hollywood studios, commercial broadcasters and European football leagues have urged the European Union to reconsider a planned copyright overhaul they fear will lead to lower investment in films and TV shows.

VENICE (Reuters) - Wim Wenders shot "Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez", an adaptation of a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke, in 3D to draw viewers more intimately into a dialogue about how men see women and how women see men, the veteran German director said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Martial arts expert and actor Jackie Chan will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday.

VENICE (Reuters) - Portraying the joys and pains of motherhood in Derek Cianfrance's "The Light Between Oceans" that premieres at the Venice film festival on Thursday was one of the biggest challenges for 27-year-old Swedish actress Alicia Vikander.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The first known television interview with South Africa's late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has emerged, featuring a bearded activist defiantly vowing to fight racism in footage believed to have dated from 1956.

VENICE (Reuters) - Five-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams may get closer to finally landing an Oscar as two of her movies are competing at the Venice film festival this year, including Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi thriller "Arrival".

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - It has been almost 40 years since Steven Spielberg made "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." That's not a Spielberg film that people tend to revisit the way they do "Jaws" or "Raiders" or "E.T." In its time, though, "Close Encounters" cast a spell of majestic awe that still reverberates through pop culture. There have, of course, been any number of alien-visitation films since, but whenever one comes along -- "Contact," "Signs," "District 9," "Interstellar," Spielberg's own "The War of the Worlds" -- it always feels, at the time, like a major event, and then in hindsight it ends up seeming like a rerun.

LONDON (Reuters) - A pink inflatable pig the size of a bus floated above London's venerable Victoria and Albert museum on Wednesday but unlike an infamous outing above Battersea Power Station in 1976 it did not break free and ground planes at Heathrow.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Tom Sizemore, who co-starred in the films "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" before he was convicted in 2003 of assaulting ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss, has been charged with domestic abuse stemming from an arrest in July.