MISKOLC, Hungary (Reuters) - French actress Juliette Binoche on Friday urged Europeans to let go of their fears of immigrants and respect the freedom of Muslim women to wear the veil or not as they choose.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Flaubert would certainly agree with the titular assessment of "I Am Not Madame Bovary": His pretty, hapless bourgeoise femme has very little in common with the heroine of leading populist Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's latest. That latter lady is a modern peasant who's none too pretty -- despite being played by Fan Bingbing, duly de-glammed for the occasion -- and anything but helpless, as her grudge against a runaway spouse turns into a quest for justice that reaches the highest levels of government.

(Reuters) - A spate of creepy clown sightings in South Carolina has perplexed police and worried parents, but their frightening appearance was no surprise to best-selling U.S. horror author Stephen King.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Film director Tim Burton left his hand and foot imprints in cement outside Hollywood's famed TCL Chinese Theatre on Thursday, bringing with him to the ceremony some of the dark humor often seen in his movies.

TORONTO (Reuters) - A merry band of outlaws and hired hands kicks off the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday in "The Magnificent Seven," leading a slew of action films and intimate true stories vying for early buzz leading into Hollywood's annual awards season.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prolific British Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing the Broadway stage adaptation of the Jack Black comedy "School of Rock" to London's famed West End, hoping to show people the power of music in children's' lives.

VENICE (Reuters) - Andrei Konchalovsky uses the Holocaust-theme in his drama "Rai" to explore how people back then and today commit evil acts all the while believing that what they do is right, the veteran Russian director said at the Venice film festival on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Now that the Summer of Rehashes is over, a lot of people suddenly seem to agree that remaking movies, especially when they're beloved and indelible classics, is a lousy idea for Hollywood to be pursuing. It's evidence of creative bankruptcy -- an addiction to non-originality. That said, just because a movie is a copy doesn't mean it's bad. (There are good remakes, like "Ocean's Eleven" or "Cape Fear," and good sequels, like the "Bourne" films.) The cheeky but square, dutifully manufactured, ultimately uninspired remake of "The Magnificent Seven," which kicks off the 41st Toronto Intl. Film Festival, points to a deeper reason why remakes often don't pan out: The appeal of the original tends to be rooted in the way it expresses something of its era, so trying to recapture what made it winning is a fool's game. You can reassemble the same plot and characters; what's tricky is reigniting the material's inner spark.

VENICE (Reuters) - Veteran French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo said on Thursday he had done everything he wanted in life as he accepted the Venice film festival's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.