Die Hard director facing prison
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Film-maker John McTiernan is sentenced to four months in prison after a judge refuses to let him change his guilty plea.
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A man who said the movie "The Passion of the Christ" prompted him to confess to strangling his girlfriend has been sentenced to 75 years in prison.
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The actor was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns or to pay taxes in the mixed verdict. He faces up to three years in prison.
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Arts & entertainment: Sentence comes after star pleaded guilty to carrying police baton in his luggage.
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The country is preoccupied by two popular actors facing prison time. Their respective cases have all the drama and plot twists of a Bollywood movie come to life
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LOS ANGELES  - "Die Hard" director John McTiernan is set to take the helm on the Las Vegas action thriller "High Stakes" for Persistent Pictures and Velvet Octopus.
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Sanjay Kumar could face up to 100 years in jail and a fine of more than $800 million if he is convicted.
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Oscar-winning director Bille August has brought the memoirs of one of Nelson Mandela's jailers to the screen, with Dennis Haysbert playing the famous prisoner &#151; a part that he said regularly left him in tears.
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Putting a former theater director in  charge of a detention center for hardened young criminals might  seem a bold decision.
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Facing prison in late October, former star investment banker Frank Quattrone is hoping a federal appeals court will overturn his obstruction-of-justice conviction.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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Michael Griffith is about to pay with his life for violating the law he once swore to enforce.
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The escape of a notorious jail-breaker has led to calls to overhaul Belgium's prison system.
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In major relief for Bollywood actor Fardeen Khan, a Mumbai court Thursday allowed his plea that he be   charged for possessing only one gram of cocaine, for which the maximum jail term is six months.
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The actor has begun shooting for his first film after being released from jail.
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An ex-convict who admitted to gunning down three men this week in New Hampshire said on Thursday he had warned authorities he was still dangerous when he was released from prison two months ago.
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A federal judge sentenced director John McTiernan to four months in prison for lying to an F.B.I. agent about hiring private investigator Anthony Pellicano.