Porn producer Joe Francis should be forced to pay Steve Wynn more than $12 million for claiming that the casino mogul threatened to kill him and bury him in the desert, Wynn's attorney told a jury Friday.

Barry Langberg suggested the multimillion verdict during closing arguments in Wynn's slander case against Francis, who claims the casino creator threatened to hit him over the head with a shovel and have him buried in the desert over a $2 million gambling debt.

"Twilight's" newest vampire re-emerged in public Thursday night at the Toronto Film Festival.

Kristen Stewart made her first public appearance in nearly two months. The 22-year star went into lockdown mode after she publicly apologized for having a tryst with the married director of her last film, "Snow White and the Huntsman."

Arab cinema is witnessing a new wave of creativity in the wake of the Arab Spring revolts, said directors at the Venice film festival where some of the emerging talent from the region was on show.

Social themes that were previously kept bottled up are now making their way on film and the monopoly of older established directors is being whittled away as the repercussions of new freedoms are felt in many parts of the region.

British boy band One Direction scooped three top prizes Thursday at the MTV Video Music Awards, confirming their stellar rise on the U.S. music scene, while Rihanna won Video of the Year.

Rihanna's ex Chris Brown and edgy British singer M.I.A. were runners-up with two gongs apiece at the Los Angeles awards show.

Fashion's Night Out is a sartorial pub crawl through Manhattan at the outset of New York fashion week, a chance to scope out the trendiest boutiques with a champagne flute in hand and no pressure to buy.

On Thursday, it was also a chance to sample top model Karlie Kloss's gluten-free oatmeal chocolate chip cookies at $5 a pop, with proceeds going to a foundation to combat hunger launched by a young member of the Bush political dynasty.

Prosecutors have charged Amanda Bynes with hit-and-run in connection with two traffic crashes in recent months.

Los Angeles City attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan (mah-TEHL'-jin) says the actress was charged Tuesday and is due for arraignment on Sept. 27.

The spring-summer 2013 collections start coming down the runways on Thursday when New York fashion week shifts into high gear with nearly 300 shows and presentations over eight days.

Nicholas K, BCBG Max Azria, Richard Chai and Japan's Tadashi Shoji are among the first to show at Lincoln Center, ground zero for a dizzying array of events around Manhattan.

The times they are a-changin when it comes to releasing an album, and Bob Dylan is definitely keeping up with them.

His 35th studio album, "Tempest," is officially due out on Tuesday, but his record company Columbia is harnessing the power of the Internet to the fullest to generate buzz.

The Church of Scientology denounced as "hogwash" Wednesday a report that it auditioned candidates to be Tom Cruise's girlfriend, while the star's lawyer branded the claims "tired old lies."

Vanity Fair quoted sources as saying the controversial church tested actresses as potential brides in 2004, after his split from Nicole Kidman and before he met and married Katie Holmes, who recently divorced him.

Austria will send Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning film "Love" (original title: "Amour") to compete for next year's best foreign-language picture Oscar, the Austrian Film Commission has announced.

The heart wrenching tale of a man and his dying wife won Haneke his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, after he had already received the award in 2009 for his Oscar-nominated "The White Ribbon."