David Chase, multi-award-winning creator of "The Sopranos," is returning to HBO to develop a miniseries about the invention of cinema and subsequent growth of the Hollywood film industry.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a Depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney's face.

Moviemaker Spike Lee is to make his Broadway directing debut by taking charge of a new production of Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski's play "Stalag 17" next year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The years have been kind to ''Citizen Kane,'' including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic - the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse - was again rated the best movie ever Wednesday by the American Film Institute.

Billy Bob Thornton credits his screenwriting career with an inspirational talk from late filmmaker Billy Wilder. The Hollywood actor decided to pursue a second career as a movie writer after a chat with Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplays for Some Like It Hot, The Apartment and The Seven Year Itch, and his decision was proved right when he won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1997's Sling Blade.