Teeming with murder, corruption, greed and sex, director Roman Polanski’s unforgettable classic CHINATOWN arrives for the first time ever on Blu-ray April 3, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston, the film follows an intricate web of deception as private investigator Jake Gittes (Nicholson) unravels a mystery involving water rights that are critical to the development of Los Angeles, as well as unspeakable family secrets. Written by Academy Award® winner Robert Towne, CHINATOWN was nominated for 11 Oscars® and was named by the A...

Roman Polanski has lost his bid to have a 32-year-old child sex case thrown out of court. The "Chinatown" director, who is currently under house arrest in Switzerland, has been living in exile in Europe since fleeing to France on the eve of sentencing in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl at a Hollywood party in 1977.

His attorneys have been fighting to have to the criminal case dismissed and took their argument to a California court of appeal earlier this month.

They accused original trial judge Laurence Rittenband, who died of cancer in 1993, of alleged...

Embattled filmmaker Roman Polanski has been given a star on a Walk of Fame in Poland - one week after he was arrested over a 1977 sex crime.

The Chinatown director was taken into custody by Swiss officials on September 26th and is now battling extradition to the U.S. to face sentencing for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor - a charge he pleaded guilty to before fleeing to France in 1978.

However, the controversy has done little to keep Polish film bosses from honoring the controversial director, who was honored with a plaque in Warsaw this weekend.

The sidewalk trib...

Former Cheers actress Kirstie Alley is one star not supporting filmmaker Roman Polanski as he battles extradition to the U.S. to face sentencing for a 32-year-old sex crime.

The Chinatown director, who fled America in 1978 on the eve of sentencing, has lived in exile in France for 30 years, but he was caught out while attending a film festival in Zurich on Saturday. Swiss police took him into custody and plan to send Polanski back to the U.S., where he faces sentencing after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Woody Allen, Penelope Cruz and Harvey Weinstein are ...

Is Brett Ratner misunderstood? The "Rush Hour" and "X-Men: The Last Stand" director thinks that's quite possible.

His new retrospective DVD series, "The Shooter Series," (to be released September 15) paints the some may call party-boy director in a different light. Contemporaries such as Quentin Tarantino share their experiences about working with Ratner; and the director's early student films, commercials, and music videos are also chronicled.

Ratner also doesn't parse words about his feelings toward the vocal online community who criticized his work on "X-Men: The Last Stand," and h...

Picture this: There's nothing on network so Mom or Pop finds a movie on a premium channel or slides in a DVD from the local video store. Everything's fine until two actors start a simulated bump-n-grind in 53 unavoidable inches of high def skin on parade. The room gets quiet. Your face gets hot. You do your best not to look at anyone else while your insides curdle and you long to be anywhere but in that room. Sound familiar? Whether your 15 or 50, watching certain subject matter with your elders can equal sheer mortification; with that in mind, we've compiled a list of twenty films too awkw...

Jack Nicholson hit the editing room to give his critically-slammed Chinatown sequel a much-needed makeover for the film's DVD special edition re-release. The movie icon directed and starred in 1990 film The Two Jakes and admits he was never truly happy with the end result.

So when he got the chance to re-edit the film for the re-release, he jumped at the chance.

Nicholson tells MTV News, "I couldn't look at The Two Jakes because of the quality of the television print. I would see this horrible orange hair on (actress) Meg Tilly, and I'd want to shoot myself. I literally couldn't w...

Chinatown star Roy Jenson has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 80. The former football star made his name as a Hollywood stuntman before stepping in front of the camera as an actor.

He played a series of villains, including Roman Polanski's sidekick in cult Jack Nicholson film Chinatown. Canadian Jenson also appeared in film classics The Great Escape, The Way We Were and Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose.

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Happy Birthday to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl (1969), "Arrested Development" star Jason Bateman (1969), rapper LL Cool J. (1968), Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Zakk Wylde (1967), English actress Emily Watson (1967), film director Steven Soderbergh (1963), Queensryche singer Geoff Tate (1959), director Lawrence Kasdan (1949), actor Carl Weathers (1948), musician T-Bone Burnett (1948), and "Chinatown" actress Faye Dunaway (1941).

Movie maker Roman Polanski is set to step out from behind the camera to play a French cop in the latest Rush Hour film. The part marks the director's first Hollywood acting appearance since he played "man with knife" in 1974's Chinatown.

"Rush Hour 3" director Brett Ratner persuaded Polanski to take the role after raving about his performance in French indie film Le Locataire during a chance encounter with the Oscar winner.

Polanski, who lives in exile in Europe following his decision to flee America in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor, will join a cast that...

Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now has topped a list of the "top 50 films to see before you die." The war drama, starring Robert Duvall, was selected ahead of Jack Nicholson classic Chinatown, which came in fourth place, and cult favorite Donnie Darko in ninth.

Clinching second spot in the poll was 1960 classic The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon as Bud Baxter, a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company, while Brazilian street drama City of God rounds out the top three.

The list, created by an independent panel, promotes a string of more obscure films while blockbusters su...

For the first time ever, the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West are celebrating the best screenwriters and their timeless works with the release of the 101 Greatest Screenplays list. The finest achievement in film writing? The classic 1942 love story Casablanca. Rounding out the top three are The Godfather and Chinatown.

Any film, past or present, English-language or otherwise, was eligible. The resulting list is like a travelogue of the greatest films of the century, with all decades from the 1930s on represented among the rankings.

"101 Greates...

Happy Birthday to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl (1969), "Arrested Development" star Jason Bateman (1969), rapper LL Cool J. (1968), Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Zakk Wylde (1967), English actress Emily Watson (1967), film director Steven Soderbergh (1963), Queensryche singer Geoff Tate (1959), director Lawrence Kasdan (1949), actor Carl Weathers (1948), musician T-Bone Burnett (1948), and "Chinatown" actress Faye Dunaway (1941).