Financially troubled photography icon Annie Leibovitz has turned to a US private equity firm to help deal with debts which had threatened to strip her of her archive of famous pictures.
Colony Capital, a Los Angeles-based company focusing on real estate, said it had “formed a new partnership” with Leibovitz, whose financial collapse last year stunned [...]

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Love Never Dies garnered mixed first reviews this week after the world premier of the highly anticipated sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.
The musical was given a standing ovation on Tuesday night, but some newspaper critics voiced scepticism about Briton Lloyd-Webber’s follow-up to his world-wide blockbuster Phantom.
“A hit? Not [...]

An expanded field of 10 movies are vying for honours on Sunday at the Oscars, where a complex new voting system will be used to determine the winner of the coveted best picture prize.
In a move designed to boost television ratings for the Academy Awards, organizers last year doubled the best picture race from five [...]

An iconic sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti smashed the world record for an art work sold at auction when it fetched £65 million (US$104.3 million) on Wednesday.
L’homme Qui Marche I a life-size bronze statue of a man, was expected to be go for up to £18 million at the London sale – but an [...]

Michael Jackson’s doctor is ready to surrender to authorities in Los Angeles if they file charges against him over the pop icon’s death, lawyers confirmed.
Investigators are mulling possible manslaughter charges against Conrad Murray, the personal physician who treated Jackson in his final hours and administered powerful prescription drugs to the star.
Murray arrived in Los Angeles [...]