Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin Schaffner and released in 1968, was almost singlehandedly responsible for elevating cinema's science fiction genre from traditional "B" movie budgets into the lavish and expensive...

Planet of the Apes is a novel by Pierre Boulle, originally published in 1963 in French as La planète des singes. As singe means both "ape" and "monkey," Xan Fielding called his translation Monkey Planet. It is an example of social commentary through...

One of Hollywood's most innovative and acclaimed science fiction series, "Planet of the Apes," made its DVD debut this month in a boxed set that includes the original 1968 movie, its four sequels and a two-hour documentary, "Behind the Planet of the Apes." ...

THERE IS something in the swagger and that inane look of intense concentration which is especially noticeable midway through a sentence. Then, with all the publicity for the remake of Planet of the Apes, I realised what was bugging me about George W Bush....

Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life," has died. He was 73.Capra Jr. died Wednesday night at a hospital in Philadelphia, said Bill Vassar, the executive vice...

Diana Damrau thought about her last staged performances of the Queen of the Night and laughed."It's sports. It's like you want to make the world record in a 50-meter race 200 times a year," the 36-year-old coloratura soprano commented about the notoriously difficult-but-short role in...

In "Planet of the Apes" by Pierre Boulle, the protagonist, Ulysse, is sent on a journey that's typical of a hero character in literature. But ths story takes a different turn when he loses his humanity and becomes like a savage when he falls under the apes' control.