Theater, film and opera director Julie Taymor is the helmer of the movie musical, Across the Universe.

September 15 marks the centennial of Fay Wray, the famed star of “King Kong,” whose scream in the 1933 horror classic became an iconic sound and image in film history, forever linked to her career.

Miyoshi Umeki, a charming actress who in 1957 was the first Asian performer to win an Oscar, as best supporting actress in her first Hollywood film, ?¢¬Ä¬úSayonara,?¢¬Ä died on August 28 in Licking, Missouri. She was 78.

Neil Jordan is the director of Jodie Foster's new starring vehicle, the vigilante actioner, “The Brave,” opening September 14. As director and screenwriter, Jordan has written and directed some of the most provocative and socially topical films in modern cinema. In 1993, he won an Oscar Award for Best Original Screenplay and received a second Oscar nomination for Best Director for “The Crying Game.”

Jodie Foster plays Erica Bain in
“The brave One,” a film that she also executive-produced and was instrumental in hiring director Neil Jordan. A two-time Oscar Award winner, Foster won her first Oscar for her poignant performance as a rape survivor in the 1988 drama “The Accused,” and the second Oscar
for portraying FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs.”