By Blake Brittain Feb 12 (Reuters) - Pop superstar Taylor Swift has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to block a bedding company from securing a ​federal trademark featuring the phrase "Swift Home," arguing it ‌would confuse shoppers. Swift's ...

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Berlin Film Festival opened on Thursday night with the message that new voices matter as Hollywood legend Michelle Yeoh recalled how the festival supported her early in ​her career. "Wh...

By Hanna Rantala BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Michelle Yeoh has won some of the acting industry's top honours over her four-decade career, including an Oscar and a Golden ​Globe, and on Thursday night she will add ‌another: the Berlin Film Festival's Hon...

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Director and actor Shahrbanoo Sadat says premiering her romantic comedy "No Good Men" in Berlin, where it will open this year's film festival, is a chance to redress ​the overwhelmingly gri...

By Miranda Murray BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - German director Wim Wenders said on Thursday filmmakers must stay out of politics and focus on changing how people think, at the start of the Berlin Film Festival. Considered more politically minded than its...