A German film-maker notoriously criticized for putting out bad films has chosen to hit back at his detractors in a most unexpected venue - the boxing ring. Film director Uwe Boll took on four of his biggest critics in a boxing match in Vancouver, emerging victorious from the contest in front of a crowd of 600 people.

Getting away from their football-mad men, women and children are finding solace during the World Cup from a series of "soft" films. The AFP reports a number of cinemas in the northwestern city of Banja Luka said they were putting on a special selection of romantic flicks and cartoons to accommodate the World Cup "refugees".

It was too much like a horror movie, even by Hollywood standards. A man dressed as horror movie villain Freddy Krueger has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man on Hollywood Boulevard.

Star Trek fans are being offered an enterprising opportunity to buy props, models and sets from the show, according to auction house, Christie's. More than 1,000 items will be sold at auction in New York in October to mark the show's 40th anniversary.

A movie set at a downtown post office turned all too real for a group of high school filmmakers. Members of the high school Spanish club were shooting a movie when the police showed up believing a hostage crisis was going on inside the post office. Police cordoned off the block, cleared nearby buildings and surrounded the post office ready for a hostage crisis. When a group of students left the post office, they were ordered to get on the ground, face down.