Well aware it would be a tough slog to match Beijing in terms of glitz and sheer spectacle, filmmaker Danny Boyle has decided to keep it real during the London Olympic opening ceremony. Boyle, the ...

LONDON - As he considered Beijing's extravagant coming-out party to the world four years ago, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle felt more liberated than daunted by that Olympics Opening Ceremony as ...

Karan Johar has accepted an official invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. The My Name is Khan director, who is an official ambassador for Visit Britain, will join 506 ...

I saw the London Olympics opening ceremony late, on Pacific Time—my colleague Catherine Mayer reviews it elsewhere at time.com—but it was a spectacle and a hoot, in the best sense of both words. Where ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A record 40.7 million Americans watched NBC television's coverage of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, making it the most-watched Summer Games opening, NBC said on Saturday.

Oh sure those big fancy opening ceremonies at Beijing in 2008 were impressive -- they had double the budget of this year's performance -- but it seemed like the British had a reply four years later: ...

A car fire tied up traffic on southbound State Route 51 near Bethany Home Road in central Phoenix on Thursday morning. Baseball, apple pie and fired chicken can arguably be called a staple of American ...

Director Danny Boyle and electronic music duo Underworld, both UK natives, have been working together to produce the sights and sounds for the London Olympics’ Opening Ceremony next Friday, July 27.

London's Olympic Opening Ceremony did not feature John Cleese and made very little of The Clash, but did have a Mr. Bean boogers joke. What else did it not have? During a montage showing the posters ...

We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The ...