Films

OGDEN -- Sundance Film Festival enthusiasts lined up outside Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden on Saturday to receive ticket-purchase appointment cards.

The cold didn't faze them, though Steven and Terri Ballard rested while waiting in line.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The 2012 Sundance Film Festival on Monday announced films in the premieres and documentary premieres categories.

Among the selections are "Robot and Frank," about what happens when an old man's grown children install a robot as his caretaker. Actors include Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden and Liv Tyler. "Robot and Frank" is the film selected to screen at the festival's Salt Lake City opening gala.

GOSHEN — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is building a replica of ancient Jerusalem.

SAN DIEGO -- Storm troopers cavorted with zombies, Steven Spielberg chatted with Peter Jackson, and the stars of "Cowboys & Aliens" made for an action-packed Comic-Con.

FARMINGTON -- After choosing a life in movie theaters over a career in medicine, a Top of Utah man who has risen to be chief executive officer of the third-largest theater chain in the world stresses the need for people to be passionate about what they do for a living.

LOS ANGELES - Utah tourism officials and Delta Air Lines executives met with select tour operators Wednesday at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles to tout the re-launch of non-stop Delta flights between Salt Lake City, Utah and Tokyo, Japan. Spencer Eccles, executive director of the Governor's Office of Economic Development, also spoke to the group on how a re-launch of direct service between Japan and Utah supports Governor Gary R.

LOS ANGELES — Jackie Cooper, whose tousled blond hair, pouty lower lip and ability to cry on camera helped make him one of the top child stars of the 1930s in films such as “Skippy” and “The Champ,” has died. He was 88.

Cooper, who grew up to become a successful TV star in the 1950s, a top television studio executive in the ’60s and an Emmy Award-winning director in the ’70s, died Tuesday at a skilled nursing facility in Santa Monica after a brief illness, said his son John.