Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - Posts
Besides possessing the young year's lengthiest and most ungainly title, "Percy Jackson & The Olympians:
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The horror comedy "Zombieland," fresh off a $75.6 million box-office run, chomped its way to the top of all three home video charts its first week in stores, scaring off several other high-profile new releases.
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Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Imogen Poots are in negotiations to join the cast of "Jane Eyre," an adaptation of the classic Charlotte Bronte novel.
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First, there was Robert Evans the producer/studio executive. Then Evans the autobiographer. Then audiobook star. Then documentary subject. And now, Evans the Broadway play.
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Susan Sarandon is in talks to become the matriarch of the Barkley clan.
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Simon Cowell called Ellen DeGeneres a sadist last night, but the real sadist in the “Idol” family is whoever came up with the concept of the group sing.
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The story sells itself: Alexandre Dumas, the famous French novelist, employed a collaborator-scribe named Auguste Maquet to help with the research, plotting and other heavy lifting for his much-loved adventure novels, including "The Three Musketeers"
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Walmart is getting exclusive retail rights to a two-disc "fan's edition" release of "New Moon" on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
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AFP - The 60th Berlin Film Festival kicks off Thursday with the world premiere of "Apart Together", a lush period drama from China and one of 20 pictures vying for the coveted Golden Bear top prize.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc and consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co will jointly create a television movie in an effort to promote "family-friendly" programing, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Wednesday.
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Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller are trying to make their marriage work, a source close to the couple told Access Hollywood on Wednesday.
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The late Michael Jackson will appear in the 25th anniversary remake of “We Are The World,” both the song and video, Access Hollywood has learned.
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Penelope Cruz is in negotiations to join Johnny Depp and sail the seven seas in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the fourth installment of the movie series.
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Actor Mark Ruffalo has been on what he calls "a rollercoaster ride" in recent years.
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The former couple took to their respective Twitter accounts and fired back at a report claiming the 23-year-old actress accused Ronson of physical abuse.
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The mom of eight was spotted at a NYC hotspot in a miniskirt and strappy sandals. But a friend says he doesn't think she's ready to date again.
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"The Wolfman" finally limps into theaters this weekend following extensive rescheduling, re-shooting and re-editing, and all that tinkering has taken its toll.
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Rachel Weisz is starring opposite Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts in the Jim Sheridan-directed thriller "Dream House."
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Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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Sure, the players here are swept up in the story of a man bearing a horrible curse, so you don't expect them to be having fun. But they don't have to be so funereal about it.
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Just as he has inserted himself into big events such as the 2008 election and the Iraq war, Colbert has made himself a key figure for the XXI Olympic Games, which start Friday.
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Uma Thurman with snakes for hair and a killer stare is almost enough on her own to make "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" worth seeing.
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The doctor facing a manslaughter charge in singer Michael Jackson's death has returned to Nevada to resume his medical practice and await trial, his representatives said Wednesday.
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Actor Mark Ruffalo has been on what he calls "a rollercoaster ride" in recent years.
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The Berlin film festival turns 60 this year, and a host of Hollywood stars will walk the red carpet over the next 10 days to mark the anniversary.
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Jillian Michaels has been sued for alleged false advertising by a woman who claims she was duped into buying a diet supplement endorsed by the celebrity trainer.
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The singer created a frenzy with his Playboy interview, in which he described ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson as "sexual napalm" and said he won’t sleep with black women.
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When the new "Spider-Man" movie lands in theaters in two years, on-screen crooks won't be the only ones getting caught in the comic book crime fighter's web, audiences may just feel the sticky strands, too.
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The new "Spider-Man" plans to swing closer to movie theater audiences.
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The final Oscar ballots are officially in the mail.
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AFP - Tom Cruise has signed to star in a fourth "Mission: Impossible" blockbuster, a move that had once seemed unlikely after the actor's acrimonious 2006 split with Paramount, it was reported Wednesday.
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It's a time-honored tradition, the show must go on.
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The Grammy-winning singer announced Wednesday she'll return to The Colosseum, home of her previous show, "A New Day."
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"That girl, for me, is a drug," the singer tells Playboy in an at-times jaw-dropping new interview. "And drugs aren't good for you if you do lots of them. Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me."
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"Valentine's Day" might boast the most shirtless dudes we've seen in a movie since "300." Ironically enough, the often bare-chested "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner isn't one of them.
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AFP - Two decades after first petitioning for production rights, a Danish film company announced Wednesday it plans to make a movie next year on the early life of celebrated novelist Karen Blixen.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fortunately, there was no full moon over the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood on Tuesday, Feb. 9, as "The Wolfman" howled into town. It was sort of damp, chilly and foggy, like the English countryside where the update of the classic
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The popular TLC series based on the feuding Teutul family and their custom-built motorcycle business is going off the air after six seasons.
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Female-driven films including "The Blind Side," "Dear John," and "New Moon" have become a box-office force.
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"Lost" has a habit of following up its premiere extravaganzas with scaled-down follow-ups that seek to ground the audience and orient them to a more deliberate pace to the season.
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The warm and fuzzy feelings you may experience after watching others perform virtuous deeds may in turn lead you to act altruistically as well, according to a new study based on the results of two separate experiments.
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AFP - Roman Polanski, whose latest fiction "The Ghost Writer" partly mirrors his own real-life detention drama, is no less than a maestro, the movie's stars, Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor, said Wednesday.
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Authors and filmmakers have come up with endless ways to inject fresh blood into the vampire, while the werewolf generally has been left out there alone on the moors, howling at the moon.
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The network isn’t going to breeze into the record books with the 2010 Winter Olympics, although it won’t be for a lack of trying.
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Anyone worried that she’d have nothing to offer or that she’d be overwhelmed by Simon Cowell and the other judges had nothing to fear. In fact, she’s an upgrade over Paula Abdul in every sense of the word.
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The band said they are insulted their song was used during the Super Bowl to encourage recruitment during a war they don't support.
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Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
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An Uzbek film director says she has been convicted of slander for making a documentary on wedding rituals in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state.
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Police in Mumbai detained more than 1,100 Hindu nationalists after mobs tore up movie posters, stoned a theater and threatened to disrupt the opening of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's new movie because of comments he made about Pakistan cricketers,
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President Barack Obama listened to an all-star lineup of performers pay tribute to the music that he said fueled freedom marches and civil disobedience.
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Jay Leno ushered out one of television's biggest flops without sentiment on Tuesday, the final night of a prime-time experiment doomed by bad ratings and bad vibes.
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