Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - Posts
Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
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Married almost one year ago, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have decided to go their separate ways — in business that is.
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Jason Segel and Ed Helms are starring in "Jeff Who Lives at Home," a stoner comedy chronicling a day in the life of two brothers.
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Wednesday night’s “American Idol” semifinal round was seriously one of the weirdest nights I can ever remember in the show’s nine years.
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In the slasher-thriller "Slice," a cop-turned-convict tracks down a serial killer by delving into his own troubled childhood memories.
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Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent prescription drug overdose. He was 38.
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If start-up Media Derivatives and broker dealer Cantor Fitzgerald have their way, investors may soon be able to place bets on the box office showing of summer blockbuster "Iron Man 2."
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The end-of-the-world drama "2012" debuted at the top of all three home video charts the week ending March 7, the first release in nearly a month with a box office pedigree of more than $100 million.
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Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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And then there were two -- box office trading exchanges, that is.
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Clint Eastwood is lining up his next directing project, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the nation's No. 1 crimefighter for almost 50 years.
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Gerard Butler may be known as a Hollywood bad boy, but the “The Bounty Hunter” star says he’s cooled things down — thanks to anxiety.
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The Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its first group of films for April's event, including one documentary about the prostitution scandal that brought down former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
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Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning share a smooch in their new rock ‘n’ roll movie, “The Runaways,” but Stewart said one thing got in the way — the law.
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While James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar" took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best Buy Co Inc, which is making a big bet on 3D televisions this year.
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Mexico has implemented a new program subsidizing filmmakers in a bid to attract more cinema business to the country.
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Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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They conjured box office magic with their "Bourne" spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller "Green Zone" debuts on Friday.
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3-D BOOM: 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009.
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Global movie ticket sales hit $29.9 billion last year, up 7.6 percent, with the most growth in the Asia Pacific region, the leading U.S. movie industry representative said on Wednesday.
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Media Derivatives Inc expects to be the first U.S. exchange to get regulatory approval to offer futures on film box office receipts, the privately owned company said Wednesday.
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Inside pictorial featuring actors consists of seven photographs by celeb shutterbug Steven Klein, who, ironically, shot the infamous 2005 cover featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
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All that’s standing between him and the rest of his life are 16 contestants and a couple of more months trying to make small talk with Ryan Seacrest.
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Fox is bumping Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel to the fall.
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In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause."
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AFP - Corey Haim, a 1980's heartthrob whose Hollywood career was derailed by wild parties and drug abuse, died Wednesday aged 38 in Los Angeles after an apparent overdose, police said.
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The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009.
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In a statement released Wednesday after Corey Haim's untimely death at age 38, longtime friend and frequent costar Corey Feldman expressed grief at the loss of his "best friend."
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"The Pacific" carves its own path across a lesser-known theater of war with parallels to current conflicts. It also breaks the "Band of Brothers" mold by following its battered Marines home.
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A spokesman for Charlie Sheen says the actor will soon be back at "Two and a Half Men" after undergoing rehab that temporarily halted production of CBS' top-rated sitcom.
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Imax Corp agreed to form a joint venture with a South Korean theater exhibitor to operate up to 15 new theaters in the country as the giant-screen movie operator seeks to expand its presence in Asia.
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After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said on Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia.
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The actor had been suffering from flu-like symptoms for several days before finally stumbling in front of his mother at her Los Angeles apartment early Wednesday morning.
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Panasonic Corp. on Wednesday revealed the price for its first 3-D TV set, confirming that $3,000 is about what it takes to be among the first to watch 3-D movies in the home.
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The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playmate.
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AFP - France awarded one of its highest artistic honours on Tuesday to the Japanese screen star and film maker Takeshi Kitano, director of bizarre and violent cult movies such as "Battle Royale".
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Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38.
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A dash of manipulation? Check. A pinch of schemes? Check. A helping of lies? Check. These key ingredients usually make for a tasty Ben-centric episode, and “Lost” offered them in enticing amounts Tuesday night — along with a side of redemption.
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Corey Haim at the Westwood premiere of 20th Century Fox's Freddy Got Fingered - 4/18/2001Photo by Terry McGinness/Wireimage.com" border="0" />Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as
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Newsarama.com - The LA Times has some super news to start the day. Director Christopher Nolan is officially confirmed as shepherding the new Superman movie franchise. That rumor about David S. Goyer writing it? Turns out that one is true, too. The pair
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The Los Angeles coroner's office says "The Lost Boys" actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.
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Actor Corey Haim, 38, was pronounced dead at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., Thursday morning after an apparent overdose, police said.
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AFP - US R&B star Akon is to record a track for a Bollywood film, following in the footsteps of rapper Snoop Dogg who raised his profile in the 1.2-billion-strong Indian market with a similar foray.
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Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove."
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Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie.
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"Love Never Dies" picks up the story 10 years on, with disfigured genius the Phantom relocated to the bright lights of New York's Coney Island and still besotted with beautiful soprano Christine Daae.
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CBS says it will be the first time an anchor has had a colonoscopy live on network television and Katie Couric plans to be with Smith as he prepares for the procedure.
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Ten plastic surgery procedures in one day may have made "The Hills" star the happiest she's ever been, but it also made her fodder for some comics. Now she’s in on the joke.
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A German man who tried to blackmail supermodel Cindy Crawford with a photo of her bound and gagged 7-year-old daughter was sentenced to two years in jail Tuesday.
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Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval.
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Andy Whitfield, who plays the title role in the Starz series, will begin treatment immediately. Doctors say the cancer was detected in its early stages and is "very treatable."
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There is a special challenge for a child of a star or stars in coping with the harsh glare of the spotlight while looking for his or her own niche. Plenty of high-profile stories illustrate that.
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The actress Lindsay Lohan has sued E*Trade Financial Corp for $100 million, saying a "milkaholic" baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her.
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The executive director of the film academy says Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
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The outspoken Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver is the latest NFL star to join the “Dancing with the Stars” fray, but while the show doesn’t start for two more weeks, he’s already got a message for the judges.
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Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.
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Robert “Joe” Halderman has pleaded guilty to trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic’s sexual affairs.
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Troubled rapper DMX was arrested in Arizona on Tuesday for violating his probation by regularly using illegal drugs during the last nine months, authorities said.
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TheWrap: With DeGeneres on board — and Simon on the way out — Randy and Kara seem to have decided it's time to start trying harder.
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Monday's "Late Show with David Letterman" beat "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, the demographic groups that matter most to advertisers.
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She was her usual strong self this week, nailing Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason,” and the judges noted that her big selling point was that she knows herself and who she is as an artist.
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Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death
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Newsarama.com - Matt Fraction is in a unique position with Marvel right now, and particularly with the character of Iron Man. As Iron Man 2 flies toward its big-screen debut, Fraction anxiously awaits the movie, where he can see some of his work as a
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Playbill - Meet Brian Geraghty, the rising star of the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" and Mark Taper Forum's The Subject Was Roses.
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AFP - Robert De Niro, a legendary actor who won an Oscar for his 1980 portrayal of famed boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull", will play ex-American football coach Vince Lombardi in a new movie by ESPN Films.
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Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
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One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness.
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Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.
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The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
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"Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow wrapped her fingers around that little golden man called Oscar on Sunday and cracked one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, but truly shattering it may take more time.
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Six companies are expected to make binding offers for storied Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by a newly set March 19 deadline, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.
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Mexico has launched a $20-million tax-incentive program in an ambitious move to lure film production from Hollywood and other locales.
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He has played killers and cops in the movies, and two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro may soon take on the role of iconic U.S. football coach Vince Lombardi in a film backed by sports television network ESPN.
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All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.
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John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side."
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