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Renee Zellweger gifts $100 coffee voucher to paparazzo
Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger gifted a photographer a $100 coffee voucher after he saved her from getting a parking...


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Stewart banned from groping Fanning during kiss
'Twilight' star Kristen Stewart was banned from 'groping' Dakota Fanning during their onscreen kiss for new movie 'The Runaways' because her co-star was just 15 when they shot the steamy...
Thurman's US flop gets only one viewer in London!
Uma Thurman might not have imagined such a reaction from the audiences. Her latest movie 'Motherhood,' which flopped in the US, fetched only one viewer in...
Pattinson to auction movie costumes for charity
'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is auctioning some of his movie costumes for...
Salman Khan deposes as witness in Mumbai court
Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Thursday appeared before a special court in Mumbai as a prosecution witnesses in a 10-year-old case of one of his old...
Victoria Beckham shocked by ex-beau's death
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is said to have been shocked and upset at the death of her one time boyfriend, actor Corey...
UNAIDS appoints Preity Zinta as its Indian ambassador
Bollywood actor Preity Zinta was on Thursday named the Indian ambassador for the joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS...
Madonna signs Vera Farmiga for her movie over "cup of tea"
Queen of Pop Madonna is said to have wooed actress Vera Farmiga into signing up for her next movie with an intimate chat over a "cup of...
Courteney Cox happier in her 40s
Actress Courteney Cox has revealed she is much more happy in her 40s than she was in her...
Guy Ritchie to helm new King Arthur film
Guy Ritchie is set to helm a new movie based on the legend of King...
Jeff Bridges regrets not encouraging kids for Hollywood
Jeff Bridges has confessed he regrets he did not encourage his children to try their luck in...
Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler's sizzling photoshoot
'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston and '300' star Gerard Butler have sizzled in a photoshoot they did together for a...
Robert Pattinson lives life like a vampire
Robert Pattinson's real life is not much different from that of the vampire he plays in the hit Twilight series, for the actor rarely steps out in daylight in fear of being mobbed by over enthusiastic...
Charlie Sheen set to return to work
Actor Charlie Sheen will return to the sets of comedy show 'Two and a Half Men' after he completes his stint in rehab for a cocaine and alcohol...
Jennifer Love Hewitt to play hooker in TV movie
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has been roped in to play a hooker with a heart of gold in a new TV...
Pattinson uses new film roles as therapy
Hollywood actor Robert Pattinson says he looks for roles that will help him with his life and that is why he agreed to do the movie 'Remember...
Guy Ritchie to direct film on King Arthur
British filmmaker Guy Ritchie is set to wield the megaphone again and his new movie will tell the story of King...
Groups Still Needs Millions For Hollywood Sign
It's a Hollywood cliffhanger, in more ways than one.The Trust for Public Land said on Thursday that it was about $US3 million ($3.2 million) away from the $US12.5 million it needed to buy and...
48% Traffic Increase For Shesez, L.a.'s Premiere Women's Lifestyle Site
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - The LA-based women's lifestyles website, SheSez.com is celebrating a new phase of unprecedented growth. Not only are the site's numbers up 48% over...
3-d Boosts Box Office Worldwide To Record Us$30 Bil.
LOS ANGELES -- The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record US$29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of...
Merlin Olsen, Hall Of Fame Football Player And Tv Actor
Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a...
Movie Theaters Turning Up The Luxury
Now, as the movie industry celebrates a boffo year of box office — $10.6 billion in ticket sales, the most ever — theaters are going after new revenue and changing the moviegoing...
Forget 'twilight': Pattinson Is At His Best In 'remember Me'
Two tortured souls: Ally (Emilie de Raven) and Tyler (Robert Pattinson) are NYU students who bond over their past tragedies and difficult relationships with their...
Nyc Ex-model Sues Over Use Of Photo In Comedy Film
Krupnik acknowledges she gave rights to the 2001 picture to a stock agency, which apparently sold it to the filmmakers. The lawsuit says a character in the movie uses her photo as a sexual...
'our Family Wedding': Here Come The Insults And Cliches
Meet the Parents book is a tasteless exercise in familiarity and contempt. But who can resist gags like a goat running amok at a wedding, hopped up on...
Rising Star Jay Baruchel Finds Himself In A New League
Jay Baruchel can be seen now with Alice Eve in She's Out of My League. Next is the animated fantasy How to Train Your Dragon, and this summer comes the Jerry Bruckheimer spectacle The Sorcerer's...
Iraq War Thriller 'green Zone' Strays Outside Lines Of History
Rajiv Chandrasekaran that details the early days of the occupation of Iraq and the subsequent insurgency. Oddly, the movie is being advertised as if it were a fourth Bourne...
New On Dvd: 'precious,' 'up In The Air,' 'planet 51'
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire is a raw, gritty tale of an impoverished family and the daughter at its core, played by best-actress Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe. Precious' father...
So-hot Meets So-not In 'she's Out Of My League'
If they'd perhaps shared an interest in anything, we might more easily buy this romance. But he's an awkward underachiever with low self-esteem and little ambition, and she's a worldly lawyer and...
Movie Review | 'mother': Bong Joon-ho’s Fierce Love: Better Not Make This Mom Angry
She is and she isn’t as Mr. Bong reveals through a kinked narrative and a monumental, ferocious performance by Kim Hye-ja as the title character. Written by Mr. Bong, sharing credit with Park...
Movie Review | 'the Exploding Girl': Zoe Kazan And Mark Rendall In A Minefield Of Emotions
“The Exploding Girl,” Bradley Rust Gray’s sweet and tentative new film, is home from college for the summer, back in a New York suffused with leafy green in the daytime and red neon at night....
Movie Review | 'severe Clear': In Iraq Marine Documentary, Bad Food And ‘steel Rain’
“Here is the truth about being a Marine that you won’t find on the local news. We’re loud. We drink too much, fight too much and swear too much. Truth be told, our rifles are the only things we...
Movie Review | 'children Of Invention': Scheming, Scrambling And Surviving In Tze Chun’s Debut
“Children of Invention,” a modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children. Directed and written by Tze Chun, making a fine feature...
Movie Review | 'remember Me': Robert Pattinson As A Brooding Rebel
It’s hard to know what the director Allen Coulter could have done to improve Will Fetters’s absurdly contrived, yakky script about love and loss, largely set in the summer of 2001. But Mr....
Movie Review | 'stolen': Jon Hamm In Anders Anderson’s Kidnapping Drama
“Stolen,” Anders Anderson’s dual kidnapping melodrama of tormented fathers a half-century apart, searching for their lost sons, plays like a middling episode of “Law & Order: SVU,”...
Own Undergoing Executive Reshuffling
Four months after she was brought in as chief creative officer at OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, 15-year Harpo Prods. veteran Lisa Erspamer has rearranged the upstart’s development executive...
Summer B.o. To Profit From Sequels, Reboots
Summertime moviegoers tend to vote early and, if things go well, often. During the past five years, about 42% of annual domestic boxoffice has been rung up during the summer, which the industry...
Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess Eye 'one Day'
Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess are in early negotiations to star in "One Day," an adaptation of a David Nicholls novel that Lone Scherfig is directing for Focus Features. Nina Jacobson is...
Manager: Autopsy Shows Haim's Heart Enlarged
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The autopsy on Corey Haim revealed the actor's heart was enlarged and his lungs were filled with water when he died, Haim's manager...
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Retains Sunshine Sachs & Associates As Agency Of Record
BEVERLY HILLS, CA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) today announced it has retained the services of NY and LA based PR/Consulting firm, Sunshine Sachs...
Academy Award Winner George Clooney, Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges, Ewan Mcgregor And Two-time Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey Star In The Men Who Stare At Goats
follows a reporter (McGregor) who gets way more than he bargained for when he accompanies an enigmatic Special Forces operator (Clooney) on a mind-boggling mission. Featuring a supporting cast that...
Film Review: Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Hachi: A Dog's Tale Production year: 2009 Countries: Rest of the world, USA Cert (UK): U Runtime: 93 mins Directors: Lasse Hallstrom Cast: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jason Alexander, Joan Allen, Richard...
Film Review: Under Great White Northern Lights
Under Great White Northern Lights Production year: 2009 Countries: Rest of the world, USA Runtime: 93 mins Directors: Emmett Malloy Cast: Jack White, Meg...
Film Review: Green Zone
thriller set in Baghdad in the chaos surrounding Saddam's fall in 2003, has something of both sorts of film, but for me it's his least satisfying work to date: almost a pastiche of the hyper-kinetic...
Film Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Production year: 2009 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): 18 Runtime: 153 mins Directors: Niels Arden Oplev Cast: Lena Endre, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter...
Film Review: The Ape
Trouble in mind ... The Ape Perhaps the very first thing to be said about this feature is that it contains an extraordinarily, suicidally dangerous stunt, involving a train. Can that have been...
Ex-soap Actor Admits Resisting Arrest In Nyc Fight
Nathaniel Marston pleaded guilty Thursday to the misdemeanor charge. He has completed an anger-management program, and his case is expected to be closed without jail time or probation.Marston was...