They own a luxurious Los Angeles mansion and a $3.5 million French-style home in New Orleans. And now Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have spent $40 million on their third home – a mansion in Italy. Situated in the Northern Italian hills of Valpolicella, the property boasts 18,000 square feet and 15 bedrooms, seven baths, [...]
A few weeks ago, my friend, the designer Jean Paul Gaultier, launched with Elle magazine a special t-shirt he has designed for the Born HIV Free campaign, included with copies of Elle magazine sold in France during August. This campaign, for the Global Fund, is about letting the world know that ending the transmission of HIV between [...]
Via RealEstalker : We wrote about Candy Spelling’s magnificent manor last year, when she first announced that she was selling it for a whopping $150 Million – and that she was willing to wait instead of lowering the asking price. True to her word, the Spelling Manor officially hit the open market yesterday with the original asking price. The [...]
The judge declared a mistrial in the sham marriage trial of Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero on Friday after jurors said they were deadlocked with no hope of agreeing. The U.S. Attorney’s office did not immediately say if the case will be retried, but the judge set a hearing for January to discuss the [...]
Jesse James and Kat Von D showed their affection on the red carpet at the opening of her Wonderland gallery on Thursday in LA. Kat told People that she thinks Jesse is “The One.” “Jesse is only my ninth boyfriend. I don’t hang out with anybody unless I am in love,” she said. When asked what [...]
The machine gun that Al Pacino used in the 1983 film Scarface and which his character referred to as “my little friend” is expected to fetch $150,000 at auction. The Hollywood star, who played Tony Montana in the gangster movie, was a method actor and insisted his weapon was the correct weight – so he [...]
For almost three decades, indie rock icon Morrissey has made almost as many enemies as devoted fans willing to hang on his every melancholy-drenched lyric. Described by one high court judge as “devious, truculent and unreliable”, the former Smiths frontman is no stranger to controversy and criticism. But tomorrow he reignites a simmering row about his [...]
She told the judges she wanted to be as famous as her idol. And after her powerful rendition of I Who Have Nothing on Saturday night, Mary Byrne left the X Factor panel in no doubt that she has the potential to be as popular as Dame Shirley Bassey. Miss Byrne produced a note-perfect version [...]
“Modern Family” won the Emmy for outstanding comedy series at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. The show beat out the heavily favored “Glee” for top comedy honors, and wound up winning six Emmys out of 14 nominations. “We are thrilled that families are sitting down to watch a television show,” said the show’s [...]
Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” has won its eighth consecutive Emmy Award for best variety, music or comedy series. Sunday’s victory kept Conan O’Brien from claiming an Emmy for his short-lived stint as “Tonight” host and also deprived nominee “Saturday Night Live” of a trophy for its episode with host Betty White. Bryan Cranston’s portrayal [...]
A woman accused of attacking Leonardo DiCaprio with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party in 2005 has been ordered to stand trial in Los Angeles. Aretha Wilson, 40, faces one count of assault with a deadly weapon. Her lawyer said he expected the case to begin within 60 days. DiCaprio required a dozen stitches [...]
An overseas collector has paid $15,000 for John Lennon’s toilet at an auction in Liverpool. The porcelain ‘lavatory’ was used by the music legend during the three years he lived at Tittenhurst Park, Berkshire, between 1969 and 1972. Lennon gave it to builder John Hancock, telling him “to use it as a plant pot” after [...]
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was arrested late Friday night on cocaine possession charges in Las Vegas, authorities said. Cops stopped the car Hilton was in after spotting what they believed was marijuana smoke pouring out of the windows, a police spokesman told The Associated Press. A Clark County Detention Center clerk said early Saturday morning [...]
A man has been arrested at Paris Hilton’s Los Angeles home after the socialite said he tried to break into her house while holding two big knives. Police Officer Gregory Baek says the man was arrested about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday but his name hasn’t been released. Hilton wrote on her Twitter page that she [...]
A 22-year-old Mexico woman has won the Miss Universe pageant after donning a flowing red gown and telling an audience it’s important to teach kids family values. Jimena Navarrete of Guadalajara was first to answer an interview question Monday night and the last of 83 contestants standing in the headline-grabbing pageant on the Las Vegas [...]
Now that doctors have reportedly concluded that LIndsay Lohan was misdiagnosed, the troubled actress is said to be seething mad at the court system. According to TMZ.com, doctors at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Westwood evaluated Lohan and do not believe she has bipolar disorder or an addiction to methamphethamine. In addition, she was reportedly misdiagnosed as having Attention [...]
The sordid Speidi saga continues with news of yet another alleged sex tape. Following reports that Spencer Pratt is trying to sell a sex tape of his soon-to-be ex-wife Heidi Montag, TMZ.com claims the reality show has-been also has footage that features a second busty blond. While packing up his stuff at the Malibu house [...]
Kim Kardashian has paid homage to one of her style icons, the curvaceous screen siren Sophia Loren, in a smouldering new photo shoot. Wearing a Jenna Leigh Lingerie balconette bra, the 29-year-old channels the Italian brunette in a series of poses for the latest issue of US magazine, Allure. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians [...]
Heidi Montag’s plastic surgeon Dr Frank Ryan has been killed in a car crash. The Beverly Hills surgeon, who has treated a host of stars, was in his Jeep when it went off the side of the Pacific Coast Highway yesterday outside Los Angeles. The Jeep landed on rocks and lifeguards rushed to the scene [...]
Author Andrew O’Hagan has said that his novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe will be turned into a film starring Angelina Jolie as the screen siren. George Clooney will play Frank Sinatra, Mr O’Hagan said. Production on the film is due to start soon, the Times [...]
A sports car once owned by the late British actress Diana Dors has sold for $3 Million at a California auction. The 1949 Delahaye Roadster, which some have dubbed the most beautiful car in the world, was given to Dors when she was 17. The sky blue car has been described by auctioneers as “extravagant [...]
The success of ‘House’ has made its star one of the best-paid and most-watched people on the planet – but he still can’t quite believe it, says William Langley. Hugh Laurie has a fat new television contract, a swish home in the Hollywood Hills, and a way of letting anyone who might be feeling jealous [...]
When a 10-year-old singer belted out a Puccini aria with the polished voice of someone thrice her age on Tuesday night’s episode of America’s Got Talent, the “next Susan Boyle!” superlatives flowed across the mediascape. But so did the question: Is Jackie Evancho for real? The precocious soprano, a Pittsburgh-area fourth-grader who auditioned for the [...]
Ryan Gonzalez really wanted to make a music video for his first solo album — but like many independent artists, he had no budget. So Gonzalez, a Hawaiian singer who goes by the stage name R. Vaughn, found a director with a plan to shoot the project cheaply. Digital designer John Garcia, a colleague from his [...]
Portia de Rossi’s second anniversary gift for Ellen DeGeneres? A name change. The actress, who tied the knot with the talk show host, 52, on Aug. 17, 2008, has asked the court to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres, according to a petition filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court. As for the reason, [...]
She may be considered one of the sexiest women on the planet, but Lost star Dominic Monaghan has given Megan Fox a lukewarm appraisal as a kisser. The actor features alongside Fox, 24, in Eminem and Rihanna’s new video for the chart-topping single Love The Way You Lie. And despite the fact that Dominic gets [...]
Compositions for classical guitar duo are few and far between, but Brazilian guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad treat that as an opportunity, not an obstacle. When the brothers find music they like, they rework it for guitar. This year at the Savannah Music Festival, they played several of their own arrangements, in an imaginative program [...]
As scientists reveal that a weekend of rest provides an essential boost to brain power ahead of a busy working week, Chris Buscombe explores 10 other factors which may help improve your intellect. Exercise It has been suggested as a means to improving brain capacity for several years, but scientists continue to find new evidence [...]
Lindsay Lohan will be released from jail shortly after midnight and go straight to rehab but a judge has decided that Morningside Recovery was no longer the best choice, according to an online report. Radar Online is reporting that Judge Marsha Revel became concerned that Lohan could have drugs snuck into the Costa Mesa-based rehabilitation facility by the public. The actress will reportedly be [...]
She’s battled through body hang-ups, two divorces and the death of her beloved brother Michael – but, Janet Jackson tells Daphne Lockyer, she’s finally found a ‘better space’. Janet Jackson is sporting a radical new hairstyle. Short and sharp, it’s teamed today with a tailored beige jacket – all brass buttons and little-drummer-girl epaulettes. On [...]
She’s fast becoming one of Britain’s most famous exports, thanks to her starring role in the upcoming Transformers film. And now Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has shown her pin-up potential as she poses in a curve-enhancing corset on the cover of the September issue of Love magazine. With her usual blonde hair transformed into a sultry red [...]
George Clooney’s Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis has been implicated in a wide-ranging sex and drugs scandal involving businessmen, celebrities and high-class prostitutes. Miss Canalis, a former showgirl, is said to have taken cocaine at a nightclub in Milan that is now at the centre of an investigation into an alleged prostitution ring in which rich [...]
When he spun a dream on skid row using two violin strings, the musician never would have envisioned a command performance at the White House. Yet, here he is. In those early days after we met 5 1/2 years ago, when Nathaniel Ayers slept on the streets of skid row, he was a dreamer. He’d [...]
Blake Lively promoted her new movie ‘Green Lantern’ with costars Ryan Reynolds and Peter Sarsgaard at Comic Con on Saturday. Fans camped out overnight to see a clip from the movie, Ryan Reynolds says he took the title role in “Green Lantern” to play a hero that can “throw a punch, tell a joke and [...]
Oprah Winfrey, the ‘queen’ of American TV, has offered the cash-strapped Duchess of York her own prime-time chat show. Billionaire Oprah, 56, is launching her own cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, next January, and last week called the scandal-hit Duchess to offer her a deal. A source close to Sarah Ferguson said last night: [...]
Her High School Musical days are definitely a thing of the past as Vanessa Hudgens dons skin-tight leather and picks up a machine gun for her new role. The 21-year old actress is vamping it up and amping up the sex appeal to portray Blondie in the movie Sucker Punch. It couldn’t be more different [...]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages Thursday in London’s High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported they were planning to split. The celebrity couple began legal action against the News of the World after it reported in January that they had agreed to separate. The pair [...]
With supermodel genes in her blood, it’s no surprise that Cindy Crawford’s nine-year-old daughter Kaia is turning into a beauty. The resemblance was all the more clear as the two stepped out for a spot of shopping at the Point Dume Plaza, an upmarket shopping village in Malibu dressed in very similar outfits. The pair [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio is the star of this summer’s blockbuster, “Inception.” But on the sweltering night at Tokyo’s premiere of the movie, you might have mistaken Ken Watanabe as the film’s top-billing actor. “Watanabe Ken-san desu!” said the announcer to a crowd of a thousand screaming fans, as Watanabe stepped onto the red carpet. Waving notebooks [...]
She’s the most popular girl in jail. “Mean Girls” star Lindsay Lohan walked into a California lockup to cheers from fellow inmates to start a sentence that should last only two weeks. Although she was crying when she entered the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood yesterday, she perked up after the red-carpet treatment from [...]
Ice-T got stopped cold by the NYPD. The famed rapper was arrested in Manhattan early Tuesday for driving with expired auto insurance, police said. The hip-hop pioneer, who stars in “Law & Order: SVU,” was pulled over at the corner of W. 40th St. and 11th Ave. at 9 a.m. for not wearing a seatbelt, [...]
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took a break from saving the world to walk the red carpet at the premiere of her new film Salt in Los Angeles last night. The golden couple, who have six children, lit up the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as they signed autographs and chatted with fans. But Brad, [...]
A new Bollywood caper featuring a lookalike of Osama bin Laden has been banned from a Pakistani cinematic release due to security concerns. Titled “Tere Bin Laden” (or “Without You Laden”), the film is billed as a slapstick comedy, starring Pakistani pop singer Ali Zafar in the role of a television journalist who films a [...]
At long last, what we’ve all been waiting for: a thriller about a Navy-engineered half-shark-half-octopus killing machine! Yeah, we know it sounds suspiciously like that old Dr Octagon song from the 1990s, but it’s not. Instead, it’s an absurd, low-budget made-for-TV movie from B-movie king Roger Corman that’s coming out on NBC’s SyFy Channel sometime [...]
Hollywood star George Clooney’s fans brought chaos to an Italian trial today as he gave evidence against alleged fraudsters accused of illegally using his name Clooney, 49, smiled and waved to onlookers as they crowded into the court building with the extra police who had been called in struggling to keep control. Trial judge Pietro [...]
Brooklyn Decker, the wife of tennis ace Andy Roddick, served up plenty of glamour at the ESPY Awards in LA tonight. The Sports Illustrated model, who recently wrapped filming a part in Jennifer Aniston’s new romcom Just Go With It, put her enviable figure on show on the red carpet in a tight Herve Leger [...]
It’s a match made in Oscar heaven: actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have married in a private ceremony in the Bahamas. Cruz’s representative Amanda Silverman confirmed that the couple were married at the beginning of July at a friend’s house in the Caribbean islands. She said in an e-mail that the ceremony for Cruz, [...]
The Brentwood home where Marilyn Monroe passed away is on the market for $3.6 million, having changed hands several times since that infamous day but no worse for wear. The star had purchased the home in 1962 for $90,000, and had been set to make mortgage payments at $320 a month. The official listing highlights [...]
They are two celebrities who have never been shy about showing off their figures. But now Michelle Heaton and Adele Silva have taken the brave step of posing for a nude photoshoot. The pair show off their enviable figures in Closer magazine, but both admit they had doubts about the decision to bare all. Former [...]
Brad Pitt’s unsightly beard led to speculation that the once ‘sexiest man alive’ had lost his appeal. So fans will be delighted to see that underneath the unkempt greying facial hair Pitt remains as handsome as ever. The newly clean-shaven actor was spotted filming Moneyball in Los Angeles today, the first time he has been [...]
They my no longer be a couple, but it appears Lindsay Lohan can still count on Samantha Ronson in her times of need. The troubled star has been reunited with her ex-girlfriend ahead of her impending prison sentence. DJ Ronson, who dated Lohan for more than a year, took her for dinner last night – [...]
Modern Family star Sofia Vergara celebrated her birthday and recent Emmy nomination in style while holidaying in Italy this weekend. The 38-year-old is spending the next two weeks soaking up the sun with her boyfriend, LA-based businessman Nick Loeb. The Colombian actress looked stunning as she paraded the shores of Ischia in a tiny white [...]
Dr. Phil is selling the $16.5 million Beverly Hills home he shared with his wife, Robin. The couple has batted away rumors of a divorce for a few years now, but nothing has been confirmed. The home is 11,036 square feet and has eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms. They first bought the home together in [...]
Mel Gibson is heard using a racial epithet and calling his ex-girlfriend a “whore” in a recording released by a celebrity news website Friday. The two-minute recording posted by RadarOnline.com includes segments in which a voice sounding distinctively like the Academy Award-winner is heard telling his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that she is dressing too provocatively [...]
The setting couldn’t have been more cinematic. Sunset on one of Hawaii’s beautiful beaches. But for Megan Fox there was only one choice of leading man. These exclusive pictures bear witness to the 24-year-old actress’s biggest role to date – when the blushing bride made a stunning entrance walking barefoot along the beach as she [...]
Couture week may be all about high fashion but at Jean Paul Gaultier’s show it was Dita Von Teese’s performance that left guests stunned. Leaving very little to the imagination, it was definitely a case of less is more when the burlesque dancer took to the catwalk as the designer’s piece de resistance. Sporting a [...]
There aren’t many children who enjoy a trip to the store. But there wasn’t a peep from baby Louis as his doting mother Sandra Bullock carried him around the shops. The seven-month-old slept soundly as the actress looked around Wildflower Organics in her hometown of Austin, Texas. Oscar-winner Sandra was dressed down for the Fourth [...]
She famously became a unofficial spokesperson for full-figured women after gaining 30lbs four years ago. But Tyra Banks, who faced vicious headlines like ‘America’s Next Top Waddle’ at the time, appears to have all but shed that shapely figure. The supermodel and TV presenter looked incredibly gaunt as she touched down at London’s Heathrow earlier [...]
Is she LiLo’s new sapphic squeeze or just her smoking hot bodyguard? Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan has been spotted cozying up to Israeli military veteran Eilat Anschel quite a bit lately – and tongues are wagging. The gossip site TMZ.com reports that Lohan has turned to Anschel for a “shoulder to cry on,” as she [...]
It may be one of the most unusual pairings in showbiz history. But it appears Lindsay Lohan and Danny Cipriani are enjoying each other’s company a great deal after they were spotted going on two dates in just 48 hours. The couple were first spotted together as they left Los Angeles nightclub The Tea Room [...]
The mystery of how famous lothario Russell Brand was finally tamed by Katy Perry has been uncovered – she made him wait for sex. The fiery singer has revealed she turned down the British comedian – who she said was basically a ‘professional prostitute’ before he embraced monogamy – on the night they met. She [...]
South Korean actor and singer Park Yong Ha, who appeared in the South Korean television soap opera “Winter Sonata,” was found dead early Wednesday at his home in Seoul, in what appeared to be a suicide, Yonhap News Agency reported. The report quoted police as saying that Park’s body was found at his home in [...]
Former Yokozuna Asashoryu appears at an event to promote the film “Predators” in Tokyo on Wednesday. Asashoryu is a PR spokesman for the American-made action film which opens on July 10, 2010.
ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome hosted the red carpet premiere of “Jonah Hex” on Thursday, June 17. While the male-dominated cast ensemble mostly wore black, Megan Fox shined in bright red dress which at the same time showed off her marvelous figure. Her co-star Josh Brolin came supported by his close knits, wife Diane Lane, dad [...]
Stunning is the word often used to describe Gong Li – be it her beauty, performance or charisma – but the most stunning thing about her is, actually, her friendly, frank and down-to-earth manner. Dressed in a black silk shirt and blue satin harem pants, the 45-year-old diva, wearing her trademark smile, looks gorgeously fit. [...]
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A collection of 75 lost Hollywood film works, including the 1927 John Ford movie Upstream, have been rediscovered in a vault in New Zealand. Only about 15 per cent of more than 60 silent-era films made by Ford are thought to survive. He later went on to win four Oscars for Best Director with films [...]
You guys! It’s the finale of “Dancing With the Stars”! This is it. Last night. The finale. Finito. The remaining three contestants — Erin Andrews, Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek — will battle it out for the mirror ball trophy while it’ll be all out sparkle pandemonium when Kate Gosselin and the rest of the [...]
Mr. Snide showed a bit of his warm and fuzzy side during his final turn as an “Idol” maker last night. As Simon Cowell ascended the stage of the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles for the season finale last night, he said, “I didn’t know I was going to be this emotional” – though he [...]
A 24-year-old brunette from Michigan recovered after nearly stumbling in her evening gown and beat out four blondes and 46 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title on Sunday. Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after swimsuit, evening gown [...]
The only known audio recording of a 1966 Beatles press conference, in which John Lennon is grilled about saying the band was more popular than Jesus, is expected to sell for about $20,000 at auction. Auction house Bonhams & Butterfields said the 14 minute reel-to-reel tape recording was the only known surviving audio record of [...]
James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora. On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope [...]
Nicollette Sheridan, the actress who played a divorced real estate agent in ABC’s TV series “Desperate Housewives” filed suit against the show’s creator and producer alleging assault and wrongful termination. In the lawsuit filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Sheridan claims that producer Marc Cherry hit her in the face on the Wisteria [...]
The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has fallen again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold today for $1.5 Million on the auction website ComicConnect.com. The issue features Superman’s debut and is widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books. The same issue sold [...]
Motherhood’s disastrous performance at the box office provokes bitter confrontation between its producer and the UK distributor Metrodrome. It should have been a red carpet event. When just one British cinema was given exclusive permission to launch Uma Thurman’s new film earlier this month, the film’s producers presumably hoped that exclusivity would create a buzz [...]
A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch Lady Gaga’s career, co-writing hits and securing a record deal, is suing the US pop star. Rob Fusari, who is credited on Gaga’s album The Fame, alleges the singer denied him his share of song royalties and merchandising revenue. On Thursday, he launched a $30.5 [...]
Controversial Sirius radio shock-jock Howard Stern on Wednesday crowned Jamie Jungers as the queen of his Tiger Woods mistress beauty pageant. Stern held the contest on his radio program, and Jungers won a $75,000 prize after exposing personal information about Woods, the world’s No. 1 golfer who admitted to infidelity after being linked to numerous [...]
“The Hurt Locker” won best picture at Sunday’s 82nd annual Academy Awards. Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win best director. After thanking members of her cast and crew, she dedicated the Oscar to the members of the military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film, which tied “Avatar” for the most Oscar nominations [...]
“I prepared what I had to do when I present the Best Cinematography Award,” Bullock said, “…but nothing more.” While she was clearly the favorite to win the award, Bullock isn’t letting it go to her head. “There’s always a favorite, and it’s never worked out that way,” she said. Bullock attributes her success with [...]
Zhou Shaomou, a Chinese science fiction writer, has filed a lawsuit in Beijing’s No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court on March 5, and demanded compensation of $146 Million (1 billion yuan) against James Cameron and the movie “Avatar” production company for the theft of one of Zhou’s novels. According to Zhou, nearly 80% of “Avatar”, including [...]
Federal prosecutors say four men hacked the computer systems of online ticket vendors and bought up 1.5 million tickets to prime concerts, sporting events and live performances in an elaborate scheme that netted them more than $25 Million. Three of the suspects — Kenneth Lowson, Kristofer Kirsch and Joel Stevenson — surrendered to authorities Monday [...]
Glam pop artist Lady Gaga dominated the 30th BRITs on Tuesday, winning a trio of awards at the British pop music industry’s flagship ceremony, the first international act to do so for five years. Gaga, dressed in a ghostly carnival headdress and skimpy lace outfit, picked up awards for International Female Solo Artist, International Breakthrough [...]
A court in Australia has ruled that internet service providers cannot be held responsible for their users illegally downloading movies and TV programs. The landmark case had been brought by a consortium of more than 30 Hollywood and Australian film studios and TV producers, which had argued that internet provider iiNet had failed to halt [...]
“Craptaculars.” That’s the word young Americans have coined to make fun of Chinese song and dance extravaganzas such as the one coming up on the Lunar New Year’s Eve. Hipsters from overseas seem to feel that these over-the-top, spectacular shows are “crap” because the performers don’t look like rock stars. True, a Mistress of Ceremonies [...]
The 52nd Grammy Awards have been billed as “ladies’ night,” and Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga were leading the way in the early going Sunday. Near the midway point, Beyonce led the pack with five awards, including song of the year for the omnipresent “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” while Swift claimed [...]
“Inglourious Basterds” took the ensemble cast award at the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night while Golden Globe winners Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock again picked up top acting awards. The win by “Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s crazy action World War II flick, didn’t help clarify the race for Academy Award best picture, [...]
James Cameron launched his science-fiction epic “Avatar” into a safe orbit as the costly film soared to No. 1 with $73 million domestically and $159.2 million overseas, for a $232.2 million worldwide total. With that big a start, distributor 20th Century Fox was quick to proclaim it made a good investment with the estimated $400 [...]
Santa Claus, a suspiciously bearded foreign man carrying a large number of “packages” receives some “special treatment” courtesy of the NSA’s number one interrogator, Jack Bauer.
A little bit Dances with Wolves, a soupcon of A Man Called Horse, a dash of the eco-doom documentary The Age of Stupid … and a lot of huge-eyed blue aliens. That’s the recipe for James Cameron’s long-awaited, much-discussed new 3-D film, Avatar, which premiered last night in London. This is James Cameron’s latest blockbuster, his first feature since [...]
Susan Boyle has topped the US charts, setting a first-week sales record for a female debut album. Record sales tracker Neilsen SoundScan said I Dreamed A Dream shifted 701,000 copies in the US in its first week. It is second only to Snoop Dogg’s debut Doggystyle, which sold 803,000 in its first week in 1993. [...]
When Morace Park bought a can of nitrate film on eBay for $5, he was surprised to discover that it contained footage of Charlie Chaplin. The inventor was utterly astounded when his friend John Dwyer, a former member of the British Board of Film Classification, told him that he had discovered rare footage of the [...]
With no money, no stars and virtually no special effects, first-time writer-director Olen Peli has crafted an efficient and very effective horror film by letting the audience’s imaginations do most of the work. That may sound tame to hardcore horror movie fans used to ultra-violent “Saw” and “Hostel” brand of horror, but the sneak review [...]
A performer dances with a tiger during the special show by the National Circus of Russia under invitation to Luoyang City, central China’s Henan Province, Oct. 1, 2009. Local spectators enjoy a marvelous circus show during the National Day Festival marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. A performer [...]
Will the “Mad Men” of U.S. television score a second Emmy best drama victory and can anyone stop comic actress Tina Fey and “30 Rock”? The U.S. television industry bestows its highest honors on Sunday at the 61st Prime Time Emmy Awards in a ceremony hosted by actor Neil Patrick Harris that is expected to [...]
A model presents a creation by Spanish designer Amai Rodriguez during the Madrid Cibeles Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, Sept. 18, 2009.
The Toronto International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious international film festivals in the world. For ten days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new talent. As one of the world’s most important cultural events, the Festival consistently strives to set the standard [...]
The film “Baaria” premiered at the Palazzo del Cinema building during the 66th Venice International Film Festival September 2, 2009. The screening of “Baaria”, by Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, opened the 66th International Film Festival with movie stars, celebrities and those who wished to be seen, walking the red carpet to the first screening. The [...]
The city of Venice is ready to celebrate the famous Venice International Film Festival. The 2009 edition of the Festival, organized by the Venice Biennale, will run at Venice Lido from 2nd to 12th of September and it is one of the greatest events in the world dedicated to cinema. The aim of the Festival [...]
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