Celeb News Aggregate
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French film Entre Les Murs (The Class) has claimed the top prize at this year's Cannes International Film Festival.
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Director Steven Soderbergh was editing to the last minute his epic Che, about the Cuban revolutionary fighter Che Guevarra with Benicio Del Toro in the title role.
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The Cannes Film Festival lineup was unveiled Wednesday morning in Paris with a few surprises in the mix.
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Filmmaker Mark Romanek has quit the new Benicio Del Toro movie Wolf Man, citing "creative differences" for his departure.
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Ocean's Eleven director Steven Soderbergh is set to shoot two back-to-back films about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Scarlett Johansson has slammed reports she is promiscuous, after being linked to various celebrity men before finding love with Josh Hartnett.
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The race for the Palme d'Or--the top film prize at a 2004 Cannes festival--is heating up and with director Quentin Tarantino heading the jury, movie industryites are prepared for just about anything. Also: Michael Jackson Total Film magazine poll The Kelsey Grammer Sketch Show Bill Cosby Adam Sandler The Longest Yard Sammy Reese Witherspoon Clive Owen Benicio Del Toro Sin City
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News, Mar. 8: David Crosby Arrested, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Hits Video Stores in May, Arnold Schwarzenegger Takes a Fitness Weekend Lost in Translation Matthew McConaughey Terrence Malick Benicio Del Toro Colin Farrell
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Mystic River The Station Agent The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Seabiscuit and In America lead the acting ensemble nods for the 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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The American Civil War epic Cold Mountain received 13 nominations Monday for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Wednesday named the quirky dramedy American Splendor best picture of 2003, and The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson was voted best director.
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While Thursday's Golden Globe nominations had some predictable made-to-order Oscar fodder such as Cold Mountain, there were some much-talked about films that were conspicuously absent from the list, including The Station Agent, 21 Grams and The Missing.
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The Cat in the Hat took the box office in its opening weekend with $40.1 million followed by Gothika Elf Master and Commander Love Actually The Matrix Revolutions Brother Bear Looney Tunes: Back in Action Scary Movie 3 Radio 21 Grams
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LOS ANGELES, Mar. 12, 2001 -- It looks like Russell and Tom will be twiddling their thumbs a while longer.
The two frontrunners for the Best Actor Oscar were trounced at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, a closely watched barometer whose lead performance winners have gone on to Oscar gold 10 out of 12 times. The culprit? Benicio Del Toro, who took the lead actor trophy for "Traffic" regardless of his supporting role Oscar nod.
The drug-war drama, which features a core cast of 19 and 135 speaking parts in all, won the evening's film ensemble award over "Almost Famous," "Billy Elliot," "Chocolat" and "Gladiator."
Meanwhile, Julia Roberts jumped another hurdle toward Oscar glory with a leading actress win for "Erin Brockovich," with Albert Finney winning for supporting actor.
"This is freaky," the shaken Roberts said at the podium. "If this was a pro
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While anyone could have predicted Sony-based Revolution Studios would go ahead with a XXX sequel, no one could have foreseen it happening without star Vin Diesel and director Rob Cohen. Also Ice Cube Lee Tamahori Clint Eastwood Mystic River 41st annual New York Film Festival Beyonce Knowles Mathew Knowles Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia
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Celebs including Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are bound for Venice, Italy, to attend the 60th annual Venice Film Festival that gets underway Aug. 27.
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Queen Latifah and Steve Martin's romantic jailbreak comedy Bringing Down the House remained undefeated at the box office for a third week in a row, locking up a hefty $16.2 million despite the arrival of four new wide releases on the block. Top Ten Bringing Down the House Dreamcatcher Agent Cody Banks View From the Top The Hunted Chicago Piglet's Big Movie Tears of the Sun Old School Boat Trip
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Bringing Down the House, Agent Cody Banks The Hunted Tears of the Sun Chicago Old School How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Willard Daredevil Cradle 2 the Grave Bend It Like Beckham
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News roundup for Nov. 5 - Sharon Osbourne wants to call it quits after the next season of The Osbournes. Andy Garcia Robert Duvall Dustin Hoffman Benicio Del Toro Javier Bardem Benjamin Bratt Jennifer Lopez George Clooney Out of Sight Celine Dion Kurt Cobain
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Jude Law Dinu Patriciu Cold Mountain Benecio Del Toro To Have and Have Not Tod Kip Williams Rod Lurie Beat the Eagle Magic Johnson Feeling Aretha Rick Famuyiwa Sesame Street HIV positive Muppet character Lilo & Stitch Disney Channel Fat Joe
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President Bush and a handful of celebrities will appear in the public TV series Freedom: A History of Us.
President Bush Julia Roberts Anthony Hopkins Angela Bassett Reese Witherspoon Billy Crystal Robin Williams Lance Bas Sylvetser Stalone Jennifer Flavin Susan Sarandon Tim Robbins The Guys Elton John Angie Harmon Frankie Muniz Hilary Duff Jonathan Glazer Chaos Robert De Niro Benicio Del ToroAnna Nicole Smith Sharon Osbourne David BowieMetallica Lars Ulrich Tim Duffy Mildred Wirt Benson
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News Roundup for April 29: Lisa Lopes' body to be flown back to the U.S. Madonna's new play cancels three previews Oprah Winfrey buys Hawaiian property Robert De Niro and Benicio Del Toro may star in movie together George Lucas says Indiana Jones 4 will have some surprises ABC's The Bachelor accepting applications for next show Sean "Puffy" Combs will have his own MTV reality show CBS The Early Show co-host thinks David Letterman should replace the departing Byrant Gumbel
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A survey of 1500 female patients found women most wanting Halle Berrys cheeks Heather Grahams eyes Heather Locklears nose Denise Richards lips Britney Spears body
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Following is a news story about the changes at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Keywords are Sundance Film Festival Laramie Project Laura Linney Steve Buscemi Benicio Del Toro Traffic terrorist attack security movie 2002 Winter Olympics Park City Utah Salt Lake
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Heather Graham's newest boyfriend is Benicio Del Toro. She's been linked with James Woods Heath Ledger Ed Burns
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Listen Up!: Gene Simmons: Behind the make-up
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Marlon Brando, the cast of The Sopranos in Michael Jackson video; James Cameron to turn comic book Fathom into a movie; new Willard movie planned; Michael Cimino back in the director's chair; Juliette Lewis will make appearance on Dharma & Greg
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Michael Jackson has landed Marlon Brando to appear in a video promoting his latest single, "You Rock My World," according to the London tabloid, The Sun.
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News Roundup for Aug. 30: Napster finally getting pay service off the ground; Anne Heche getting married; Spanish actor Francisco Rabal died; Tara Reid tesitifies at court hearing; Lawsuit against The Sopranos in court; George Harrison loses bid to stop a bankruptcy; Nicole Kidman hits the Venice Film Festival; Survivor special to air on CBS a week before Survivor 3 airs; the new Michael Jackson song tanks on the air and he gets Marlon Brando and cast from The Sopranos in his video; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make comeback.
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22, 2001 -- The Golden Globes may be over, but the Windy City critics are just starting.
The Chicago Film Critics Association has rolled out the nominees for its annual awards, and topping its list is the rock flick "Almost Famous," which took a field-best eight nominations, including best picture, best director and best screenplay for writer-helmer Cameron Crowe, best supporting actor (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and two best supporting actress nods (for both newly crowned Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand).
The film also qualified upstarts Patrick Fugit and Hudson for the most promising actor and actress awards.
'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came in with seven noms. The martial arts film will compete against "Almost Famous" in the best picture, best director, best supporting actress (Zhang Z
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This week's Role Call is a look at which actor/director is doing what in Hollywood. Kate Hudson Reese Witherspoon "Legally Blonde" Paul Walker "The Fast and the Furious" John McTiernan "Gettysburg" Ted Turner Jon Voight
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"The Wedding Planner" was still living happily ever after in first place this weekend.
The PG-13-rated romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures and Intermedia Films continued to show great legs in its second week with a shapely estimated $11.0 million (-19%) at 2,785 theaters (theater count unchanged; $3,950 per theater). Its cume is approximately $28.2 million.
"Down 19%. You couldn't hope for better than that," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning.
"It's turning out absolutely the best you could have possibly hoped for -- number one two weeks in a row and Valentine's weekend coming up and Presidents' holiday after that. We certainly now are believers that we'll be in excess of $50 million (in domestic theaters). This is a very profitable picture for both us and Intermedia."
Jere Hausfater, pr
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'Save' Tops Holiday Box Office
"Save the Last Dance" kicked off in first place to a record-setting $28 million for the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
Distribution executives had anticipated that Paramount's PG-13-rated teen appeal dance drama would end 20th Century Fox's three-week chart-topping reign with "Cast Away," but they were only thinking in terms of an opening of about $20 million. Instead, "Dance" came in swinging to the tune of an ESTIMATED $28.00 million at 2,230 theaters ($12,556 per theater). (For the three-day period Friday through Sunday, Paramount estimated "Dance" at $24.00 million.)
"Dance" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing at over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"$20 million was kind of the benchmark (estimate going into the weekend)," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said Sunday morning.
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"The Grinch" continued making a mountain of money, easily holding on to first place for a fourth straight weekend.
Universal and Imagine Entertainment's PG-rated blockbuster comedy adventure "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" topped the chart in its fourth week with a still magical estimated $18.46 million (-32%) at 3,186 theaters (+48 theaters; $5,795 per theater). Its cume is approximately $195.5 million, heading for $250 million-plus.
"It's exhilarating to have 'Grinch' the Number One film four weekends in a row; and as we move closer to the actual holiday season, having this film achieve the $200 million mark prior to that is most gratifying for Universal and Imagine Entertainment," Universal distribution president Nikki Rocco said Sunday morning.
"It will hit $200 million by the end of this week or with Friday's business. I can no longer say 'depend
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26, 2001 -- The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) recognized some of the year’s best films on Sunday. "Gladiator" was chosen best film, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" took away best foreign-language film honors. Each of these Oscar contenders received four BAFTA awards in total.
Producers Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig accepted the best film award for "Gladiator," praising director Ridley Scott during their acceptance speech, who lost out on the best director prize to Ang Lee for "Tiger."
Besides best foreign film and best director, "Crouching Tiger" also won for music (Tan Dun) and costume design (Tim Yip). Of BAFTA and the United Kingdom, Lee said: "You've always been great to me. This is like a second home to me now."
“Gladiator” also won the Orange Audience Award for most popular film of 2000. Scott thank
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21, 2000 -- The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards is shaping up to be one heck of a testosterone-charged run.
Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic" and Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" have emerged as the frontrunners in this year's race for the Globes, each receiving five nods apiece as nominations for the annual bash were announced this morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, Calif..
Trailing closely behind are Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical rock flick "Almost Famous," "Chocolat," "Wonder Boys" and Soderbergh's "Erin Brockovich," each earning four nominations.
Soderbergh's drug trafficking drama (which has yet to bow in theaters) picked up almost all the prized loot with a nod for best picture (drama), best director, best screenplay for scribe Stephen Gaghan and a best supporting actor and actress (drama) mention for Benecio D
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 19, 2000 -- "Gladiator" and "Traffic" lead the nominations for the fifth annual Golden Satellite Awards presented by the International Press Academy.
"Gladiator," with 10 nominations, and "Traffic," with nine nods, are competing against "Billy Elliot," "Erin Brockovich," "Quills" and "Dancer in the Dark" for best motion picture drama, according to Daily Variety.
The nominations for best motion picture comedy or musical are "Almost Famous," "Best in Show," "Nurse Betty," "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?," "State and Main" and "Wonder Boys."
The 10 nods for "Gladiator" include a director nomination for Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe for best actor in a drama and Joaquin Phoenix for supporting actor in a drama.
"Traffic's" nods include Steven Soderbergh for director and Benicio Del Toro for supporting actor. Soderbergh is competing against himself: H
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In Court
Warning to celebrities everywhere: think twice the next time that you stop to sign an autograph. Rap mogul Sean "Puffy" Comb stopped Tuesday to give his John Hancock to fans in New York, only to be entrapped by a process server, according to the New York Post's PageSix.com. Kim Porter, the mother of Comb's youngest son, Christian, is reportedly suing Combs for child support. Porter wants more than the $7,000 a month that Combs currently pays.
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Ailing
Leonardo DiCaprio is on crutches after he sprained his knee July 1 playing basketball with his celebrity friends, People magazine reports.
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Benicio Del Toro, who won a best-supporting actor Oscar for Traffic, broke his wrist last week while performing a stunt in his upcoming film The Huntedin Portland, Ore.
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One would think Jamie Lee Curtis - and Michael Myers, for that matter - would have learned their lessons in the previous seven Halloween installments. Michael was beheaded in the last film, the 1998 Halloween: H2O, for heaven's sakes. But, unfortunately, that is not the case. They've decided to come back for one more go around in Dimension Films' Halloween: The Homecoming. A group of teens - when will old people be the ones being stalked? - go to Michael's home to stage a live Internet chat. Production is to start Monday in Vancouver. Curtis has signed on to reprise her spunky role and maybe this time she'll actually kill her misanthropic mental patient brother for good. With or without his head.
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30, 2001 -- Nominations for the 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced today in Los Angeles at L.A.'s Pacific Design Center.
The unique show, honoring performers from 13 movie and TV categories, will air on TNT, Sunday, March 11 from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.
The nominations in the movie categories aren’t surprising, with frontrunners Russell Crowe’s from “Gladiator” and Golden Globe winner Julia Roberts from “Erin Brockovich” easily making the list. Golden Globe winners Tom Hanks for “Cast Away” and Kate Hudson for “Almost Famous” snag nominations as well.
Several nominees in the television categories are returning to try their luck again, namely James Gandolfini and Edie Falco from “The Sopranos,” who both won in their respective categories last year. Also, die-hard dramas, such as “ER” and “Law & Order,” are back fo
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 21, 2001 -- One thing remains clear after tonight's 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards: There was a definite lack of a dominant film on the block. Though certain sure bets did come out victorious, no single film was able to sweep the Globes, leaving the upcoming Oscar race as wide open as it was before.
Heavy contenders "Traffic," "Almost Famous," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Gladiator" all took home two Globes apiece at the annual star-studded event.
As expected, Julia Roberts won the award for best actress in a movie (drama) for her work in "Erin Brockovich". However, she was visibly surprised when "Brockovich" director Steven Soderbergh went home empty-handed.
"I was shocked, actually," Roberts said backstage. "I suppose when I presented the best director and Steven [Soderbergh] didn't win for either film ["Traffic" and "Erin
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"The Wedding Planner" marched down theater aisles this weekend, celebrating in first place with $14 million.
The PG-13-rated romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures and Intermedia Films easily captured the top spot on Super Bowl Weekend with a sexy ESTIMATED $14.0 million at 2,785 theaters ($5,027 per theater).
"Planner" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"Great news for us this weekend," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning, noting that Sony had four of the top ten films ("Planner," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Finding Forrester" and "Snatch").
"$14 million is allowing for an over 50% drop on Sunday because we (should) do a little better than the rest of the world (against) the Super Bowl," Blake explained. "We got a real clear mi
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 10, 2000 -- Moviegoers' eyes were on "The Watcher" as Hollywood's fall season got off to an unexciting start.
Box office levels across the board were considerably less than insiders had anticipated going into the weekend. With many studio executives out of town attending the Toronto Film Festival, few insights were offered as to what went wrong. Overall, key films were estimated to have grossed about 22 percent less than this time last year.
With televised coverage of the Olympics expected to provide stiff competition from Sept. 15 through Oct. 1, Hollywood is holding back on opening high-profile films in September. That will almost certainly be reflected in ticket sales for the month.
"With the Olympics and everything else, I think it's going to be a lousy fall," predicted one insider.
"Watcher," an R-rated psychological th
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 8, 2001 -- Those darn Muggles are just so serious about everything.
Drug paraphernalia was found at the movie studio where "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is filming outside London, Warner Bros. confirmed to Reuters on Sunday.
No word on what exactly is the drug instrument in question. Warners Bros. issued a statement saying that the items in question were not found on, or near, any of the sets being used by the production. The studio also said that law enforcement was immediately notified after discovery of the paraphernalia.
MORE 'HARRY POTTER' NEWS: Reuters also reports that "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is saying today that she plans to publish two special edition of the fantasy series aiming to raise $33 million for deprived children.
The two new tales are named "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Quidditch Thro
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5, 2001 -- One thing's certain, there are as many critics out there as there are movies.
Following critics from New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Toronto, the Florida Film Critics Circle has unveiled their top film choices for the year... with pretty much the usual suspects.
Golden boy Steven Soderbergh continues his run as critics' darling, scoring a best director nod for both "Erin Brockovich" and "Traffic." That border-crossing drug flick also nabbed best picture and best supporting actor for hot stuff Benicio Del Toro.
The Florida folks named Geoffrey Rush best actor for his work as the Marquis de Sade in "Quills," and Ellen Burstyn got the best actress nod for her strung-out turn in "Requiem for a Dream."
Frances McDormand was the Florida critics' top pick for best supporting actress based on her roles in both "Wonder Boys" and "Almost
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3, 2001 -- Director Cameron Crowe's rock pic "Almost Famous" was named the year's best movie by the Online Film Critics Society on Tuesday.
The film, based on Crowe's experiences as a teen reporter for Rolling Stone, also garnered awards for Kate Hudson (supporting actress), Philip Seymour Hoffman (supporting actor), ensemble acting and screenplay from the 103-member OFCS.
Hoffman tied with "Traffic's" Benicio Del Toro for supporting actor, while "Almost Famous" tied with "State and Main" for ensemble acting.
Tom Hanks was named best actor for "Cast Away" and Ellen Burstyn was named best actress for "Requiem for a Dream."
In a surprise, the directing award went to "Requiem for a Dream's" Darren Aronofsky. Most of the critics awards thus far have gone to Steven Soderbergh for "Traffic" and "Erin Brockovich."
Ang Lee's "Crouching Tige
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22, 2000 -- On the day that Ang Lee’s martial-arts romance flick “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” received kudos from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with three Golden Globe nods, the Toronto Film Critics Association also were singing the director’s praises.
“Crouching Tiger” was named best film of the year by the group and also nabbed a supporting actress nod for Zhang Ziyi, Variety reports.
Michelle Yeoh, also a “Crouching Tiger” alum, was runner-up in the Toronto voting for best actress. That nod when to "You Can Count on Me's" Laura Linney.
Benicio Del Toro, considered by most critics groups to be a supporting actor for "Traffic," was voted best actor for his role in Steven Soderbergh's drug-trafficking drama “Traffic.” The film was runner-up in the best film category.
“You Can Count On Me” took home top screenplay honors for Ke
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'Traffic' HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 13, 2000 -- Not bad for a little film that came out of nowhere -- and another ensemble film that has yet to have a wide release.
The critical favorite and hardly seen "You Can Count on Me" and director Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic" were among the winners of the 2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards announced today.
"You Can Count on Me" garnered a best actress nod for Laura Linney and took best screenplay for scribe Ken Longergan.
Soderbergh continued his winning streak with another best director nod for his films "Erin Brockovich" and "Traffic," with the drug pic nabbing the best picture award and a best supporting actor nod for Benicio Del Toro from the New York critics.
Soderbergh was named the director of the year by the National Board of Review earlier this month.
Tom Hanks The best actor award went to seas
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16, 2000 -- Who'd have guessed that so many people would want to play an ape? But it's true. After Tim Roth and Helena Bonham Carter, the latest actor to join the remake of "The Planet of the Apes" as a simian is "The Green Mile" man, Michael Clarke Duncan, The Associated Press says.
Specifically, Duncan is going to play a silverback gorilla.
Helmed by Tim Burton, the much-anticipated remake also stars Mark Wahlberg, who's got the role of the rare humanoid crashing the planet.
BACK TO 'BASIC': We know a good cast when we see one: Catherine Keener ("Being John Malkovich) and Benicio Del Toro ("The Way of the Gun") might both star in "Basic," Daily Variety says. The drama concerns a DEA agent who's investigating the disappearance of an army instructor and several of his cadets.
'HOUSE' CALL: Variety also reports that Kristin Scott Thomas of