Celeb News Aggregate
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Jennifer Lopez has dumped her new manager, Brittany Murphy's ex-fiancé Jeff Kwatinetz.
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Tom Cruise's newest film Collateral--in which he plays a mean ol' contract killer who forces a Los Angeles cab driver, played by Jamie Foxx, to drive him from job to job in one night--opened in the top spot this weekend with $24.4 million. The rest of top ten as follows: The Village The Bourne Supremacy The Manchurian Candidate Little Black Book I, Robot Spider-Man 2 Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, A Cinderella Story Catwoman Open Water
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News, Mar. 18: Gibson Eyes Hanukkah Movie, "Passion" Sparks Marital Discord, Charges Dropped Against R. Kelly, More…
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The Sundance Film Festival, which is backed by actor Robert Redford and his Sundance Institute for movies, kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah. Also: 2004 Sundance Film Festival Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Brittany Murphy Ted Nugent Nielsen Media Research primetime viewership numbers (Jan. 5-Jan. 11) OutKast Justin Timberlake Christina Aguilera White Stripes Rosie O'Donnell Boy George Taboo Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead Chris Columbus
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Pop singer-turned-reality TV star Jessica Simpson has signed a development deal with ABC to star in a comedy series project targeted for fall 2004. Also: Ted Harbert Joe Simpson Catherine Zeta-Jones Michael Douglas Halle Berry Justin Guarini Chuck Wepner Sylvester Stallone Rocky G Unit 50 Cent Duran Duran Luis Guzman Craig Ferguson Brad Silberling Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Box Office Analysis, Oct. 12: Kill Bill opens in the top spot followed by School of Rock Intolerable Cruelty Good Boy! Out of Time House of the Dead The Rundown Under the Tuscan Sun Secondhand Lions Lost In Translation Mystic River
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Freddy vs. Jason wins the top spot in this weekend's box office race. Others as follows: S.W.A.T. Open Range Freaky Friday Uptown Girls Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl American Wedding Seabiscuit Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Bad Boys II Grind American Splendor
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Teen idols, including Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Ryan Seacrest, Colin Farrell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hillary Duff and Tony Hawk, showed for at this year's Teen Choice Awards at the Universal Amphitheater Saturday in Universal City, Calif.
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MTV has ordered 20 more episodes of Ashton Kutcher's sketch half-hour comedy Punk'd. The series, created by Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, debuted in March and is already one of MTV's top-rated shows with teens.
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Actress Kate Hudson and her rock star husband, Chris Robinson, are expecting their first child early next year. Also: Britney Spears Halle Berry Kevin Costner Martha Stewart Jon Voight Deadly Course William Peter Blatty William Friedkin The Exorcist Spike Lee Spike TV TNN Russell Simmons Kid Rock Wayne Newton Renee Zellweger Piece of My Heart Janice Joplin
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People magazine released its list of the 25 hottest bachelors Wednesday--but readers get to decide whether Prince William or Ashton Kutcher will be crowned No. 1. Also Pamela Anderson Kid Rock Rachel Hunter Rod Stewart Sasha Alexander Navy CIS Luther Vandross Ruben Studdard Clay Aiken Cher David Duchovny Tea Leoni Robin Williams House of D
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said Monday she would consider a request by Michael Jackson's lawyers to dismiss a lawsuit that threatens to expose personal and financial details of the former King of Pop's life. Also: Ingmar Bergman Martha Stewart Beyonce Knowles R Kelly Scott Weiland Michael Mann Tom Cruise David Goyer Blade III Wesley Snipes Brittany Murphy Major Movie Star Happy Feet
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Viewers voted Kimberly Locke off Fox's American Idol competition Wednesday night, which narrows the field down to crowd favorites Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard. Also: with Brittany Murphy Sean "P. Diddy" Combs Mark Wahlberg Kate Hudson MTV Movie Awards Cold Case The Handler Two and a Half Men Navy CIS I>The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. The Stones Arnold Schwarzenegger Britney Spears Skechers Claudia Schiffer Snoop Dogg Method Man Soul Plane Christina Applegate Will Farrell Anchor Man: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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News, March 6: ABC Gets Rich on Academy Awards Show; Bill Clinton and Bob Dole Debate Again; "Urinetown" Comes to the Big Screen Rolling Stones Norah Jones David O. Russell Mark Wahlberg Gwyneth Paltrow Jude Law Dustin Hoffman Lily Tomlin Brittany Murphy Clive Owen Jerry Bruckheimer Adam Sandler Rob Schneider
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Box office analysis for Jan. 26, 2003. Top 10: Darkness Falls Kangaroo Jack Chicago Just Married National Security The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Catch Me If You Can Confessions of a Dangerous Mind About Schmidt The Hours
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Box office analysis for Jan. 19, 2003. Top 10 Kangaroo Jack, National Security, Just Married, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Catch Me If You Can, Chicago, A Guy Thing, About Schmidt, The Hours, Two Weeks Notice.
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Box Office Analysis for Jan. 12
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box office analysis for weekend of Dec. 8
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the Thanksgiving weekend 2002. Includes a retrospective of the holiday weekend at the box office over the last 10 years.
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 24
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the weekend of Nov. 15, 2002. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 8 Mile The Santa Clause 2 The Ring Half Past Dead
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Box office analysis, Nov. 10
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Men in Black 3 Valerie Bertinelli Eddie Van Halen Sharon Osbourne Joey Fatone Rent Jane Krakowski Fuddy Mears Elisabeth Filarski Steven Spielberg Kate Capshaw Around the World in Eighty Days Jackie Chan Heather Locklear Molly Gunn
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News Roundup for Dec. 19 Drew Barrymore releases statement about divorce from Tom Green Pamela Anderson Lee still has joint custody with her ex-husband Tommy Lee Courtney Love Winona Ryder Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind Russell Crowe Lord of the Rings In the Bedroom Shrek Emeril Jackass Johnny Knoxville Eminem Kim Basinger Brittany Murphy Steven Spielberg Jaws Planet of the Apes The Sound of Music Hoosiers
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News Roundup: Rocking out for relief
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Based on Susanna Kaysen's account of being trapped in a mental institution in the late '60s, director James Mangold's "Girl, Interrupted" is a semi-involving tale of identity and belonging featuring a solid performance from Winona Ryder and a spirited, star-making turn from Angelina Jolie.
Ryder stars as Susanna herself, an unhappy, upper-middle-class high school graduate uncertain about her place in American society circa 1967-68. While being moody, depressed and promiscuous might seem normal in the 1990s, in the late '60s, it's enough for Susanna's parents to seriously wonder about their daughter.
After chasing a bottle of alcohol with a bottle of aspirin, the girl's psychiatrist immediately diagnoses her as a borderline personality and subsequently commits her to Claymoore Hospital. That's where the opening line of the movie comes in: "Maybe I was really crazy, maybe i
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8, 2000 -- Has the Hollywood backlash begun for Robert Downey Jr.?
The Hollywood Reporter says today that the recently busted actor is in the process of being replaced in the star-studded film "America's Sweethearts."
Currently, Hank Azaria is in talks to take over Downey's lot among a cast which includes Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones and John Cusack.
Downey joined the Revolution Studios project in October, but his recent drug arrest in Palm Springs, Calif., and impending Dec. 27 court date in Indio have rendered him unavailable, to say the least.
Shooting for the film will begin in January and is expected to end in mid-March. 'POINT' BLANK: Tom Cruise and George Clooney thought about doing it, but Richard Gere is actually going to do it.
No, we're not talking about getting a hair transplant but rather the h
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 15, 2000 -- Snoopy Dogg's in the movie house.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the gangsta rapper might join actors Omar Gooding and Taraji Henson and singer Tyrese in director John Singleton's new project "Baby Boy."
The film, written by Singleton, is about a young man (Tyrese) who fathers a child but refuses to accept the responsibility of adulthood. Gooding will play his older brother; Henson will play the character's girlfriend; and Snoop will play her ex-boyfriend.
GUY DOES 'TIME': The Reporter says that Guy Pearce, who you might or might not remember as a soldier in "Rules of Engagement," is in talks to star in the adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic "The Time Machine."
Pearce's previous film credits also include the Oscar-winning films "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "L.A. Confidential."
CELESTIAL PROPHEC
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Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" and George Clooney's "The Perfect Storm" should spark big box office fireworks this weekend.
"Patriot," the R-rated period piece drama from Columbia Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment, marched into 3,061 theaters Wednesday. It grossed an encouraging estimated $5.0 million ($1,633 per theater) in its first skirmishes with moviegoers.
"Patriot's" overall first-choice tracking of 26% has most insiders predicting it will win the five-day battle that ends with the Fourth of July holiday. After its $5 million start, it could wind up with a first place finish of $30 million or more for three days (Friday-Sunday) and $40 million or more for five days (Wednesday-Sunday).
"If you extrapolate from other performances on this kind of holiday, it could very well get to $30 million," a studio source explains. "It's a 2 hour 40 minute
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 29, 2000 -- Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" and George Clooney's "The Perfect Storm" should spark big box office fireworks this weekend.
"Patriot," the R-rated period piece drama from Columbia Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment, marched into 3,061 theaters Wednesday. It grossed an encouraging estimated $5.0 million ($1,633 per theater) in its first skirmishes with moviegoers.
"Patriot's" overall first-choice tracking of 26 percent has most insiders predicting it will win the five-day battle that ends with the Fourth of July holiday. After its $5 million start, it could wind up with a first place finish of $30 million or more for three days (Friday-Sunday) and $40 million or more for five days (Wednesday-Sunday).
"If you extrapolate from other performances on this kind of holiday, it could very well get to $30 million," a studio source exp
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This weekend also saw the arrival of Sony Pictures Classics' R-rated comedy thriller "Trixie" at 7 theaters in New York and Los Angeles. No data was available to use in estimating its gross.
Written and directed by Alan Rudolph, it stars Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Nolte, Nathan Lane, Brittany Murphy, Lesley Ann Warren and Will Patton.
SNEAK PREVIEWS Buena Vista/Disney held sneak previews Sunday of its PG-rated comedy "Disney's The Kid."
Directed by Jon Turtletaub, it stars Bruce Willis.
EXPANSIONS There was no activity on the expansion front this weekend.
WEEKEND COMPARISONS Key films -- those grossing more than $500,000 for the weekend -- took in approximately $124.79 million for three days. Valid comparisons to the comparable weekend last year aren't really possible because July Fourth fell on a Sunday last year and was part of a four-da