Celeb News Aggregate
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Teen comedy Superbad is leading the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards after picking up five nods, including Best Movie.
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Justin Timberlake made sure last night's Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards were a messy affair when he became one of many celebrities to get 'slimed' at the Los Angeles prize-giving ceremony.
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Talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey today opened a school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa, fulfilling a promise she made to former South African President Nelson Mandela six years ago.
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Moviemaker Roman Polanski is set to step out from behind the camera to play a French cop in the latest Rush Hour film.
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Hollywood director Brett Ratner and actor Chris Tucker are expected to testify at Michael Jackson's child molestation trial.
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Shrek 2 Hits Record Number of Theaters, Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny Comes to U.S., Online Bets Taken on Celeb Poker Players Leonardo DiCaprio Ben Affleck Lou Diamond Phillips Ed Norton Matt Damon Jerry Seinfeld Liza Minnelli Johnny Cash
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Jamie Masada, the owner of the Laugh Factory comedy club on the Sunset Strip who introduced Michael Jackson to his 13-year-old accuser, told reporters at a news conference yesterday he has received death threats on the voicemail of his work and privately listed mobile phones this week for speaking out in the case. Also: Steve Irwin Catherine Zeta-Jones Michael Douglas Bono Kelsey Grammer Rebecca Marks Eminem Kimberly Mathers Jane Fonda Monster-in-Law Cristopher Walken The Wedding Crashers
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Miramax To Remake "Damn Yankees," Anti-Semitism Charges Aimed at Mel Gibson's The Passion, Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac Team Up Chris Tucker Rush Hour Steven Spielberg Trey Parker Matt Stone Eminem Robert Altman Dogville The Barbarian Invasions Joey Fatone
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The seventh annual American Black Film Festival returned to South Beach, Fla., for the second time Wednesday after being held in Acapulco for its first five. Celebs including Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Tucker, Robert Towshend and many more expected to attend the festival, which runs through June 22.
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Director Peter Jackson accepted the MTV Movie Award for best film in a videotaped speech, dancing with his hobbit-costumed cast, after MTV viewers named The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001's top film.
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The 8th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival, which runs April 3-10, held its Grand Gala Saturday to hand out lifetime achievement awards to producer Robert Evans and silent movie actress Fay Wray, and bestow the Outstanding Performance of the Year award to Adrien Brody for his Best Actor Oscar-winning performance in The Pianist as Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman.
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Queen Latifah and a very pregnant Catherine Zeta-Jones have agreed to perform a duet from their musical Chicago at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony. Also: Angelina Jolie Monica Lewinsky Kelly Ripa Dixie Chicks Ozzt Osbourne Brett Ratner Rush Hour 3 Superman Morgan Freeman Colors Straight Up Cedric the Entertainer Mike Epps The Honeymooners
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Simpsons' creator Matt Groening is denying a report that appeared Monday in The London Financial Times that implied he was winding up the series because it was getting harder and harder to surprise the audience
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Singers Alicia Keys and India.Arie will appear at the 33rd NAACP Image Awards set for Feb 23 2002 at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 9 Happy Accidents L.I.E. Rock Star Soul Survivors The Iron Ladies The Musketeer Two Can Play That Game
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Box Office Results: Sept. 16
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Two weeks after his succumbing to cancer, the secrecy surrounding George Harrison's last rites and the actual place of his death suggests a deliberate attempt to protect his dignity and prevent his final resting place from becoming a stop on tour attraction
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 30 Don't Say a Word Michael Douglas Zoolander Ben Stiller Owen Wilson Milla Jovovich Hearts in Atlantis Anthony Hopkins
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Fans, eager to hear Michael Jackson, can get a feel for Jacko's new sound when the short film You Rock My World, starring Marlon Brando, Chris Tucker, Michael Madsen and Michael Jackson, premieres Wednesday on music cable channels, Jackson's representatives announced.
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 23
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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 holds huge concert to celebrate his 30th anniversary in music business; Lead singer of Limp Bizkit, Limp Bizkit's lead singer Fred Durst is father to a son; French director Eric Rohmer is honored for his lifetime achievements at the Venice Film Festival; TV commentator Woodie Broun dies; judge denies motion to a little league baseball coach to block the premiere of Hardball; Fox News sues Paula Zahn's agent in contract dispute; Harry Potter premiere set for Nov. 4 in London; Anne Heche's mother and sister outraged by Heche's claims; cartoonist Gary Trudeau apologizes to President Bush
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News Roundup for Aug. 26: Venice Film Festival adds new competition; French actor Philippe Leotard dies; A.J. McLean rejoins the Backstreet Boys on tour; British singer Sophie Ellis Bextor will not join "Friends;" Chris Tucker joins African delegation; U2 concert gets biggest Irish crowd ever
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Box Office Analysis: Aug. 26
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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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Epic Records released the first single from Michael Jackson's latest album Invincible Friday, to radio stations worldwide, Reuters reports.
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Universal has proved that there is always room for dessert.
American Pie 2 managed to hold on to the top of the box office charts two weeks in a row, which in this summer of one-week wonders is quite a fait accompli.
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Jermane and Randy Jackson have confirned their presence at the Michael Jackson: 30 Anniversary Celebration, The Solo Years event in September.
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Following is a report on the box office figures for the weekend of Aug. 3 - 5. Mentioned titles actors include Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Rush Hour 2 Planet of the Apes Mark Wahlberg Estelle Warren Princess Diaries Anne Hathaway Julie Andrews Jurassic Park III Sam Neill America's Sweethearts Julia Roberts John Cusack Original Sin Angelina Jolie Antonio Banderas Legally Blonde Reese Witherspoon The Score Robert De Niro Edward Norton Cats & Dogs Jeff Goldblum Dr Dolittle 2 Eddie Murphy
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Jackie Chan will be paid $20 million to star in a remake of the 1960 Jerry Lewis comedy The Bellboy, the South China Morning News reported Thursday, citing the actor's agent, Willy Chan.
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Hollywood.com reporters Noah Davis and Kit Bowen discuss "Rush Hour 2." Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Zhang Ziyi martial arts movies
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Will the sequel to 1998's surprise hit, Rush Hour starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, produce another surprise by knocking out the apes and dinosaurs now dominating the top of the box-office?
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Rush Hour 2, The Princess Diaries and Original Sin open against Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park III, America's Sweethearts and Legally Blonde
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Chris Tucker has acknowledged that he has been exceedingly cautious in accepting new film roles since he hit it big with Rush Hour with Jackie Chan.
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Jackie Chan just won't sit down. The popular Hong Kong actor is lining up to star in not one, not two, but four feature films. First up is Highbinders, a Hong Kong movie about an immigration officer who's killed on the job but returns from the dead with superpowers--with some high-kickin' super-moves to be sure. Next is The Art of War, based on the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu's treatise, where you keep your friends close and your enemies even closer--with some high-kickin' super-moves added in.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 11, 2000 -- Looks like there won't be any more confessions from Mike Myers.
The "Austin Powers" actor has dropped "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" from the slate of projects he's going to do in order to concentrate on the "Pink Panther" remake and other smaller films, Daily Variety says.
Currently, "Meet the Parents" guy Ben Stiller's name has been thrown around as a possible replacement.
But as the report suggests, Stiller's schedule, jammed pack by his involvement with "Zoolander," "The Royal Tenenbaums" and the "Meet the Parents" sequel among other stuff, might keep him from doing "Confessions."
Since its inception, the comedy , based on the comic memoir of "Gong Show" host Chuck Barris, has attracted the interest from a lot of big-time talents such as George Clooney, Sean Penn and "Fight Club" helmer David Fincher that had all somehow
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20, 2000 -- The $20 million club might soon welcome another member. Daily Variety says today that funnyman Martin Lawrence, whose last laugh fest was the summer hit "Big Momma's House," is in talks to star in two pictures. If signed, the comedian will make an upward of $20 million for each project.
The hike will put Lawrence in the same salary ranking as Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Chris Tucker. Lawrence previously got $16.5 million for starring in the Fox film "The Black Knight."
The two films -- "National Security" and "Blue Streak 2," a sequel to the 1999 hit -- are both action comedies being developed at Columbia Pictures. "National Security" is about a white cop wrongly accused of beating a black man (Lawrence). And in "Blue Streak 2," the actor would reprise his role as a thief turned cop when the Luke Wilson character enlists him onc