Celeb News Aggregate
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Iron Man (Paramount) is the almost certain winner at America’s multiplexes this weekend, and it has been well-reported that Speed Racer (Warner Bros.) will have an uphill drive. This should probably not come as a surprise, and it may have less to do with the movie than its release date.
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Warner Bros. and the Wachowski brothers may need to call for a tow truck. Speed Racer, the big-budget adaptation of the popular late '60s anime cartoon classic, remains in the "slow lane," according to the most recent industry tracking.
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Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro opened at the top of the North American box office this weekend, grossing $15.3 million, but the basketball comedy fell short of Ferrell’s previous blockbuster openings in the sports spoof genre.
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A New York psychotherapist is asking Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton to help him turn a new celebrity parenting venture into a big success - by encouraging mums like Britney Spears to ask for advice.
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The company behind the raunchy Girls Gone Wild franchise has been fined $1.6 million after releasing DVDs featuring underage girls.
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Nicole Richie and Ashley Olsen have topped animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) worst dressed list for wearing fur in public.
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Hollywood.saw sharp declines across the board at the box office over the post-Thanksgiving weekend as moviegoing gave way to holiday shopping.
Buena Vista/Disney and Pixar's G-rated computer-animated blockbuster "Toy Story 2" held on to first place in its third weekend with a 50% drop that reflected how most films in the marketplace performed.
"Toy 2" snapped up a still hefty estimated $28.30 million (-50%) at 3,238 theaters (+2 theaters, $8,734 per theater). Its total is approximately $117.3 million, heading for a domestic theatrical total of $250 million-plus.
"Toy 2's" per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide release last weekend. Directed by John Lasseter, it features the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Wayne Knight, Laurie Metcalf, Este
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New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the third and final installment in director Peter Jackson's fantasy epic, continued its reign at the box office with a cork popping take of $51.2 million* over the holiday weekend. The Top 10: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Cheaper by the Dozen Cold Mountain Something's Gotta Give Paycheck Mona Lisa Smile Pter Pan The Last Samurai Bad Santa Elf
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Vampire warrior Selene not only slayed werewolves this weekend, she executed the competition and helped the supernatural thriller Underworld garner a nefarious $22 million at the box office. Top Ten: Underworld Secondhand Lions The Fighting Temptations Once Upon a Time in Mexico Cold Creek Manor Matchstick Men Cabin Fever Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Lost In Translation
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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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Sources told Reuters Wednesday that Jennifer Lopez was aware that Ben Affleck had patronized a Vancouver, British Columbia strip club last month but shrugged off the entire incident. Also Directors Guild of America Wes Craven Cursed Jennifer Connelly Paul Bettany Marilyn Manso Dixie Chicks Madonna The English Roses Nathan Lane Matthew Broderick The Producers James Cameron Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras Audrey Mestre
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News, July 21 Woody Allen opens Venice Fest, Matt LeBlanc may get spin-off, Everyone Loves Raymond without Ray Romano Nick Nolte Kevin Bacon Jamie Kennedy
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News, March 14: Michael Jackson Ordered to Pay $5.3 Million, Eminem Won't Play at the Oscars, Halle Berry is "Catwoman," Steve Martin Christina Ricci Wes Craven Sela Ward Halle Berry Brendan Fraser Michael Jackson Britney Spears Eminem
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of July 7, 2002.
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 30, 2002.
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Day 8 at Cannes Jack Nicholson Sharon Stone Kathy Bates "About Schmidt"
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Day 4 at Cannes Spike Jonze Christina Ricci Melissa Joan Hart Matt Damon Bryan Adams Michael Winterbottom Pierce Brosnan
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Day 3 at Cannes Film Festival Christina Ricci Melissa Joan Hart
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Cameron Crowe and the Cohen Brothers direct Gap retail commercials starring Dennis Hopper Kate Beckinsale and Christina Ricci
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Christina Ricci talks about her bout with anorexia
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Melissa Rivers, daughter of comedian and author Joan Rivers, reveals in the April 6 issue of TV Guide that she and husband John Endicott have separated
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News Roundup for March 28--Will Smith will be remaking the Sidney Poitier film Uptown Saturday Night Blade writer is directing another vampire movie Glenn Close and Danny Devito will star in Woody Allen's next film with Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs An Anne Robinson biopic is being planned David Bowie signs new record deal
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News roundup for March 6: Christina Ricci will be starring in the next Woody Allen film also starring Jason Biggs. Susan Sarandon Bill Pullman Art Garfunkel attend a art show in New York Faith Hill will perform at the Academy Awards Sean "Puffy Daddy" Combs reaches custody settlement singer Brandy is having a girl Lucille Ball's childhood home is being sold on eBay Dana Delany and Cheri Oteri are starring in upcoming TV shows Cokie Roberts is leaving ABC This Week and David Letterman is still talking with CBS and ABC about where his show will end up
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News Roundup for Jan. 17: Sundance brings out the stars Jennifer Aniston Brad Pitt Christina Ricci Matt Damon Ben Affleck Robin Williams X-Files Chris Carter Star Trek Scott Bakula Patrick Stewart Kate Mulgrew Robert Altman Gosford Park Joaquin Phoenix Philip Seymour Hoffman Liv Tyler William H. Macy Steve Buscemi Tony Shalhoub Bob Balaban James Earl Jones Barbra Streisand
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News roundup for Jan. 14. Top Story: George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" re-released for charity. Other stories include news on Tom Cruise talking again to Nicole Kidman, Robert Redford (Spy Game), Jennifer Aniston (Friends), Noah Wyle (ER), Ally McBeal (Jon Bon Jovi, Christina Ricci), Monsoon Wedding, Jason Mewes (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), Adam Ant, John Miller & Barbara Walters (20/20), Keith Olbermann (CNN, ESPN), The Fantasticks and Sylvie Tellier & Aurelie Brun (Miss France).
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News Roundup for Dec. 14 including David Lynch Robert Altman Helen Mirren Tom Wilkinson Sissy Spacek Steve Buscemi Mulholland Drive In the Bedroom Gosford Park Tom Hanks Robert De Niro Al Pacino Jack Nicolson Kevin Spacey Jodie Foster Cindy Crawford Susan Sarandon Bradley Whitford Christina Ricci Patrick Warburton Stephen Root Tom Green Elton John Chevy Chase Lorne Michaels Joe Walsh
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Dramatic and documentary film competition finalists for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival were announced Monday, with new and more seasoned artists making the list. Next year's festival in Park City, Utah, though, is marked by several changes.
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Listen Up!: Gene Simmons: Behind the make-up
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Christina Ricci makes her directorial debut with the indie Speed Queen; Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Lopez will star in Tick-Tock; Steven Spielberg is in negotiations to direct Leonardo DiCaprio in new film; Frances McDormand and Christian Bale to star in TV movie-ish Laurel Canyon; Edward Norton and Emily Watson join Anthony Hopkins in Red Dragon;
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Walt Disney Studios has announced that it will remake the 1975 movie Escape to Witch Mountain. The updated version will still feature two kids with telekinetic powers whose real origins are unknown, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31, 2000 -- Model, actor-director and sometimes singer Vincent Gallo has a very good memory ... and very, very loose lips to match. Gallo, who wrote, directed and starred in the darling indie film "Buffalo 66" in 1998, has reportedly talked smack about Christina Ricci, his co-star in the film, to a New York Post Page Six columnist, according to a Mr. Showbiz report.
"It was OK when she wasn't drunk on the set. I think she's an alcoholic -- it was either that, or she was on cough syrup the whole time," Gallo allegedly said about Ricci.
Hold on, it gets better.
"I don't like her," Gallo reportedly blabbered on. "She's an ungrateful c***. But it was OK. She's basically a puppet. I told her what to do, and she did it."
And better.
"She lost 17 pounds, and that was because I only let her eat one whole pizza pie every day," he said.
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CENTURY CITY, Calif., June 7, 2000 -- "The Matrix," "Being John Malkovich," "The Sixth Sense" and "The Green Mile" -- four films either shunned or relegated to the technical categories at the Academy Awards -- were bestowed with the most prestigious trophies from the sci-fi geek world Tuesday night, named the top flicks at the 26th annual Saturn Awards. In other un-Oscar-like news, Tim Allen was named best actor (for "Galaxy Quest"). Christina Ricci took best actress honors for "Sleepy Hollow."
The festivities here at the tony Park Hyatt hotel were attended by sci-fi and movie icons ranging from Peter Fonda to Martin Landau to Sean Young to Katharine Helmond, and on down the list.
Here's a rundown of the 2000 Saturn Awards winners (note that some of the A list winners, such as Christina Ricci, Michael Clarke Duncan, etc., weren't present to accept their awards in person)
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HOLLYWOOD, June 6, 2000 -- Jim Carrey will not be deterred. No Oscar nomination for "The Truman Show"? No audience for "Man on the Moon"? Bosh. He will show us he can act, dammit! And so comes word today, via the Hollywood trades, that Carrey will star in "Phone Booth," a drama about a guy, a phone booth, a telephone call and a threat. "Batman & Robin" auteur Joel Schumacher will direct, "guerilla-style," no less, Daily Variety tells us. (For those of you unfamiliar with studio-speak, "guerilla-style" likely means you better bring salty crackers to the theater less the shaky, hand-held camera angles upset your tummy.)
"Phone Booth" originally was touted as a Will Smith project. It's now due to go before cameras with Carrey this summer in New York. In keeping with that kooky "guerilla-style," the shoot will last only a matter of weeks. (Just long enough for Jim Carrey to show us
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May, 5, 2000 -- The cast of "Hannibal" has just gotten a bit heavier.
Today's Daily Variety says Gary Oldman will play a once-bitten, not-shy victim of resident psycho Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in the sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs."
The actor's name has been linked to the project off and on. Talks between Oldman and the studios (MGM and Universal) were reputedly suspended due to issues over billing but were resumed in mid-April.
Principal photography is set to begin Monday in Florence, Italy. The film also stars Julianne Moore, subbing for Jodie Foster, as FBI Agent Clarice Starling.
Candice Bergen MISS BROWN TO YOU: Erstwhile "Murphy Brown" star Candice Bergen is slated to join the cast of "Miss Congeniality," the Hollywood Reporter says. She’ll play a former beauty pageant contestant-cum-pageant coordinator in the
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 6, 2000 -- Jason Biggs is famous for getting intimate with baked goods, but like any good thespian, what the "American Pie" star really wants to do is get serious. And so it has come to pass that the 21-year-old Biggs is in talks to score his first big-screen dramatic gig in "Prozac Nation," a soon-to-be angsty drama based on the angsty best-seller of the same name. Christina Ricci is already a lock for the lead. Biggs would play her leading guy, The Hollywood Reporter says.
IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING: Lord Tom Hanks has tapped mortal indie filmmaker John Sayles ("Lone Star") to write the script for "A Cold Case," a based-on-a-true story drama about an unsolved murder in New York, Daily Variety says. The honorable Mr. Hanks has also deigned his Oscar self worthy of working with the newly Oscared Alan Ball. The Hollywood Reporter says the "American Beaut
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 15, 2000 -- Christina Ricci, star of such gloomy fare as "Sleepy Hollow" and "Buffalo '66," will put her experiences to work in her latest project.
Daily Variety says the indie siren has agreed to grapple with depression as the star and co-producer of a big-screen version of "Prozac Nation."
The movie adapts Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 autobiographical account of her lifelong bout with the disease. The New York writer graduated from Harvard and became a well-known journalist, but her crippling feelings once caused her to attempt suicide. Prozac, she said, was the lifesaver that helped her reshape her life.
Ricci's interest in the book sparked the development of the project. The film's set to begin shooting May 15 with "Insomnia's" Erik Skjoldbjaerg at the helm.
BOOB TUBE REDUX: Ex-"Roseanne" star John Goodman can't resist a return t
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It looks like tough sledding for Hollywood this pre-Christmas weekend, according to distribution executives with an eye on tracking study data.None of the three new wide releases appears likely to open impressively.
"It doesn't look too exciting in terms of the openings," said one studioexecutive. "The first choice on 'Bicentennial Man' is running only like 8%. Now, admittedly, it's (only mid-week) but I would think they would like to have been in double digits by now."
Buena Vista/Touchstone and Columbia Pictures' PG-rated sci-fi fantasy "Bicentennial Man," directed by Chris Columbus and starring Robin Williams, opens Friday at about 2,200 theaters.
While 2,200 theaters is certainly a wide break, it's not as wide as last weekend's theater count for "Toy Story 2" (3,257), "The Green Mile" (2,875), "The World Is Not Enough" (3,063), "End Of Days" (2,652) or "Sleepy Ho
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Hollywood is expecting Warner Bros. and Castle Rock Entertainment's opening of "The Green Mile" to walk off with the most box office green this weekend.
The R-rated drama, written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tom Hanks, kicks off at more than 2,850 theaters.
"'Toy Story [2],' if it's down in the neighborhood of 35-40%, is $16-18 million. And I think 'Green Mile' beats that based on the tracking. They're sitting there with an 18% first choice right now," one studio executive said earlier this week."
"It is high," he said of the tracking results. "Although I understand the reviews are not very good, with Tom Hanks (starring), that's $20 million-plus."
While a $20 million-plus opening is certainly very attractive, it's not spectacular. One of the factors working against a bigger first weekend for the adult appeal "Green" is that adults are bu
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Annette Bening SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 26, 2000 -- Ding, ding, ding went Annette? Annette Bening might follow up her self-absorbed "American Beauty" housewife by playing an even more self-absorbed, complex and pathos-ridden woman.
Word comes today, via Variety's Army Archerd, that Bening is the No. 1 candidate to play Judy Garland in "Rainbow's End," a biopic in development at Fox Searchlight.
The movie, to be based on a new book by another Variety scribe, will be no "Wizard of Oz." It's about Garland's over-the-hill days in the early 1960s, when she hosted "The Judy Garland Show," a weekly primetime series. The movie will be executive produced by (get this) Oliver Stone and Garland's ex, Sid Luft.
One question, though: Who's gonna play Liza?
DON'T DO IT! How do you follow up an Oscar for Best Actor? You make an Inspector Clouseau movie, dummy.