Celeb News Aggregate
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Funnyman Eddie Griffin has angrily slammed reports suggesting his Ferrari crash on Monday was a publicity stunt.
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Comedian Eddie Griffin escaped from a car crash unscathed yesterday after smashing a rare, $1.5 million sports car into a wall on a California racetrack.
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News, Dec. 5: Coppola and Jonze Divorce, Joe Millionaire No. 1 To Host Game Show, Osbournes Do Christmas Special, More…
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After a heated battle, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King sank Big Fish and reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the box office this weekend by a very slim margin--just $400,000.Top Ten: Big Fish The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King Cheaper by the Dozen Something's Gotta Give Cold Mountain My Baby's Daddy Chasing Liberty Paycheck The Last Samurai Mona Lisa Smile
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News, Dec. 22: Russell Crowe, Wife Have a Baby; Internet Users Still Love Britney Spears 50 Cent, Beyonce Top "Billboard" Year-End Charts Michael Jackson
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News, May 20: "The Practice" Stars Won't Be Returning, Nicole Kidman Would Give Up Acting for Mr. Right, Hugh Jackman to Host Tony Awards Dylan McDermott, Lara Flynn Boyle, Kelli Williams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Marla Sokoloff and Chyler Leigh Dogville Matrix Joel Silver Eddie Griffin Martin Scorsese Oprah Winfrey
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Collin Farrel's Phone Booth sniped the competition by ringing in $15 million and debuting at the top of the box office this weekend. Top Ten: Phone Booth What a Girl Wants A man Apart Head of State Bringing Down the House The Core Basic Chicago Agant Cody Banks Piglet's Big Movie
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Actor James Gandolfini, who plays mob boss Tony Soprano on HBO's hit series The Sopranos, filed suit against the network Thursday in California Superior Court seeking declaratory relief that would free him from being obliged to return for the next season the show. Also: Antoine Fuqua, Nick Nolte, Cher, John Cusack, The Stepford Wives, Eddie Griffin, Scary Movie 3, Zach Braff, Large's Ark
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Shock-jock Howard Stern is planning to remake the raunchy teen flicks Porky's and Rock 'n' Roll High School under the banner "Howard Stern Presents…." Also Steven Spielberg Peggy Morgan Barry White Cheech Marin Eddie Griffin Queen Latifah Roberto Benigni Pinocchio Mighty Mouse Madonna Run-D.M.C.
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 16, 2002.
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Fears about whether moviegoers were ready for a film involving nuclear terrorism proved ungrounded as The Sum Of All Fears exploded with $31.2 million in ticket sales.
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This week in Role Call: Halle Berry joins Ben Affleck in "Gigli"; Al Pacino, Colin Farrell will star in "The Farm"; Kip Pardue joins cast of "The Rules of Attraction" with Jessica Biel, Thomas Ian Nicholas and James Van Der Beek; Eddie Griffin, John Leguizamo, LL Cool J and Lil' Kim will star in "My Baby's Mama"; Angelina Jolie is attached to "Beyond Borders"; John Frankenheimer directs a prequel to "The Exorcist"
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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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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14, 2001 -- The hip-hop teen romance "Save the Last Dance" starring Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas dethroned box office champion "Cast Away," earning an estimated $24 million during the Friday-through-Sunday period of the Martin Luther King Jr. four-day weekend, according to estimates by Hollywood.com's box office analyst, Martin Grove.
After three weekends on top, Tom Hanks' "Cast Away" finds itself in the runner-up spot. The film earned $17.2 million, bringing its total to $168 million.
Steven Soderbergh's Golden Globe frontrunner "Traffic" remained in the No. 3 spot with an estimated $11.2 million (its total stands at $35.1 million). Taking two steps down from last week is the Mel Gibson comedy "What Women Want," which took in $10.5 million and has thus far grossed $153.9 million.
The fifth and sixth spots saw a close race between the week
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12, 2001 -- Looks like Tom Hanks has finally met his match.
And believe it or not, it is in Julia "Teen Beat" Stiles.
That's right. Hanks' seemingly invincible "Cast Away" withstood the test of supremacy last week with the wide release of "Traffic" (although "Traffic" played in many less theaters). But this weekend (a four-day weekend for most kids due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday), it's likely that the bubble gum flick "Save the Last Dance" could knock "Cast Away" off the No. 1 spot.
Then again, it might not.
OK, you got us. We're not definite about anything this weekend. But before you go throwing your popcorn at us, hear us out.
"This is a very crowded marketplace," Brandon Gray, editor of boxofficemojo.com, told Hollywood.com. "It's going to be a busy weekend, with all the new releases and the expanding releases."
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2000 -- The report on "Minority Report?" Likely a go.
We told you Sunday that Tom Cruise hopes the sci-fi thriller will be his next project. Now it looks like Steven Spielberg is confirming the same.
Cruise, a Golden Globe winner over the weekend for "Magnolia," addressed the project backstage, saying, "We're gonna make that movie -- Steven and I have been meeting and talking about it, and we really want to work together and we really want to make 'Minority Report.'"
And Spielberg's response? There're two versions. While trade papers report today that "Minority Report" is among the likely candidates (the children's book "Harry Potter" and the sci-fi flick "A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)" being the others) the acclaimed director is considering to tackle, the New York tab, on the other hand, is reporting that a Spielberg/Cruise "Report" i
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LOS ANGELES -- Rob Schneider's name probably doesn't bring to mind words like "stud" or "libido," but the women who play his assorted would-be lovers in the new comedy "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" say he's got a certain something.
"He's cute and cuddly," said actress Bree Turner, who plays the errant male prostitute's love interest (not one of his clients, she pointed out) in the film. "He's not what you'd call a macho stud. He's more the sensitive type."
Turner, whose previous roles included a character simply called "Dancer #1" in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," was among the cast members attending the premiere of "Deuce Bigalow" last week at the National Theater in Westwood.
Also trolling the customary red carpet were co-stars Eddie Griffin (of TV's "Malcolm & Eddie"), Arija Bareikis (also appearing currently in "Snow Falling on Cedars"), Adam Sandler