Celeb News Aggregate
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Doctors are urging Madonna, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis and Gwyneth Paltrow to have a hepatitis shot as soon as possible after it emerged a barman working at Ashton Kutcher's recent birthday party may have passed the liver disease onto them.
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Celebrities including Elton John, George Clooney and Mick Jagger have urged world leaders to step up their efforts to remedy the situation in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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Hugh Grant believes he will be cleared of all charges for his alleged attack on a paparazzo on Tuesday--because he has "not done anything wrong."
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Hugh Grant has been arrested and questioned by police after allegedly attacking a paparazzo and snarling, "I hope your kids die of f**king cancer."
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Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant are among the latest batch of celebrities to be warned they may have contracted liver disease Hepatitis A.
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A prankster handcuffed herself to Hugh Grant at the Dutch premiere of his new movie Music and Lyrics last night.
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Hugh Grant and girlfriend Jemima Khan have ended their relationship after nearly three years together.
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Actor Hugh Grant has fuelled speculation all is not well with his relationship to long-term girlfriend Jemima Khan--admitting he has no plans to marry the heiress.
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Actor Hugh Grant won't be taking part in ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley's lavish wedding celebrations next month--he has not been invited.
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Elizabeth Hurley and her longtime boyfriend Arun Nayar will wed in Rajastan, India's 18th century Devi Garh palace next February, according to new reports from Australia.
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Actor Bill Murray crashed a student house party in Scotland--but helped with the clearing up afterwards.
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Pierce Brosnan bids adieu to James Bond, Dustin Hoffman saves allergic bee sting victim, let the "Seacrest…Out! jokes about Ryan Seacrest begin, and more.
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Most moviegoers' mission Memorial Day weekend will be to see Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 2."
The PG-13-rated action adventure sequel -- known for short as "M:I-2" -- got off to a flying start with its Wednesday opening to $12.5 million at a record-setting 3,653 theaters ($3,422 per theater).
"It's a 37% first choice in the tracking," an insider points out, predicting blockbuster business for the long holiday weekend. Looking back, he adds, the original "Mission" was a 27% first choice when it opened, and last year's "Star Wars: Episode One -- The Phantom Menace" was a 43% first choice.
"M:I-2's" Wednesday gross compares very favorably to the original "Mission: Impossible's" opening day total of $11.8 million for Wed., May 22, 1996, at 3,012 theaters ($3,918 per theater). That gross actually included pre-opening Tuesday night preview showings as well
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News, Nov. 20 Johnny Depp is "Sexiest Man Alive," Eleven Films to Compete for Animation Oscar, Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell Covered in "Dust," Finding Nemo Brother Bear Kurt Cobain Mel Gibson The Passion Rush Limbaugh Keith Gordon Ethan Hawke
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The Matrix Revolutions opened in first place followed by Elf Brother Bear Scary Movie 3 Radio Love Actually Mystic River Texas Chainsaw Massacre Runaway Jury School of Rock
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News, Aug. 11: Mike Newell Directing Fourth Harry Potter Pic, "Terminator 4" Without Arnold Schwarzenegger Voted Against Illegal Immigrant Measure Martin Lawrence Jerry Seinfeld Harry Potter
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Madonna has decided to withdraw the antiwar video for her new single "American Life" out of respect for the troops fighting in Iraq,. Also: Hugh Grant What a Girl Wants Peter Arnett BET Kate Hudson Skeleton Key Michelle Pfeiffer She's Gone David Duchovny Nia Vardalos Toni Collette Connie and Carla
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Madonna Jennifer Lopez top Razzie Award noms Winona Ryder Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Eddie Murphy Adam Sandler Steven Seagal Roberto Benigni Swept Away Crossroads Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones The Adventures of Pluto Nash Michael Jackson George Lucas Ryan Phillippe Reese Witherspoon George Clooney Renee Zellweger Nicole Kidman Nicolas Cage George Clooney Jackie Chan Dustin Hoffman Eminem
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Michael Jackson speaks out against his TV documentary. Ice-T Elle Macpherson Dustin Hoffman Hugh Grant Steven Soderbergh George Clooney
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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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After 14 years at the company, Tommy Mottola announced Thursday was stepping down from his post as Sony Music chairman and chief executive to start his own music label. Also: Paul Reubens David Arquette Courtney Cox Hugh Grant Yasmine Bleeth Ron Goodwin Brad Pitt Halle Berry Penelope Cruz The West Wing Dixie Chicks Shania Twain Super Bowl XXXVII
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Box office analysis for the weekend of Dec. 29: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Catch Me If You Can Two Weeks Notice Maid in Manhattan Gangs of New York Drumline The Wild Thornberrys Movie Harry Potter and the Chamer of Secrets The Hot Chick Die Another Day
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Box Office Analysis: Dec. 22
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for Dec. 15, 2002, featuring Maid in Manhattan, Star Trek: Nemesis, Die Another Day, The Hot Chick, Drumline and more.
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Winona Ryder was found guilty Wednesday of stealing more than $5,500 worth of merchandise at Saks Fifth Avenue last year. The actress remains free on bail until her sentencing hearing Dec. 6., and while it is unlikely she will face any jail time, many are wondering what effects the ordeal will have on her film career.
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Five men arrested in the alleged plot to kidnap former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, the wife of England soccer captain David Beckham, were charged in London Monday with theft and conspiracy to rob Sotheby's auction house. Also Michael Clark Duncan Dwayne The Rock Johnson Rosario Dawson Diversity Awards Run-DMC Jam Master Jay Jason Mizell Rosie O'Donnell Martha Stewart Sean penn Woody Allen Steve Bing Why Men Shouldn't Marry NBC Bravo About A Boy
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Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Grant were just some of the stars that were honored at the VH1-Vogue Fashion Awards Tuesday night in New York.
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Twentieth Century Fox Television has signed a deal with xXx director Rob Cohen valued in the mid-six-figure range. Also: Liza Minnelli David Gest Hugh Grant Jackie Chan Around the World in 80 Days Apollo 13 Imax Abbas Kiarostami Ten new york Film Festival Freddie Prinze Jr The Surreal Life
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Pop oddity Michael Jackson has a not-so-new bouncing baby boy. In its latest issue, People magazine reports that Jackson brought the 6-month-old baby backstage at Siegfried and Roy's Las Vegas show on July 30, along with his two other children, Prince Michael, 5, and daughter Paris, 4.
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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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Martin Grove's analysis of the Memorial Day weekend box office, May 2002.
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Andie MacDowell Antonio Banderas Rebecca Romijn Stamos Melanie Griffith Roman Polanski Paul Thomas Anderson Adam Sandler Jeremy Irons David Lynch Martin Scorsese Naomi Watts Tilda Swinton Michael Moore
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Supermodel Claudia Schiffer covered up her Valentino dress on the way to her Saturday wedding. Jim Caviezel Robert Evans The Matrix Reloaded Meg Ryan Omar Epps Britney Spears Hole Courtney Love Eric Erlandson B.B. King Perry Como Jamie Foxx
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Day 9 at Cannes: Sandra Bullock Frances McDormand Lili Taylor Sharon Stone Mike Leigh Michael Moore
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Box Office Report: May 19
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News Roundup: May 9 Top Story on Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival opening with Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela. Other stories on R. Kelly, Steve Martin Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Reese Witherspoon, Anna Paquin The 25th Hour, DreamWorks, Miami Vice, Will Ferrell, Lisa Loeb Spider-Man, Eddie Van Halen, Marilyn Manson, Alice in Chains Layne Staley
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News Roundup for April 15. Top Story: Hugh Grant is mum on new mom Elizabeth Hurley. Other stories on Cameron Diaz, John Cusack, The Producers, Bernie Mac, Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg (Hollywood Squares), Oasis, Survivor: Marquesas Tammy Leitner
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Actress Elizabeth Hurley has given birth to a baby boy. The baby, Damian Charles, was born in London at 12:22 a.m. BST
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Hugh Grant has been single for two years and he isnt very happy about it Elizabeth Hurley Julia Roberts Renee Zellweger Julianne Moore About a Boy
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The rumor mill started circulating soon after Sandra Bullock showed up at the 74th Annual Academy Awards with British beau Hugh Grant on her arm
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A sequel to Bridget Jones Diary is being made from Helen Fielding's novel Edge of Reason. It will once again star Renee Zellweger Colin Firth Hugh Grant
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News Roundup for Jan. 30: Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the third Terminator installment without Linda Hamilton or Edward Furlong. Tom Cruise takes Scientology to Germany Joel and Ethan Coen Rollerball Fast and the Furious Jude Law David Mamet Penelope Cruz Stephen King Rosie O'Donnell Courtney Love James Brown Carol Channing
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In an interview with Dateline on NBC Tuesday comedian Paula Poundstone said she never hit or sexually abused anyone, but had been colossally stupid
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Stuart Adamson, the former lead singer of the group Big Country was found dead in a hotel room in Hawaii on Sunday
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Elizabeth Hurley is pregnant Hugh Grant being supportive.
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Following is a Rants & Raves column about Dan Rather and David Letterman. Mentioned names and titles are Dan Rather David Letterman Dave Letterman Late Show Tonight Show Jay Leno Hugh Grant Arsenio Bill Clinton
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Big Trouble Tim Allen Rene Russo Warner Brothers Collateral Damage Barry Sonnenfeld Arnold Schwarzenegger Touchstone Pictures Men in Black 2 Jackie Chan The Tuxedo Jennifer Love Hewitt Toronto Film Festival events canceled Steve Martin Danny DeVito Helena Bonham Carter Uma Thurman Nicole Kidman Denzel Washington Anthony Hopkins Sidewalks in New York Ed Burns Heather Graham Brittany Murphy
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Sounds Off: Breaking up is NOT hard to do Julia Roberts Benjamin Bratt Elizabeth Taylor Kate Winslet Gwyneth Paltrow Ben Affleck Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise
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Madonna will be directed by Guy Ritchie in a remake of the Italian film Swept Away; Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant in a romantic comedy; Tom Hanks on board with Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Catch Me If You Can"; Tom Cruise in "Cold Mountain" with Anthony Minghella directing; Prince Charming movie finally on the slate; Will Smith wants to do remake of 9 to 5 with all black cast.
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Sex and the City's Kyle MacLachlan gets engaged to girlfriend Desiree Gruber
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 17, 2000 -- Three months after breaking the Screen Actors Guild commercial strike, British supermodel turned actress Elizabeth Hurley formally has apologized and pledged to make a "significant" contribution to SAG. The Estee Lauder model and former longtime flame of actor Hugh Grant was the first high-profile actor to shoot a non-union commercial during the strike when she filmed a perfume spot in July.
"She was completely unaware of the situation because she doesn't live in this country, and she is extremely apologetic about it," Hurley's agent, Tracey Jacobs of the United Talent Agency, said at the time.
SAG continues to investigate the incident. "She has expressed regret in a letter to the union, but she is definitely going to have to appear before a trial board," said Jerry Hookey, SAG's national strike coordinator. The strike's goal is to convince ca
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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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Box Office Analysis June 10
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Moviegoers celebrated "Mummy's" Day this weekend with a record setting $70 million opening.
Universal's PG-13 rated adventure sequel "The Mummy Returns" kicked off Hollywood's pre-summer season with a staggering ESTIMATED $70.11 million at 3,104 theaters ($20,615 per theater). "Mummy" accounted for about 65% of the weekend's total key films gross of $107.5 million.
"Mummy" is well on its way to what looks like it could be a $200 million gross in domestic theaters. That would be about $45 million more than the first "Mummy" did domestically in 1999.
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Clint Eastwood and Oscar-winning writer Brian Helgeland will team up on an adaptation of the best-selling novel, Mystic River for Warner Bros.
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Pop star Elton John will auction off 20 of his private stash of luxury and sports cars at Christie's on June 5, the auction house announced Wednesday.
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17, 2001 -- Just imagine, "Notting Hill" could have been called "Cheek."
At least that's what one Nick Villiers says as the screenwriter sues Universal Pictures, producer Eric Fellner and several others for $15 million, alleging that the 1999 Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant romantic comedy was ripped off from his screenplay, which was titled "Cheek," Daily Variety reports.
The story goes as follows, according to the suit filed last month in Los Angeles Superior Court: Villiers says that he gave Fellner, producer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Notting Hill," his "Cheek" manuscript back in 1998 and was asked to rework it over a period of nine years. Nothing materialized out of his project until the scribe discovered that Fellner had allegedly stolen his idea when "Notting Hill" was released in 1999.
"Notting Hill" has gone on to gross more than $
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19, 2000 -- Actor Richard Gere is not only getting religious but political as well.
The avowed Buddhist presented U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday with a copy of his 1997 coffee table book called "Pilgrim," a black and white photo documentary of the Tibetan people taken by Gere himself, Reuters reports.
The 52-year-old actor and star of this year's "Dr. T and the Women" has been a very vocal activist for the independence of Tibet, which has been under the sovereignty of China since 1951. The United Nations has largely ignored the plight of the Tibetan people.
HUNT FILES FOR DIVORCE: Emmy- and Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt filed for divorce Monday from actor-husband Hank Azaria. The couple, who announced their separation in August, cited irreconcilable differences for torpedoing their 17-month union.
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 23, 2000 -- Looks like Elizabeth Hurley is enjoying her autumn in New York. The British paper The Sun has published photographs of the "Bedazzled" star smooching a new beau, fueling talks that the 34-year-old supermodel turned actress has found love again.
The male party in question is film director Steve Bing, who was behind a movie called "Every Breath" back in 1993 (he also executive produced "Get Carter" this year.)
Hurley and Bing were rocking at Elton John's concert in New York on Saturday night, where the Sun photographs were snapped.
Hurley was, of course, the longtime lover of Brit actor Hugh Grant. The two amicably ended their 13-year relationship in May, and was seen in an intimate fashion on a Mediterranean vacation together in August.
PAUL McCARTNEY GUSHES: Since we're in the realm of love, let's talk Paul McCartney.
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18, 2000 -- Elizabeth Hurley's bedeviled character may have charmed Brendan Fraser in "Bedazzled," but the supermodel turned actress's smiles couldn't win over the striking SAG actors who protested at the film's premiere Tuesday night in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. Carrying posters saying "Go Home Scab" and "Elizabeth, You Make Me Hurl," the members marched in a line in front of the Mann Village Theatre's red carpet before celebrities arrived and continued to press forward with jeers and whistle-blowing when limousines pulled up.
When Hurley finally appeared, the noise grew deafening, and publicists held up umbrellas and movie posters to shield the mob from the actress.
Hurley, for her part, refused to let the mayhem rain on her parade. She answered reporters' questions with candor and even cracked a joke or two about her newly single status.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14, 2000 -- Talk about a journalistic no-no. Jane magazine -- the one that printed that story recently in which Liz Hurley said ex-boyfriend Hugh Grant is "less than adequate in bed" -- is eating crow, big time.
The mag has admitted that one of its writers fabricated Hurley's quotes, and has issued a formal apology to the actress.
The retraction comes after Hurley sent a letter to Jane, complaining that she never bad mouthed Grant's talent under the sheets.
"I have spoken about Hugh hundreds, if not thousands of times in the press over the years. I have never said anything mean about him and never would because I truly love him," Hurley said in an extract from the letter, printed in Britain's Daily Mail tabloid.
Jane originally stood by its article, saying Hurley participated in a sex test and that her answers were on tape.
But, a
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28, 2000 – Thirteen might not be an unlucky number after all. Word has it – in the form of a few British newspaper reports – that actor Hugh Grant and model-actress Elizabeth Hurley were spotted together vacationing in the Mediterranean, fueling talks that the ex-couple has rekindled their passion.
Our calls to Grant’s publicist regarding the matter have not yet been returned, so we don't know for sure if love is in the air again.
Hugh, 39, and Hurley, 34, broke up this May. They had been together for 13 years.
Photographs from the aforementioned trip, featuring the Grant and Hurley kissing on a yacht, were printed in the same British newspapers. And one onlooker was quoted in the Daily Express tabloid saying that the two seemed "very much together."
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Moviegoers accepted the mission of seeing Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 2" over Memorial Day weekend.
"M:I-2's four-day gross of an ESTIMATED $71.8 million at 3,653 theaters ($19,655 per theater) is 26.4% bigger than the first "Mission's" $56.8 million. It puts "M:I-2" into the record books as the second-biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever.
The biggest Memorial Day opening, Universal and Amblin's 1997 launch of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," did $90.2 million for four days (May 23-26), but opened on a Friday. "M:I-2's" Wednesday kick off diverted $21 million of ticket sales into Wednesday and Thursday, which might otherwise have bulked up its gross for Friday through Monday.
The sequel's ESTIMATED six-day cume (Wednesday-Monday) of $92.8 million is 23.9% bigger than the original's $74.9 million, which also included Tuesday night previews. "M:I-
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 25, 2000 -- Most moviegoers' mission Memorial Day weekend will be to see Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 2."
The PG-13-rated action adventure sequel -- known for short as "M:I-2" -- got off to a flying start with its Wednesday opening to $12.5 million at a record-setting 3,653 theaters ($3,422 per theater).
"It's a 37 percent first choice in the tracking," an insider points out, predicting blockbuster business for the long holiday weekend. Looking back, he adds, the original "Mission" was a 27 percent first choice when it opened, and last year's "Star Wars: Episode One -- The Phantom Menace" was a 43 percent first choice.
"M:I-2's" Wednesday gross compares very favorably to the original "Mission: Impossible's" opening day total of $11.8 million for Wed., May 22, 1996, at 3,012 theaters ($3,918 per theater). That gross actually included p
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HOLLYWOOD, May 23, 2000 -- Is there hope for Divine Brown yet? Hugh Grant, a onetime Sunset Strip patron of Miss Brown, and longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley today confirmed that they've parted romantic ways after 13 years.
Although the tabloids have had Hurley dating up a storm of late, the couple, in a statement, insisted that "no third parties" were involved. Curiously, the pair also termed the split a "temporary thing" (that nonetheless required a press release, of course).
"It is a mutual and amicable decision," the joint statement read.
Grant, 39, and Hurley, 34, began dating in 1986. They have appeared together in a movie just once -- 1988's "Rowing With the Wind."
Aside from the Divine Brown thing, Grant is best known for flummoxing his way through romantic comedies ("Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill"); Hurley is a model/actress ("Au
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Dinosaurs snapped back to life this weekend as Buena Vista/Disney's "Dinosaur" kicked off to nearly $39 million.
The PG-rated, computer-animated feature, which cut short the chart-topping reign of DreamWorks' "Gladiator," set a record as the year's biggest opening with an ESTIMATED $38.6 million at 3,257 theaters ($11,860 per theater).
"Dinosaur's" per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide or limited release this weekend.
"I think it's great," Buena Vista Distribution president Chuck Viane said Sunday morning.
Noting that some studios had estimated the picture as opening to even bigger numbers, Viane said, "I know some of my competitors have given me more credit than we're giving ourselves, but I'd rather see it than say it and then have to back off. If tomorrow (when actual weekend figures are released) it's a bigger num
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A "Dino"-mite opening by Disney's "Dinosaur" should cut DreamWorks' "Gladiator" down to size this weekend.
After its two-week box office reign, "Gladiator" should fall prey to Buena Vista/Disney's opening of its PG-rated computer-animated "Dinosaur" at 3,257 theaters.
"Dinosaur's" 21% first-choice tracking doesn't really tell the whole story, according to insiders. "It's just fine, because kids' movies don't track," says one executive.
Estimates by Hollywood handicappers of just how big "Dinosaur" will open range from a cautious $25-35 million to a really exuberant $35-40 million. Making projections even more challenging is the fact that a great many "Dinosaur" tickets will be sold at reduced prices to children.
"'Lion King' did $40.9 million in its opening weekend," explains one source. "Now, it opened the end of June. Kids were out of school
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 13, 2000 -- Can audiences expect a Ron Howard/Tom Cruise reunion? Maybe. Daily Variety reports today that Howard is in negotiations to helm the adaptation of "A Beautiful Mind," a biography on Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash Jr. who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Howard has just finished directing Jim Carrey in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and, if all goes well, will start shooting "A Beautiful Mind" at the end of the year.
The question is whether Cruise, who worked with Howard in "Far and Away," will commit to the project, as well. He's said to be interested in playing Nash.
COLUMBINE REVISITED? Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst will turn movie director in "Runt," a story that follows an ostracized high schooler who takes arms against his rivals. The pro-skateboarder-turned-music mogul will be mentored by director Da
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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., Jan. 24, 2000 -- Beaming over the tube Sunday night from the Golden Globes was a paragon of Hollywood glamour, civility and elegance where nothing -- neither rambling acceptance speeches nor obvious sartorial bad taste -- was able to penetrate the perfunctory good grace of the show biz types.
But such de facto behavior and unnerved composure was apparently nowhere to be seen at a pre-Globes schmoozefest one day before theceremony.
At least not according to The Daily Record. The London tabloid reported Sunday that a "melee" erupted at the star-studded Hollywood party Saturday night at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. Hosted by the New York-based entertainment and culture monthly Talk magazine, the party curiously degenerated into slow chaos when crazed, rowdy and star-stunned fans (or in the words of the London tab, "gawkers, gropers and gatecras
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Bridget Jones's Diary continued its push to become the most successful British film in history at the U.K. box office.