Celeb News Aggregate
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While Rob Cohen shies away from directing sequels to his own hit movies, he admits he’s considering making a third xXx installment along with star Vin Diesel.
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News, Nov. 24: Beyonce, 50 Cent Top Vibe Awards, "Opus" Makes a Return, Tim Allen is "Skipping Christmas,"
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Billy Crystal, Kelsey Grammer, Bruce Springsteen, Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Ian McKellen, Tom Green
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 2 Jeepers Creepers Rush Hour 2 American Pie 2 O Jay and Silent Bob Strike Captain Corelli's Mandolin Summer Catch Rat Race The Princess Diaries
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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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Box Office Analysis: July 29
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2000 -- In case you haven't heard, another big budget, big boat flick is about to set sail in Hollywood.
Nope, it's not a sequel to "Titanic." But given its eye-popping $135 million upfront budget, it'd better be like one at the box office.
The film in question is Disney's grandiose World War II opus "Pearl Harbor," and the big boat in particular is the battleship Tennessee (which was once the film's working title) -- the Pearl Harbor-docked vessel where the bulk of the film's eponymous Japanese bombing attack sequence takes place.
Reuniting "Armageddon" producer-director team Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay and written by "Braveheart" scribe Randall Wallace, the flick follows the tenuous love triangle involving two buddy pilots and a nurse stationed at Pearl Harbor during and after the attack.
Despite the emphasis on the
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Box Office Analysis: July 22
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From an artistic standpoint, it's easy to understand why Steven Spielberg declined to undertake a third trip to Jurassic Park.
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Ticket sales for R-rated films have plummeted since movie theaters, bowing to political pressure, began tightening their enforcement of age restrictions, the Washington Post reported Thursday, citing a study by research group MarketCast. The study concluded that "significant numbers" of children under 17, especially girls, were being deterred from seeing R-rated movies. The theaters' policies, the study said, caused the recent releases The Mexican, starring Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, and Angel Eyes, starring Jennifer Lopez, to lose a major share of the audience that ordinarily would have been attracted to them, the study said. It estimated that the movie Tomcats, from Joe Roth's Revolution Studios lost 30 percent of its potential audience because of theater enforcement of age restrictions.
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Despite a strong showing by NBC's Law and Order, which topped the Nielsen ratings list for the first time last week with its season finale, CBS remained the top-rated network last week as such reliable standbys as JAG and Everybody Loves Raymond performed above expectations.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25, 2000 -- Julia Roberts is no stranger to Joe Roth’s Revolution Studios. Already pegged to star in Revolution's "Project 3" and "American Sweethearts," Roberts might apparently also star in the studio’s upcoming "Perfect Strangers," Daily Variety reports.
The script will be written by Jon Bokenkamp, whose credits include "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows."
'FIRE' IT UP: "American Psycho" star Christian Bale is in talks to star in "Reign of Fire," an apocalyptic tale about an England overrun by fire-breathing dragons, The Hollywood Reporter says. Bale will play the leader of the surviving earthlings.
SPIDEY SINGS A NEW TUNE: Don't expect that catchy TV theme song for the "Spider-Man" flick. Cinescape.com reports today that Danny Elfman, the composer who also gave the "Batman" franchise a new sound, will score the new Sam Raimi adaptation.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2000 There's a new player in Disney's executive game of musical chairs. Chief Michael Eisner has named ABC chief Robert Iger as president, filling the hole left by Michael Ovitz when he jumped ship in 1996, says The Associated Press.
Iger's appointment, along with other managerial promotions, is expected to help the entertainment giant overcome its recent troubles, which included sagging stock prices and the departure of Disney studio chief Joe Roth. Seems things are already in turnaround: Disney also announced a 7 percent jump in first-quarter earnings.
INDUSTRIAL COUPLE: Time Warner, which already seems to own everything, is making another deal -- this time with British music giant EMI. It was announced today that the two would merge music businesses to create a new monster -- er, company, worth $20 billion.
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