Celeb News Aggregate
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News, Sept. 10: Dixie Chicks Slam Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnie's Ex Writes a Memoir, Simon and Garfunkel Reunite for Tour Colin Farrell Cameron Diaz Jennifer Lopez Phantom of the Opera Minnie Driver Miranda Richardson Howard Stern.
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Toronto Film Festival announces impressive lineup including Carl Franklin's Out of Time starring Denzel Washington Richard Linklater's comedy The School of Rock with Jack Black and Joan Cusack Ridley Scott's con-man dramedy Matchstick Men starring Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell Joel Schumacher's IRA flick Veronica Guerin with Cate Blanchett. Director Jane Campion's erotic thriller In the Cut which stars Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo The Girl With a Pearl Earring Scarlett Johansson Colin Firth Tom Wilkinson; Robert Altman's backstage ballet opus The Company; Miramax's Philip Roth adaptation The Human Stain directed by Robert Benton starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman
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Moviegoers were still feeling angry this Easter Weekend, keeping Anger Management at the top of the box office with $25.6 million. Top 10: Anger Management Holes Malibu's Most Wanted Bulletproof Monk Phone Booth What a Girl Wants Bringing Down the House A Man Apart Chicago House of 1,000 Corpses
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 16, 2002.
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Justin Timberlake Michael Jackson Jennifer Love Hewitt A Star Is Born The Italian Job Jason Statham Pamela Anderson V.I.P. Barry Manilow Sting Nickolas Ashford Valerie Simpson Randy Newman
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The box office predictions for the weekend beginning June 14. Scooby-Doo, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Matt Damon, Doug Liman, The Bourne Identity, Nicolas Cage, John Woo, Windtalkers, Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joel Schumacher, Bad Company, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ben Affleck, The Sum of All Fears, Eddie Griffin, Undercover Brother, Spider-Man, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Enough, About a Boy, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron, The Importance of Being Earnest, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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The box office predictions for the weekend beginning June 7. Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joel Schumacher, Bad Company, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Ben Affleck, The Sum of All Fears, Eddie Griffin, Undercover Brother, Spider-Man, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Insomnia, Enough, Unfaithful, About a Boy, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron, The New Guy, The Importance of Being Earnest, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Monsoon Wedding, Enigma.
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American Pie 2 Chill Factor The Crow: City of Angels Knock Off Highlander Endgame American Outlaws Rat Race Colin Farrell Tigerland Minority Report Jim Carrey Matt Damon Phone Booth Edward Norton Hart's War Les Mayfield Young Guns Jon Bon Jovi Wild Wild West Bad Girls Will Smith Young Guns 2 Dino De Laurentiis It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Million Dollar Mystery Eddie Deezen Rat Race Cuba Gooding Jr John Cleese Jon Lovitz Roawan Atkinson Whoopi Goldberg Jerry Zucker Airplane Ghost Captain Corelli's Mandolin Penelope Cruz Tom Cruise Woman on Top All the Pretty Horses Nicolas Cage John Woo Windtalkers Louis de Bernieres Rush Hour 2 Shakespeare in Love Scary Movie Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Planet of the Apes Jurassic Park III The Princess Diaries Legally Blonde Garry Marshall Osmosis Jones Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Original Sin Bill Murray Spy Kids Antonio Banderas The Others Nicole Kidman
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 10, 2000 -- What a little war movie can do to a career. Colin Farrell, who got on the Hollywood radar with his performance in the war flick "Tigerland," has signed on to star in not one but two projects, Daily Variety says.
Farrell will first headline the drama "Phone Booth" for his "Tigerland" director, Joel Schumacher, in November. And then he'll segue to a courtroom drama flick, "Hart's War," where he'll play a POW who must defend a black soldier for murder.
The actor got the part in "War" after Edward Norton bailed on the project. The stellar cast for the film includes Bruce Willis and possibly Anthony Hopkins.
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME: The Hollywood Reporter says that Dennis Quaid might star in the Disney flick "The Rookie." Based on a true story, the film is about a high school baseball coach (Quaid) who makes the major leagues at age 35.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 21, 1999 — Gotham City, it seems, still needs a hero. Ben Affleck, currently seen in "Dogma" and the upcoming "Boiler Room," is the latest name to be linked with the "Batman" movies.
According to gossip columnist Liz Smith, Affleck is a "major contender" to play the Caped Crusader in Warner Bros.' latest "Batman" film. The franchise bottomed out in 1997 when Joel Schumacher's "Batman and Robin" earned a (relatively) disappointing $107.3 million at the box office. Batstar George Clooney joked that he may have killed the series.
But au contraire: Warner Bros. is reportedly considering two concepts for the latest sequel: One based on the animated WB show "Batman Beyond," in which an older Bruce Wayne passes his Batsuit to a teen-ager, and another based on the comic miniseries "Batman Year One," which traced Wayne's initial transformation into the
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A rich "Parents" opening turned the box office green after two months of lackluster grosses.
Universal's PG-13-rated comedy "Meet the Parents" met with greater success than insiders had anticipated. Rather than the $18-22 million range that many Hollywood handicappers were expecting, "Parents" opened to a sizzling ESTIMATED $29.11 million at 2,614 theaters ($11,135 per theater).
"Parents'" international release is through DreamWorks Pictures, which co-financed the film and will share equally in its success. "Parents" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in wide release last weekend.
The film set records as the biggest October opening ever and the biggest openings ever for its stars Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, according to a Universal spokesman. It is Universal's fourth consecutive film to open in first place, following "Nutty Professor II:
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With "Parents" meeting "Titans" there will be brisk action on the box office playing field and a close race for top honors.
"It will be close," an insider promises. "Even though 'Remember the Titans' is expanding, they're bringing in a lot of small markets and there's got to be, at least, a 15% drop. Let's put it at $17 million. I think 'Meet the Parents' has a good chance of being number one. It could be $18 million, or it could more than $20 million if the marketplace expands."
The last two weekends saw key films - those grossing $500,000 or more for three days - do a very lean $56-57 million. "The question is," asks this insider, "Will the marketplace expand considerably? Can this be a $70 million weekend (for key films)?"
Universal's PG-13-rated comedy "Meet the Parents" will arrive in 2,612 theaters. The film should play to a broad audience, attracting both y
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HOLLYWOOD, June 15, 2000 -- The world may be safe yet for another "Saturday Night Live" knock-off flick. Word today is that Mike Myers is being lured back to the botched "Dieter" project by promises of a better script (not to mention an assist from peacemaker Steven Spielberg).
Myers walked on the film last month and was subsequently sued by Universal Pictures last week.
"Dieter" is based on Myers' old "SNL" sketch "Sprockets."
Jim Carrey HANG UP: Jim Carrey is out of Joel Schumacher's would-be gritty "Phone Booth." Carrey is the second star to bail, after Will Smith.
FIFTEEN MINUTES STILL COUNTING ...: Fox-rejected Jennifer Love Hewitt will costar with Sigourney Weaver and Gene Hackman in "The Breakers," about a wacky mom (Weaver) and daughter (Hewitt) who con residents of a Florida resort.
CLASH OF THE TITANS: Burt Reynolds and Sylvester St
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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., February 28, 2000 -- Just when you thought the "Batman" franchise had left superhero movies creatively bankrupt, caped crusaders and masked villains are invading Hollywood once again.
This summer's release of "X-Men" promises to be the first in a long list of big-budget comic book adaptations. Many of these were on the back burner for several years but have been making headlines in recent weeks, ever since it was announced that Sam Raimi will likely be the director of Sony's long-awaited "Spider-Man" movie.
"The Greatest American Hero" The latest, and perhaps most bizarre, project announced is a big-screen version of "The Greatest American Hero," the early 1980s TV show that starred William Katt as bumbling superguy Ralph Hinkley (the character's surname was changed to "Hanley" after John Hinckley's attempted assassination of President Reagan). Spac
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HOLLYWOOD, June 9, 2000 – OK, let's get the cliché out of the way: "Who's the Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?" If you answered "Shaft," well, you're only half right.
Because in the new "Shaft" (opening next Friday), Samuel L. Jackson doesn't get any booty.
Sure, there's some lovemaking going on during the opening credits, and there's one scene where Jackson (as the titular Black private dick) picks up a female bartender by asking if she wants him to hold her, or to give her the "L.D." (and we're guessing that's not code for cheap long-distance rates).
But when you recall that the original Shaft, Richard Roundtree, went to bed with at least two women in his three "Shaft" movies (and yes, you saw him in the sack with the chicks) -- including sexy Vonetta McGee and the woman who propositioned him by asking, "How long is your phallus?" -- J