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Actresses Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are reportedly keen to turn hit TV show Friends into a movie after witnessing the box office draw of Sex and the City.
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Actress Drea De Matteo reportedly blames her role in cancelled sitcom Joey for ruining her career.
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The stars of sitcom Friends are secretly plotting a one-off comeback--for a possible Thanksgiving catch-up episode.
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Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is officially single again after obtaining a speedy divorce decision in Los Angeles County Superior Court yesterday.
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Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is set to show off his legal skills when he hits divorce court with his estranged wife Melissa--he's planning to represent himself.
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The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced nominations for the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards today from the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, Calif.
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Oscar-winning British actor and playwright Peter Ustinov died of heart failure Sunday night at a clinic near his home in Switzerland. Also: Martha Stewart Michael Bergin Carolyn Bessette John F. Kennedy Jr Drea De Matteo Matt Leblanc Nick Lachey Hot Mamma William Shatner Howie Day Sammy Hagar Van Halen Toy Story 3
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News, Feb. 17 Controversy Continues To Swirl Around The Passion of the Christ Janet Jackson Feted For Charity Work, Madonna Does Prison Film
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The parents of R&B singer Aaliyah reached an undisclosed settlement on Thursday in a negligence lawsuit over her death in a 2001 plane crash. Also: Marilyn Manson Mark Wahlberg Matt LeBlanc David Blaine Wham-O Inc Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Leni Riefenstahl Roman Polanski Oliver Twist
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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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Matt LeBlanc, who plays Joey Tribbiani on NBC's hit sitcom Friends, married his longtime partner Melissa McKnight Saturday in a star-studded wedding on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Also: Anthony Hopkins Maui Film Festival Ben Affleck Jennifer Lopez Prince William Richard Roeper The Hulk R.J. Cutler American Candidate Oliver Stone Alexander Hype Williams Thrilla Grease 3
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R&B singer-songwriter Luther Vandross suffered a stroke Wednesday--just days before his 52nd birthday, his label J Records said on Thursday. Also: Katie Couric Jay Leno Pam Grier's Wilder Oliver Stone Comandante Fidel Castro Dr. Robert C. Atkins Hip-Hop Summit Brice Willis Me Again Diane Lane Antwone Fisher
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A full list of the nominees for the 2003 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards.
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Bobby Brown is hospitalized while serving eight-day jail sentence. Winona Ryder Ray Romano Debra Winger Hank Azaria Monica Potter Rip Torn Mel Gibson Jim Caviezel Madonna Friends Matt LeBlanc
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A decision last March to award British supermodel Naomi Campbell $5,450 and more than $1 million in court costs from UK's The Daily Mirror in a breach of confidentiality claim was overturned Monday. Also: Catherine Zeta-Jones Michael Douglas Richard Harris Roberto Benigni Pinocchio Early Show Harry Smith Hannah Storm Julie Chen Rene Syler Matt LeBlanc Muse Celine Dion ZZ Top Frank Beard
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News Roundup for Aug. 20 - Robert De Niro suing over photo taken of him and Sean Penn at their birthday party. Other celebrities include Matt Le Blanc Jason Priestley Scooby Doo Brett Ratner American Idol Survivor Courtney Love
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Emmy nominations for 2001-2002
Eric McCormack Jennifer Aniston Bernie Mac Martin Sheen Matt LeBlanc Jennifer Garner Allison Janney Laura Innes Keifer Sutherland Sarah Jessica Parker
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The cast of Friends-Courtney Cox Arquette Jennifer Aniston Lisa Kudrow Matthew Perry Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer are entering into the Emmy's lead acting categories
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News Roundup for May 19 - Tom Green Arnold Schwarzenegger Billy Bob Thornton Leonardo DiCaprio
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Friends is coming back for a ninth and last season, ending months of speculation about the future of the show
NBC Warner Bros.Television Friends Jennifer Aniston Courtney Cox Arquette Lisa Kudrow Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry David Schwimmer
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The executive producer of Friends has cautioned TV critics about writing about the upcoming season of the show as if it were a "foregone conclusion" that it will be the last.
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"Just because we are Italian, it doesn't mean you have to be a Mafioso."
So said Manny Alfano, anti-violence chairman of UNICO National Inc., an Italian-American service organization, on Friday.
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HOLLYWOOD, May 14, 2000 – Now it can be told: Yes, "Friends" will be back on NBC next season. And, yes, the "Friends" will make a bundle of money. Make that at big bundle of money. The six stars of the hit NBC sitcom will receive $750,000 per actor, per show to do the cute sitcom thing for another two years, reports today said. Add it all up (including a couple of extra points for syndicated episodes and such) and that comes to $40 million per actor over the length of the pact. Put all the "Friends" salaries together and you've got $240 million.
You may exhale now.
The deal comes in just under the wire -- NBC was due to unveil its 2000-01 schedule Monday. And the renewal of "Friends" was contingent on, well, the availability of the "Friends" -- Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow.
"Friends" debuted on NBC
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"Friends" (© NBC) SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 26, 2000 -- Maintaining the lifestyle of the rich and famous ain't cheap. And who'd know that better than those perky artistes known as the stars of "Friends" -- who, as the TV nation is well-aware of, are collectively demanding a lofty pay raise as their contracts and the show's sixth-season run down.
As their current monetary compensation goes, each member of the "Friends" sextet pulls in a respectable $125,000 per episode this year, the final stage of a gradual pay hike (from a $40,000 starting point) that was negotiated out of a similar collective bargaining stalemate in 1996.
And despite that's $125,000 an episode, the "Friends" coup is said to be asking for a lot more moolah this time around: as much as $800,000 per episode, per actor -- plus retroactive back pay for this year's 24 shows, according to one report i
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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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This past weekend saw the nation's top box-office spots filled by "The Whole Nine Yards" and "Hanging Up" -- two films starring two, yes, "Friends." ("Yards," with Matthew Perry, took in a strong $15.9 million; "Hanging Up," with Lisa Kudrow, $15.7 million.)
For a time, box-office analysts found themselves pondering if the six primary cast members of the popular sitcom might not have some type of hideous spell cast upon them, at least when it came to their big-screen forays. Alone, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston headlined such notable (or perhaps not-so notable) flops as "Commandments" (Cox's $488,000 box-office dud), "Three to Tango" (Perry's $10.5 million dud), "Ed" (Le Blanc's $6.2 million underperformer) and "Kissing a Fool" (Schwimmer's $4 million loser). (Remaining friend Kudrow has mainly -- and smartly? -- stuck to support
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HOLLYWOOD, July 11, 2000 -- Oscar winners Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have joined Miramax Television and HBO in a project titled "Greenlight," in which an aspiring filmmaker will receive $1 million and the chance to direct his or her debut feature. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project will be chronicled by HBO and aired in a 13-episode, half-hour "reality" series on HBO, beginning with Damon and Affleck selecting the winner and ending with the director walking down a red carpet for the movie's premiere, Miramax Television President Billy Campbell said.
The filmmaker will also get to talk with directors, including Kevin Williamson and Kevin Smith, who found success with their debut projects.
Campbell said the contest will begin in the fall, and the movie is expected to be released in early 2002. Aspiring directors can submit screenplays to the "Greenlight" Web