Celeb News Aggregate
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Actress Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, a spokesperson for the star has announced.
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Gabriel Byrne, Eddie Izzard and James Spader will be among the stars fighting for a Best Drama Actor honor at the Emmy Awards, while a pregnant Minnie Driver and Sally Field are favorites for the Best Actress prize.
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Everyone in Hollywood is asking an intriguing question this week: “How high can Sex and the City go?” After all, the average red-blooded American male will have to be dragged into the theater to see Carrie Bradshaw and friends (although, gay men will likely be among the movie’s early attenders). According to industry tracking relayed to me, an astounding number of American women have a weekend appointment to see these four 40+ actresses in their first big-screen adventure.
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This weekend, there is one for the girls at America’s multiplexes as Warner Bros rolls out the long-awaited Sex and the City movie.
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George Clooney has led the tributes his Michael Clayton co-star Sydney Pollack, branding the actor/producer/director a "class act."
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Hit TV shows Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty repeated their success at the 2008 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards on Saturday by scooping the same top awards as last year.
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Julia Roberts has been named the Best-Dressed Oscar winner in a new online poll.
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Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines wins the Fourth of July weekend box office race. Others in top 10 as follows: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Finding Nemo The Hulk Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 28 Days Later The Italian Job Bruce Almighty 2 Fast 2 Furious
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News roundup for Aug. 13 - Elle Macpherson expecting second child. Other celebrities include Ben Affleck Jennifer Lopez Aaliyah Sally Field Bill Pullman Bill Irwin Mercedes Ruehl Joel Zwick My Big Fat Greek Wedding Roger Donaldson Josh Ryan Evans
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Networks pulled Sally Field starrer The Court and AFP: American Fighter Pilot
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ABC, Warner Bros., and John Wells Productions have signed an agreement to
allow a new dramatic series, The Court, starring Sally Field, to
be shown on a Disney-owned cable outlet within eight days after being
aired on ABC.
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Top TV brass and White House officials met to discuss how the entertainment industry can help support the war against terrorism.
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Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige, Melissa Etheridge and Johnny Lang were among some of the performers at Thursday's Motown industry bash, Reuters reports. The event raised more than $1.5 million for the medical research and treatment organization City of Hope. Canadian media mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr., executive vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal, was the evening's honoree.
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Director Herbert Ross, director of films such as "Steel Magnolias," "Funny Girl" and "The Turning Point" dies at 74.
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Nearly 60 million people across the United States watched Hollywood celebrities pay tribute to the heroes and the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, The Associated Press reports. Also Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Mariah Carey, U2, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Limp Bizkit, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, Meg Ryan, Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Whoopi Golberg, Sally Field, Reba McIntyre, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, more.
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America: A Tribute to Heroes struck a chord with America as celebs like got together for a solemn night of fundraising.
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In the precursor to the Emmy Awards ceremony Sept. 16, 58 craft and technical Emmy awards were handed out Saturday, with shows like "The West Wing" and "Survivor" winning honors.
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HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 6, 2001 -- So far it's been a busy week in TV news. Here's a quick round-up:
Not a Safe 'Bette':
CBS' fledgling sitcom "Bette" has been given the ax. Though the show posted impressive ratings after its premiere last fall, recent numbers have been in the basement. Without question, CBS execs showed no hesitation in pulling the plug on the Bette Midler vehicle: Wednesday night's episode is likely the show's finale, even though four new episodes have already been taped.
Locklear to Take Another 'Spin':
Should ABC decide to pick up "Spin City" for another season, the sitcom's leading lady has agreed to remain on board. Actress Heather Locklear has inked a one-year deal with DreamWorks Television to stay on as the show's star, alongside Charlie Sheen, who has already committed to another season. Over the past year, "Spin" has proven to be one of ABC
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As the TV "upfront" continues in New York City, ABC has announced its fall schedule, adding three new dramas, two new sitcoms and cutting back Who Wants to be a Millionaire to two nights a week.
CBS also has its schedule falling into place, with the network making its official announcement Wednesday. Fox Television will reveal its schedule on Thursday.
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CBS won the first week of the May sweeps, powered by its hit reality show Survivor II: The Australian Outback and its coupled drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The two shows scored second- and third-place finishes respectively, behind an episode of NBC's E.R., which saw the return of Sally Field. CBS averaged an 8.4 household rating for the week with a 14 share. NBC, no longer feeling the drag of ratings for its XFL football telecasts, was close behind with an 8.2/14. ABC, which placed two editions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in the top ten, was third with a 7.1/12, followed by Fox with a 5.7/10. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw set a modern record by maintaining the lead among network newscasts for 52 consecutive weeks.
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30, 2001 -- Nominations for the 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced today in Los Angeles at L.A.'s Pacific Design Center.
The unique show, honoring performers from 13 movie and TV categories, will air on TNT, Sunday, March 11 from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.
The nominations in the movie categories aren’t surprising, with frontrunners Russell Crowe’s from “Gladiator” and Golden Globe winner Julia Roberts from “Erin Brockovich” easily making the list. Golden Globe winners Tom Hanks for “Cast Away” and Kate Hudson for “Almost Famous” snag nominations as well.
Several nominees in the television categories are returning to try their luck again, namely James Gandolfini and Edie Falco from “The Sopranos,” who both won in their respective categories last year. Also, die-hard dramas, such as “ER” and “Law & Order,” are back fo
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Denzel Washington scored a box office touchdown, finally giving Hollywood some ticket sales to "Remember."
Buena Vista/Disney's PG-rated football drama "Remember the Titans," from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, kicked off in first place with a muscular ESTIMATED $21.2 million at 1,865 theaters ($11,383 per theater).
"Titans" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in wide release last weekend.
"Titans" marks the first $20 million-plus since the arrival of Columbia's "Hollow Man" last Aug. 4. It ranks as Denzel Washington's biggest opening, out-performing the $18.6 million that "Crimson Tide" kicked off with in May 1995.
Despite the strong performance by "Titans," key films in the marketplace continued to under-perform compared to a year earlier. Overall, the marketplace was down over 27% from last year.
Asked what accounted for "Titan
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 28, 2000 It should be a weekend to "Remember" as "Remember the Titans" hits the box office gridiron.
"Titans," Buena Vista/Disney's PG-rated football theme drama, is kicking off at 1,865 theaters. It has insiders seeing green, a box office color that's been invisible so far this fall.
"I think we will remember the 'Titans,'" observes one studio executive. "They'll be over $20 million. At last a movie exploits the soft marketplace."
"There's no question 'Meet the Titans' will be the number one film -- $20-25 million," predicts another distributor.
Driven by "Titans," the weekend should be up sharply from last week when key films only managed to gross about $56 million. The improvement will come, a source maintains, "thanks to one movie, which is all the market ever needs to turn around."
"I hope the marketplace wil
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2001-The race is going be tight this year.
As the TV season winds down and moves into the May sweeps, the major networks are duking it out for those coveted No. 1 spots, especially in the adults 18-49 group that advertisers love and the ego-boosting title of the most-watched network. This kind of tight primetime competition hasn't been seen in the TV arena in many years, but the reality TV explosion has truly changed the landscape and kept network execs on their toes.
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 20, 2000 -- Erstwhile "Married ... with Children" star Ed O'Neill is returning to television.
And we're not talking about reruns of the syndicated show.
Daily Variety says that O'Neill has nabbed one of the two leads in the cop drama preliminarily titled "Big Apple."
In the series about the workings among the NYPD, FBI and the Mob, the actor will play an Irish top dog in the police department.
A VERY IMPORTANT SERIES: Looks like Pamela Anderson is going to have a new home. Variety says that the cable channel TNN has bought the rerun rights to the buxom blonde's action series "V.I.P."
For viewers who just can't get enough of the show, it will air on the station beginning fall 2002. And viewers can still catch Lee on reruns of "Baywatch."
CELEBS TV: The ratings war rages on. According to Variety, NBC scored the most TV viewers