Celeb News Aggregate
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Three new movies by legendary screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick are being brought to the big screen--seven years after his death.
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The race for the Palme d'Or--the top film prize at a 2004 Cannes festival--is heating up and with director Quentin Tarantino heading the jury, movie industryites are prepared for just about anything. Also: Michael Jackson Total Film magazine poll The Kelsey Grammer Sketch Show Bill Cosby Adam Sandler The Longest Yard Sammy Reese Witherspoon Clive Owen Benicio Del Toro Sin City
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Ashton Kutcher Plays Dad With Demi Moore Kids, Russell Crowe Readies Himself for Fatherhood, Nicole Kidman Lends Face to Chanel Diana Ross Lord of the Rings Viggo Mortensen Elijah Woods Dominic Monaghan Orlando Bloom Stanley Kubrick The Shining Steven Spielberg Jaws The Exorcist Linda Blair Val Kilmer Wonderland Elvis Presley
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Veteran Actor Hume Cronyn Dies, Thousands of the New "Harry Potter" Book Stolen, SAG Prez Melissa Gilbert May Not Run Again Kate Beckinsale William Petersen Adrien Brody Anthony Hopkins Rob Reiner Kate Hudson Geena Davis Luke Wilson John Malkovich LL Cool J Ray Liotta Jolene Blalock
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Minority Report Lilo & Stitch Pam Grier Newark Black Film Festival Friday Foster Bobby Brown Natasha Lyonne The Whole Nine Yards 2 Bruce Willis Jennifer Lopez Hactor Lavoe Marc Anthony John Woo Nicolas Cage Chow Yun-fat Land of Destiny Peter Pan Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon -- The Greatest Film Never Made
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Jennifer Lopez opened her own restaurant in Pasadena called Madres George Lucas Tom Arnold Jane Fonda David Letterman Lenny Kravitz Ja Rule Jay-Z P Diddy John Lennon
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Paul McCartney will perform songs from his new album Driving Rain at a concert in Oslo this week to mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize
Pauline Moore December 12 Frank Sinatra Day Rod Steiger Judi Dench Fidel Castro John Lennon Madonna Martin Creed Turner Prize Tom Petty Eminem DeAngelo Bailey Napster Recording Industry Association of America Monica Seles Billy Wilder
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Although it had seemed like a foregone conclusion that Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" would be restored and re-released by Warner Bros. in 2001, it may only get limited distribution in four cities -- Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- late this year.
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The Cranberries have pulled their new video "Analyze" from TV and are editing it, Reuters reports.
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HOLLYWOOD, July 3, 2000 - Get ready for some movie déjà vu when titles like "The Exorcist" reappear on neighborhood marquees in the coming months. And we're not talking about revival house screenings, either. You see, on top of all the hits (and none-hits), there'll be some pretty familiar titles that'll be competing for your eight (or more) bucks - and Linda Blair's barf-o-rific horror classic is just the tip of the re-release iceberg.
For the uninitiated, "The Exorcist" was the blockbuster of 1973, nabbing a total of 10 Oscar noms; winning two (for best original screenplay and best sound) and making Linda Blair forever a target of easy satire. The re-release -- bowing nationwide this September - will feature a 12-minute deleted scene from the original film wherein Blair's character does the so-called "Spider Walk" down some stairs. It's just one of the goodies in store for cin
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 10, 2000 -- It's official: The whole world loves stories about lecherous, unpleasant people! "American Beauty" Yes, "American Beauty" picked up where it left off at last month's Oscars, taking a field-best six awards at the British equivalent of the Academy Awards (officially known as the British Academy Film Awards). Kevin Spacey repeated as best actor with leading lady Annette Bening avenging her Oscar loss with a best actress win. The film was also named best picture at Sunday's ceremony.
The only major "Beauty" player to be denied another chance to issue really sincere thank-yous was Oscar-approved director Sam Mendes, who lost out to Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar for "All About My Mother."
British stars Jude Law ("The Talented Mr. Ripley") and Maggie Smith ("Tea with Mussolini") were honored in the supporting-acting categories on
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6, 2000 -- Steven Spielberg can add another award to his paperweight collection. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts honored the "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" auteur with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award on Saturday in a chi-chi $500 per plate reception in Los Angeles.
More than one thousand Hollywood luminaries, including DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg, director Robert Zemeckis, wife Kate Capshaw and actor Ben Kinsley, were in attendance to witness Britain’s Prince Andrew present the award to the director.
"(The British film industry) has truly created more than a ripple for the last 65 years. It has been a tidal wave of creativity," Spielberg said at the event.
Besides "Jaws," the 64-year-old director is also known for era-defining films such as "E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial" and the "Indiana Jones" franchise.
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A discussion about this summer's movies and why the blockbusters haven't delivered the way they promised. Pearl Harbor Shrek The Mummy Returns Titanic Jurassic Park III A.I. Planet of the Apes Legally Blonde The Fast and the Furious Final Fantasy
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News Roundup: July 26, 2001
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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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Call it the calm before the spinosauraus attack.
With Jurassic Park III opening Wednesday, this weekend's box office victor should not make itself too comfortable in the top spot. Next week, it's T-Rex chow.
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Ailing
Leonardo DiCaprio is on crutches after he sprained his knee July 1 playing basketball with his celebrity friends, People magazine reports.
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Box Office Analysis July 1
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Steven Spielberg's A.I. (the movie was conceived by the late Stanley Kubrick) is inspiring praise from some critics and censure from others, probably the most polarized reaction ever to a Spielberg film.
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The two national news weeklies Time and Newsweek are out with ambivalent reviews of Steven Spielberg's A.I., set for release next weekend amid numerous predictions that it will wind up as the biggest blockbuster of the year.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 7, 2000 - They haven't come close to cracking the Billboard Top 100, but the Beta Band are suddenly enjoying the perks of membership in a much cooler list: Top Five Bands. According to John Cusack, anyway. If you haven't heard of the Beta Band, you're not alone - either that, or you just haven't seen "High Fidelity," in which Cusack plays the owner of a super-hip, indie-minded Chicago record store. In a scene that's as close to free advertising as you can get, Cusack turns to one of his employees and says, "I am now going to sell five copies of 'The 3 Ep's' by The Beta Band." As he plays the cut "Dry the Rain" on the store's in-house stereo system, customers start bobbing their heads in approval, and then make their way to the counter to buy the CD.
The Beta Band So, a couple of questions: (1) Who the hell's the Beta Band; and, (2) What did they
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 25, 2000 -- Martin Lawrence is just glad to be alive.
In an interview on Thursday's "Entertainment Tonight," the comic actor ("Martin," "Blue Streak") spoke out for the first time about his brush with death in August, when he collapsed while jogging and lapsed into a coma.
Martin Lawrence "It kind of woke me up and made me appreciate life ... and just be happy to be here," Lawrence, 34, told "ET." "You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'"
Lawrence's mistake was running while wearing several layers of clothing in hopes of sweating away some excess poundage for his role in "Big Momma's House," which is now in production (after a delayed start due to the star's hospitalization).
Lawrence spent three days in a coma and unde
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 18, 2000 -- The last to know Steven Spielberg had signed on to produce and direct the film version of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was apparently the director himself.
A spokesman from Spielberg's office says the filmmaker hasn't officially climbed aboard and is still considering the project.
"Potter" is just one of the projects Spielberg is considering along with Stanley Kubrick conceived "A.I." (for artificial intelligence) and a bio about Charles Lindbergh. He's also set to make the Tom Cruise starrer "Minority Report" and a movie version of the acclaimed book "Memoirs of a Geisha."
SUPER-ACTION TEAMUP: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone hope to use their combined muscle at the box office to star in one massive project, The Hollywood Reporter says.
They're currently searching for a feature, which would mar
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 17, 2000 -- Steven Spielberg reportedly has won the race to bring Harry Potter to the big screen.
The Times of London says Spielberg will direct and produce "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," based on the hit children's book series about a schoolboy wizard.
Robert Zemeckis, Jonathan Demme and Mike Newell were among the directors Spielberg beat out for the movie, according to the paper.
Warner Bros., which owns the Harry Potter screen rights, dictated that Spielberg must make the film his next movie. Spielberg, whose docket also includes an adaptation of the best seller "Memoirs of a Geisha," had two possibles in the works: "A.I." and "Minority Report," both produced by his own studio, DreamWorks. "A.I" (the acronym for artificial intelligence) is based on a story outline by late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. "Minority Report" is a
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 30, 1999 -- For all the controversy and hype surrounding "Eyes Wide Shut," the film will most likely be remembered as director Stanley Kubrick's last opus -- finished just days before he died in his sleep March 7.
Stanley Kubrick
The 70-year-old eccentric filmmaker's career was founded on spectacle, from the shocking "A Clockwork Orange" to the profound "2001: A Space Odyssey." It somehow seemed fitting that "Eyes Wide Shut," despite the star talent of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, would make its mark by bearing the director's ghost.
The year that was marked the passing of other legends, as well -- from George C. Scott (Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" star) to singer Mel Tormé to movie critic Gene Siskel.
Some, like Sylvia Sidney and DeForest Kelley, died after long, rich careers; others, such as Dana Plato and David Strickland, succumb
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Mar. 24, 2000 -- Does an Oscar win equal prestige? Yes. How about a career jump-start? Gwyneth Paltrow Well, er ... Most of the time.
For every, say, Kevin Spacey who escapes indie fringedom to Hollywood stardom after bagging an Oscar (for 1995's "The Usual Suspects"), there's a Marisa Tomei whose film career seems jinxed following a win (for 1992's "My Cousin Vinny").
That said, let's take a look at what the Oscar has done for last year's winners. Or they Marisa Tomeis or Kevin Spaceys?
ROBERTO BENIGNI: After accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of sugarcoating the Holocaust with humor in "Life is Beautiful" and taking two Oscars (including the Best Actor trophy) for his feat, the larger-than-life Italian comic seems to be taking a smaller-than-life approach to things these days. After staking a supporting role in the comic-boo