Celeb News Aggregate
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July 1 marks the halfway point of the movie year, and there is a clear winner among the major Hollywood studios. With the top 3 grossing movies of 2008, Paramount is riding high with both Marvel’s Iron Man and Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull topping $300M and DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda at $181M now and a cinch for $200M+. The Melrose gang will be the first studio in history with back-to-back-to-back $200M+ grossing movies.
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Another screening. Another huge standing ovation. Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort The Changeling--starring Angelina Jolie as a mother who becomes overjoyed when she learns her kidnapped son is alive only to discover he may not be who he says he is--got a positive response from the audience.
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Tributes have poured in for director Robert Altman, who died on Monday from complications related to cancer.
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Tom Cruise has won high praise from his War of the Worlds costar Tim Robbins, who thinks the new United Artists studio boss is among the most professional and positive people in the business.
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Mystic River The Station Agent The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Seabiscuit and In America lead the acting ensemble nods for the 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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It was a tough sell but New Line Cinema's supernatural drama The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher in his first non-comedic role, fluttered its way to the top of the box office this weekend with an effectual $17.1 million. Top Ten: The Butterfly Effect Along Came Polly Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! Big Fish The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Cheaper by the Dozen Cold Mountain Torque Something's Gotta Give Mystic River
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The American Civil War epic Cold Mountain received 13 nominations Monday for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King tops the Broadcast Film Critics Association list. Also winning Sean Tim Robbins from Mystic River Charlize Theron from Monster and Renee Zellweger from Cold Mountain Clint Eastwood
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Pop princess Britney Spears says she became bitter with men after her very public breakup with ex Justin Timberlake. Also: Columbus Short Rod Roddy The Aviator David Bowie Iman Tommy Hilfiger Rosie O'Donnell Luiz Guzman Tim Robbins Johnny Cash
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Box Office Analysis, Oct. 12: Kill Bill opens in the top spot followed by School of Rock Intolerable Cruelty Good Boy! Out of Time House of the Dead The Rundown Under the Tuscan Sun Secondhand Lions Lost In Translation Mystic River
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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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After a four-year hiatus, Chris Rock will return to host the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Also: Mystic River Clint Eastwood New York Film Festival The Hulk Russell Simmons Justin Timberlake Molson Canadian Rocks For Toronto Tyra Banks UPN Top Model Buddy Ebsen Pippen The Punisher Laura Harring
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Singer Justin Timberlake and actor Seann William Scott will co-host the 12th annual MTV Movie Awards. Also: Justin Timberlake Seann William Scott MTV Movie Awards The Matrix Just Shoot Me Tom Brokaw Susan Sarandon Tim Robbins Bob Costas Dustin Hoffman Robert Altman Alan Thicke The Star Agent Cody Banks 2 Kevin Allen Milla Jovovich Resident Evil 2
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Two prominent American directors, Clint Eastwood and Gus Van Sant, will compete for the top prize at this year's prestigious Cannes Film Festival, it was announced Wednesday.
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Sean Penn's car, a black 1987 Buick Grand National, was stolen Tuesday afternoon from a busy Berkeley, Calif., street while the actor was eating lunch at a nearby restaurant. Also: Arnold Schwarzenegger Angelina Jolie Regis Philbin Tim Robbins Susan Sarandon Michael Jackson Apple Computer Inc. Universal Music Vivendi Universal Woo-ping Yuen Bruce McKenna The Hands of Shang Chi Vin Diesel Dreadnaught
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Box Office Analysis: Oct. 27. Jackass: The Movie The Ring Ghost Ship Sweet Home Alabama My Big Fat Greek Wedding Punch-Drunk Love The Truth About Charlie Paid in Full Frida
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News Roundup for Aug. 6 - Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are on board with HBO and Miramax for Project Greenlight 2. Other celebrities included Susan Sarandon Tim Robbins Jewel Bad Boys 2 The Fast and the Furious 2 Eva Mendes Paul Walker Tyrese John Singleton
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President Bush and a handful of celebrities will appear in the public TV series Freedom: A History of Us.
President Bush Julia Roberts Anthony Hopkins Angela Bassett Reese Witherspoon Billy Crystal Robin Williams Lance Bas Sylvetser Stalone Jennifer Flavin Susan Sarandon Tim Robbins The Guys Elton John Angie Harmon Frankie Muniz Hilary Duff Jonathan Glazer Chaos Robert De Niro Benicio Del ToroAnna Nicole Smith Sharon Osbourne David BowieMetallica Lars Ulrich Tim Duffy Mildred Wirt Benson
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Box office analysis: April 14 Changing Lanes Frailty The Sweetest Thing Panic Room Ice Age The Rookie
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Russell Crowe says hes not satisfied with his acting career A Beautiful Mind George W Bush Journeys With George
Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins
Matthew Perry
Cary Grant
George Harrison
Sean Puffy Combs
Chris Kirkpatrick
Sting Michael Jackson Randy Newman Barry Manilow and Ashford & Simpson
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Patricia Arquette on her upcoming role in Human Nature with Tim Robbins
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CANNES, May 14, 2000 -- How can the festivities get any hotter than they already are? The weekend has arrived which means there are even more parties and more outfits. And oh, yes, there are now even more hordes of Cannes fans. They start camping out (some of them fully equipped with collapsible benches and gourmet picnics) in front of the red carpeted Palais as the sun comes up and wait more than 12 hours to catch a glimpse of the stars and the auteurs and their muses (if they can get them in.) It's all about access. Not a single ticket is for sale.
While veterans like two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine have parties thrown for him (on Friday night his new movie, "The Shiner," was the subject of a fete at the Riviera Hotel), others have to wrangle tickets. This weekend, movie producers, buyers and hangers-on were vying for Saturday night's coveted MTV party invitation (which ha
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 26, 2000 -- Every few years or so, there comes a film that seeks to capture the spirit of a lost generation.
John Cusack And every few years or so, John Cusack seems to come out of relative seclusion to star in it.
So the tradition continues this week with "High Fidelity" (opening wide, Friday), yet another serving of offbeat meandering through the mindset of the thirtysomething. Based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, the flick revolves around the existential crisis of a record store manager (Cusack) who's struggling with the thinning appeal of slackerdom and the loss of his girlfriend (played by Joelle Hjejle).
Co-scripted by Cusack and the "Grosse Pointe Blank" writing team of D.V. DeVincentis and Steve Pink, the film features one awesome supporting cast, including Lili Taylor, Sara Gilbert, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tim
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 11, 2000 -- Sexy British actress Elizabeth Hurley a union defector? Say it ain't so! That's what the Screen Actors Guild says, and it's threatening to expel the supermodel turned actress from the union for shooting an Estee Lauder commercial in the middle of a strike, the New York Post is reporting.
The consequences? Hurley, 35, might never work in Hollywood again. That's doesn't sound groovy, baby!
Hurley's publicist has said that the actress is extremely sorry for taking the non-union gig in New York, saying that the bombshell didn't know about the strike since she lives in England.
But her fellow actors and the union aren't buying it.
Union reps are saying Hurley might be expelled, but at the very least, she'll get a hefty fine.
Hollywood actors aren't taking it lightly, either. During a rally in New York on Tuesday, actor/produ
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 5, 2000 -- Most of the country will have to wait 21 more days to see “Thirteen Days.”
New Line Cinema has pushed back the wide release of Kevin Costner’s historical drama by nearly a month to avoid the high-profile competition it would have gone up against on its original launch date, Dec. 22.
"Days" will now be released on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 12, Variety reports. The film will instead get a limited release Dec. 22 in New York and Los Angeles for Oscar consideration.
The Cuban Missile Crisis thriller still faces tough competition on Jan. 12 by films such as “Traffic” with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, “Finding Forrester” with Sean Connery, “Antitrust” with Ryan Phillippe and Tim Robbins, Disney’s action comedy “Double Take” with Orlando Jones, and “O Brother, Where Art Though?” starring George Clooney.
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'Save' Tops Holiday Box Office
"Save the Last Dance" kicked off in first place to a record-setting $28 million for the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
Distribution executives had anticipated that Paramount's PG-13-rated teen appeal dance drama would end 20th Century Fox's three-week chart-topping reign with "Cast Away," but they were only thinking in terms of an opening of about $20 million. Instead, "Dance" came in swinging to the tune of an ESTIMATED $28.00 million at 2,230 theaters ($12,556 per theater). (For the three-day period Friday through Sunday, Paramount estimated "Dance" at $24.00 million.)
"Dance" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing at over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"$20 million was kind of the benchmark (estimate going into the weekend)," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said Sunday morning.
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Tim Robbins' ensemble 'Cradle Will Rock' rocks By P. Ignatieff, Hollywood.com
'Cradle Will Rock': Official Website MovieGuide Interviews: Hank Azaria John Cusak Tim Robbins Biographies: Tim Robbins John Cusak Hank Azaria Billed as "a (mostly) true story," "Cradle Will Rock" is an interesting and vibrant look at American theater and art worlds facing adversity in 1930s New York played out as a cautionary tale against artistic censorship.
With an imaginative and informative original screenplay that seamlessly harmonizes true-life events and characters with fictionalized ones and acted with a labor-of-love energy by a cast of over a dozen well-respected actors from both film and stage, Tim Robbins' third directorial and writing effort employs a style that can be described as being both
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2000 -- A couple of years ago it was deadly asteroids slamming into Earth, and big-budget cartoons about talking bugs. This summer, the Hollywood fad was supposed to be spaceships landing on Mars -- but at least one interplanetary mission is being put on hold.
According to today's Daily Variety, Warner Bros. is postponing the release of "Red Planet" from June 16 to Nov. 10. This is the second time the film has been pushed back -- its original release date was slated March 31 -- and studio officials say it's due to the movie's extensive, expensive special-effects work.
Warners studio publicist Charlotte Kandel tells the trade newspaper that previously announced release dates for "Red Planet" were always tentative. "It's a very big movie for us, so we want to make sure we release when it's ready and at the right time," Kandel says. "We think it's
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14, 2001 -- The hip-hop teen romance "Save the Last Dance" starring Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas dethroned box office champion "Cast Away," earning an estimated $24 million during the Friday-through-Sunday period of the Martin Luther King Jr. four-day weekend, according to estimates by Hollywood.com's box office analyst, Martin Grove.
After three weekends on top, Tom Hanks' "Cast Away" finds itself in the runner-up spot. The film earned $17.2 million, bringing its total to $168 million.
Steven Soderbergh's Golden Globe frontrunner "Traffic" remained in the No. 3 spot with an estimated $11.2 million (its total stands at $35.1 million). Taking two steps down from last week is the Mel Gibson comedy "What Women Want," which took in $10.5 million and has thus far grossed $153.9 million.
The fifth and sixth spots saw a close race between the week
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12, 2001 -- Looks like Tom Hanks has finally met his match.
And believe it or not, it is in Julia "Teen Beat" Stiles.
That's right. Hanks' seemingly invincible "Cast Away" withstood the test of supremacy last week with the wide release of "Traffic" (although "Traffic" played in many less theaters). But this weekend (a four-day weekend for most kids due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday), it's likely that the bubble gum flick "Save the Last Dance" could knock "Cast Away" off the No. 1 spot.
Then again, it might not.
OK, you got us. We're not definite about anything this weekend. But before you go throwing your popcorn at us, hear us out.
"This is a very crowded marketplace," Brandon Gray, editor of boxofficemojo.com, told Hollywood.com. "It's going to be a busy weekend, with all the new releases and the expanding releases."
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The awards season has officially kicked off, and "American Beauty" has its first trophy on the mantle.
The dark satire was named Best Film of the year Dec. 8 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Directed by first-timer Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening, "Beauty" was released in September to widespread acclaim and solid box office.
Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director of "The English Patient," was named Best Director for "The Talented Mr. Ripley," starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, which was reportedly shown to the board in an unfinished print.
Best Actor honors went to Russell Crowe for his portrayal of tobacco industry whistle-blower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand in "The Insider," co-starring Al Pacino, and British actress Janet McTeer was named Best Actress for the mother-daughter film "Tumbleweeds."
After "Americ
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PASADENA, Calif. -- After nearly a week of trying to make contact with the $165 million Mars Polar Lander, scientists and NASA officials have all but given up the mission as a failure. Never an industry to shy away from big-money crap shoots, the motion picture community is putting a great deal of faith in a pair of Mars-related pictures that it hopes will generate substantially more interest and success than the recent NASA fiasco.
Disney is putting a great deal of time and strength behind its summer 2000 offering "Mission to Mars." Directed by Brian DePalma and starring Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Kim Delaney and Jerry O'Connell, "Mars" surrounds a seemingly failed manned mission to the red planet. As rescue operations are put in place, it is quickly discovered that an even greater menace may be waiting for them on Mars.
Competing for summer box office bucks
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Oscar buzz continues at the box office this weekend as a few of the year's most highly touted films open in both wide and limited release.
Tom Hanks and company lead the way in the prison drama "The Green Mile," based on the popular series by Stephen King and directed by Frank Darabont. Five years ago, Darabont came to prominence with another prison-bound tale by King called "The Shawshank Redemption." That movie, which frequently tops lists of the most popular films of all time, garnered seven Academy Award nominations.
Other Oscar hopefuls include the limited releases "Cradle Will Rock" and "The Cider House Rules." "Cradle," directed by Tim Robbins and featuring an all-star cast, details the events of New York City's art scene in the 1930s. "Cider," directed by "What's Eating Gilbert Grape's" Lasse Hallstrom, is a quirky, coming-of-age love story adapted from John Irvin
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 18, 2000 -- It's amazing what a $171 million blockbuster can do for your career. A few years ago, Carrie-Anne Moss was toiling in straight-to-video movies and TV shows such as "Models Inc." This week, she's under contract for two upcoming sequels to "The Matrix."
Word comes today from Variety that Canadian-born Moss will reprise the character of Trinity -- a role in which she was so good, she even had us believing that Keanu Reeves was a messianic hero.
Meanwhile, Moss also co-stars with Tom Sizemore and Val Kilmer in the upcoming "Red Planet:; with Burt Reynolds in "The Crew"; and with Guy Pearce in "Memento," which debuts next month at Cannes.
As they say, a rolling Moss gathers no ... oh, forget it.
DECONSTRUCTING HAIRY: Fresh from his self-deprecating roles as a ponytail-wearing, New Age-swishy guy in "High Fidelity" and hi