Celeb News Aggregate
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Prince wants a fan to "Gett Off"! A college student from Edina, Minn., has filed a lawsuit against Prince and his bodyguard for allegedly assaulting him after he took a picture of the musician getting off a flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Also: Eminem Kimberly Mathers Donald Trump The Apprentice Vince Neil Clear Channel Communications Inc. Howard Stern Janet Jackson Ted Turner Willem Dafoe Lars von Trier Manderlay Their Eyes Were Watching God Halle Berry
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In an interview airing today at 10 p.m. EST on ABC's 20/20, Michael Jackson's parents said he is innocent and have offered to adopt his children if they're taken away from him. Also: George Clinton Mick Jagger Zooey Deschanel Jake Gyllenhaal David Kohan Jason "Max" Mutchnick Pharrell Williams Luciano Pavarotti Sting Agnes Bruckner Bobby Cannavale
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Star Nicole Kidman, who won an Oscar for her performance in the 2002 drama The Hours, won undisclosed libel damages and an apology Tuesday from the British tabloid Sun that reported in March she had had an affair with her Cold Mountain costar Jude Law, which led to the breakup of his marriage. Also: Jersey Girl Kevin Smith Jennifer Lopez Ben Affleck Gigli Martha Stewart Ally Hilfiger Jamie Gleicher Bridgette Wilson-Sampras Shopgirl Anand Tucker Steve Martin
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Val Kilmer Says He Was Misquoted; Governor's Wife Apologizes to Britney Spears; Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton Have a Baby Arnold Schwarzenegger Emma Thompson Will Ferrell Nicole Kidman Courteney Cox David Arquette Tommy Chong Woody Allen
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico wins the box office the weekend of Sept. 14. Others in lineup include Matchstick Men Cabin Fever Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Freaky Friday Jeepers Creepers 2 Open Range S.W.A.T. Seabiscuit Lost In Translation
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Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios' little movie about a fish, netted a briny $70.6 million take at the box office this weekend, posting the best opening ever for an animated film. Top 10: Finding Nemo Bruce Almighty The Italian Job The Matrix Reloaded Daddy Day Care X2: X-Men United Wrong Turn The In-Laws Down With Love Bend it Like Beckham
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Box Office Analysis: Oct. 20 The Ring Sweet Home Alabama Red Dragon My Big Fat Greek Wedding The Transporter The Tuxedo
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the weekend of Sept. 8, 2002.
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 23, 2002.
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the week of June 16, 2002.
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Fears about whether moviegoers were ready for a film involving nuclear terrorism proved ungrounded as The Sum Of All Fears exploded with $31.2 million in ticket sales.
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Martin Grove's analysis of the Memorial Day weekend box office, May 2002.
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Box Office Report: May 19
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"Spider-Man" continues to rule the box office for the weekend of May 12, 2002.
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Box Office Analysis: May 5 Spider-Man The Scorpion King Life or Something Like It Changing Lanes The Rookie Hollywood Ending
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Willem Dafoe talks about his role as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man
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On May 8 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will begin a yearlong celebration in honor of its 75th anniversary
Oscar 75th Anniversary Denise Richards Charlie Sheen Julia Stiles Smithy's Films Eric Gitter Steve Scavelli Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival Pixar Disney Finding Nemo The Incredibles Cars John McCain Faith of My Fathers Robert Michael Geisler John Roberdeau Dylan McDermott Macaulay Culkin Seth Green Marilyn Manson Chloe Sevigny Natasha Lyonne AMC Movie Trailer Mike Nelson Tribune Broadcasting Jenny Jones Sylvester Stallone Video Software Dealers Assn Convention Shaolin Soccer Hong Kong Film Awards Reginald Rose
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Spider-Man Tobey Maguire Sam Raimi Willem Dafoe Kirsten Dunst
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Madonna will be directed by Guy Ritchie in a remake of the Italian film Swept Away; Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant in a romantic comedy; Tom Hanks on board with Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Catch Me If You Can"; Tom Cruise in "Cold Mountain" with Anthony Minghella directing; Prince Charming movie finally on the slate; Will Smith wants to do remake of 9 to 5 with all black cast.
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CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 4, 2001 -- Spidey fans, you can stop your salivating (for now).
Just days from the start of filming and one and a half years from its May 3, 2002, release date, the makers of Sony’s big-budget “Spider-Man” flick called a press conference on the Sony Pictures lot this morning to introduce the cast and give a little preview of what’s ahead.
Cast members Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, director Sam Raimi (“The Gift”) and other filmmakers led the event, attended by a reported 300 journalists from around the world. While details such as the movie’s budget (think big) are still kept secret, we now have these tasty morsels to mull over:
THE CAST: As mentioned before, Maguire will star as Spider-Man/Peter Parker, with Dafoe playing the villainous Green Goblin and Dunst as Peter’s girlfriend Mary Jane. Franco (NBC’s cance
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'Twas the month before Christmas When all through the studios Execs were stirring, with high hopes and fear, Giant posters were hung and trailers rolled out All in hopes that the public would soon be in the movie houses.
Come this December moviegoers can expect Flicks from Kevin Costner, as well as from Mel, But let's not forget there're also Meg and Russell Plus other big names like Hanks and Cage.
So without further ado Here's our list Of all the high-profile films that are coming To accompany you through the month of December.
DEC. 1 No major releases are coming out on the first Friday of the month.
DEC. 8
"Proof of Life": From the set of this movie came the romance between Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. If that's not enough to go see the film, it's about an American hostage negotiator (Crowe) who falls in love with the wife (Ryan) of the man he's
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Jermane and Randy Jackson have confirned their presence at the Michael Jackson: 30 Anniversary Celebration, The Solo Years event in September.
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Rosie O'Donnell reveals in the August issue of her magazine Rosie that she has been depressed for years, according to Entertainment Tonight..
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16, 2001 -- “Traffic” and “Nurse Betty” were the top winners at the 5th Annual Golden Satellite Awards on Sunday night.
“Traffic” picked up a best drama award and another for its director, Steven Soderbergh.
“Nurse Betty” took home the best comedy award and a best actress prize for its star, Renee Zellweger, Daily Variety reports.
Held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the awards show is organized by the International Press Academy, a splinter group of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the group that puts on the Golden Globes).
The IPA also awarded “Chicken Run” the animated feature prize and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” the foreign film award. Leading dramatic acting honors went to Geoffrey Rush for “Quills” and Ellen Burstyn for “Requiem for a Dream.”
Bruce Greenwood took the actor in a supporting ro
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 14, 2000 -- With the closing night award ceremonies Sunday, the 15th Annual Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival ended with an impressive slate of features, documentaries and short films.
The festival, from Oct. 16-Nov. 12, saw attendance total 54,000 during the 28-day run. The sold-out Opening Night event Nov. 3 started with a conversation with indie filmmaker John Waters, followed by the U.S. premiere of "Il Cielo Cade (The Sky Is Falling)," directed by Antonio and Andrea Frazzi and starring Isabella Rossellini.
The film is about life in a small Tuscany town during the start of the Nazi occupation and won the festival's best foreign language film award.
Two other notable international films screened during the festival were well received. "Coronation," directed by Silvio Caiozzi, was chosen to represent Chile as its Foreign Language Oscar entry an
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The Hollywood studios are already hyping their crop of blockbusters for summer 2002, and it started long before Entertainment Weekly put Spider-Man stars Tobey Maguire and Kristen Dunst on its June 29 cover.
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Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke will join Antonio Banderas in the third installment of director Robert Rodriguez's trilogy loosely based on Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Desperado 2 will begin shooting in Mexico this week, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The trilogy began with El Mariachi in 1992 and followed with Desperado three years later. Desperado, which starred Banderas, Quentin Tarantino and Selma Hayek, grossed $25 million domestically.
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Moviegoers celebrated "Mummy's" Day this weekend with a record setting $70 million opening.
Universal's PG-13 rated adventure sequel "The Mummy Returns" kicked off Hollywood's pre-summer season with a staggering ESTIMATED $70.11 million at 3,104 theaters ($20,615 per theater). "Mummy" accounted for about 65% of the weekend's total key films gross of $107.5 million.
"Mummy" is well on its way to what looks like it could be a $200 million gross in domestic theaters. That would be about $45 million more than the first "Mummy" did domestically in 1999.
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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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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23, 2001 -- It's not easy looking like Vincent D'Onofrio in "The Cell," or Willem Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire" for that matter.
Those two films, along with "Cast Away," "Bedazzled" and "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" will be considered for the Best Makeup Oscar nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today.
Members of the Makeup Award Nominating Committee will screen 10-minute clips from each of the films and can name up to three nominees for Oscar consideration.
The nominees for Best Makeup will be announced with the other 22 categories on Feb. 13 at 5:30 a.m. PT.
MUSIC TO OUR EARS: In other Oscar news, composer Bill Conti will return as the musical director for this year's Oscar telecast. This will mark the impresario's 15th time at the Academy Awards Orchestra.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 21, 2001 -- One thing remains clear after tonight's 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards: There was a definite lack of a dominant film on the block. Though certain sure bets did come out victorious, no single film was able to sweep the Globes, leaving the upcoming Oscar race as wide open as it was before.
Heavy contenders "Traffic," "Almost Famous," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Gladiator" all took home two Globes apiece at the annual star-studded event.
As expected, Julia Roberts won the award for best actress in a movie (drama) for her work in "Erin Brockovich". However, she was visibly surprised when "Brockovich" director Steven Soderbergh went home empty-handed.
"I was shocked, actually," Roberts said backstage. "I suppose when I presented the best director and Steven [Soderbergh] didn't win for either film ["Traffic" and "Erin
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"The Wedding Planner" marched down theater aisles this weekend, celebrating in first place with $14 million.
The PG-13-rated romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures and Intermedia Films easily captured the top spot on Super Bowl Weekend with a sexy ESTIMATED $14.0 million at 2,785 theaters ($5,027 per theater).
"Planner" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"Great news for us this weekend," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning, noting that Sony had four of the top ten films ("Planner," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Finding Forrester" and "Snatch").
"$14 million is allowing for an over 50% drop on Sunday because we (should) do a little better than the rest of the world (against) the Super Bowl," Blake explained. "We got a real clear mi
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The set of Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man has lately been plagued with a run of bad luck, to say the least.
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 11, 2001 -- You won't be hearing the name Steven Soderbergh at this year's Independent Spirit Awards.
Instead, try Miguel Arteta, Darren Aronofsky and Kenneth Lonergan -- whose "Chuck & Buck," "Requiem for a Dream," and "You Can Count On Me," respectively, have nabbed a field-best five nominations each at the 16th Annual Independent Spirit Awards.
"Chuck & Buck" -- the second full-length feature from Arteta -- was nominated for best feature under $500,000, screenplay, director, supporting female (Lupe Ontiveros) and debut performance (Mike White).
Among "Requiem's" nominations are best director (Darren Aronofsky) and best feature. The drug-addiction flick will go up against "Before Night Falls," "George Washington," "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the best film column.
"You Can Count On Me" will r
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 20, 2000 -- The Golden Globe nominations are coming! The Golden Globe nominations are coming!
Thursday at 5:19 a.m. PST, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will begin announcing the nominations for the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 21.
But before the nominations are made official, we at Hollywood.com take a stab at who the odds-on favorites will be for nominations in some of the major categories for motion pictures.
So without further ado, here are our picks as sure bets for nominations:
Best Motion Picture -- Drama
"Almost Famous" "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" "Gladiator" "Erin Brockovich" "Traffic"
These are the likely five, although "Dancer in the Dark" could sneak in there.
Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
"Billy E
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 24, 2000 -- What? Robin Williams playing a flamboyant and outrageous character?
Yep, in what's obviously not-much-of-a-stretch, the seasoned funnyman is going to portray Liberace in a biopic currently in development. Titled "Liberace," the flick will follow the rise of the flaming entertainer's career until his death in 1987.
HEARING VOICES: Variety reports that Alec Baldwin will produce and star in a series of play readings called "City Center Voices! Of the American Theater" in the 2000-01 season at City Center in New York.
DAFOE MORALIZES: Willem Dafoe is likely to star in "Morality Play," a British indie film about a priest on the lam, Variety says.
'PERFECT' MATCH: Jenny McCarthy and Chris Eigeman ("Barcelona") will star in "The Perfect You," a romantic comedy written and directed by sitcom writer Matthew Miller, Daily Variety reports.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 25, 2000 -- Mainstream A-list guy Denzel Washington in a Cassavetes movie? Yup. The film's called "John Q." And the Cassavetes is Nick, the directing son of indie icon John.
Reports today say Washington is a lock to star in "John Q," a drama about a regular John Q. Public who goes postal over (what else?) a health insurance snafu.
DOES THIS GUY EVER STOP MAKING MOVIES? No. Today's Hollywood Reporter says the ubiquitous John Travolta will next insert his mug into "Domestic Disturbance," about a guy who grows suspicious of his son's new stepdad.
APPARENTLY DOESN'T TAKE AFTER HER HUSBAND: Kelly Preston (aka Mrs. John Travolta) has dropped out of the Richard Rodriguez action-comedy "Spy Game" with Antonio Banderas. Preston gave birth to the couple's second child April 3.
MORE FUN STUFF: Haley Joel Osment, last seen as a tormented t