'Treasure' Finds More Box Office Fortune
'National Treasure' Finds Fresh Fortune With $35.6 Million, Outdueling 'Chipmunks,' 'Legend'Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 10:27 am
'Treasure' finds more box office fortune (AP)
AP - Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 10:25 am
'Treasure' finds more box office fortune (AP)
AP - Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 10:25 am
'Treasure' finds more box office fortune (AP)
AP - Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 10:25 am
Germans say "Nein" to television (Reuters)
Reuters - For the first time in recent
memory, Germans spent less time in front of their TVs in 2007
than they did the year before, according to a new survey.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 9:30 am
Datelines
East Bay arts grants The Open Circle Foundation, an East Bay nonprofit started in 2001 by artist Dorothy C. Weicker after she sold a pair of prized sculptures by Spanish artist Antonio López García, is giving about $42,000 in grants to 11 East Bay schools and...Source: SFGate: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
You may have had occasion to be in San Francisco at 4 a.m. Perhaps you were...
You may have had occasion to be in San Francisco at 4 a.m. Perhaps you were getting to work early or getting home late. In any event, you will have noticed a whole lot of large buildings with many of their windows still gaily lit. San Francisco is not unique...Source: SFGate: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
TV's best and worst of 2007
Ken Burns' "The War" on PBS was, without question, the best program on television in 2007 - and, yes, that includes "The Sopranos" - but the documentary's rousing victory only brings up more questions and asterisks as I unveil my year-end best-of lists. It's...Source: SFGate: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
Review: Chris Brown wows fans at Oracle Arena with music, spectacle
Teen heartthrob Chris Brown, R&B's fastest rising star, has been seen in recent months on television and motion picture screens channeling pop music's past. The 18-year-old Virginian performed Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" in a Charlie Chaplin suit on the...Source: SFGate: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
Jamie Lynn Spears is not the first teen to have a baby
Her story isn't new, but it does have a few twists.This much, at least, is certain: Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of the Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101," is pregnant. (Or the British tabloid OK!, which paid a reported $1 million to announce the fact, will be wanting its money back.) As to just when and with whom, rumors keep arising to buffet what were yesterday asserted as facts. It is a fluid story whose meaning keeps changing as new grist is poured into the gossips' mill.
Source: L.A. Times - Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
HOROSCOPE
ARIES (March 20-April 18): New Years resolution? Be a better team player in 2008. Help others achieve your standard of excellence and everyone benefits. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): Whoops! Did you invite someone without asking first? Come clean about your...Source: SFGate: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
Review: Joe McGinniss delivers hip but shallow new novel
The Delivery Man By Joe McGinniss Jr. BLACK CAT/GROVE; 276 PAGES; $14 PAPERBACK Hipness is not a stand-in for depth. In the modern urban novel, it can be too easy to conflate the two. The better writers of the genre make vacancy a subject in itself,...Source: SFGate: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
'National Treasure' holds No. 1 spot
'Alvin and the Chipmunks' keeps up a strong second.The adventure sequel "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was once again the big draw at the weekend box office, taking in an estimated $35.6 million, but it was the little guys that posted the biggest surprises.
Source: L.A. Times - Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
Saoirse Ronan a young actress to watch (AP)
AP - Her role in "Atonement" earned Saoirse Ronan a Golden Globe nomination, but she hasn't read the Ian McEwan novel the movie is based on.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 5:18 am
Attorney Wants Spears Deposition Soon
Attorney for Kevin Federline Says Britney Spears Will Be Deposed Soon in Child-Custody CaseSource: ABC News: Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 5:03 am
Garner named West Virginian of the Year (AP)
AP - Actress Jennifer Garner has been honored as the 2007 West Virginian of the Year by her hometown newspaper.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 31 Dec 2007 | 4:58 am
Steroids & A Little Boy's Baseball Cards
After the Mitchell report on steroids, writer Jim Gullo has watched his 7-year-old son reorganize his baseball card collection into players in the report, not in the report, and "maybes" - players with suspicious fluctuations in performance.Source: Entertainment News: CBSNews.com | 31 Dec 2007 | 2:30 am
'National Treasure' still box office gold
Read full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 31 Dec 2007 | 12:18 am
Jimmy Fallon Updates Marital Status
Jimmy Fallon's jingle bells were playing "The Wedding March" this year.
The 33-year-old "Fever Pitch" star and producer Nancy Juvonen, 40, tied the knot Dec. 22 in an intimate...Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 31 Dec 2007 | 12:07 am
"Treasure" Sequel Tops Box Office
The Nicholas Cage adventure flick "National Treasure" held on to the top box office spot for a second weekend, while "Alvin and the Chipmunks" debuted in the number two slot.Source: Entertainment News: CBSNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 11:30 pm
Golden Treasure Caps off Record Year
Tis the season for popcorn (and chipmunks, and a viral apocalypse, and pregnant teens)--and "Jingle Bells" may have never sounded so sweet to Hollywood, unless you had slathered it in sunscreen...Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 30 Dec 2007 | 10:56 pm
Kylie Minogue Honored By Queen Elizabeth
Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honors list.Source: Entertainment News: CBSNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 9:30 pm
James Brown's children challenge will
Read full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 30 Dec 2007 | 8:15 pm
Patriots Are Perfect 16-0
The Patriots rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit and scored 22 straight points to beat the dogged New York Giants 38-35 to become the first NFL team to finish the regular season 16-and-0.Source: Entertainment News: CBSNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 7:00 pm
'Godfather' Director Speaks Out
Francis Ford Coppola's latest movie, 'Youth Without Youth,' defies convention.Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 30 Dec 2007 | 5:49 pm
Attorney: Spears Will Give Deposition Soon in Custody Battle
The attorney for Kevin Federline says he wants to depose Britney Spears soon, the latest step in the former couple's ongoing child-custody battle.Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 1:59 pm
Norman Mailer, Benazir Bhutto Among Famous Who Died in 2007
A roll call of some of the notables who died in 2007.Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 12:20 pm
Queen Elizabeth II honors Kylie
The Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and the professor who created Dolly the sheep are among the prominent figures who have received awards from Queen Elizabeth II in her annual New Year Honors list.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 30 Dec 2007 | 12:19 pm
A Master Of Light; Years Ahead Of His Time
The first major Turner retrospective in America in nearly half a century features 140 paintings and watercolors, on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.Source: Entertainment News: CBSNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 11:30 am
Sites to watch in 2008
Things happen fast on the Internet. Here's how the future is shaping up.WHETHER we're talking online entertainment, commerce, technology or the Web in general, digital culture is so protean and chaotic, so subject to overnight zeitgeist, that, as far as its future goes, the less said, the better.
Source: L.A. Times - Entertainment News | 30 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
Movies offer some final thoughts
FEDERICO Fellini once said, "There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." We like that thought. But checking out the offerings at the multiplex, we notice that as new movies go, there's an infinite passion for -- endings.Source: L.A. Times - Entertainment News | 30 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
James Brown's Children Challenge Will
Five of James Brown's children say their late father's will should be invalidated because his former advisers used undue influence to get him to create charitable trusts that the advisers would profit from, according to court documents filed this week.Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 7:52 am
Marilyn Manson Divorce Now Official
Marilyn Manson will start the new year as a single man.Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 7:39 am
'National Treasure' Marks Second Week as Number One Movie
Cage's 'National Treasure: Book of Secrets' was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 7:21 am
Girl Says Dad Died In Iraq To Win Contest
An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq." While gripping, it wasn't true and now the girl may lose her tickets.Source: Entertainment News: CBSNews.com | 30 Dec 2007 | 6:30 am
Unlike Rivals, Letterman Has His Writers
David Letterman and Craig Ferguson Returning to the Air, Complete With Writers, Next WeekSource: ABC News: Entertainment | 29 Dec 2007 | 11:11 pm
Deal puts Letterman, Ferguson back on air
Read full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 29 Dec 2007 | 1:17 pm
Jimmy Fallon Weds Movie Producer Nancy Juvonen
Longtime "Saturday Night Live" performer Jimmy Fallon and movie producer Nancy Juvonen were married in the Caribbean, a publicist announced Saturday.Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Dec 2007 | 10:39 am
Public access, public hate
Cable TV operators must provide a forum for the public. But it has unwittingly led to the airing of racist and anti-Semitic rants."Robert De Niro" wasn't kidding. As impersonated by Josh Robert Thompson, he warned in the opening minutes of his live TV call-in talk show "Dining With De Niro" that he only wanted to talk about food -- "manly" foods like beef. He discouraged viewers who wanted to discuss "feminine" foods like cupcakes or muffins.
Source: L.A. Times - Entertainment News | 29 Dec 2007 | 8:00 am
Hannah Montana Essay Winner a Fake
Girl Won Hannah Montana Concert Tickets With Fake Essay Describing Father's Death in IraqSource: ABC News: Entertainment | 29 Dec 2007 | 5:38 am
The best (and worst) films of 2007
The year in film was a mixed bag, though one that holds great promise for the future.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 29 Dec 2007 | 5:05 am
Letterman, Ferguson Back Up Late
It appears David Letterman has the write stuff after all.
The gap-toothed comic's production company, Worldwide Pants, and the Writers Guild of America have stitched together a deal that...Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 28 Dec 2007 | 11:43 pm
Klum: From Catwalker to Copycat?
Heidi Klum's latest project? How about a lawsuit?
The "Project Runway" star is being sued by jewelry maker Van Cleef & Arpels for allegedly ripping off a custom-made clover...Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 28 Dec 2007 | 10:28 pm
Letterman strikes a deal with the Writers Guild
Source: L.A. Times - Entertainment News | 28 Dec 2007 | 10:19 pm
Brandy Off the Hook
Brandy can breathe easier now.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have decided not to file misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charges against the R&B songstress, stemming from last year's...Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 28 Dec 2007 | 9:38 pm
Brandy won't be charged in fatal crash
Read full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 28 Dec 2007 | 9:12 pm
Spielberg, Zemeckis Flicks Immortalized
You could say it's about time.
Robert Zemeckis' 1985 time-travel opus, "Back to the Future," Steven Spielberg's 1977 UFO tale, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind,"...Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 28 Dec 2007 | 6:53 pm
Hollywood Gets Preachy on Screen, in Life
Celebrities are as vocal about religion in real life as they are in films.Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 28 Dec 2007 | 1:02 pm