"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" production has been greenlit by Summit Entertainment and publisher Alan Baltes has the latest information. BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 12... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 12 Oct 2009 | 4:30 am
AP - Michael Jackson has returned to the airwaves with a new song — the first from an upcoming documentary on the troubled superstar. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Oct 2009 | 4:22 am
AP - Michael Jackson has returned to the airwaves with a new song — the first from an upcoming documentary on the troubled superstar. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Oct 2009 | 4:22 am
(Reuters) Reuters - An illustrated children's book that consists of nine sentences and 20 pages does not immediately suggest a feature film adaptation. Nonetheless, Spike Jonze has fearlessly plunged ahead to weave whimsical movie magic to bring Maurice Sendak's 1963 "Where the Wild Things Are" to the screen. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 12 Oct 2009 | 3:13 am
When you're sharing the stage with President Barack Obama, you kind of have to wear clothes.
And that was the unlikely matchup as the 44th president of the United States...
(Reuters) Reuters - The fallow plots of farmland on the edge of the artists' village of Songzhuang are a symbol of Chinese contemporary art's recent boom and bust cycle. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 11 Oct 2009 | 8:26 pm
Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died Saturday while on vacation in Majorca, Spain, the group confirmed on their official website Sunday.
"We are truly sorry to confirm that...
Front Page: Film unit options rights to upcoming novel -- Mandalay Pictures has optioned the film rights to the upcoming novel "Horns," penned by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King.
Reports from the National Equality March on Washington today only reinforce the disappointment felt by many at Obama's promise at a fundraiser last night to end "don't ask don't tell" (the implication being: someday). Many speakers mentioned the fact that Obama has not acknowledged the march, which went right by the White House, including Lady GaGa, who asked the president "Are you listening? We will continue to push you and your administration to bring your words of promise to a reality." [CNN]
AP - Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site. He was 33.
Vince Vaughn was money. Paranormal Activity was phenomenal.
Vaughn's Couples Retreat banked the year's biggest opening for a romantic comedy, with a much bigger than expected...
AP - "Swingers" co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau buddied up for the weekend's top movie as "Couples Retreat" debuted with $35.3 million, while the micro-budgeted fright flick "Paranormal Activity" leaped into the top 10.
We love you, Miley Cyrus, but seriously, enough already.
We followed you on Twitter until the bitter end. We pondered a world without Miley tweets alongside your closest friends and...
Everybody seems to be talking about the Times piece this weekend about Kristy and Katy Barry, the big-hearted blond twins from Ohio who just can't figure out why they can't get jobs other than bartending, no matter how many milkweed seeds they wish on! It's an intensely entertaining and often hilarious article that everyone should read and come to his or her own conclusions as to how mean the Times is for publishing it (on a scale of mercenary to sadistic), but we have this one nagging question! It's not "Will the twins get jobs?" but "Will the guy who manages the tomato canning plant and keeps Kristy and Katy in free tomatoes, olive oil, and coconut milk get fired for stealing?" The Times actually used his name! We're wishing on as many milkweed seeds as are necessary that that poor guy doesn't get thrown under a bus for feeding those twins. [NYT]
Joining the mile-high club will not be tolerated on Air Force O.
According to multiple reports, a wrongful termination lawsuit has been brought against Oprah Winfrey and her company...
Kater Gordon, who worked her way up from assistant to staff writer at Mad Men and won an Emmy just a few weeks ago for her work on the Season 2 finale "Meditations in an Emergency," has lost her job. Nikki Finke, who broke the confounding story, shared an email from a source at the show:
"We think [Kater's] done a great job, particularly for someone whose career has progressed so quickly. Now, however, Matt has reluctantly decided that their relationship has reached its full potential. She’ll be missed, but the series has consistently benefited from the influx of new writer talent, and there’s absolutely no doubt that Kater will continue to have unprecedented success in her career as she spreads her wings. She leaves Mad Men with our love and respect and a well-deserved Emmy."
Well, that is just odd. Though right now would be the time for the show to make staff changes, since Season 3 has wrapped shooting, it seems like there's more to this story. Hopefully we'll hear Ms. Gordon's side soon. [Deadline Hollywood]
Front Page: Filmmaker to receive Life Achievement Award -- Mike Nichols has been tapped by the American Film Institute to receive the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The big news from last night's taping of the BET Hip Hop Awards (which will air October 27) is Kanye West's failure to show (but not necessarily because he was drinking, we just like that picture.) Also, T.I. won an award from prison. [EW]
A woman reads a book while lying on a bed at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008. The Frankfurt Book Fair's 61st edition opens on Wednesday with the sector hit hard by the global recession and a bust up with... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Oct 2009 | 1:00 pm
Fair visitors read books at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008. The Frankfurt Book Fair's 61st edition opens on Wednesday with the sector hit hard by the global recession and a bust up with guest of honour... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Oct 2009 | 1:00 pm
Juergen Boos, the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair gives the opening press conference for the world's biggest book fair in 2007. "We always knew there would be protests," fair director Juergen Boos... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 11 Oct 2009 | 1:00 pm
After someone got cellphone video of rats running around inside the Vinny Vincenze pizza truck parked outside the Pink Elephant nightclub in Chelsea, WNBC did a hard-hitting investigation this weekend about the rat's "pizza party." The owner says he's since gotten a new truck (rats must hate that new-truck smell) and bystanders have exactly the same reaction to rat-pizza that any person would have.
Sources close to the situation say Comcast would probably keep Jeff Zucker and his team on board if they end up buying NBC from GE. You know? Let's just be glad Jeff Zucker isn't a surgeon or a pilot. He's being kept in a place where the only thing he can harm is television. [Bloomberg]
Andy Samberg's doing it.
Yeah, we're talking Yo Gabba Gabba!, the crazy kids' show featuring DJ Lance Rock and a bunch of colorful creatures. Besides the Saturday Night Live...
The Times today has a fascinating story about how different our attitudes about sex with minors were back in the '70s when Roman Polanski committed his crime, including now-shocking details like the fact that his victim's degree of sexual experience, and Polanski's position as a Hollywood creative type were taken into account in the case. The piece ends with the conclusion that Woody Allen's (massively overrated) Manhattan would never have been made now. Anyone who's seen it in the past ten years can testify to the total creepiness of Allen's on-screen relationship with Mariel Hemingway. Also, slightly related: Polanski is "depressed." [NYT] [LAT]
After weeks of everyone noticing that John Corzine's attack ads seem to taunt Chris Christie about his weight, Christie has finally addressed the issue, telling the AP that he is healthy aside from his asthma and is currently working out with a trainer. He claims he doesn't think his weight should be a factor in the race for Governor. And with that, Christie broke the first rule of the playground: never let the bully know he's really gotten to you. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Perhaps Kanye West is finally taking that much needed "time off" from his stage-hijacking shenanigans.
After stealing Taylor Swift's thunder at the MTV Video Music...
Top three: Couples Retreat: $35 million; Zombieland: $15 million; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: $12 million. But the big winner is Paranormal Activity, which gained over 1000% and rose to fifth place with $7 million after opening in over a hundred more theaters in its third week. [Box Office Mojo]
Didn't we already use the phrase "lamest SNL sketch ever" last week?
Too bad.
Once again, the formerly fabulous Saturday Night Live left something to be desired as...
In a typically impassioned speech last night at a Human Rights Campaign fundraiser, Obama promised to end "don't ask don't tell," but didn't give a timeline. In a blog post titled "Much Worse Than I Expected," Andrew Sullivan points out that Obama didn't even say he would end the practice in his first term as president. Sullivan seems to represent the majority, who were quick to point out that last night's speech sounded exactly like a campaign speech, but Jacob Bernstein at The Daily Beast was more forgiving, praising the president for a Lady GaGa joke. [The Atlantic, The Daily Beast]
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, sporting a foam clown nose, landed back on Earth after a $35 million working vacation at the international space station.
Singer Stephen Gately, a member of the Irish band Boyzone, died Saturday while vacationing on the Spanish island of Majorca, the group's Web site said Sunday.
When Max Records auditioned for the "Where the Wild Things Are" (out Friday) role of Max, the precocious boy in a dirty white wolf suit who sails to an island full of fearsome horned monsters and becomes their even more fearsome king, he arrived with one advantage -- and it wasn't his first name.
When you're sharing the stage with President Barack Obama, you kind of have to wear clothes.
And that was the unlikely matchup as the 44th president of the United States...
Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died Saturday while on vacation in Majorca, Spain, the group confirmed on their official website Sunday.
"We are truly sorry to confirm that...
Vince Vaughn was money. Paranormal Activity was phenomenal.
Vaughn's Couples Retreat banked the year's biggest opening for a romantic comedy, with a much bigger than expected...
We love you, Miley Cyrus, but seriously, enough already.
We followed you on Twitter until the bitter end. We pondered a world without Miley tweets alongside your closest friends and...
Joining the mile-high club will not be tolerated on Air Force O.
According to multiple reports, a wrongful termination lawsuit has been brought against Oprah Winfrey and her company...
Andy Samberg's doing it.
Yeah, we're talking Yo Gabba Gabba!, the crazy kids' show featuring DJ Lance Rock and a bunch of colorful creatures. Besides the Saturday Night Live...
Perhaps Kanye West is finally taking that much needed "time off" from his stage-hijacking shenanigans.
After stealing Taylor Swift's thunder at the MTV Video Music...
Didn't we already use the phrase "lamest SNL sketch ever" last week?
Too bad.
Once again, the formerly fabulous Saturday Night Live left something to be desired as...
