Helen Mirren “happy” her Hollywood star next to Colin Firth’s
(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren finally got her wish on Thursday, receiving a star along the Hollywood Walk of Fame right next to dashing...
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Putin makes French film star Depardieu a Russian
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted citizenship to Gerard Depardieu, the French movie star whose decision to quit his homeland to avoid a...
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas engaged to businesswoman
(Reuters) – “Star Wars” creator George Lucas will marry his longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson, the director’s production company Lucasfilm Ltd said on Thursday. Lucas, 68,...
Actress Katie Holmes’ Broadway show to close
(Reuters) – Actress Katie Holmes’ return to Broadway has been cut short, with producers announcing that the play “Dead Accounts” in which she co-stars will...
Stallone did not copy screenplay for “The Expendables”: judge
(Reuters) – A federal judge has reaffirmed his decision to dismiss a lawsuit accusing actor Sylvester Stallone of copying someone else’s screenplay to make his...
Film explores African-Americans’ unhealthy “soul food” habit
(Reuters) – After interviewing food historians, scholars, cooks, doctors, activists and consumers for his new film “Soul Food Junkies,” filmmaker Byron Hurt concluded that an...
Character actor, World War Two hero Charles Durning dies at 89
(Reuters) – Charles Durning, a World War Two hero who became one of Hollywood’s top character actors in films like “The Sting,” “Tootsie” and “The...
Spike Lee on ‘Django Unchained’: It’s ‘disrespectful,’ American slavery ‘was a Holocaust’
Director Spike Lee is boycotting Quentin Tarantino’s new film “Django Unchained,” which depicts a black slave’s journey to rescue his wife in the pre-Civil War...
Bin Laden film attacked for ‘perpetuating torture myth’
A new film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden is “inaccurate” for suggesting torture helped lead to his discovery. That is according to three...
“Hobbit” fever beats Tom Cruise at box office
(Reuters) – The dwarfs and elves of “The Hobbit” overpowered Tom Cruise to take the box office title for a second time, grabbing $37.6 million...