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'Kong' sets sight on box office throne
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He's already 25 feet tall and 8,000 pounds, but if Universal Pictures has its way, great ape King Kong is only going to get bigger.
American TV viewers getting taste of telenovelas
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox TV stations are bringing the popular Latin American serialized soaps known as telenovelas to American viewers next year in the form of a ...
"Office" star Gervais tops charts with podcast
LONDON (Reuters) - Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the hit BBC comedy "The Office," has topped the charts in the United States and Britain with his podcast, a booming new format ...
Showtime may rescue 'Arrested Development'
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Will the pay-TV environs of Showtime be a friendlier place for the Emmy-winning comedy "Arrested Development," which just got canceled by Fox?
Actors react to nominations
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - News of Will Ferrell's nomination for his supporting role as a comical neo-Nazi playwright in "The Producers" induced a groggy debate at the ...
Winnie the Pooh gets a new friend: a girl
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Beat it Christopher Robin. It's time Winnie the Pooh had a girl friend.
'Brokeback' director trying to stay calm amid buzz
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Director Ang Lee fielded congratulatory calls on "Brokeback Mountain's" leading seven Golden Globe nominations from his lonely hotel room in ...
Updike explores homegrown terrorism in new book
BOSTON (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike's next project is bound to stir controversy -- not just in literary circles.
Jackson family reality project being shopped
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Jackson might be shunning the spotlight these days, but his family sure isn't. Making the rounds at cable networks in recent weeks is a ...
Clooney follows heart to nomination windfall
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Clooney is feeling the love. "Good Night, and Good Luck," his treatise on 1950s journalism, and "Syriana," his provocative Middle East ...
Kanye, Shakira celebrating New Year with MTV
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Kanye West, Shakira, Maroon 5's Adam Levine and Fall Out Boy lead the lineup for MTV's 14th annual New Year's Eve broadcast, which will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Spielberg film draws Israeli criticism before it opens
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg's new film, "Munich," about Israel's reprisals for the slaying of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has not opened yet but already many ...
Sri Lanka film shows poor still suffer after tsunami
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dhruv Dhawan just wanted to make a film about Sri Lankan survivors of the tsunami, but he stumbled upon a classic tale of how developing countries on the long march ...
Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails highlight LA fest
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - 'Tis the season to be jolly, except for most of the bands that played Saturday's first night of LA modern rock station KROQ's Almost Acoustic ...
Colin Farrell treated for dependence on medication
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Irish actor Colin Farrell has been admitted to a treatment center for exhaustion and an addiction to prescription drugs, his spokeswoman said on Monday.
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