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Did Eastwood's RNC act cause trouble for 'Curve'?
A week after Clint Eastwood's appearance before the Republican National Convention, mocking continues about the Hollywood veteran's peculiar, rambling ...
Gentle-giant star Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54
Michael Clarke Duncan was one big, irresistible jumble of contradictions. His presence was formidable, even intimidating: The former bodyguard had a ...
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54
Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in ...
'Possession' takes control in slow movie weekend
The fright flick "The Possession" has scared up a No. 1 debut with $17.7 million from Friday to Sunday over the long Labor Day weekend. The Lionsgate ...
Hollywood's summer heads south as films fizzle
Studio executives expected their biggest summer ever this year as they loaded their lineup with huge action movies and superhero franchises. What they ...
Movie audiences find anti-Obama doc '2016'
It wasn't backed by any Hollywood movie studio. Reviews were mostly negative. It premiered in Houston, not Los Angeles or New York. And yet despite ...
Celebs and pols: When the star alliance misfires
In the aftermath of Clint Eastwood's perplexing and ridiculed "invisible Obama" monologue at the Republican National Convention, conservative blogger ...
Anti-Obama doc highlights weak Hollywood newcomers
Hollywood may have run out of summer hits, but an anti-Obama documentary is helping to fill the gap. Holdover movies easily topped the weekend box ...
Celeb presence will be smaller this year for Dems
Four years ago, Ben Affleck was a familiar presence around the Democratic convention, packing produce for charity and even winning a poker tournament.
Highlights of Hollywood's fall, holiday lineup
Here are highlights of Hollywood's fall and holiday movie lineup: SEPTEMBER: — "Arbitrage": Richard Gere stars in a Wall Street thriller about a ...
Hollywood's 3 Bs for fall: Bond, Bella, Bilbo
The B-list rules Hollywood's fall and holiday movie season: Bond, Bella and Bilbo. Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in "Skyfall," the super-spy's ...
Hunt for answers in 'Top Gun' director's death
Director Tony Scott loved fast cars, riding fast motorcycles and creating some of the most memorable action sequences of the past quarter century.
Tony Scott: A man of action films, pure and simple
No one ever mistook Tony Scott for a great dramatist. He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story.
'Expendables 2' brawls to No. 1 with $28.8M
Sylvester Stallone and his beefy buddies have muscled their way to the top of the weekend box office. Stallone's action hero roundup "The Expendables ...
Pattinson returns to spotlight on 'The Daily Show'
Robert Pattinson has decided to come back — to the spotlight, that is. The 26-year-old actor has been out of sight since learning last month that his ...
'Onion Field' killer dies in California prison
Gregory Powell, who was convicted of killing a Los Angeles police officer during an infamous kidnapping that inspired the true crime book and movie ...
'Bourne,' 'Campaign' bump Batman from No. 1 spot
"The Dark Knight Rises" has finally fallen out of first-place at the weekend box office. Jeremy Renner's action tale "The Bourne Legacy" took over as ...
Travolta, Spielberg light up Foreign Press lunch
Steven Spielberg talked movies with Harvey Weinstein. John Travolta chatted with Bradley Cooper. Dustin Hoffman and Jack Black shared cellphone photos
Veteran Hollywood publicist Dale Olson dead at 78
Veteran Hollywood publicist Dale Olson, who represented such Hollywood legends as Marilyn Monroe, Gene Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock, and such current ...
Anxiety over rover's Hollywood-style Mars landing
Seven minutes of terror. It sounds like a Hollywood thriller, but the phrase describes the anxiety NASA is expecting as its car-sized robotic rover ...
Screen pals Caine, Freeman talk career longevity
Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman shared only fleeting screen time in the Batman trilogy now concluded. In a recent interview, the two Oscar-winning ...
Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies
In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and ...
Steve McQueen watch auctioned for nearly $800,000
A watch worn by Steve McQueen in "Le Mans" sold for nearly $800,000 at an auction of film memorabilia. The auction house Profiles in History said ...
50 years on, Marilyn's star power shines bright
Only 11 years after her death, Elton John sang his ode to Marilyn Monroe. "And I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid," went the ...
Romantic crooner Tony Martin dies at 98
Tony Martin, the romantic singer who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and sustained a career in records, television and ...