"The Golden Compass" proved a mild fantasy at the box office, pulling in $26.1 million, a modest opening weekend compared to such recent December heavyweights as "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" flicks.
Talks to end Hollywood's writers' strike abruptly ended Friday evening as studio negotiators walked out, accusing Writers Guild of America leaders of putting personal political agendas above the interests of writers.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79.
The voice is raspy but recognizable, reminiscent of a time when he played with a band so amazingly good they were simply known as The Band.
In case anyone is still carrying a grudge from 1982, Genie Francis would like her fans to know she's sorry.
Monica Mason joined the Royal Ballet in 1958 at the age of 16, becoming the youngest member of the Company at that time. Ten years later she was promoted to principal dancer. She has been director of the Royal Ballet since 2002. Here she gives CNN her assessment of Tetsuya Kumakawa prodigious talents.
Sir Anthony Dowell joined the Royal Ballet in 1961. He was promoted to principal dancer in 1966 and became one of the best classical dancers of his era. Amongst his most notable roles were as Oberon in The Dream (1964) and Troyte in Enigma Variations (1968). As artistic director of the Royal Ballet when Tetsuya Kumakawa arrived at the company Dowell is uniquely positioned to give a professional and personal insight in to the Japanese dancer. Here he explains to CNN what made "Teddy" stand out from the crowd.
Not only is Tetsuya Kumakawa the greatest ever Japanese ballet dancer, he is one of the best the world has ever seen. His athletic grace has won him fans wherever he has performed, and his dedication to the art continues to bring ballet to new audiences.
Billy Joel has released a new pop single, the anti-war "Christmas in Fallujah." Just don't expect to hear his voice on it.
"Saving Grace," "Nearing Grace," "Grace Under Fire," "Will & Grace": It's the thank-less literary fate of any fictional character given a name so rife with catchphrase possibilities to stand for far more than whoever she really is -- and whoever she could believably be.
"The Golden Compass" proved a mild fantasy at the box office, pulling in $26.1 million, a modest opening weekend compared to such recent December heavyweights as "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" flicks.
Talks to end Hollywood's writers' strike abruptly ended Friday evening as studio negotiators walked out, accusing Writers Guild of America leaders of putting personal political agendas above the interests of writers.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79.
The voice is raspy but recognizable, reminiscent of a time when he played with a band so amazingly good they were simply known as The Band.
In case anyone is still carrying a grudge from 1982, Genie Francis would like her fans to know she's sorry.
Monica Mason joined the Royal Ballet in 1958 at the age of 16, becoming the youngest member of the Company at that time. Ten years later she was promoted to principal dancer. She has been director of the Royal Ballet since 2002. Here she gives CNN her assessment of Tetsuya Kumakawa prodigious talents.
Sir Anthony Dowell joined the Royal Ballet in 1961. He was promoted to principal dancer in 1966 and became one of the best classical dancers of his era. Amongst his most notable roles were as Oberon in The Dream (1964) and Troyte in Enigma Variations (1968). As artistic director of the Royal Ballet when Tetsuya Kumakawa arrived at the company Dowell is uniquely positioned to give a professional and personal insight in to the Japanese dancer. Here he explains to CNN what made "Teddy" stand out from the crowd.
Not only is Tetsuya Kumakawa the greatest ever Japanese ballet dancer, he is one of the best the world has ever seen. His athletic grace has won him fans wherever he has performed, and his dedication to the art continues to bring ballet to new audiences.
Billy Joel has released a new pop single, the anti-war "Christmas in Fallujah." Just don't expect to hear his voice on it.
"Saving Grace," "Nearing Grace," "Grace Under Fire," "Will & Grace": It's the thank-less literary fate of any fictional character given a name so rife with catchphrase possibilities to stand for far more than whoever she really is -- and whoever she could believably be.
Milo Ventimiglia once again saved the world on NBC's "Heroes." Now what?
Attorneys for "Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher say there's no way to gloss over it -- the allegations that she promoted a rival lip plumping product are false.
There's plenty riding on "The Golden Compass," a $180 million fantasy family film based on the first book in author Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
Kanye West earned eight nominations Thursday, including album of the year and rap album of the year for his "Graduation," leading the competition for the 50th annual Grammy Awards.
Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Will Led Zeppelin's long-awaited reunion lead to more concerts?
Both sides in the Hollywood writers strike expressed optimism that progress was being made in contract negotiations aimed at ending a five-week walkout.
Kanye West and Amy Winehouse each have had a rough year. He weathered the death of his mother last month, and she has been battling health issues that forced her to cancel scores of shows.
Kiefer Sutherland was sentenced Wednesday to 48 days in jail for racking up a second drunken-driving arrest in three years and immediately reported to a city lockup.
Four boy actors in the movie "The Kite Runner" have left Afghanistan out of concern they could be ostracized or subjected to violence because of a rape scene in the movie, a film executive said.
Actor Brad Pitt plans to focus on rebuilding New Orleans and extending his family, he told CNN's Larry King -- but acting may not be in his long-term future.
All Jevon Jackson wanted was to hang a picture of Jennifer Aniston in his room.
"No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers' searing take on crime and carnage along the Rio Grande, is the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' pick for the best film of 2007.
At first, Amy Winehouse was heralded as a gifted new artist with an amazing album. Now she's known for erratic behavior and alleged substance abuse -- but Thursday's Grammy nominations should put the focus back on her music.
Despite being the guest of honor at The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast, Jodie Foster said, "I don't feel very powerful."
Dennis Quaid and his wife sued the makers of heparin Tuesday after their newborn twins were inadvertently given massive doses of the blood thinner at a hospital.
Child welfare investigators are looking into "multiple child abuse and neglect" allegations in the custody battle between Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Boasting hoofers, twisters and Christmas cheer, ABC owned the week's top five shows, and won decisively in prime time overall, according to Nielsen Media Research figures.
Teri Hatcher is being told to pucker up and pay $2.4 million to a skin-care products company that says she promoted the wrong lip gloss.
Hong Kong's veteran stuntman and special effects expert Bruce Law is busy coordinating car stunts and pyrotechnic effects on the Shanghai set of the new Hollywood production "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" -- or "Mummy 3" for short -- starring Jet Li.
An accounting mix-up led to the wrong woman being crowned Miss California USA, and she's relinquished her crown to the rightful winner, organizers said Monday.
Dave Chappelle has broken his own Laugh Factory endurance record.
Blake Lewis checked an e-mail on his iPhone and gasped.
Scott Weiland was arrested for driving under the influence of a drug after he crashed his car, but his publicist says it was a minor accident and denies the allegations.
The plot sounds familiar: movie takes on religion, angers some faction of believers.
NBC's "Last Call" Monday became the first late-night show to return to the air with fresh episodes since the Hollywood writers' strike began.
Artist Mark Wallinger won Britain's prestigious Turner Prize for a fiercely anti-war exhibit based on a lone protester's six-year vigil outside British parliament.
The West Coast head of the striking writers guild is calling on producers to break ranks with the studio alliance he said is allowing "hard-liners" to obstruct negotiations.
The Rev. Pat Robertson said Monday that his son, Gordon, has succeeded him as chief executive of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the most recent shift to a younger generation of leaders within major conservative Christian groups.
Expanding on a promise he made nearly two months ago, actor Brad Pitt said Monday he expects to have families in 150 newly created homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward by the end of next summer -- but he asked for help to make the dream a reality.
Katherine Heigl is still adjusting to the change in her "Grey's Anatomy" character, Dr. Izzie Stevens.
Brad Pitt expects the foundations to be built for at least 150 eco-friendly homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward by the end of next summer.
Don Imus returned to the airwaves Monday eight months after he was fired for a racially charged remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team, and introduced a new cast that included two black comedians.
Evel Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil whose stunts -- including an attempted leap over Idaho's Snake River Canyon -- made him a popular cultural figure, is dead, according to his Web site, evelknievel.com. He was 69.
It might be too much to devote an hour of prime-time television to long legs, taut tummies and half-bare bottoms and bosoms. So the Victoria's Secret fashion show incorporates elaborate staging and musical performances.
Four years after retiring, illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn say they may just reappear.
The Spice Girls kicked off their reunion tour Sunday, the first time all five members of the group have toured together in almost 10 years.
From "Good Vibrations" to "GoodFellas," Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the "wild and crazy guys." Diana Ross sang her way to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher surmounted a debilitating injury.
The fairy-tale romance "Enchanted" maintained its magic at the box office, pulling in $17 million to remain the top movie amid a sleepy weekend at theaters.
Elizabeth Taylor returned to the stage Saturday night, after persuading striking TV and film writers to briefly put down their picket signs.
Heavy metal fans aren't usually seen making bids at high-end auctions, but they turned out in numbers to snatch up a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by Ozzy Osbourne.
Talk show host Montel Williams has apologized for an angry confrontation with reporters who said he threatened them.
Will Don Imus be defiant or contrite? Will he mock his skeptics while making his triumphant return to radio Monday.
Something is very wrong on Wisteria Lane, and not just behind closed doors.
Queen and its new frontman, Paul Rodgers, will release the single "Say It's Not True" to mark World AIDS Day on Saturday.
No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either.
From Cher's used Hummer to Wayne Gretzky's old hockey sticks to Ozzy Osbourne's guitar, anybody can have a piece of celebrity -- for a price.
Akon is facing criminal charges after a fan said she suffered a concussion when the hip-hop star tossed a teenager off the stage and onto her in the concert crowd.
With his nonstriking "Late Night" staffers facing layoffs after Friday, Conan O'Brien has promised to cover their salaries next week, an NBC spokeswoman said Thursday.
Even though her latest film, "Rendition," was a flop, Reese Witherspoon is a moneymaker.
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, two of our best screen actors, get the chance to develop subtle, detailed characterizations in the engaging, sympathetic comedy "The Savages," the first film in almost 10 years from "Slums of Beverly Hills" writer-director Tamara Jenkins.
Hollywood studios presented a new contract offer to striking film and TV writers Thursday that the studios said would pay writers millions of dollars extra for shows created for the Internet.
On the blank canvas of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Julian Schnabel's first stroke was an image of glaciers falling into the sea.
Theatergoers lined up for tickets Thursday as Broadway returned to business following a crippling 19-day strike that cost producers and the city millions of dollars.
Strike or no strike, Carson Daly's back at work on "Last Call." But what does this mean?
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening, ending a 19-day strike.
The hard-drinking, foul-mouthed writer Charles Bukowski once described himself as a guy who wouldn't walk away from a brawl.
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday, ending a 19-day strike.
NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" is about to become the first late-night talk show to defy the writers strike and resume production.
CBS squeaked past ABC to win the Thanksgiving week prime-time ratings.
When 50 Cent bought Mike Tyson's 48,000-square-foot mansion three years ago, the rapper felt like he'd stepped into a time warp.
Speed trumped Spice in the "Dancing with the Stars" finale on Tuesday night, as Helio Castroneves upset Melanie Brown to capture the show's fifth mirrorball trophy.
The conception of Adolf Hitler was never going to make for easy reading. But the late Norman Mailer's explicit rendition of the incestuous encounter between the genocidal German dictator's parents has won the writer one of the world's most dubious literary prizes.
Pandas dumped on the streets by the truckload. Romantic nights at the pickled-head museum. The Harlem Globetrotters doing rhythmic math routines. A murderous robot Santa, extraterrestrial e-mail scammers and prime time with a mind-control show called "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad."
The father of a girl who complained about the conduct of a dormitory matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls here said Wednesday he fully supports the talk show host and her vision for the school.
When teen music stars approach the age of consent, they often test the boundaries of what's appropriate by taking on projects with adult content. "American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks took the opposite approach as she sought out material for her CD debut.
A feud involving the man who sang "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" could wind up in court, just in time for Christmas.
Singer Amy Winehouse has canceled all concerts and public appearances for the rest of the year on doctor's orders.
The whimsical Bob Dylan narrative "I'm Not There," featuring Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and four others playing incarnations of the enigmatic singer, led nominees Tuesday for the Spirit Awards honoring independent film.
Bookstores are lined with the works of novelists who've never seen their creations make it to the silver screen -- or who've been burned when they do.
When Amy Adams was nominated for an Academy Award, she still lived in the run-down apartment she rented when she moved to Los Angeles with movie-star dreams.
NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" is about to become the first late-night talk show to defy the writers strike and resume production.
Striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers will try again Wednesday to work out a deal to end their protracted labor dispute that has darkened theaters for more than two weeks.
Melanie Brown emerged from Monday's "Dancing With the Stars" ballroom battle with the highest score, positioning herself to claim the mirrorball trophy during Tuesday's season finale.
Hulk Hogan's wife said in a divorce petition that she wants a share of the family's two multimillion-dollar Florida properties plus alimony and child support for their 17-year-old son.
Another day, another photographic flame for Paul McCartney?
It was a Thanksgiving weekend wedding for "Superman Returns" star Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford.
Kevin DuBrow, the lead singer of the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has died, CNN has confirmed. He was 52.
Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations.
Brassy Marie Osmond, sultry Melanie Brown and revved-up Helio Castroneves will face the music once more Monday as "Dancing with the Stars" wraps another winning season.
Luciano Pavarotti's widow has sued two friends of the late tenor for $44 million, claiming their comments about her marriage were defamatory, her lawyer said Monday.
Striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers agreed early Monday to a 12-hour break in negotiations aimed at reopening darkened theaters.
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