R&B singer Rihanna broke her silence on Friday about the night her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown attacked her, saying he had bitten her, put her in a headlock and left her bleeding and swollen.
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The Michael Jackson concert film "This Is It" has crossed the $100 million mark at international box offices as it enters its second weekend in theaters, the studio behind the movie said on Friday.
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More than 100 villagers in Malawi demanded Thursday more compensation from the government for land on which US pop star Madonna is building a girls academy.
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Pop star Rihanna said Thursday she was "wrong" to reconcile with boyfriend Chris Brown after he assaulted her, saying she did not want other victims of domestic abuse to follow her example.
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Oscar organizers on Tuesday named an unlikely pair of hosts for March's Academy Awards, comedian Steve Martin and "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin, a past loser at the world's top film awards.
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A California judge on Friday ordered the boyfriend and two doctors for former Playboy model and actress Anna Nicole Smith to stand trial on charges of fueling her addiction with prescription drugs.
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Actor Dennis Hopper is suffering from prostate cancer and canceling all travel plans to focus on his treatment, his manager told media on Thursday.
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Rock 'n' roll royalty held court on Thursday night as Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Sting and other music legends staged a marathon show to celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary.
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The first non-country music star to open a theater in Branson owes much to a song called "Moon River," which is in title of his new autobiography.
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New offerings this week are Jim Carrey's digital counterpart in A Christmas Carol as well as the tony cast and crew behind the Army psychic film The Men Who Stare at Goats.Read more »
On this Halloween weekend, the scariest thing Hollywood has to offer is dead Michael Jackson in This is It and the independent comedy Gentleman Broncos.Read more »
Oren Peli wrote and directed "Paranormal Activity" but you wouldn't know that from watching the film. The beginning is simply a "Thanks" to the families of the characters in the film for allowing Paramount Pictures to use the following footage - which gives you some sense these characters aren't going to bode well for the duration of the flick.
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Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are" is a beautifully inventive film about the wonders and the pitfalls of a child's imagination. It is by no means perfect or smooth, as nothing gestating from a ten-year-old's mind would be. The benefit of this adaptation from the classic Maurice Sednak's book is that the stories and images are filtered through the visual styling of the fantastic Jonze, who made his reputation as one of the great music video/commercial directors ever. (The anecdotal evidence I would offer is his Nike ad from 1999 that perfectly captures the apocalyptic dread of Y2K, the positive aspects of New Year's resolutions, and the product itself in a span of 59 seconds.) The sparse text of the story has also benefited from a screenplay co-written by novelist Dave Eggers who finds a way to make the mind of a young boy vividly alive and believable.
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One new offering is the classic children's book-turned-flick Where the Wild Things Are, as well as the hard-core vigilante celebration Law-Abiding Citizen.Read more »
Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" is an ambitious mess of a movie: Part filmmaker autobiography, part historical lesson, part exploitative emotional narrative. All of this focused around the American economic system. It is perhaps the most sweeping topic Moore has ever covered. In turn, "Capitalism" is also one of his ill-focused works; a film that does not find its emotional or intellectual thrust until the last third of its two hours and twenty minutes of run time.
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Reuben Fleisher's "Zombieland" has a clever concept at its core that does not crib as much from Edgar Wright's classic comedy "Shaun of the Dead" as I had expected: This film examines the benefits of a zombie invasion. There's lots of great parking, no lines at amusement parks, and the violence against zombies act as a great stress reliever. These segments of "Zombieland" have a gleeful zeal. However, Mr. Fleisher has never directed a film before so he leans heavily on bathroom humor and has a real problem with consistency. As fun as it is, "Zombieland" could have been a little tighter. For a film that only 82 minutes long, that's almost a fatal flaw.
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Robert D. Siegel's "Big Fan" follows Paul Aufiero (Patton Oswalt) as he contemplates whether he should put his own interests over the interests of his beloved New York Giants. In the process, he goes from being a psycho sports fan to just being a psycho. Siegal's theory is that the only thing distinguishing the two state of minds is one word. While there has been plenty of celluloid spooled out on the deranged loner, "Big Fan" is a very specific, tightly wound examination with a surprisingly good, central performance by Oswalt.
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