 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS' telecast of the Tony Awards drew 6.9 million total viewers on Sunday, down from 7.0 million for last year's show, but in line with average results for the past five years. | |
Second death at Tennessee's Bonnaroo festival
Mon,13 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT
Reuters - NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A second person has died at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, Coffee County Sheriff's Deputy Toby Alonso confirmed on Monday evening. Full Story1 | |
Songwriter wins round in "Twilight" legal battle
Mon,13 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Summit Entertainment, which distributes the successful "Twilight" films, has been extremely aggressive in policing infringements of its copyrights and trademarks. But the indie studio might have gone too far earlier this year in knocking down a musician's work said to be "inspired by the Twilight saga." Full Story1 | |
Kardashians fend off credit card firm's lawsuit
Mon,13 Jun 2011 06:10 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Kardashian family scored a significant legal victory on Monday, successfully fending off a $75 million lawsuit claiming that Kim, Khloe and Kourtney were to blame for the collapse of a credit card company that hired them as spokespersons. Full Story1 | |
 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tom Cruise has an offer in hand to star in "One Shot," a thriller about a former military policeman investigating the arrest of a sniper accused of killing five random people. | |
"Killing" star Mireille Enos a success at 35
Mon,13 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's a stereotypical L.A. scene at the Alcove Cafe in Los Feliz on Sunday afternoons, as resident hipsters dine on veggie omelets alfresco and pretend that, behind their fedoras, they really aren't checking you out. Full Story1 | |
'Killing' star Mireille Enos a success at 35
Mon,13 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's a stereotypical L.A. scene at the Alcove Cafe in Los Feliz on Sunday afternoons, as resident hipsters dine on veggie omelets alfresco and pretend that, behind their fedoras, they really aren't checking you out. Full Story1 | |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Readers will be able to "jump" from a new adventure series into children's classics "Treasure Island" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in a new digital book initiative launched on Amazon's Kindle on Tuesday. | |
"The Killing" star lines up romantic comedy
Mon,13 Jun 2011 03:55 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman, star of AMC's serial drama "The Killing," has nabbed a lead role in "Lola Versus," a low-budget romantic comedy feature that starts shooting later this month in New York. Full Story1 | |
 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS' telecast of the Tony Awards drew 6.9 million total viewers on Sunday, down from 7.0 million for last year's show, but in line with average results for the past five years. | |
Cable and programmers talk mobility at last
Mon,13 Jun 2011 03:10 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cable programmers and operators are putting aside usually difficult negotiations to solve their most pressing challenge this year: How to make more TV shows mobile without harming their lucrative business. Full Story1 | |
 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - How much do you love Rocco DiSpirito? How you answer that question might determine your reaction to Bravo's latest Top Chef imitator "Rocco's Dinner Party," which premieres June 15. | |
'The Killing' renewed for second season
Mon,13 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - AMC has ordered a second season of "The Killing," a serial drama based on a Danish series about the search for the killer of a teenage girl. Full Story1 | |
 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Season 6 premiere of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" fell sharply from the launch of Season 5 as the Tonys and the NBA Finals siphoned off viewers. | |
 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC has named Jessica Simpson as a celebrity mentor for its upcoming reality series "Fashion Star." | |
CBS news viewership steady with new anchor
Mon,13 Jun 2011 02:46 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Scott Pelley took the anchor seat at the CBS Evening News with little fanfare -- especially compared to the hoopla that greeted his predecessor's debut. And that understated approach is perhaps reflected in the broadcast's first-week ratings. Full Story1 | |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, a week after his release from prison on gun charges, pledged on Monday to preach against gun violence to the nation's children. | |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British whodunit about two sisters, a look at absurd nuclear bomb shelters and a what-if novel modeled on Britain's Princess Diana if she had lived to 50, are among 29 books on O, The Oprah Magazine's summer reading list. | |
"Citizen Kane" coming to Blu-ray in September
Mon,13 Jun 2011 10:19 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Citizen Kane," frequently cited as the best American movie ever made, will premiere on Blu-ray on September 13 with a 70th anniversary collector's edition. Full Story1 | |
 ROME (Reuters) - Pop queen Lady Gaga concluded a huge European gay rights march in Rome on Saturday night with a rousing call to governments to defend gay rights. | |
 LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC has put its landmark Television Center broadcasting hub up for sale under plans to cut its property holdings by 30 percent. | |
 PARIS (Reuters) - The work of Serge Gainsbourg, the large-nosed, Gitanes-smoking French icon whose jazzy, bohemian songs exemplified a sexually liberated France of the 1960s and 1970s, is enjoying a resurgence in the most unlikely of places -- perfume ads. | |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Irreverent musical "The Book of Mormon," an affectionate spoof about Mormons from the creators of the TV show, "South Park," scooped the major honors at the Tony Awards held on Sunday, winning nine awards. | |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Not bad for a decidedly unfashionable singer. | |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has suffered a stroke, according to a pair of media reports on Sunday. | |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Laura Ziskin, the Hollywood producer who helped turn "Pretty Woman" heroine Julia Roberts into a star and brought "Spider-Man" to the big screen, died on Sunday after a public battle with breast cancer. She was 61. | |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Satirical musical "The Book of Mormon" won several early Tony Awards on Sunday in its quest to make history by taking home a record number of Broadway's highest honors. | |
"Glee Project" kills two birds with one stone
Sun,12 Jun 2011 08:15 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - You may have noticed that those lovable "Glee" kids are getting a little old. With senior year at McKinley right around the corner, the show's producers faced an unenviable decision: cast a new crop of song birds to replace Rachel and company, or figure out a plot line that flunks the current cast so as to make them repeat the 12th grade. Full Story1 | |
Bee documentary a bittersweet wake-up call
Sun,12 Jun 2011 08:13 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Honey just got funny" was the tagline for Jerry Seinfeld's 2007 animated feature "Bee Movie," in which the comic gave voice to a bee that rebels against the exploitation of the agricultural industry. Full Story1 | |
Why Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio could get Oscars
Sun,12 Jun 2011 07:52 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sure, the 84th Annual Academy Awards won't take place until February 26, and the serious jockeying won't begin until September, when the festival trifecta of Telluride-Venice-Toronto gets under way. Full Story1 | |
Seth Meyers bows to Justin Timberlake's comedy
Sun,12 Jun 2011 06:31 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Saturday Night Live" head writer Seth Meyers reveals his true feelings about Justin Timberlake, his favorite moment from last season and how much he misses Amy Poehler. Full Story1 | |
Sci-fi series "Falling Skies" off to strong start
Sun,12 Jun 2011 03:39 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - TNT's entertaining new series "Falling Skies" premieres next Sunday with quite a bit less fanfare than executive producer Steven Spielberg's other sci-fi TV project, the problematic Fox series "Terra Nova." Full Story1 | |
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