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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Giovanni Ribisi will join Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin in "The Gangster Squad," a police drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s. "Rock of Ages" lawsuit pits producer vs. producer Wed,6 Jul 2011 08:03 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - A would-be producer of "Rock of Ages" is singing an unhappy tune about allegedly being left out in the cold when it comes to producers' fees.Full Story1 |
Paramount's animation plan leaves DreamWorks hanging Wed,6 Jul 2011 07:24 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Paramount is getting into the animation game with a bold plan that could leave DreamWorks Animation in the lurch. Full Story1 |
 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police investigating the theft of a Pablo Picasso sketch from a San Francisco art gallery impounded a taxicab on Wednesday used as the getaway vehicle, hoping for clues from its surveillance camera. |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British soul singer Adele and flamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga have helped the U.S. music industry stage a modest comeback after a decade of decline. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - With the million awful, tacky, shrill, stupid, condescending, tasteless, "Eragon"-y things that could have gone wrong over the 10 years and eight movies that brought J.K. Rowling's mega-popular Harry Potter series to the big screen, it's practically a statistical anomaly that the final entry, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," brings its A-game from start to finish. |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country-pop singer Taylor Swift on Wednesday canceled three more of her U.S. concerts due to bronchitis but said she hoped to be better for a July 14 date in Montreal. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - "Dream House," a thriller starring real-life newlyweds Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, has lost a bid to have its "R" rating softened. |
History accents positive in "Kennedy Home Movies" Wed,6 Jul 2011 04:55 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - The History cable channel is making nice with the Kennedys. Full Story1 |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom, whose Hollywood credits include "The Rite" and "1408," will direct the indie sociopath thriller "Wake." The film is about "a modern day Jekyll and Hyde who knows no bounds" -- and no fear, producer Hammer Films said Wednesday. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Charlie Sheen hopes to return to TV in a show based on the 2003 Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson comedy "Anger Management" in which he would play a variation of Nicholson's character, TheWrap has confirmed. |
 SLAVE LAKE, Alberta (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and Kate took a side trip on their royal newlyweds' tour of Canada on Wednesday to visit Slave Lake, Alberta, which was devastated by wildfires in the spring. |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "American Idol" contestant Pia Toscano, whose early exit from the TV show shocked viewers, has signed a record deal with Interscope Records, the company said on Wednesday. |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Beyonce went to No. 1 on the U.S. pop album chart with her fourth consecutive release on Wednesday, although its sales were the lowest of her solo career. |
 LONDON (Reuters) - The young actors who have worked on the "Harry Potter" movies for half their lives said on Wednesday they were struggling to come to grips with the series ending. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Comedian J.B. Smoove, who plays Larry David's buddy in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," has joined the cast of Sasha Baron Cohen's upcoming film, "The Dictator." |
 PARIS (Reuters) - German supermodel Claudia Schiffer launched her first cashmere collection during Haute Couture fashion week in Paris with the hope of creating a lasting brand that she could pass on to her children. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Is the world ready for David Hasselhoff, porn star? |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CNN has canceled its television talk show hosted by former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, despite a major revamp less than six months ago. |
 NEW YORK (TheWrap) - All five major television networks lost viewers, Super Bowl ratings set another record, "Two and a Half Men" remained the most-watched comedy on television, and the two biggest new shows debuted in mid-season. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Emmy-winning actor James Spader has joined the regular cast of "The Office" as Robert California, the new CEO of Sabre, the parent company of Dunder Mifflin, NBC said on Wednesday. |
 PARIS (Reuters) - Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld dazzled the fashion world on Tuesday with a rare nighttime presentation of his fall-winter haute couture collection that conjured up all the magic of a walk through starlit Paris. |
IMAX to install 3 theatre systems in Portugal Wed,6 Jul 2011 10:37 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Imax Corp said it signed a revenue-sharing deal with Portugal's ZON Lusomundo Cinemas, marking the Canadian big-screen movie company's first steps into the western European country. Full Story1 |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Noel Gallagher unveiled plans on Wednesday for his first solo album, and recalled the day in Paris two years ago when rock band Oasis broke up amid violent scenes involving his brother and lead singer Liam. |
"No God" film angers Tunisian Islamists Wed,6 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT Reuters - TUNIS (Reuters) - Six months after Tunisia's uprising, religious tension is rising over the limits of freedom of expression, as Islamists challenge the dominance of liberals in what was once a citadel of Arab secularism. Full Story1 |
 LONDON (Reuters) - American painter Cy Twombly, renowned for his large-scale scribbled canvases, died in Rome on Tuesday. He was 83. |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker, with estimated annual earnings of $30 million each, are the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, according to the Forbes.com annual list. |
 NEW YORK (TheWrap) - Led by Headline News anchor Nancy Grace, the entire cable landscape -- and now the broadcast news networks -- seem to have gotten drunk on the Casey Anthony trial. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - USA Network has picked up the series "Common Law," which will begin shooting in New Orleans next month, the cable channel said on Tuesday. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Elizabeth Hurley is coming to "Gossip Girl," guest-starring as a media mogul in multiple episodes of the teen soap. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Johnny Depp is close to a deal to star in a fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, a source close to negotiations told TheWrap. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Looks like we might have solved the case of how "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" plans to deal with the loss of Christopher Meloni and the diminished role of Mariska Hargitay. |
| LONDON (Reuters) - American painter Cy Twombly, renowned for his large-scale scribbled canvases, died in Rome on Tuesday. He was 83. |
| LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Johnny Depp is close to a deal to star in a fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, a source close to negotiations told TheWrap. |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Netflix Inc is expanding its online video service to 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, sending its shares to an all-time high. |
 LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A horse painting by George Stubbs fetched 22.4 million pounds ($35.9 million) at Christie's in London on Tuesday, the third most valuable old master painting to be sold at auction, the company said. |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Trustee overseeing Blockbuster Inc's bankruptcy is asking a judge to stop the movie rental chain from paying one employee hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses to speed up creditor payouts. |
 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Adam Sandler will voice the role of Dracula in "Hotel Transylvania," a 3D film set in a resort for monsters, Sony Pictures Animation said Tuesday. |
CBS and electrical union reach deal on new contract Tue,5 Jul 2011 11:45 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - CBS and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) have reached a tentative contract agreement that, if ratified, would be effective through January 31, 2015. Full Story1 |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If only they could wave a magic wand, studio executives at Warner Bros. would make their "Harry Potter" film franchise last forever. But movie magic takes more than a whisk of a stick to conjure up. |
