 LONDON (Reuters) - A former senior aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron faced arrest on Friday over his alleged role in a phone-hacking scandal that prompted Rupert Murdoch to close Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper. |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Better start making the popcorn now, because this weekend you'll have the opportunity to watch Nancy Grace's head nearly explode all over again. And again. And again. |
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"Beats, Rhymes & Life" captures Tribe Called Quest Reunion
Thu,7 Jul 2011 06:12 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - After hip-hop was all about blasting the sucka MC's and before it focused on name-checking Louis Vuitton and Cristal, there was A Tribe Called Quest. And while audiences didn't initially know what to make of their kente-cloth ensembles and Dwayne Wayne eyewear, their unique sound made them a huge breakout success in the late '80s and early '90s. Full Story1 |
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Outfest 2011: Highlights of this year's festival
Thu,7 Jul 2011 06:10 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Honest, delicate portrayals of family and twisted, explicit sexual obsessions will pepper the 29th annual Outfest film festival, opening Thursday night at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Full Story1 |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - If any studio president has a rousing halftime speech, now would be the time to deliver it. |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - The Steven Spielberg-produced "Falling Skies" has been renewed for a second season, TNT announced on Thursday. The second season will consist of 10 episodes which are slated to begin running in summer 2012. |
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John Carpenter's "The Ward" scares up other director's tricks
Thu,7 Jul 2011 04:46 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Amber Heard makes mental patients sexy in John Carpenter's latest, "The Ward," a sometimes campy, sometimes scary, but mostly soporific new horror flick. And while Carpenter isn't merely rehashing his own bag of tricks, for once, he does appear to be pickpocketing other directors instead. Full Story1 |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Can't wait until Thanksgiving dinner to witness a pointless conversation between a pompous fundamentalist Christian and a sneering atheist? Then "The Ledge" is the movie for you. |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of fans braved rain and battled security restrictions in London's Trafalgar Square on Thursday to say farewell to the boy wizard Harry Potter at the world premiere of the final movie in the record-breaking series. |
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Entertainment, broadband firms adopt piracy warning system
Thu,7 Jul 2011 02:24 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - A broad coalition of entertainment industry companies, guilds, Internet services and telecommunications providers said Thursday they have joined to launch a new warning system to tell consumers when they have downloaded copyrighted material illegally. Full Story1 |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - NBC's "America's Got Talent" topped the ratings on Wednesday night despite a marked drop from last week, according to preliminary numbers. |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - "Zookeeper" is arguably one of the better products of the Adam Sandler Death of Cinema Fun Factory -- but that's an accomplishment somewhere on par with "Least Smelly Turd." |
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LONDON (Reuters) - In an astonishing response to a scandal engulfing his media empire, Rupert Murdoch shut down the News of the World on Thursday, Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper. |
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 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Canceled soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," will now live on -- not on the small screen but on the Internet, mobile phones and other online formats, the broadcaster said on Thursday. |
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 NEW YORK (TheWrap) - "Never underestimate the power of the Schwartz!" |
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Part of U.S. media ownership rule overturned
Thu,7 Jul 2011 12:10 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court has overturned part of a 2008 loosening of U.S. media-ownership rules that made it easier to own a newspaper and a broadcast outlet in a single market. Full Story1 |
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 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart will join ABC News as a contributor on stories about missing persons, the network said on Thursday. |
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 SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - Live Nation, the world's largest live entertainment business, would benefit from being taken private, according to the company's largest shareholder. |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Harry Potter fans queued patiently on Wednesday to catch a glimpse of their on-screen heroes at Thursday's world premiere of the eighth and final film in the record-breaking cinema franchise. |
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - In Hollywood's new film comedy "Horrible Bosses," an ex-Lehman Brothers executive who is jobless and desperate for money offers sexual favors to some old buddies in return for cash. |
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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. |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Paramount is getting into the animation game with a bold plan that could leave DreamWorks Animation in the lurch. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 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." |
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 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. |
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 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Is the world ready for David Hasselhoff, porn star? |
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 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. |
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