Molly Ringwald to Guest Star on 'Medium' (AP)
April 11, 2006AP - The "Medium" message: Molly Ringwald is coming back to TV for the first time in four years for a guest appearance on the supernatural drama.
Barbie taking her DVDs to new dollhouse (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - Barbie's found a new home for her DVDs, and she's taking fellow Mattel doll Polly Pocket with her.
Clothing Company Sues Jessica Simpson (AP)
April 11, 2006
AP - A California-based clothing manufacturer is suing Jessica Simpson for $100 million, claiming she breached their contract by failing to support lines of apparel she developed with the company.
Rapper Proof Killed; 1 of 2 Shot in Bar (AP)
April 11, 2006
AP - Proof, a member of rap group D12 and a close friend of Eminem, was shot to death early Tuesday at a nightclub along Eight Mile, the road made famous by the 2002 film that starred Eminem and in which Proof had a bit part.
Gyllenhaal, Sarsgaard Engaged (AP)
April 11, 2006
AP - Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are engaged and expecting a baby, her publicist said Tuesday.
UK girls vie for role in 'Dark Materials' films (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - Thousands of young girls auditioned on Tuesday for a chance to star in a new movie franchise that promises to be a dark rival to the "Harry Potter" films.
Actress-Turned-Nun Revisits Hollywood (AP)
April 11, 2006AP - Dolores Hart, who at age 24 startled the film world in 1962 by leaving a thriving screen career — including two roles opposite Elvis Presley — to become a nun, has returned to Hollywood for her first visit after 43 years in a monastery.
At the Movies: `The Wild' (AP)
April 11, 2006AP - Talking animals from a New York zoo leave the comfortable confines of their familiar urban existence and wind up in an exotic foreign land, where they traipse through tall trees, cheekily joke with each other, face their fears and, in the process, become better people. Er, creatures.
At the Movies: `Kinky Boots' (AP)
April 11, 2006AP - It has heart and soul (and sole). What "Kinky Boots" lacks is kick.
Pop culture satire an "American" nightmare (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - How do you lampoon a subject like "American Idol," one of those pop-culture phenomena so silly they seem to make satire irrelevant?
Macy, Huffman loyal to Florida film festival (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - Power couple William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman -- who are crazy busy with two pre-schoolers, her ABC series "Desperate Housewives," assorted film projects, and his never-ending list of character roles, scripts to write, and voice-over gigs -- still made time to visit the Sarasota Film Festival this past weekend.
"Ice Age" sequel races to $157 million overseas (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - The "Ice Age" sequel more records during its second weekend at the foreign box office, taking in a mighty $94.7 million from 49 markets for an international total of $157.8 million.
Film honors man behind '84 Ethiopia famine footage (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - The Kenyan cameraman whose footage of starving Ethiopians in 1984 provoked the most famous global aid response in history has been honored in a documentary to go on public release next month.
English-language film breaks new ground in Bollywood (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - There are no songs, no glitzy dance routines and all the dialogue is in English, but Bollywood's latest offering, about a dysfunctional Parsi family, has defied convention by becoming a box-office hit.
"Love" triumphs at Hong Kong film awards (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - "Perhaps Love," China's first musical in more than three decades, led the winners' list with six honors at the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards, though the best film and director nods went to Johnnie To's "Election."
Eddie Griffin revs up for auto thriller (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - Eddie Griffin is starring in "Redline," an auto thriller that will feature the destruction of one of the producer's own Porsches.
'Wedding Crashers' director shooting dead cops (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - "Wedding Crashers" director David Dobkin has resurrected a project based on a comic book about dead cops working in the afterlife.
Iraq war documentary "Truth" to be told (Reuters)
April 11, 2006Reuters - Focus Features has nabbed all worldwide rights to the Iraq war documentary "The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends," slated for release this year.