Cruise: Baby Won't Have Catholic Baptism (AP)
April 13, 2006
AP - Katie Holmes was raised a Catholic, but, says fiance Tom Cruise, their soon-to-arrive baby will not have a Catholic baptism.
Tom Cruising to Manhattan (E! Online)
April 13, 2006
E! Online - Tom Cruise's next mission, should he choose to accept it:
Crisscross New York via helicopter, motorcycle, speedboat, subway and
motorized couch (okay, we made that last one up) for a six-hour
whirlwind promotion of Mission: Impossible III. And, to kill the
suspense, he already has.
Alicia Keys Lands Another Film Role (AP)
April 13, 2006AP - Alicia Keys is adding another note to her acting resume.
At the Movies: `Hard Candy' (AP)
April 13, 2006AP - A 32-year-old man meets a 14-year-old girl on the Internet.
At the Movies: Capsule Reviews (AP)
April 13, 2006AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
Five killed as India tech hub buries film icon (Reuters)
April 13, 2006
Reuters - Police opened fire in India's
technology hub on Thursday, killing four people as tens of
thousands of fans mourning the death of a film icon torched
vehicles and attacked company offices.
Blues Legends in Movie Soundtrack (AP)
April 13, 2006
AP - Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer has started recording the music for his new movie, "Black Snake Moan."
Bollywood Star Salman Khan Out on Bail (AP)
April 13, 2006
AP - Salman Khan, jailed since early this week after being convicted of killing an endangered animal, was freed on bail Thursday from a jail in the western city of Jodhpur.
Five killed as India buries film icon (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Police opened fire in India's
technology hub on Thursday, killing four people as tens of
thousands of fans mourning the death of a film icon torched
vehicles and attacked company offices.
At the Movies: `Scary Movie 4' (AP)
April 13, 2006AP - The makers of "Airplane!" have reconnected for "Scary Movie 4," but they've created a sequel that never truly takes flight.
Holmes May Follow Scientology Birth Custom (AP)
April 13, 2006
AP - Tom Cruise has been practically shouting from the rooftops about his love for his pregnant fiancee, Katie Holmes. But when their much-anticipated baby is born, the superstar dad probably won't say a word.
"Scary Movie 4" - similar stuff but not half bad (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - The "Scary Movie" franchise now resembles those montages of movie mockery used by Billy Crystal to launch the Academy Awards.
Movie trailers finally get their own movie (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - "Coming Attractions" is the most exciting, magnificent, super-colossal, awe-inspiring, heartwarming, blood-stirring movie ever made!!! Sorry, I think I've been looking at too many movie trailers.
Nothing sugar-coated about timely "Hard Candy" (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - The hunter gets captured by the game in "Hard Candy," a hard-hitting psychological thriller in which a 14-year-old girl engages in a high-tension confrontation with the 32-year-old pedophile she met online.
Mobs rampage in Indian tech city after actor dies (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Mobs torched buses, attacked company offices and stoned police on the streets of India's technology hub on Thursday ahead of the funeral of film icon Rajkumar, whose death has triggered widespread mourning.
Indian actor Salman Khan gets bail in poaching case (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Bollywood star Salman Khan was granted bail on Thursday after spending three nights in prison as part of a five-year term for killing a protected antelope, lawyers said.
Hanks picks "Space Odyssey" as favorite film (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks picked "2001: A Space Odyssey" as his favorite film of all time and selected four other films among his "top five" that he had nothing to do with.
"King's Men" finally holding court in September (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Sony Pictures has scheduled the release of its delayed drama "All the King's Men" for September 22, the studio said Wednesday.
"Dead" team to ride along with "Fuzz" (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - The "Shaun of the Dead" team is back, and this time the fuzz has caught up with them.
"Narnia" video roars to No. 1 on DVD sales chart (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" easily topped the national DVD sales chart for the week ending April 9, while the previous week's top seller, "King Kong," notched a second round atop the rental chart.
DVD suppliers capitalizing on Easter spending boom (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Disney's home video unit is going into the holiday weekend with the biggest Easter-themed marketing campaign in its history amid forecasts of record consumer spending during the period.
A "Scary" proposition at the Easter box office (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - "Scary Movie 4," the latest installment in the reliably remunerative parody franchise, is set to end the two-week box office reign of "Ice Age: The Meltdown" during the Easter holiday weekend.
Sandler sidekick to captain "Shazam!" movie (Reuters)
April 13, 2006Reuters - Director Peter Segal, who shot the Adam Sandler hits "The Longest Yard," "50 First Dates" and "Anger Management," has come aboard "Shazam!" -- an adaptation of the DC Comics series featuring Captain Marvel.