Lassie back home with message of love (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Lassie has come home again.
Pixar Holders OK Takeover by Disney (AP)
May 5, 2006
AP - Shareholders of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. Friday voted to approve the company's acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. for $7.4 billion in stock.
Toy makers bet on blockbuster films for sales (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Dan Brown's blockbuster book "The Da
Vinci Code" has been at or near the top of the bestseller list
for more than three years, and as the movie version gets set to
open the question is whether toys and games tied to the movie
and other much-hyped summer films can garner as much as
interest.
Mission Possible: Bigger Summer B.O. (E! Online)
May 5, 2006
E! Online - Last year, Hollywood kicked off its summer season with an Orlando
Bloom epic that failed to loom large at the box office. This year,
Hollywood is going straight for the heavy artillery: Tom Cruise.
Lassie comes home again with a message of love (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Lassie has come home again.
Actor and Actress Get Joint Custody (AP)
May 5, 2006
AP - David Hasselhoff and estranged wife Pamela Bach have been awarded joint custody of their two daughters.
Tom, Katie Together Again (E! Online)
May 5, 2006
E! Online - After
weeks of solo promotional globetrotting, Tom Cruise trotted out another
surprise at the Mission: Impossible III premiere in Los Angeles
Thursday: fiancee Katie Holmes.
Hollywood wonders "What would Jesus direct?" (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Long criticized by conservative
Christians for profiting from violent or sexually graphic films
that corrupt the young, Hollywood is starting to see there is
money to be made catering to those critics.
Ultrasound Ban Advances on Cruise Hoopla (AP)
May 5, 2006
AP - The California Assembly has voted to restrict the use of ultrasound machines for personal use, approving a bill that would allow them to be sold only to licensed professionals.
Garner joins Foxx's "Kingdom" (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Jennifer Garner is in
talks to star opposite Jamie Foxx in the thriller "The
Kingdom."
"Saw" director sentenced to "Death" (Reuters)
May 5, 2006Reuters - James Wan, who co-wrote and directed "Saw," has signed on to direct the revenge thriller "Death Sentence."
Del Toro presses play on "Sundown" game (Reuters)
May 5, 2006Reuters - Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is helping to develop a video game in which players will have to survive an apocalypse that leaves a world infected with zombies and other potentially fatal horrors.
Third "Saw" getting ready to draw blood (Reuters)
May 5, 2006Reuters - "Saw III," the latest installment in the horror franchise, begins shooting in Toronto Monday, ahead of a planned release at Halloween.
Kutcher blooms in romantic comedy (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Ashton Kutcher is set to
star in a romantic comedy described as a modern-day "Shampoo"
set amid the world of florists.
Trio crowned for Showtime's "Tudors" cast (Reuters)
May 5, 2006Reuters - Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Henry Cavill have joined the cast of Showtime's Henry VIII drama "The Tudors."
Actress Mitra fires up "Shooters" thriller (Reuters)
May 5, 2006Reuters - Actress Rhona Mitra, who starred in the first season of "Boston Legal," has joined Mark Wahlberg and Michael Pena in the political thriller "Shooters."
Purveyors of "Truth" are thinking globally (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - "An Inconvenient Truth"
is no ordinary documentary. Nor are the people behind it
marketing it in the usual way.
"Gehry" gives Pollack direction to build on (Reuters)
May 5, 2006
Reuters - Among the long list of
independent filmmakers at this year's Tribeca Film Festival,
one name stands out: veteran studio director Sydney Pollack.
"Star Wars" on DVD, Again... For the First Time (E! Online)
May 5, 2006
E! Online - Star Wars fan Philip Wise has purchased a home-video copy
of George Lucas' seminal sci-fi film six times--"seven, including the
Beta edition"--and he's not done yet. Because Lucas isn't done yet.