Reuters - An online network formed
by professional TV and film scribes during the Hollywood
writers' strike earlier this year unveiled a slate Wednesday
featuring contributions from the minds behind the likes of "The
Office" and "Die Hard."
AP - Jack Nicholson's Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger's Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award.
AP - The woman in a sex tape featuring Verne Troyer best known for his role in the "Austin Powers" movies says she allowed celebrity Web site TMZ to broadcast snippets of the tape.
Reuters - Getting movie fans to relate to a
young heroine based on a doll living in the 1930s is no easy
task, but the makers of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" think
they have one factor in their favor -- the troubled U.S.
economy.
Reuters - "Hancock," the new Will Smith
action movie opening ahead of the July Fourth holiday, seems
sure to extend Hollywood's latest hot streak, keeping the U.S.
box office on pace to exceed last year's record summer.
Reuters - Pregnant Hollywood actress
Angelina Jolie is doing well in a French Riviera hospital and
is expected to give birth to twins in "the coming weeks," her
doctor said on Wednesday.
AP - The father of a 13-year-old girl who may be Lindsay Lohan's half-sister said the family went public with the story after Lohan's father, Michael, repeatedly refused to provide support.
Reuters - Right-wing Dutch
politician Geert Wilders is planning a sequel to his
anti-Muslim film "Fitna," the local daily De Telegraaf reported
Tuesday. The move comes after the Dutch Ministry of Justice on
Monday decided not to prosecute him for inciting hatred of
Muslims with his film denouncing the Koran.