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Leno Halts Ratings Slide

 

Published 71 minutes ago by Lew Harris at The Wrap RSS

By the Hollywood Reporter In recent weeks, NBC's primetime talk show has halted its heavily reported ratings slide, a decline that was fairly steady since the show's September debut. For the past 11 episodes in a row, Leno's program has either ...

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It's Only Halftime Wasteland: The Who to Play Super Bowl

 

Published 6 hours ago by Josh Dickey at The Wrap RSS

By Wrap Staff Watch the Super Bowl halftime show? You better, you better, you bet. The NFL is keeping its rock 'n' roll mojo going by recruiting The Who for Super Bowl XLIV, continuing a tradition that's lately included Bruce ...

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Good Morning, Oscar: Thanksgiving

 

Published 23 hours ago by Steve Pond at The Wrap RSS

By Steve Pond On this Thanksgiving edition of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, no real news or notes … just a few things I’m thankful for this Oscar season. I’m thankful that Gordon Willis finally got the ...

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Staying Sober with Viggo Mortensen

 

Published 30 hours ago by Steve Pond at The Wrap RSS

The last time I interviewed Viggo Mortensen, we got thrown out of a bar. That was more than a decade ago, when he was promoting a mediocre movie and I was writing for a mediocre magazine. Viggo got on the wrong side of an aging bartender (the only ...

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The Weekend's Top Names: Grilled for Thanksgiving

 

Published 30 hours ago by Lew Harris at The Wrap RSS

By Wrap Staff "THE ROAD" John Hillcoat "I worry about when you turn the whole world into a consumerist capitalist system -- how do you sustain that?"    Viggo Mortensen "I&...

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Osmond's 'Dancing' Partner Heads to Broadway

 

Published 31 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By the Associated Press Donny Osmond may have been the celebrity winner on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," but his professional dancing partner already has her next gig lined up — Broadway. Kym Johnson will make her Broadway ...

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Donny and 'Dancing' Spark ABC

 

Published 31 hours ago by Daniel Frankel at The Wrap RSS

By Daniel Frankel In one of the most hotly contested nights of the season, CBS hit procedural “NCIS” enjoyed its best numbers since its season premiere, but it was ABC that won the night with its best overall ratings performance since ...

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Blu-ray Places Its Bet on Black Friday

 

Published 32 hours ago by Josh Dickey at The Wrap RSS

By Daniel Frankel The moribund home-video business is counting on Black Friday. Both studios and retailers are hoping that a flurry of price-slashed $3.99 DVDs and $7.99 Blu-ray titles will kick-start consumers’ desire to own movies ...

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Reality TV Couple Crash Obama Dinner

 

Published 32 hours ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang A veritable who's who of Hollywood royalty descended on Washington on Tuesday night for President Obama's first state dinner. Geffen was there, Spielberg made an appearance, and "Slumdog Millionaire" composer A.R. ...

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'Matrix' Bullet Time Scene Re-Created ... in Legos

 

Published 32 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By Wrap Staff From the famous green digital falling numbers to Keanu Reeves' bending over backwards to dodge bullets, "Trinity Help" is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from 1999's "The ...

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'Star Trek' Tops Video Sales, Rentals

 

Published 32 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By the Hollywood Reporter Paramount Home Entertainment's "Star Trek" dominated the video sales and rental charts the week ending Nov. 22, its first week in stores. J.J. Abrams' reboot of the franchise easily topped both the Nielsen ...

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Viggo Mortensen: Grilled

 

Published 32 hours ago by Lew Harris at The Wrap RSS

By Steve Pond The last time I interviewed Viggo Mortensen, we got thrown out of a bar. That was more than a decade ago, when he was promoting a mediocre movie and I was writing for a mediocre magazine. Viggo got on the wrong side of an ...

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France's First Lady: Oui to Woody Allen Film

 

Published 33 hours ago by Josh Dickey at The Wrap RSS

By the Hollywood Reporter France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, says she's agreed to appear in Woody Allen's next film.  The former supermodel, wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy and aspiring singer-songwriter says she doesn't know ...

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Lautner, Lively, Franco to Host 'SNL' in December

 

Published 34 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

NBC is looking to lure the kids to "Saturday Night Live" in December. The Dec. 5 episode will be hosted by "Gossip Girl's" Blake Lively, with musical guest Rihanna. "Twilight" madness descends on ...

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Streep's, Baldwin's Awards Complications

 

Published 34 hours ago by Steve Pond at The Wrap RSS

By Steve Pond Is Meryl Streep having an even better awards-worthy year than we recognized? And is Alec Baldwin in line for a extremely rare feat? It’s possible that she is, and he is, and the “It’s Complicated” co-stars ...

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Nude Photo of Polanski, Tate on the Block

 

Published 34 hours ago by Josh Dickey at The Wrap RSS

By Perez Hilton A nude photograph of Roman Polanski and his late wife, Sharon Tate, will be auctioned at Christie's in New York City on Dec. 7. The photo, shot in 1969, was taken months before Tate was murdered by followers of Charles ...

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L.A. Times Layoff Rumors Spread

 

Published 35 hours ago by Steven Mikulan at The Wrap RSS

By Steven Mikulan Another day, another layoff rumor. That seems to be the mood at the L.A. Times, where the guillotine still stands in the corner.  “I think that at a certain point,” says staff writer Gale Holland, “after a ...

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Jonas Brothers Could Be Coming to Your Living Room

 

Published 35 hours ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang Clear some room on the couch, tweeny-boppers. If you're lucky, the Jonas Brothers, those heartthrobs of the underage set, may be stopping by for some Xbox fun. Disney Media Sales and Marketing and Xbox 360 have partnered with ...

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Iranian Director Makhmalbaf Wins Freedom to Create Prize

 

Published 36 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By Reuters Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf ("Kandahar") won the Freedom to Create Prize on Wednesday, and dedicated his award to leading cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri and the popular opposition movement he supports. He also said ...

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Heeeeeere's a 'Shining' Sequel!

 

Published 36 hours ago by Josh Dickey at The Wrap RSS

Stephen King shines again? The high priest of horror fiction told an audience at his book reading in Toronto this week that he's plotting a sequel to his 1977 classic "The Shining." The book, tentatively titled "Doctor ...

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Double Standard: CBS Blurs Out Lambert Dude-on-Dude Kiss, Shows Madonna-Britney

 

Published 36 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By Dylan Stableford A quick update to the controversy surrounding Adam Lambert’s homoerotic American Music Awards performance, which has inexplicably entered day three. Lambert’s scheduled performance on Wednesday’s Good Morning ...

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iTunes Lands Revolver's 'Robsessed' Doc

 

Published 36 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By ScreenDaily The U.K.’s Revolver Entertainment has signed a deal with iTunes in the U.S., U.K. and Canada for its original documentary "Robsessed," about "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson. Directed by Irena ...

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Roman Polanski's $4.5M Thanksgiving

 

Published 36 hours ago by Steven Mikulan at The Wrap RSS

By Steven Mikulan The news that Roman Polanski has been granted bail by Switzerland’s highest criminal court came like a bolt from the blue, but was the result of what people familiar with the decision describe as a long process. And ...

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'Invictus' Scribe to Work on 'Deep Sea Cowboys'

 

Published 36 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By the Hollywood Reporter Anthony Peckham has been hired to work on the script for DreamWorks Studios' action project "Deep Sea Cowboys." Peckham, who wrote "Invictus" and co-wrote "Sherlock Holmes," will bring ...

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Women's Group Announces Screenings, Awards

 

Published 36 hours ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By the Hollywood Reporter The Women's International Film & Television Showcase and TheWIFTS International Visionary Awards -- now in their second year -- will celebrate next week the talent and accomplishments of women in the film and TV ...

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MGM Sends Out Confidentiality Agreements

 

Published 37 hours ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Reuters Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the famed film studio that is considering selling itself, has sent confidentiality agreements to about 20 interested parties including Time Warner Inc and News Corp, sources familiar with the matter said on ...

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Oprah and Obama Ring in the Holidays

 

Published 37 hours ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang Oprah Winfrey is headed to Pennsylvania Avenue. Winfrey, who recently made waves by announcing she would be stepping down from her talk show perch in 2011, has had a year of high profile interviews with everyone from Whitney Houston ...

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Philbin Fills in for Vieira on Syndie 'Millionaire'

 

Published 37 hours ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By Lisa Horowitz Regis Philbin is the celebrity guest host on the daytime version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" next week. From Nov. 30-Dec. 4, in shows taped before Philbin's scheduled hip surgery, he will sit in for the game ...

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Philbin Back as "Millionaire" Host

 

Published 37 hours ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang He's back! More than five years after ABC essentially ran the primetime version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" into the ground through over-programming, original star Regis Philbin will return to the host's chair. ...

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'Lovely Bones' Gets Praised, Slammed

 

Published 38 hours ago by Steve Pond at The Wrap RSS

By Steve Pond And then there were three. The embargo has lifted on Peter Jackson’s film “The Lovely Bones,” one of the four big films that had remained largely unseen, and then seen but not written about, until late in the Oscar ...

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BusinessWeek Loses its Tweeter-in-Chief

 

Published 39 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By Dylan Stableford The post-Bloomberg-buy shuffling continues at BusinessWeek. John Byrne – the magazine’s longtime executive editor, BusinessWeek.com’s editor-in-chief and one prolific Tweeter – announced late Tuesday ...

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Polanski Granted Bail, House Arrest

 

Published 39 hours ago by Sharon Waxman at The Wrap RSS

By Associated Press Associated Press -  A Swiss court has approved Roman Polanski's bail offer of $4.5 million to be released from prison and kept under house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Swiss chalet. But the Swiss Justice ...

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Donny Osmond Wins Season Nine of 'Dancing with the Stars'

 

Published 42 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By the Daily News Did Donny Osmond get extra points for singing? The consummate entertainer upset the show's highest scorer of the season, Mya, to take the win on season nine of "Dancing With the Stars" on a finals show in which he ...

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On 'Biggest Loser,' Health Takes a Back Seat

 

Published 42 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By the New York Times When more than 40 former contestants from “The Biggest Loser” gather Wednesday for a reunion television special, the winner of the program’s first season, Ryan C. Benson, who lost 122 of his 330-pound ...

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Joost Acquired by Online Ad Network Adconion

 

Published 42 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By Paid Content Joost’s been put out of its misery and its assets have been acquired by Santa Monica, California-based online ad network Adconion Media Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but likely would have been pennies on ...

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Angelina Jolie Not a Fan of Obama

 

Published 42 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By Us Magazine Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie's seal of approval. "She hates him," a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now). "She's into education and ...

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TiVo Beats Wall Street Expectations

 

Published 42 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By the Hollywood Reporter While reporting quarterly financial results that bested expectations, TiVo said Tuesday it will become a primary supplier of DVR software to Virgin Media UK, giving it access to about 4 million consumers. TiVo CEO Tom ...

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Kat Dennings Joins 'Thor' Cast

 

Published 42 hours ago by Dylan Stableford at The Wrap RSS

By Variety Kat Dennings ("Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist") has joined the cast of "Thor," the Marvel Studios production that begins production in January. Dennings will play Darcy, who works with Natalie Portman's Jane ...

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 25

 

Published 47 hours ago by Steve Pond at The Wrap RSS

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, people start talking about “Nine,” and Wired keeps writing about “Avatar.” Now that Marc Shaiman’s on board, Dave ...

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Family Video Flourishes Where Others Fail

 

Published 2 days ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang Despite the odds against rental chains, Family Video is shunning the newfangled kiosks and video on demand businesses in favor of the traditional store model. And it's working.  The privately held video game and movie rental ...

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Glickman Replacement Needs to Get With the Program

 

Published 2 days ago by Sharon Waxman at The Wrap RSS

By Sharon Waxman It's Dan Glickman's birthday, so we hate to interrupt his great Kansasian celebration of the big Six Five, but word has come our way of the impending search for a new chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America. There ...

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Fox Wins Sweeps, Thanks to World Series

 

Published 2 days ago by Daniel Frankel at The Wrap RSS

By Daniel Frankel Fueled by solid World Series ratings, as well as consistent performances from series including “House,” “The Cleveland Show,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Glee,” Fox won its ...

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Glambert's "For Your Entertainment" (Video)

 

Published 2 days ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Wrap Staff Fresh on the heels of his racy AMA's performance and a cancelled appearance on 'Good Morning America," Adam Lambert left the controversy behind and got back to the thing he's most famous for -- music. The singer released a ...

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Recording Academy Adds 25 Titles to Grammy Hall of Fame

 

Published 2 days ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By Wrap Staff The Recording Academy added 25 recordings to its Grammy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, bolstering a list that now includes 851 titles. Recordings selected range from 1923's "Dipper Mouth Blues" by King Oliver & His Jazz ...

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A Well-Stuffed B.O. for Thanksgiving

 

Published 2 days ago by Daniel Frankel at The Wrap RSS

By Daniel Frankel The box office will be stuffed for Thanksgiving. Coming off the second biggest non-holiday weekend box office in history, studios and exhibitors enter a five-day holiday period that is traditionally flush with ticket sales. This ...

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Fox Reveals Midseason Schedule

 

Published 2 days ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By Lisa Horowitz Fox has it all figured out for midseason, and of course it all starts with the return of "American Idol." The reality competition show returns for its ninth season with a two-night premiere Tuesday, Jan. 12, from 8-10 ...

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Fall Shows Boost Hulu's Traffic

 

Published 2 days ago by Lisa Horowitz at The Wrap RSS

By Ad Age Fueled by the fall TV season and the addition of ABC shows to its library, traffic to Hulu -- the video site backed by NBC, ABC and Fox -- spiked nearly 47% in October from the prior month, the biggest single-month percentage gain of ...

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Washington Post to Close Bureaus in NYC, LA and Chicago

 

Published 2 days ago by Josh Dickey at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang The Washington Post is closing its news bureaus in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but will retain the six reporters from those bureaus and recall them to Washington. The paper's spokeswoman, Kris Coratti, confirmed the ...

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A Quantum Leap Gave Scott Bakula His 'Hollywood Breakthrough'

 

Published 2 days ago by Lew Harris at The Wrap RSS

By Scott Bakula (to Eric Estrin) In the series for which he’s best known, Scott Bakula’s time-traveler character kept zapping into different times and places out of his own control. Now, after memorable turns on both “Quantum ...

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Fox Picks Up 'Lie to Me'

 

Published 2 days ago by Brent Lang at The Wrap RSS

By Brent Lang "Lie to Me" showrunner Shawn Ryan wrote that the Fox crime series had been picked up for a third season on Twitter. Fox would not confirm or deny that it had re-upped the solid ratings performer until it officially releases ...

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