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Slumdog Kids Promised New Digs

Indian government vows to upgrade housing for kids 'who have brought laurels' to nation

(Newser) - The two key child actors in Oscar-sweeping Slumdog Millionaire will receive new homes in Mumbai, compliments of the Indian government, Reuters reports. The children, who played the younger versions of the movie's main characters, "have brought laurels to the country, and we have been told that they live in...

Megan Fox, Brian Austin Green Split

(Newser) - Actors Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, engaged since 2006, have called off their engagement, Us Magazine reports. “The relationship had run its course,” a source said. “It’s completely amicable, and they are remaining friends.” Both are reportedly “focusing on their careers.” Just...

Madea Laughs Up Box Office Win

(Newser) - Tyler Perry showed his box office muscle this weekend by grossing $41.1 million with Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, Entertainment Weekly reports. Perry's biggest opening ever—and Lionsgate's too—roused audiences on a normally slow Oscar weekend. Filling out the top five: Taken ($11.4 million), Coraline...

Hilton, Myers Reign at Razzies

Pierce Brosnan also 'wins' award for Hollywood's worst

(Newser) - While the acting elite fretted over tonight's Oscar ceremony, the Razzies were roasting Hollywood's not-so-elite efforts last night in their annual nod to the worst, OK! reports. Mike Myers won Worst Picture and Worst Actor for The Love Guru, while Paris Hilton grabbed Worst Actress for The Hottie and ...

Rourke Steals Show at Spirit Awards

Funny, profane acceptance speech made the evening

(Newser) - Mickey Rourke brought the house down with his acceptance speech last night at the Independent Spirit Awards, a 5-minute ramble that ran the gamut from thanking the Santa Monica Police ("for giving me a bed 10 years ago") to praising co-star Marisa Tomei's pole-dancing skills. Rourke praised Wrestler...

Christian Films Tempt $$$-Hungry Hollywood

(Newser) - Lurking behind the mainstream film industry is a low-budget, high-return business poised to break through: the world of Christian filmmaking, NPR reports. Fireproof, a tale of marital woes and redemption, was the highest-grossing independent feature of 2008—a fact trumpeted at a Christian film festival in San Antonio last...

Angie, Be a Bad Girl Again
 Angie, Be a Bad Girl Again 
OPINION
Feb 20, 2009 1:02 PM CST

Angie, Be a Bad Girl Again

Writer misses the good old days

(Newser) - Angelina Jolie may have an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, but Kim Morgan misses “the crazy-movie-star deliciousness” of her bad-girl days, when she was a “gorgeous Vampira weirdo” playing insane roles and “quite nearly mashing on” her brother in a move that finally made the Oscars interesting...

Recession Hits the Oscars— Sort Of

Revenue is down, parties are scaling back

(Newser) - Even the Oscars are feeling the economic strain, People reports. Sure, there are still dozens of parties planned on the big day, but organizers are pumping up the “greenness” of the soirées and downplaying the extravagance—Vanity Fair is using decorations from past events. Even those not scaling...

Winslet: No More Nudity
 Winslet: 
 No More Nudity 
Feb 19, 2009 7:55 PM CST

Winslet: No More Nudity

(Newser) - Kate Winslet has never been shy about removing her clothes in film, from her breakthrough in Titanic to her current role in The Reader. But the 33-year-old tells Time that those days may be behind her. "I think I won't do it again," she says. "A) I...

Oscar Win Is No Career Boost

Past winners haven't had big hits in years

(Newser) - That gold-plated statuette actors take home Oscar night may as well be a parting gift from Hollywood. Past winners—like Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, and Adrien Brody—have had little luck at the box office in subsequent years, Reuters reports. The problem, says one film critic, is that the winners...

Hollywood Is Fatal to Fabulous Books
 Hollywood Is 
 Fatal to Fabulous Books 
OPINION
Feb 17, 2009 6:43 PM CST

Hollywood Is Fatal to Fabulous Books

(Newser) - Willing Davidson knows his complaint isn't original. But he can't help asking in Slate, "Why does Hollywood take our favorite novels and turn them into crap?" In Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, readers see their own hopes within those of his characters; in the movie, character replaces plot "and...

Friday Hacks Up Box Office
 Friday Hacks Up Box Office 
Feb 15, 2009 3:40 PM CST

Friday Hacks Up Box Office

(Newser) - Friday the 13th took an ax to Valentine's Day flicks by bagging the biggest opening weekend gross of the year, $42.2 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. He's Just Not That Into You fell to second with $19.6 million, followed by Taken ($19.3 million), Confessions of a Shopaholic ($15....

Hollywood Gets Its Leading Lady Back

(Newser) - Julia Roberts is poised to step back into the spotlight with next month’s Duplicity, and Hollywood is hoping she can do again what none of her successors has been able to—pull boffo box office, the New York Times reports. “It’s just so clearly there,” said...

Kate and Owen Hook Up Again?
Kate and Owen
Hook Up Again?
Feb 9, 2009 6:35 PM CST

Kate and Owen Hook Up Again?

(Newser) - Looks like Kate and Owen have rekindled a little blonde lovin', X17 reports. Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson split up in the summer of 2007; Owen reportedly tried to kill himself 2 months later. Only recently has Kate's black SUV been seen in his Malibu driveway again. She even brought...

Slumdog, Winslet Scoop BAFTA Honors

Benjamin Button , Frost/Nixon lag as Oscars near

(Newser) - Kate Winslet and Slumdog Millionaire won big at last night's BAFTA ceremony—one more sign that the actress and film are steaming toward Oscar wins, reports the Independent. Here's the line up for the British awards:
  • Winslet won Best Actress for The Reader, competing against her own second nomination for
...

Veteran Actor Whitmore Dead at 87

(Newser) - Down-to-earth stage and screen actor James Whitmore died of lung cancer in Malibu today, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 87. Known for his supporting roles and leads in films such as Battleground, Planet of the Apes, and The Shawshank Redeption, the Emmy and Tony Award winner preferred theater....

Hef's Ex Ditches 'Awkward' Playboy Gig, Too

(Newser) - Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison has quit her job as “Playmate Editor” at Playboy, citing a long commute and an “awkward” work environment, Us Magazine reports. “It got to be routine, which was sad for me, since I was initially so passionate,” Madison said in...

Sorry, Chick Flicks: We're Just Not That Into You

Genre too often relies on 'clichés, hateful caricatures' of womanhood

(Newser) - Where have all the Carrie Bradshaws and Bridget Joneses gone? The women of flicks like Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic are pale imitations of those relatively feisty heroines, “variously neurotic, idiotic, label-obsessed, weight-obsessed, man-obsessed or wedding-obsessed, and often all at the same time,” Kevin Maher complains...

Bale's Mom Dishes on His Tantrum Demons

Reveals star's troubled childhood

(Newser) - Christian Bale's infamous F-word-laced meltdown on a movie set was caused by a hair-trigger temper forged in his childhood, his mom tell the Mirror. The perfectionist actor was repeatedly humiliated as a child by his father, said his 61-year-old mum, Jenny, who accused her son of assault last year. “...

Rant Just Bale in Character: Producer

Stress pushed method actor over edge on Terminator 4 set

(Newser) - Christian Bale’s profane tirade on the Terminator Salvation set was just another day on the job, an assistant director/producer tells TMZ. “Christian is a method actor and was completely immersed in his scene,” he insists. “Bale’s reaction was from the heat of the moment.”...

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