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Today's Entertainment - Reuters Celebrity/Gossip News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Netflix extends streaming deal for ABC content "Anonymous" a welcome change of pace for Rhys Ifans Swank fires staff over Chechen PR disaster: report "Jon & Kate" editor arrested for child porn possession Can "Tintin" save motion-capture animation? "Carnage" borrows awards strategy from "Modern Family" Eva Amurri, Susan Sarandon's daughter, marries beau New Line buys script for hurricane thriller North America box office goes to "Puss in Boots" Movie company's China production sparks outcry "Killing Season" ahead for Travolta, De Niro Doris Day wins L.A. film critics' lifetime honor YouTube mounts TV challenge with original programming 'In Living Color' returning to Fox Artist Anselm Kiefer wants nuclear plant: magazine Cigar-chomping UK entertainer Savile dies at 84 Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom re-team for "Cities" "The Adventures of Tintin" gets mixed reviews overseas Michael Douglas says can't forget being told of cancer Trashy, boisterous "Anonymous" aims for cheap seats Michael Douglas says can't forget being told of cancer Iranian actress freed from prison on reduced sentence Adele to get throat surgery, cancels all 2011 dates Herman Cain: the smoking and drinking candidate Nickelodeon airing "banned" movie on Halloween "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" loses third director Expert: Jackson likely gave self fatal propofol shot New "Beavis and Butt-head" earns 3.3 million viewers "Wild Cards" superhero anthology to get movie treatment Barry Manilow gives $300,000 in instruments to Joplin Cablevision's profit miss drags down entire sector Biography sees Jobs as crossroad of humanities, science CW and Hulu strike 5-year licensing deal Butler, Worthington, McConaughey join CG, 3-D "Thunder Run" Steve Martin turns tweets into book Gaddafi son used his paintings to promote Libyan culture Advisory: Chechen teen diary story withdrawn Former manager sues Melissa Joan Hart Philip K. Dick Trust sues over "Adjustment Bureau" royalties Russian elite celebrate Bolshoi's lavish revival Netflix extends streaming deal for ABC content Sun,30 Oct 2011 09:33 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Netflix said it has extended its license agreement with ABC Television Group, a division of Walt Disney Co, to continue to stream TV shows over the Internet. Full Story Top "Anonymous" a welcome change of pace for Rhys Ifans Sun,30 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Much of the attention that "Anonymous" has drawn before its release has come from literary scholars aghast at the film's contention that William Shakespeare didn't actually write the plays attributed to him. Full Story Top Swank fires staff over Chechen PR disaster: report Sun,30 Oct 2011 04:04 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Widely rebuked for helping celebrate a brutal Chechen dictator's birthday last month, Hilary Swank has embarked on an internal housecleaning of her personal representation, The Independent reported Sunday. Full Story Top "Jon & Kate" editor arrested for child porn possession Sun,30 Oct 2011 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A 56-year-old TV editor who has worked on "Jon and Kate Plus 8" and other cable reality shows featuring kids has been charged with possession of child pornography. Full Story Top Can "Tintin" save motion-capture animation? Sun,30 Oct 2011 03:38 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Seven months after "Mars Needs Moms" led to questions about the future of motion-capture animation, Steven Spielberg is showing that audiences might not have totally rejected the technique after all. Full Story Top "Carnage" borrows awards strategy from "Modern Family" Sun,30 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Is it possible to have a movie without a single lead actor or actress? Full Story Top Eva Amurri, Susan Sarandon's daughter, marries beau Sun,30 Oct 2011 03:13 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Eva Amurri, the oldest child of Susan Sarandon, married former soccer pro Kyle Martino on Saturday, People magazine reported. Full Story Top New Line buys script for hurricane thriller Sun,30 Oct 2011 02:13 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Think of it as the "Blair Witch Project" with a really big storm instead of a murderous spell-caster. Full Story Top North America box office goes to "Puss in Boots" Sun,30 Oct 2011 01:03 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Animated movie "Puss in Boots" landed on its feet with a $51 million global debut over the weekend and likely set a Halloween weekend record for a domestic opening, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. Full Story Top Movie company's China production sparks outcry Sun,30 Oct 2011 12:44 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - International advocacy group Human Rights Watch will ask Relativity Media to stop shooting its new Chinese co-production "21 and Over," and will urge moviegoers to boycott the film should it be produced, the organization confirmed on Sunday to TheWrap. Full Story Top "Killing Season" ahead for Travolta, De Niro Sun,30 Oct 2011 12:12 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - John Travolta and Robert De Niro are set to star in "Killing Season," an action movie that "Ghost Rider" writer-director Mark Steven Johnson will direct. Full Story Top Doris Day wins L.A. film critics' lifetime honor Sun,30 Oct 2011 11:41 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Doris Day has been named recipient of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's 2011 Career Achievement Award, the critics group announced on Saturday. Full Story Top YouTube mounts TV challenge with original programming Sun,30 Oct 2011 11:40 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - YouTube has announced plans to create dozens of channels with original content, constructing an online challenge to the television experience and signaling the video giant's official leap into high-quality programing. Full Story Top 'In Living Color' returning to Fox Sun,30 Oct 2011 11:39 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Two snaps up! Full Story Top Artist Anselm Kiefer wants nuclear plant: magazine Sun,30 Oct 2011 07:26 AM PDT Reuters - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German artist Anselm Kiefer wants to buy a shut-down nuclear power plant, he told a German magazine, just as Europe's biggest economy phases out atomic power due to safety concerns following the Fukushima disaster in Japan earlier this year. Full Story Top Cigar-chomping UK entertainer Savile dies at 84 Sat,29 Oct 2011 10:57 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Cigar-chomping disc jockey and entertainer Jimmy Savile, a flamboyant star of British television and radio for decades, died on Saturday aged 84, the BBC said. Full Story Top Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom re-team for "Cities" Fri,28 Oct 2011 06:56 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will co-star in Roger Donaldson's "Cities." Full Story Top "The Adventures of Tintin" gets mixed reviews overseas Fri,28 Oct 2011 06:55 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn," Steven Spielberg's 3-D take on Georges Remi's treasured comic books, is already a hit overseas with audiences. But what about the critics? Full Story Top Michael Douglas says can't forget being told of cancer Fri,28 Oct 2011 06:22 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran actor Michael Douglas said in a recent interview with Alec Baldwin that he will never forget when he was first told he had late-stage throat cancer in 2010. Full Story Top Trashy, boisterous "Anonymous" aims for cheap seats Fri,28 Oct 2011 04:56 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Elizabethan scholars may dispute the version of events recounted in "Anonymous," Roland Emmerich's exploration of who really wrote the plays and poems history attributes to William Shakespeare, but those of us in the cheap seats (with suitable temperament) will have to admire how the director of "2012" and "Independence Day" took a topic appropriate for a doctoral thesis and turned it into a melodramatic potboiler. Full Story Top Michael Douglas says can't forget being told of cancer Fri,28 Oct 2011 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran actor Michael Douglas said in a recent interview with Alec Baldwin that he will never forget when he was first told he had late-stage throat cancer in 2010. Full Story Top Iranian actress freed from prison on reduced sentence Fri,28 Oct 2011 04:14 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film "My Tehran for Sale," which is banned in Iran. Full Story Top Adele to get throat surgery, cancels all 2011 dates Fri,28 Oct 2011 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - British singer-songwriter Adele has been forced by impending surgery to cancel all her remaining tour dates and promotional appearances through the end of the year, her record label said on Friday. Full Story Top Herman Cain: the smoking and drinking candidate Fri,28 Oct 2011 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Herman Cain's most famous online ad features his campaign director smoking a cigarette after a vigorous endorsement of his boss. Another features an actor drinking a margarita -- on the job -- while he praises Cain's accomplishments. Full Story Top Nickelodeon airing "banned" movie on Halloween Sun,30 Oct 2011 07:34 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Cry Baby Lane," a Nickelodeon movie about conjoined twins who are sawed apart, was deemed so scary after its one airing in October 2000 that it was banned by the network, never to be seen again. Full Story Top "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" loses third director Fri,28 Oct 2011 03:09 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Is the Jane Austen-zombie craze over? Full Story Top Expert: Jackson likely gave self fatal propofol shot Sat,29 Oct 2011 09:28 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson likely injected himself with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol after popping an extra eight sedatives without his doctor's knowledge, a Los Angeles court heard on Friday. Full Story Top New "Beavis and Butt-head" earns 3.3 million viewers Fri,28 Oct 2011 02:18 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - The return of MTV's "Beavis and Butt-head" earned 3.3 million total viewers, scoring especially well with -- ready for this? -- young males. Full Story Top "Wild Cards" superhero anthology to get movie treatment Fri,28 Oct 2011 02:17 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - George R.R. Martin, the author behind HBO's "Game of Thrones," has sold another one of his projects to Hollywood. Full Story Top Barry Manilow gives $300,000 in instruments to Joplin Fri,28 Oct 2011 02:13 PM PDT Reuters - KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Students and staff Friday were unpacking three truckloads of new musical instruments that singer Barry Manilow donated to tornado-ravaged schools in Joplin, Missouri. Full Story Top Cablevision's profit miss drags down entire sector Fri,28 Oct 2011 02:00 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp's quarterly earnings widely missed Wall Street estimates, as it dealt with a weak economy, high programing costs and competition from phone companies offering TV services. Full Story Top Biography sees Jobs as crossroad of humanities, science Fri,28 Oct 2011 01:27 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A genius for mixing the humanities and sciences coupled with a Svengali-like ability to motivate people powered Steve Jobs's mission to change the world, biographer Walter Isaacson concludes in his exhaustive new study of the Apple co-founder. Full Story Top CW and Hulu strike 5-year licensing deal Fri,28 Oct 2011 12:52 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The CW and Hulu have reached a five-year deal for the rights to stream in-season episodes of the CW's content on Hulu's subscription service Hulu Plus, the network announced Friday. The deal makes Hulu Plus the only online subscription service that will carry in-season episodes of CW shows. The shows will be available for streaming on free, ad-supported Hulu.com site shortly after they appear on the subscription site. Full Story Top Butler, Worthington, McConaughey join CG, 3-D "Thunder Run" Fri,28 Oct 2011 12:50 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey have joined the cast of Freedom Films' upcoming Iraq war movie "Thunder Run," Freedom's CEO Brian Presley announced Thursday. Full Story Top Steve Martin turns tweets into book Fri,28 Oct 2011 12:06 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran actor and comedian Steve Martin is writing a book based on his Twitter posts, with all profits going to charity, the book's publishers said on Friday. Full Story Top Gaddafi son used his paintings to promote Libyan culture Fri,28 Oct 2011 11:49 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi trying to negotiate safe passage to the International Criminal Court from a refuge in the Sahara, was once on a mission to put Libya on the cultural map -- by exhibiting his own paintings. Full Story Top Advisory: Chechen teen diary story withdrawn Fri,28 Oct 2011 11:22 AM PDT Reuters - Please be advised that the Oct 27 Moscow story headlined "Chechen teen diary a bitter tale of bombs and survival" has been withdrawn because, though it included original reporting, it is too similar to a piece already published by The Guardian on the same subject to be appropriate for publication. Full Story Top Former manager sues Melissa Joan Hart Fri,28 Oct 2011 11:15 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Looks like former "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" star Melissa Joan Hart might have to counsel up some legal assistance. Full Story Top Philip K. Dick Trust sues over "Adjustment Bureau" royalties Fri,28 Oct 2011 10:54 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - From "Blade Runner" to "Total Recall," Hollywood has made millions spinning the futuristic tales of Philip K. Dick into big screen entertainments. Full Story Top Russian elite celebrate Bolshoi's lavish revival Fri,28 Oct 2011 10:49 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Bolshoi Theater re-opened Friday with an exclusive party to celebrate a luxurious renovation that has taken six years, cost $700 million and revived a revered cultural symbol scarred by centuries of use and abuse. Full Story Top

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