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Sweden wins song contest marked by Azeri dissent
Sat,26 May 2012 11:44 PM PDT
Reuters -  BAKU (Reuters) - By Margarita Antidze BAKU, May 27 (Reuters) - Sweden's Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after angering Azeri authorities by meeting rights activists critical of the host country's human rights record. Opposition groups have used the Eurovision spotlight, intended by Azerbaijan to promote the oil-rich country as a destination for tourism and business, to demand democratic reform and the resignation of the government. Dozens of peaceful protesters have been arrested this month in Baku. ...
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"Idol's" Phillips had 8 kidney surgeries during show
Sat,26 May 2012 11:04 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips had kidney surgery eight times during his journey to victory, his father revealed after Wednesday's finale. And he's not done with the doctors just yet. Phillips was plagued by kidney stones as he strummed and sang his way to the "Idol" title, though his chronic health issues nearly knocked him out of the running. His many trips under the knife over the course of the competition enabled him to stick it out and clinch the win, but he's gearing up for yet another operation in coming days - this one to reconstruct his kidneys. ...
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Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest
Sat,26 May 2012 03:54 PM PDT
Reuters -  BAKU (Reuters) - Sweden's Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after angering Azeri authorities by meeting rights activists critical of the host country's human rights record. Opposition groups have used the Eurovision spotlight, intended by Azerbaijan to promote the country as a destination for tourism and business, to demand democracy and the resignation of the government. Dozens of peaceful protesters have been arrested this month in the Caspian coastal capital, Baku. ...
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Factbox: Cannes film festival main competition lineup
Sat,26 May 2012 03:21 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival closes on Sunday with an awards ceremony. Following is the list of 22 movies in the main competition: DIRECTOR TITLE (English) Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom) Jacques Audiard (Rust & Bone) Leos Carax (Holy Motors) David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis) Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly) Matteo Garrone (Reality) Michael Haneke (Love) John Hillcoat (Lawless) Hong Sangsoo (In Another Country) Im Sangsoo (The Taste Of Money) Abbas Kiarostami (Like Someone In Love) Ken Loach (The Angels' Share) Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog) Cristian Mungiu ... Full Story | Top |
Past winners lead the pack for Cannes film award
Sat,26 May 2012 03:17 PM PDT
Reuters -  CANNES, France (Reuters) - The 2012 Cannes film festival ends on Sunday evening with the award of the Palme d'Or for best picture at a red carpet gala ceremony, the climax of a 12-day blur of screenings, photo shoots, parties and deal making. As thousands of journalists, critics, executives and stars head home and luxury yachts weigh anchor for their next port of call, the big question is who will walk away with one of the most coveted film prizes after the Oscars. ...
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Cannes gets happy ending with river film "Mud"
Sat,26 May 2012 05:34 AM PDT
Reuters -  CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Mud", a touching coming-of-age tale set on the Mississippi River and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, brought the Cannes film festival competition to a close on Saturday, earning warm applause at a press screening. The film, which echoes Mark Twain and his novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", centers on Ellis - played by up-and-coming actor Tye Sheridan, who was 14 at the time. Along with best friend Neckbone, he comes across the mysterious Mud (McConaughey) who is living alone on an island. ...
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Cannes' Middle East films show Arab Spring unfurl
Sat,26 May 2012 05:25 AM PDT
Reuters -  CANNES, France (Reuters) - The "Arab Spring" is the focus of two movies at Cannes this year as film makers present tentative steps towards democracy on the big screen, one year after political upheaval in Libya and Egypt. While both films deal with contemporary events in the Middle East, "The Oath of Tobruk" ("Le Serment de Tobrouk") is a French-language documentary about the Libyan war with a highly subjective slant. "After the Battle" ("Baad el Mawkeaa") is a fictional account of the uprising in Cairo from Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah. ...
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"Idol's" Phillips had 8 kidney surgeries during show
Fri,25 May 2012 05:52 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips had kidney surgery eight times during his journey to victory, his father revealed after Wednesday's finale. And he's not done with the doctors just yet. Phillips was plagued by kidney stones as he strummed and sang his way to the "Idol" title, though his chronic health issues nearly knocked him out of the running. His many trips under the knife over the course of the competition enabled him to stick it out and clinch the win, but he's gearing up for yet another operation in coming days - this one to reconstruct his kidneys. ...
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Jon Favreau starring in but not directing "Iron Man 3"
Fri,25 May 2012 04:47 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jon Favreau may have ceded directing duties on "Iron Man 3" to Shane Black, but the man who helped launch Tony Stark onto movie screens will still be involved in the upcoming sequel. The director of the first two Iron Man movies will return as Stark's chauffeur and personal assistant Happy Hogan, Favreau's publicist confirmed to TheWrap. In addition to ferrying Robert Downey Jr. around, Favreau will also executive produce the film. Black, who is taking over directing the film, wrote the screenplay as well. ...
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Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton on "Hatfields & McCoys"
Fri,25 May 2012 04:39 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Long before we had Trump vs. Rosie, Tupac vs. Biggie, Carson vs. Rivers, or Axl vs. Slash, there was the biggest celebrity beef of them all: Hatfields vs. McCoys. The bloodletting of that late-19th-century Appalachian family feud became the stuff of international legend … but until now, remarkably, never a major mass entertainment. ...
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Folk artist Doc Watson's responsive after surgery: agent
Fri,25 May 2012 03:37 PM PDT
Reuters - WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remained in critical condition on Friday but had regained some strength after undergoing colon surgery at a North Carolina hospital, according to his management team. A statement on Folklore Productions International's website said the 89-year-old performer was "resting and responsive" following his surgery on Thursday. "The family appreciates everyone's prayers and good wishes," the statement said. ... Full Story | Top |
"Chernobyl Diarie": creepy, spooky and altogether nuke-y
Fri,25 May 2012 03:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Chernobyl Diaries" isn't going to do the Russian National Tourist Office any favors, but it's a solidly suspenseful (if somewhat disposable) horror movie that makes a haunted house out of a real-life disaster area. ...
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Making France's "Intouchables" bankable in the U.S.
Fri,25 May 2012 03:00 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Last year around this time of France's Cannes film festival, movie producer Harvey Weinstein pondered how to turn a silent black-and-white film, "The Artist," into Oscar gold. His answer was to charm the socks off audiences with a simple tale of old Hollywood romance. This year, his Weinstein Co. has a different French movie on its hands with buddy comedy "The Intouchables," a box office smash around the world that opens in the United States on Friday with a race relations story that may not translate as easily for U.S. audiences. ...
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Keira Knightley engaged to British rocker boyfriend
Fri,25 May 2012 02:16 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - "Pirates of the Caribbean" actress Keira Knightley is engaged to marry her musician boyfriend James Righton, her publicist said on Friday. Knightley, 27, who was Oscar-nominated for her lead role in the 2005 film "Pride & Prejudice," has been dating Righton, who plays in British indie band Klaxons, for about a year. "I can confirm that Keira is engaged to be married to James Righton," British publicist Sara Keene said. No wedding dates or details of the engagement were released, in line with couple's low-key romance and few public appearances together. ...
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Tim McGraw giving houses to military vets during tour
Fri,25 May 2012 02:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Here's a celebrity who's walking the walk this Memorial Day weekend: country star Tim McGraw is launching HomeFront, a national program that will award mortgage-free homes to wounded military vets in the 25 cities on McGraw's summer tour. Partnering with Chase and Operation Homefront, McGraw will give away one house to a military family in need in each of the stops on his tour, beginning with Tampa on June 2. ...
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Producer of "The Waltons" and "Dallas" Lee Rich dies
Fri,25 May 2012 01:40 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Lee Rich, the Emmy-winning TV and film executive who produced such shows as "The Waltons," "Eight Is Enough" and "Dallas," has died. He was 85. Rich, who was also the former chairman and chief executive of MGM/UA Communications, said he considered his greatest accomplishment to be co-founding Lorimar, which produced the shows. It went on to produce "Family Matters," "Full House" and "Perfect Strangers," among other series. ... Full Story | Top |
Randall Wallace to direct "The Conscientious Objector"
Fri,25 May 2012 01:19 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "Braveheart" writer Randall Wallace will direct "The Conscientious Objector" for Walden Media, Walden confirmed to TheWrap. The film tells the story of Desmond Doss, a medic during World War II and the first conscientious objector to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. Drafted in 1942, the Seventh-day Adventist became a medic because he refused to carry a weapon into combat. Wallace earned his lone Oscar nomination as a writer, penning the script for "Braveheart," but his directing credits include "The Man in the Iron Mask," "We Were Soldiers" and "Secretariat. ... Full Story | Top |
"Men in Black 3": what the critics think
Fri,25 May 2012 11:52 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Nearly a decade after they last saved the earth from aliens, the Men in Black are back - and critics seem pretty okay with that. The science fiction sequel earned a 66 percent "fresh" rating, according to the critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. That's a far higher number than those received by recent box office duds "Dark Shadows" and "Battleship." At the very least, most reviewers preferred "Men in Black 3" to the critically reviled second film in the series. Not that everyone was happy to see the UFO chasers return to the big screen. ...
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Lindsay Lohan's Liz Taylor gets her Richard Burton
Fri,25 May 2012 11:50 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Lindsay Lohan's Elizabeth Taylor has her Richard Burton: "True Blood" and "Ugly Betty" actor Grant Bowler has signed on to "Liz & Dick," Lifetime's movie about the couple's tempestuous relationship. New Zealand native Bowler is best known to TV viewers as werewolf Cooter on "True Blood," as well as the love interest of Vanessa Williams' Wilhelmina on "Ugly Betty." He recently guest-starred on the ABC primetime soap "GCB. ... Full Story | Top |
Britney Spears denies storming off set of "X Factor"
Fri,25 May 2012 11:49 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Britney Spears found herself in the middle of some silly drama almost as soon as she debuted as an "X Factor" judge. TMZ.com reported that Spears walked off the show's set during auditions in Austin when a contestant performed a not-so-great version of her song "Hold It Against Me." Spears tweeted in response: "#Britneywalksoff??? LOL was just taking a little break people. I am having the BEST time!!!" The pop star debuted as a season two "X Factor" judge alongside fellow newbie Demi Lovato and returning judges L.A. Reid and Simon Cowell. ...
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Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" draws some protests
Fri,25 May 2012 11:35 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" with its ghostly tale of terror near the infamous, abandoned nuclear plant hits theaters on Friday after drawing protests from some who view it as sensationalizing a disaster that had tragic human consequences. But the film's maker, Oren Peli, best known as the creator of the "Paranormal Activity" horror franchise, defends his movie by calling it a horror film meant to entertain and never offend. And he does have some support from outside groups. ...
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Corrected: Dish, TV networks take fight over ad zapper to judges
Fri,25 May 2012 11:03 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - A legal battle erupted between DISH Network and some of the major broadcast networks Thursday as the two sides traded lawsuits over the satellite distribution company's "Hopper" DVR, which threatens to bring down the television business model by allowing viewers to skip over commercials entirely. Dish Network Corp asked a Manhattan federal judge to declare that its "Auto Hop" feature does not infringe any copyright owned by the four major U.S. television networks: Walt Disney Co's ABC, CBS Corp's CBS, News Corp's Fox and Comcast Corp's NBC. ...
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Berlin red light district turns into art hub
Fri,25 May 2012 10:23 AM PDT
Reuters -  BERLIN (Reuters) - A shabby area of Berlin best known for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure of its glory days in the 1920s as low rents and its central location lure art galleries. Art lovers are surprised to discover such a wealth of galleries on and around Potsdamer Strasse, a long artery stretching southwest from the revamped and now-glitzy Potsdamer Platz to the traditional gay stronghold of Schoeneberg. The galleries, numbering nearly two dozen, are often tucked away in quiet courtyards or hidden in grand 19th century buildings. ...
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Story by Pultizer Prize winner serialized on Twitter
Fri,25 May 2012 09:59 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialized in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine. The New Yorker said the first installment of the story, a spy thriller called "Black Box, went out on Thursday night. "The story is written in terse dispatches of 140 characters or less, which will be tweeted, through The New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter handle, @NYerFiction, in ten nightly installments between 8 and 9 P.M. E.T," it said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
"Cosmopolis" brings star Pattinson to Cannes
Fri,25 May 2012 09:48 AM PDT
Reuters -  CANNES, France (Reuters) - "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is a ruthless billionaire on a journey to self-destruction in Canadian director David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis", a searing attack on greed and capitalism launching at the Cannes film festival. In the movie based on a Don DeLillo novel of the same name, capitalism is corrupting, characters cannot communicate, and people joke that rats could be the new currency. The film is competing for the festival's top prize to be awarded on Sunday. ...
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Best movie mutt is saluted in Cannes
Fri,25 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Frivolity and fur erupted on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival on Friday, as a fluffy white dog named Smurf was bestowed the prestigious "Palm Dog" award for a performance deemed "magnifique" by the event's organizer. "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dogs and bitches, welcome to the Palm Dog..." began Toby Rose, who since 2001 has bestowed the award on Cannes' most worthy four-legged actor. ... Full Story | Top |
Haneke among names in frame for Cannes film awards
Fri,25 May 2012 07:42 AM PDT
Reuters -  CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival enjoyed cheers and jeers in equal measure this year, leaving its famously passionate and picky audiences with plenty to love, loathe and laugh about. With two days to go before the close of the 12-day movie marathon, it also pulled off a balancing act between championing independent films from around the world and luring enough stars to the red carpet to satisfy a thirst for glamour and celebrity. ...
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In tough times, Cannes charity gala gets personal
Fri,25 May 2012 04:42 AM PDT
Reuters - ANTIBES, France (Reuters) - At a time of economic uncertainty, the glitziest charity gala at the Cannes film festival got personal. Each year at the luxurious Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, just along the coast from Cannes, amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, invites the famous and fabulously wealthy for a night of fine food, fine wine, dancing and giving. This year Kylie Minogue, Janet Jackson, Kirsten Dunst and Adrien Brody were among the stars to grace the black tie event late on Thursday and into the early hours of Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
John Lydon boosts his Public Image with new album
Fri,25 May 2012 03:00 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As bad boy lead singer of the anarchic, trail-blazing and short-lived 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols, John Lydon (then Johnny Rotten) snarled and spat his way across a shocked society and music scene still pleasantly half-high from the mellow 1960s. Never one to let the grass grow under his feet, Lydon left the Pistols in 1978 to form the more experimental - if less commercially successful - Public Image Ltd., and for the next 15 years the band's shifting lineup released a dozen albums and toured the world. ...
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Ukrainian pianist plays her way to YouTube stardom
Fri,25 May 2012 02:59 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A little-known Ukrainian pianist who has had 43 million views on YouTube of her performing everything from Liszt to Schubert said on Friday for an encore she will play London's Royal Albert Hall -- and the world is invited to watch on the Internet. Valentina Lisitsa, who has been playing piano since the age of 3, began her rise to Internet stardom five years ago, when she posted a Rachmaninov etude nicknamed "Little Red Riding Hood" on the Internet. Perhaps in part bolstered by her flashing long fingers and blonde tresses, that video clip has had 1. ... Full Story | Top |
"Men in Black 3" ready to end reign of 'Avengers'
Fri,25 May 2012 12:07 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Is a decade too long to wait for a film sequel? Is four years too long for the industry's most bankable star to be away from the big screen and keep his box-office mojo? "Men in Black 3" and star Will Smith will provide answers to both of those questions this Memorial Day weekend as they try to knock "The Avengers" out of the top box-office spot for the first time in a month. "MIB3" will make around $80 million over the four days and do just that, industry analysts forecast. Sony has "MIB3" on 4,248 screens, 278 of which will be Imax. ...
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Singer Doc Watson in critical condition, hospital says
Thu,24 May 2012 09:01 PM PDT
Reuters - WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Grammy winning folk musician Doc Watson is in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital, a representative for the medical facility said on Thursday. The 89-year-old Watson is a singer of bluegrass, country, blues and gospel who is famous for his flatpicking style on the guitar and his interpretations of folk songs from bygone eras. Watson, a native of North Carolina, is in critical condition at Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, said Karen Richardson, a spokeswoman for the hospital. ... Full Story | Top |
Berlusconi paid for sex, witness tells court
Thu,24 May 2012 07:14 PM PDT
Reuters -  MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex during at least one party at his luxury villa outside Milan, a witness said on Thursday at a trial where he is accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute. Natascia Teatino told the court that a friend named Aris she had accompanied to one of the evenings had said she "received money for (sexual) relations with Berlusconi," adding that she had not specified how much money. "Aris told me that I could stay and have sex with Berlusconi, but I didn't feel like staying," Teatino said. ...
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New Orleans newspaper cuts print edition to three days a week
Thu,24 May 2012 07:00 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The 175-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper will reduce the number of days it publishes a print edition to three a week, making the Louisiana city the largest in the United States without a daily newspaper. Advance Publications, which owns the Times-Picayune, said on Thursday it made the change because of the upheaval in the newspaper industry and the necessity to focus on its digital publications. ...
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Comedic action projects for Luc Besson and Relativity
Thu,24 May 2012 06:16 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Relativity has struck a partnership with Luc Besson's EuropaCorp to co-finance and co-produce its next two films, "Malavita" and "Three Days to Kill." "Malavita," part dark comedy, part action movie, tells the story of the Manzonis, a mafia family that gets relocated to Normandy as part of a witness protection program. Besson wrote the script, adapted from "Badfellas" by Toninio Benacquista. Besson will also direct the film, which stars Robert De Niro and will begin production in August. ... Full Story | Top |
How "Marigold Hotel" became summer's indie smash
Thu,24 May 2012 06:14 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is poised to leap out of the arthouse and into the mainstream. The story of a group of British retirees, grappling with illness and financial burdens, who decide to move to India is hardly the stuff of summer blockbusters. Yet the Fox Searchlight and Participant Media film has quietly racked up nearly $90 million worldwide, with $9.2 million of that haul coming in the United States. It has accomplished this feat largely by being the anti-"Avengers. ... Full Story | Top |
Dish, TV networks take fight over ad zapper to judges
Thu,24 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - A legal battle erupted between DISH Network and some of the major broadcast networks Thursday as the two sides traded lawsuits over the satellite distribution company's "Hopper" DVR, which threatens to bring down the television business model by allowing viewers to skip over commercials entirely. Dish Network Corp asked a Manhattan federal judge to declare that its "Auto Hop" feature does not infringe any copyright owned by the four major U.S. television networks: Walt Disney Co's ABC, CBS Corp's CBS, News Corp's Fox and Comcast Corp's NBC. ...
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Dish, TV networks take fight over ad zapper to judges
Thu,24 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The battle between satellite and broadcast TV for viewers headed to U.S. courts on Thursday when DISH Network sought to allow viewers to skip commercials at the touch of a button, something the four major broadcast networks are fighting tooth and nail. Dish Network asked a Manhattan federal judge to declare that its "Auto Hop" feature does not infringe any copyright owned by the four major U.S. television networks: ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. ... Full Story | Top |
Bradley Cooper to make "American Sniper" film
Thu,24 May 2012 03:59 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Bradley Cooper has picked the first project for his production company, The Warner Bros.-based 22nd & Indiana. Cooper will produce and potentially star in an adaptation of "American Sniper," the tale of "the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History." In the memoir, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recounts his record-setting military history, during which he claims to have killed more than 150 people. The Texas native learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father and later served in during the Iraq War. ...
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McCartney film to screen before "The Intouchables"
Thu,24 May 2012 03:45 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - The Weinstein Company has locked in Paul McCartney, Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp to build the buzz around its upcoming "The Intouchables." McCartney's directorial debut, "My Valentine," will screen before every showing of the French box office smash during its theatrical run. It hits theaters May 25. McCartney's black-and-white short, set to his song of the same name, stars Portman and Depp translating the lyrics of the song using sign language. Each offers a distinct interpretation, and Depp also plays a guitar solo. ... Full Story | Top |
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