Champions League final tops Super Bowl in TV survey

MIAMI – UEFA’s Champions League final has for the first time replaced the NFL’s Super Bowl as the most-watched annual sports event, according to a survey. The yearly report from London-based Initiative Futures Sports and Entertainment, found that both events continue to grow but the European soccer final is growing ...

Quartet of fine performances bring "Still" to life

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – There are plenty of social issues bandied about in Donald Margulies’ new play about a female photographer and her journalist boyfriend coping with the physical and emotional aftereffects of her near-fatal encounter with a roadside bomb in Iraq. But for all its debates about such ...

‘Avatar’ Wins Its Seventh Weekend In A Row In The Sunday Box Office Report

1. “Avatar” ($30 million)2. “Edge of Darkness” ($17.1 million)3. “When in Rome” ($12.1 million)4. “Tooth Fairy” ($10 million)5. “The Book of Eli” ($8.8 million) To the surprise of absolutely nobody, “Avatar” once again topped the box office charts this past weekend for its seventh straight weekend victory. Following the $30 ...

Straight From the Red Carpet: Looks From the Grammys

Red-carpet season continues tonight with the Grammys. We’re bringing you all the looks live and will be continuously updating throughout the evening. Share which ones you love and which ones you hate in the comments! For all the Grammy hit-or-miss moments, click ahead to our slideshow. Read more posts by ...

Liveblogging the Grammys

8pm: Here we are at the Grammys, ready to celebrate music that’s over a year old. Yaaay! The red carpet was mostly ‘eh,’ excepting Lady Gaga’s awesome Armani wand and Rihanna’s future-Victorian ensemble. (You can see those photos here.) 8:03pm: Gaga and Elton John are grimy and bedazzled, playing “Your ...

Champions League final tops Super Bowl in TV

MIAMI – UEFA’s Champions League final has for the first time replaced the NFL’s Super Bowl as the most-watched annual sports event, according to a survey. The yearly report from London-based Initiative Futures Sports and Entertainment, found that both events continue to grow but the European soccer final is growing ...

Rip Torn Arrested for Truly Bizarre Crime

Torn in 2009 at the Berlin Film Festival. And you thought his (allegedly) pulling a knife on Dennis Hopper was strange! Uh, buckle your seat belt. Rip Torn, the 78-year-old Emmy winner and one-time Oscar nominee, was arrested yesterday for breaking into a bank while wasted and (because crazy things ...

Return of Mel Gibson Not Enough to Dethrone Avatar

Top three this weekend: Avatar, $30 million; Edge of Darkness, $17.1 million; When In Rome, $12 million. Gibson’s dark thriller was crushed by the Avatar juggernaut, which is showing little sign of weakness in its seventh week. [Box Office Mojo] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: weekend box ...

Excitement Builds, Sort of, as Grammys Draw Near

We know you’re probably having trouble sitting still, what with tonight’s Grammys being just hours away, but in case you needed more reason to tune in, here are three things to look forward to: 1. Britney will be there! According to her manager’s daughter’s Twitter (basically the most reliable source ...

Winter’s Bone takes top honors at Sundance

Granik accepting the grand jury prize. Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone — a grim and gritty drama about a girl who treks through the Ozarks to find her missing father — cleaned up at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning both the dramatic competition Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt ...