'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother' Blogger Ends Feud With Critic
Blogger Liza Long made a stir Friday when she responded to the Newtown shootings with a story called "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother," about the difficulties of raising a deeply troubled child. Published on...
View ArticleMohammed Morsi, the Clintons, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Top Time's Person of the...
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Bill and Hillary Clinton were named among eight top choices for Time's Person of the Year, the magazine announced Tuesday. Undocumented...
View Article'Amour' Review: A Wrenching But Essential Look at a Disintegrating Life
Movies love to speed up the dying process, whether it's the rosy-cheeked young girl who succumbs to a mysterious fatal illness in the final reel or the hero cop suddenly felled by one random bullet...
View ArticleRatings: CBS Wins the Night as CW's 'Gossip Girl' says Goodbye
NBC's "The Voice" grew slightly and took the night's top ratings slot on Monday, but CBS scored its second consecutive Monday night win thanks largely to its comedy slate, according to preliminary...
View ArticleNY Daily News, NY Post Stump for Gun Control on Their Front Pages
New York's tabloids are on the stump for new gun-control legislation following Friday's mass murder of 20 children and six women in Newtown, Conn. The New York Daily News splashed Tuesday's front page...
View ArticleTom Hooper, Mychael Danna Join Crowded Slate of Palm Springs Honorees
"Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper and "Life of Pi" composer Mychael Danna are the latest awards-season hopefuls to be added to the slate of honorees at the Palm Springs International Film Festival,...
View ArticleLegendary Raises $443M from Waddell & Reed
Legendary Entertainment has raised $443 million dollars in financing from Waddell & Reed Financial, the film financier behind "The Dark Knight" and "The Hangover" said Tuesday. Legendary will use...
View ArticleConan Addresses Newtown News in Opening Monologue (Video)
Conan O'Brien opened up his show Monday in an unusually somber fashion, saying he wouldn't do a monologue joking about the news because of "Friday's insanely mindless tragedy."Instead, he told the...
View ArticleBron Studios Finds 'Sole Mates'
Bron Studios is moving forward with its first CG animated feature film, "Sole Mates," the company announced on Tuesday.The film, an "animated journey of love, lost and found, with comedic charm and...
View ArticleJoe Roth, Universal Reunite for 'Daughter of Smoke & Bone'
Joe Roth will produce Universal's "Daughter of Smoke & Bone," a potential young-adult franchise for the studio, it announced on Tuesday.Laini Taylor's fantasy novel, the first in a planned trilogy,...
View Article8 Best Picture Nominees? That's What Our Simulation Shows (Exclusive)
For the last two years, predicting the Oscar Best Picture nominees has been particularly hard because of the new variable the Academy has added: Not only don't we know what films voters will nominate,...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable Dropping Ovation: Is It Sports vs. Arts?
The arts-minded Ovation network says it is being dropped by Time Warner Cable at the end of the year, in part because the cable giant would rather spend money on sports than the arts.The announcement...
View Article'Hebrew Hammer' Sequel Profits From Crowdfunding Campaign
"The Hebrew Hammer vs. Hitler," the sequel to 2003's "The Hebrew Hammer," will begin filming next year, after an innovative crowdfunding campaign that's raised $35,000 on Jewcer.com, the filmmakers...
View ArticleSamuel L. Jackson vs. Anne Hathaway: Whose Christmas Day Movie is Sadder?...
"Django Unchained" and "Lez Misérables" go head-to-head at the box office on Christmas Day, so Funny or Die pitted Samuel L. Jackson and Anne Hathaway against each other in a spirited holiday debate:...
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis to Kathryn Bigelow: I'm Sorry for the Sexist Tweets
Bret Easton Ellis has apologized to "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow for a series of tweets saying she was overrated because she was a "very hot woman." In an essay posted Monday on the...
View Article'Big Fish' Musical Lines Up Heavy-Hitting Design Team, Sets Pre-Broadway Run
The musical version of "Big Fish" will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre, kicking off a five-week run on April 5, 2013. In addition, the show's backers have lined up a...
View ArticleTime Inc. Names Martha Nelson First-Ever Woman Editor-in-Chief
Martha Nelson has been named Time Inc.'s seventh editor-in-chief, making her the first woman to fill the position, the company announced Tuesday. Nelson, the founding editor of InStyle and former...
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis Apologizes to Kathryn Bigelow for Tweets
Author Bret Easton Ellis has apologized for a series of tweets about "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow, saying he went "beyond douchiness into another more insensitive realm."In a new post...
View Article'The Guilt Trip' Review: Not Like Buttah, but Better Than Margarine
The trailer, the casting, even the title of "The Guilt Trip" sets us up for a specific kind of movie: Nice neurotic boy henpecked by his nagging, smothering Yiddishe mama. It's a dynamic we've seen...
View Article'Game of Thrones' Gets Expanded Episodes for Season 3
As the drama grows on "Game of Thrones," so do the episodes. HBO's hit fantasy series will air expanded episodes for its third season, a spokeswoman for HBO told TheWrap on Tuesday, with each of the...
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