When Zac Efron and Leonardo DiCaprio were spotted sitting together at a Lakers game in November, the conversation between the teen idol torch passers was the subject of intense speculation. Might Leo be doling out advice on film roles? Tabloid scrutiny? Acquiring model girlfriends directly through their talent bookers? None of the above, Efron has now revealed. They were talking about drugs.
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In today's Hollywood Ink ... William Hurt jousts ... Boston falls to Leno .... and a Frost befalls Forks, Washington ...
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UPDATE: AP reporting at 2:20 p.m. that Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder.
Moments ago, a billowing pouf of gray smoke that resembles a terrifying Jewfro has emerged from the chimney atop the L.A. Superior Court, signaling that a verdict has been reached in the Phil Spector Retrial of the Century. It will be read aloud at precisely 2 p.m., at which point the legendary Wall of Sound architect will learn his fate as the 12 jurors solemnly file out of the deliberation room wearing either their pink "Team Accidental Suicide" or powder blue "Team I Think You Just Killed Somebody" T-shirts. Developing... [Variety]
Marilyn Chambers, the woman who blazed a trail into porn for Ivory Soap models around the world (and later had a far less influential impact breaking into "legit" films), was found dead Sunday at her Los Angeles home. She was 56.
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Oscar-winner and part-time radio host Jamie Foxx may or may not have known Hannah Montana was going to lead Hollywood's biggest-ever Easter weekend, but he had a gift basket prepared for Miley Cyrus anyway. Yet if the rowdy, NSFW sentiment he passed along Sunday to his online listening audience is any indication, she may politely decline. Hear for yourself after the jump.
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Audiences like to complain that a trailer gives all the movie's best jokes away, but we think the same could be said about its explosions being spoiled. We took a look at five of the most combustible summer movie trailers to see what impressions we could extract (using a pincer-equipped bomb squad robot, of course).
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This just in from Movieline's Dept. of Foregone Conclusions: Mel Gibson and his wife of 28 years are officially over. More than two years after their rumored separation and less than two months after Mel was snapped frolicking in the Caribbean surf with another woman, Robyn Gibson today filed divorce papers citing irreconcilable differences. All that's left is to dig out the prenup and -- oh. Wait. They didn't have one.
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You know it's a slow news week when no less an authority than the New York Times observes there is nothing important happening in the world of Brad Grey. Loving the Paramount chieftain as we do, Movieline at first refused to believe such grim revelation. But there it is on the paper's Hollywood blog, which has the tragic numbers to prove it:
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Welcome to Weekend Receipts. It's Movieline's Monday morning headquarters for box office news and analysis, as only our unparalleled industry expertise -- augmented by 20/20 hindsight and an I.V. hookup to a decade-old Mr. Coffee machine -- can bring you. As always, a light continental breakfast will be served.
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J.J. Abrams and the crew of the Starship Enterprise spent Easter weekend with U.S. forces stationed in Kuwait. It was by all accounts a brilliant launch to Paramount's PR ground assault--even if it managed to skirt the boundaries of good taste with a videotaped message from Osama bin Klingon, who pledged "spectacular intergalactic destruction should these human footsoldiers continue their Gre'thorian efforts of peacekeeping and goodwill."
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Sometimes the Audacity of Hope takes a back seat to the Stupidity of Drama: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs recently admitted that the Commander-in-Chief is so addicted to Entourage, his Sunday night campaign calls were literally scheduled around it.
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Rejoice, cinema enthusiasts! Paul Walker has confirmed that he's on board for a fifth, Brazil-set installment of the Fast & Furious series, and he credits a delightful campaign of audience harassment for leading to his decision.
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Some troublemaker still in town over the long holiday week decided to reintroduce Sin City 2 as a going Hollywood concern, stirring up news that The Weinstein Company had lost the rights to follow up Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's 2003 hit. (The Weinsteins produced the original at Miramax.) Both Rodriguez and the brothers' legal overlord Bert Fields soon refuted the reports, but the gossipmongers aren't about to let the rumor mill sputter out so anticlimactically. Which is where Angelina Jolie comes in. Again.
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Tara Reid is signing on for the newest American Pie sequel, no doubt moved by Vin Diesel's similar, successful return to the franchise that launched him (as well as Universal's ability to meet her insurance premiums). There's just one catch.
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