HOLLYWOOD - The premiere of Heath Ledger’s final complete film will be dedicated to the actor–and his family will be the special guests at the event.
The actor’s family will make the trip from Australia back to New York, the city where the star died from an accidental overdose in January, for the screening of Batman Begins [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Amanda Peet is set to play the female lead in Roland Emmerich’s epic disaster project 2012, says The Hollywood Reporter. She joins an ensemble cast led by John Cusack that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt.
2012 centers on a global cataclysm and the struggle of its survivors. Peet will play Cusack’s ex-wife who [...]

HOLLYWOOD - MONDAY 9 p.m. (Pacific): Will a send-up of Deepak Chopra from the man who created Austin Powers generate big box office? Or will Steve Carell successfully deadpan his way to the top of the box office heap with a revival of the late ‘60s TV classic Get Smart (Warner Bros)? The latest industry tracking [...]

LOS ANGELES - Can the end of the world be funny?
Mandate Pictures thinks so, and it’s turning an Internet trailer that writer/actor Seth Rogen and his pals did on the subject into a feature film.
Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse will be written by Rogen and his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, and will star Rogen and Jay Baruchel.
The [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Hollywood is destined for one big hit this weekend and one monumental miss. Marvel Studios is about to demonstrate that Iron Man (Paramount) was no fluke while M. Night Shyamalan’s career seems headed for another disaster of mythic proportions.
Marvel has audaciously re-booted Incredible Hulk (Universal) just five years after Ang Lee’s brooding version of the [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Will Smith and his daughter Willow are set for a big-screen battle in July, when their new films are released on the same day.
Seven-year-old Willow Smith’s film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is set to hit theaters on July 2–the same day her father’s new superhero movie Hancock opens.
And the actor has already let his daughter [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Sharon Stone has been shunned by a Chinese film festival after she made insensitive remarks about the country’s recent earthquake.
The Basic Instinct star was forced to apologize after she stunned journalists at last month’s Cannes Film Festival in France by suggesting the disaster was the result of “bad karma.”
Stone linked the tragedy, which killed [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Outspoken moviemaker Spike Lee has fuelled the war of words between himself and Clint Eastwood by calling the Hollywood icon “an angry old man.”
Lee was upset when the Dirty Harry star used an interview in a British newspaper to attack the Malcolm X director over remarks he made about the lack of black actors in Eastwood’s 2006 war [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Country star Taylor Swift is set to team up with fellow teen sensation Miley Cyrus–she has signed on to appear in Hannah Montana: The Movie.
The 18-year-old singer is close friends with Cyrus–who shot to fame on the hit kids TV show–and can’t wait to work alongside her in the upcoming film version of the [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Legendary actress Brigitte Bardot has been fined $23,325 after she was found guilty of inciting racial hatred in her native France.
The former screen siren-turned-animal rights activist was accused of publicly criticizing the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Adha–during which sheep are slaughtered as a sacrifice–in an open letter to French president Nicolas Sarkozy in [...]