Despite his pretty boy looks and movie star charisma, actor Brad Pitt spent most of his career trying to avoid bloated box office leads, in favor of riskier, lower profile roles. After achieving heartthrob status with revealing performances showing off his “six-pack abs” in “Thelma and Louise” (1991) and “Legends of the Fall” (1994), Pitt [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Judd Apatow has enlisted Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman and Jonah Hill to join Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann in his next directorial effort. The film had been untitled thus far but now has a moniker: Funny People.
Variety reports that production will begin in September in LA and the film will be released next summer.
Apatow, who [...]

HOLLYWOOD - Not much change in my weekend predictions from Monday’s early preview. Virtually everyone I talk to has Steve Carell’s Get Smart (Warner Bros) at $35M or so. If the number holds, it will be an excellent start, becoming Carell’s all-time best live action opening as an above-the-title star. His best to-date is last summer’s [...]

By his own admission, actor Mark Wahlberg went from a jailed Boston street thug to a respected, legitimate actor in less than a decade, with attention-grabbing stops as a rapper and underwear model along the way. He received his first acting kudos for his starring role as ambitious porn star Dirk Diggler in “Boogie Nights” [...]

When it came time to find a young actress to assume the role of the twins (originated by Hayley Mills) for the 1998 remake of the film “The Parent Trap,” an exhaustive casting search occurred throughout the USA, Canada and even in London. Perhaps because the behind-the-scenes figures opted to avoid the obvious and cast [...]

One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the 1970s through the early 1990s, actor, writer, director and producer Sylvester Stallone combined sheer physical brawn with a touch of vulnerability in two major movie franchises – the Academy Award-winning “Rocky” (1976) and its five sequels, as well as the jingoistic, ultra-violent “Rambo” [...]

Actress Anne Hathaway had a wholesome start in Hollywood, establishing her strong screen presence with breakout roles in family fare “The Princess Diaries” (2001) and “Ella Enchanted” (2004), while many of her peers were getting far more attention for their rehab and party antics. But the well-grounded, well-educated Hathaway held focus on her career, evolving [...]

With a ton of celebrities wearing this women’s shoe trend, the gladiator sandal is by far the fastest must-have shoe of the season.
In keeping with the brand new theme that came out on 2007s runways, there has been “an insane love” for Roman sandals and gladiator boots/shoes “both on the town and the catwalk”, [...]

From Hollywood wild-child to Academy Award winner to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphic transformations over the course of her career. An exceedingly beautiful, strikingly talented performer, Jolie broke on to the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly gaining a reputation for both her on-screen work as well as her [...]

HOLLYWOOD - TUESDAY 10:00 p.m. (Pacific): DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda ticked up 4% from Monday for a $6.56M Tuesday, which is stronger than the $5.74M that Pixar’s Cars scored on its 2nd weekday in 2006. The John Lasseter-directed early June Disney release went on to a $244M domestic haul, so Paramount has every reason to be thrilled. [...]