Today in show business news: Jurassic Park 4 lives again, Pacific Rim may live again too, and Liv Tyler heads to TV.
Last night wasn't just a night of teary triumph in Hollywood. It was also a night of teary heartbreak in rural England, as the second installment of Downton Abbey's third season aired on PBS and further punished an already terribly mistreated character. Read no further lest ye want spoilers.
Now that this year's Golden Globe Awards have come and gone, it's time to re-focus on the really important prizes of the season, the Academy Awards. What do last night's victories and losses tell us?
Today in celebrity news: Some staid reports from the post-Golden Globes party scene, Will and Kate announce a vague due date, and Ann Romney says no to reality TV.
What we learned on Sunday night: Argo has serious awards potential, there are brewing Oscar face-offs for Best Actress and even Best Actor, and Jodie Foster is kind of strange. Re-live the whole ceremony (and the red carpet) with GIFs, jokes, video, and more.
Today in show business news: Louis C.K. is getting some big big-screen work, The Vampire Diaries universe is expanding, and a 3-D version of Jurassic Park 4 is coming soon.
The Golden Globe Awards arrive Sunday with a laid-back night full of drunken millionaires handing glorious trophies to each other. Here are some predictions about who will really come out on top on Hollywood's second-biggest night.
In the second season, Lena Dunham's show is blessedly less concerned with defining an era or a generation and more relaxed in its own particular conventions. And that's a good thing.
Today in celebrity news: TayTay and Harry's breakup gets nasty, Lindsay Lohan weighs in on her big New York Times Magazine piece, and Kate Middleton celebrates her birthday.
Today in show business news: Christopher Nolan has found his followup to The Dark Knight Rises, Ali Larter gets a plum TV role, and Godzilla gets a guy.
Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, got some undue attention this summer when it hastily moved off its original September release date. It really wasn't worth all the fuss.
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine features a long piece by Stephen Rodrick about the filming of The Canyons, a low-budget make-it-or-break-it movie starring Lindsay Lohan. You must give the entire thing a read, but in case you just don't have time today (it's long), here are our favorite selections.
Today in celebrity news: Katie Holmes heads to a trial in Queens, Britney Spears is leaving television, and Charlie Sheen sends a strange, sad check.
This morning, in irksomely bit-y fashion (it's too early for bits, guys), Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced the nominees for this year's Academy Awards. As always there were some surprises, some disappointments, and some definite snubs.
Today in show business news: The big movie musical's soundtrack is the hottest disc in the land, Jimmy Kimmel makes a pretty good 11:35 debut, and Days of Our Lives has more sand in the hourglass.
Who will get picked? Who will get snubbed? The Academy Awards are never entirely predictable, but we have some educated guesses in the so-called major categories, before we bring you the full roll call bright and early Thursday morning.
Today in celebrity gossip: The controversial documentary filmmaker got in a spat with a notorious critic, Kim and Kanye go on an expensive trip to Paris, and the Mary-Kate/Olivier snaps you never knew you needed.
Today in showbiz: Transformers 4 will star a big up-and-comer, too many people watch Honey Boo Boo, Glee lives past its expiration date, and Justin Bieber is hosting all of SNL.
As happens every so often, this Sunday is a night when many important shows are airing or premiering at the same time. So which should you watch? What will best suit your tastes? Here, let us tell you.
At last night's New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Steven Spielberg read the audience a letter sent by Daniel Day-Lewis, in which the picky and somewhat reclusive actor gently turned down the role of Abraham Lincoln when it was first offerd. It's an interesting little glimpse into an alternate reality that almost was.
Today in celebrity gossip news: It seems that the world's favorite young couple really is kaput, Kim and Kanye buy an elaborate new house, and Justin Bieber's weed history is explored.
Today in show business news: PBS had a real ratings bonanza last night, Ryan Lochte has officially been given his own show, and One Direction unveils their latest filmic masterpiece.
Today in celebrity gossip: People really want pictures of Kimye's upcoming baby, Justin Bieber deals with the post-weed world, and a football player does something he shouldn't.
Downton Abbey has, despite its elegance and period delicacy, perhaps entered into its own version of a perilously self-aware phase, too keenly cognizant of the Downton craze at the expense of fostering what created the craze in the first place.
Today in show business news: CBS has an ever-growing monster hit on its hands, Anna Faris heads to the small screen, and Bates Motel is not what you think it is.
Yet another one of those silly petitions has popped up in the White House's online "We the People" suggestion box, though this one actual entertainment value. You see, the people now want a Joe Biden reality show. Yes! Let's make some pitches.
The show rings remarkably false — even for an MTV reality show, even for the supposed successor to Jersey Shore — especially in contrast to the show's supposed mission, which is to shed a light on backwoods kids who just don't give a good god darn.
Today in celebrity gossip: America's most hated couple has headed to England, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez might be over, and Naomi Campbell was mugged.
Today in show business news: Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic has a release date, Nicolas Cage's Rapture movie gets even stranger, and Adam Levine will soon be hosting SNL.
Now that New Year's has come and gone, we can finally say goodbye to television's holiday hiatus and start watching some new stuff again. So we've put together this quick guide highlighting the best of what will be on.
Tiny independent television station KDOC in Orange County is hoping the worst part of the year came at the beginning, after its first-ever live New Year's Eve broadcast, First Night 2013 hosted by Jamie Kennedy, turned into an epic disaster.
Today in celebrity gossip: these two beautiful, rich people will be just fine, Bethenny Frankel faces down a divorce settlement,, and the Justin Bieber paparazzo who died may have gone too far too often.
Today in show business news: Too many of you are watching Dance Moms, Joseph Gordon-Levitt goes after another super hero role, and MTV teases us with more Buckwild.
Today in celebrity gossip: Find out how Leonardo DiCaprio had two New Year's Eves this year, see Taylor and Harry share a midnight kiss, and wonder about the star status of Sofia Vergara.
Today in show business news: Les Misérables is selling like hot cakes, a look at the year's highest-grossing films, and some sad news for Mockingbird Lane.
In the real world, there were escalating political nightmares and merciless superstorms and terrible shootings. But on TV and on the radio, at the movies and all across the Internet, there was revitalization and renewal, invention and good old-fashioned fun.
Today in celebrity news: It's an early close on the White Way for Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles and Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez all go skiing, and Nick Stahl got in some embarrassing trouble.
Today in show business news: HBO's hit series is the Internet's most downloaded show, The Hobbit is halfway to a billion dollars, and catch the first four minutes of a zombie love story.
The world's biggest party night is less than a week away, meaning if you don't have great plans by now, you're screwed. Or not! Here are some things to remember before you start worrying too much about next Monday evening.
Today in celebrity news: All about Kate Winslet's secret Hollyweird nuptials. Plus, Britney Spears might get the axe, and Suri Cruise might have received some extremely fancy Christmas presents.
Today in post-Christmas showbusiness news: Natalie Portman tops a dubious list of big-money actors, Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith almost re-made Fletch, and Ryan Gosling teams up with Bradley Cooper.
The Zero Dark Thirty torture debate broke out before you'd even seen it yet, right? Which led us to wonder, as everyone flocks to the theater over the holidays: Do tough conversations help or hurt at the box office? Do they make seeing a movie any more enjoyable? Or, in the case of Django Unchained, is immersion in controversy actually sort of the point?
Today in post-Christmas celebrity gossip: J. Simps is definitely "preggers," Chris and Rihanna spent the holiday "looking happy," and Spago is "back."
Today in show business news: Another leader has walked away from AMC's biggest show, Rebel Wilson gets an MTV hosting gig, and Tyler Perry teases Kim Kardashian.
Normally you'd be in a panic, but not this Christmas. This Christmas you will find that neglected someone in your life, and you will find them something perfect.
Today in celebrity gossip: A star of MTV's hit teen pregnancy show has had her baby's daddy propose on Twitter, Lindsay Lohan refuses to kiss Charlie Sheen, and Naomi Campbell takes us on a trip back to the '90s.
Today in show business news: Ben Affleck leaves K-Stew in the casting lurch, USA renews its longest-running program, and Charlie Rose has to pay all of his old interns.
Yes, Jersey Shore's last episode has arrived, bringing to a close a phenomenon — and an American era of sorts — that was both sordid and silly, full of the kind of cheap voyeurism whose subjects quickly became self-aware.
Today in celebrity news: The world's most popular boy band gets tatted-up, an American has won Miss Universe, and the Queen extends a gracious invitation to Kate Middleton's parents.
Today in show business news: The Hobbit has more gold than Smaug, The Voice is bigger than ever, and the new Michael Bay movie sure looks terrific.
The actor and newly celebrated director traveled to Washington and met with Senator John Kerry and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, sending the Internet into a fit of speculation that he might be pushing for Kerry's seat.
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