Celeb News Aggregate
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Boston Legal star Candice Bergen has been released from the hospital and is recovering from an apparent stroke, according to media reports.
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The Walt Disney Co. might as well forget about The Alamo bolstering their second-quarter earnings estimate. Also: Britney Spears Donald Trump The Apprentice David Beckham Victoria Adams Reba McEntire Lauren Hutton Robert Pastorelli
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News, Dec. 11: Whitney Houston's Hubby Bobby Brown Charged With Battery, but Christian Slater's Wife Gets Off; Plus Blake Edwards Gets Honorary Oscar Sandra Bullock Ryan Seacrest Snoop Dogg Suge Knight
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Memoral Day Weekend sees Bruce Almighty take the top spot The Matrix Reloaded Daddy Day Care X2: X-Men United The In-Laws Down With Love The Lizzie Maguire Movie Holes Identity Anger Management
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Will & Grace Actress Won't Be Charged With a Felony; Great White To Do Benefit Concert; Dunst, Bettany Play in Wimbledon Michael Moore Whoopi Goldberg Candice Bergen Leslie Caron Cyd Charisse Kirk Douglas Michael Jackson Mr. T David Boreanaz Edward Furlong Dennis Hopper Tara Reid Kristen Dunst Paul Bettany
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George Bush Jack Nicholson Julie Andrews Van Cliburn Quincy Jones Luciano Pavarotti Toni Braxton Danilo Donati Budd Boetticher US N Sync Cher Kid Rock Uncle Kracker Shaggy Lenny Kravit Brooks & Dunn Yolanda Adams
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After a record-setting Thanksgiving feast, Hollywood got only box office crumbs this weekend as ticket sales plunged 50% from their holiday levels.
Universal and Imagine Entertainment's PG-rated blockbuster comedy adventure "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" continued to top the chart in its third weekend with a still festive estimated $27.11 million (-48%) at 3,138 theaters (+4 theaters; $8,640 per theater). Its cume is approximately $172.0 million, heading for $250 million.
(NOTE: All percentage comparisons today are calculated against the three-day weekend portion of the five-day Thanksgiving holiday period.)
"Grinch" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in wide release last weekend.
"'Grinch is great!" Universal distribution president Nikki Rocco said Sunday morning. "It's satisfying all audiences. In its third weekend 'Gri
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HOLLYWOOD, June 20, 2000 -- She said she'd do it, and she did. "Murphy Brown" Emmy winner Candice Bergen, 54, wed Manhattan developer Marshall Rose, 63, on Thursday in the groom's Big Apple apartment, it was reported today.
It is the second marriage for both. She lost first husband, Louis Malle, to cancer in 1995; he lost his first wife in 1996, also to cancer.
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'Save' Tops Holiday Box Office
"Save the Last Dance" kicked off in first place to a record-setting $28 million for the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
Distribution executives had anticipated that Paramount's PG-13-rated teen appeal dance drama would end 20th Century Fox's three-week chart-topping reign with "Cast Away," but they were only thinking in terms of an opening of about $20 million. Instead, "Dance" came in swinging to the tune of an ESTIMATED $28.00 million at 2,230 theaters ($12,556 per theater). (For the three-day period Friday through Sunday, Paramount estimated "Dance" at $24.00 million.)
"Dance" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing at over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"$20 million was kind of the benchmark (estimate going into the weekend)," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said Sunday morning.
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Moviegoers will "Cast" most of their box office votes for Tom Hanks this weekend.
"Cast Away," 20th Century Fox's PG-13-rated drama reteaming Hanks and "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis, opens at nearly 2,800 theaters.
"Sunday is going to be off because its Christmas Eve, but with Christmas on a Monday this year it's going to be a four-day weekend," an insider explains. "Based on what 'What Women Want' did last week (opening to $33.6 million), 'Cast Away' could open to $30 million-plus for four days. They'll be number one."
"A lot of business is going to happen over the four days," predicts another studio source. "I assume 'Cast Away' is going to be number one. I think it's going to do around $35 million."
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, "Cast Away" stars Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt.
Second place could see competition between Paramount's PG-13-rate
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"The Wedding Planner" marched down theater aisles this weekend, celebrating in first place with $14 million.
The PG-13-rated romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures and Intermedia Films easily captured the top spot on Super Bowl Weekend with a sexy ESTIMATED $14.0 million at 2,785 theaters ($5,027 per theater).
"Planner" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"Great news for us this weekend," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning, noting that Sony had four of the top ten films ("Planner," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Finding Forrester" and "Snatch").
"$14 million is allowing for an over 50% drop on Sunday because we (should) do a little better than the rest of the world (against) the Super Bowl," Blake explained. "We got a real clear mi
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HOLLYWOOD, June 12, 2000 -- Candice Bergen, who lost husband Louis Malle to cancer in 1995, is set to wed again, her publicist has confirmed. The ex-"Murphy Brown" star will do the ring exchange with New York real-estate developer Marshall Rose. No date was given, although gossip maven Liz Smith says the ceremony will go down "any moment, any day."
Bergen, 54, has a 15-year-old daughter by Malle, the acclaimed filmmaker ("Atlantic City," "My Dinner With Andre," etc.)
The Emmy-winning actress and Rose began dating in 1998.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May, 5, 2000 -- The cast of "Hannibal" has just gotten a bit heavier.
Today's Daily Variety says Gary Oldman will play a once-bitten, not-shy victim of resident psycho Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in the sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs."
The actor's name has been linked to the project off and on. Talks between Oldman and the studios (MGM and Universal) were reputedly suspended due to issues over billing but were resumed in mid-April.
Principal photography is set to begin Monday in Florence, Italy. The film also stars Julianne Moore, subbing for Jodie Foster, as FBI Agent Clarice Starling.
Candice Bergen MISS BROWN TO YOU: Erstwhile "Murphy Brown" star Candice Bergen is slated to join the cast of "Miss Congeniality," the Hollywood Reporter says. She’ll play a former beauty pageant contestant-cum-pageant coordinator in the