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Vanity Fair Oscars Party 2012: Who Mixed With Who?
As the Oscars ceremony wound-down at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday (26 February 2012), staff at the Sunset Tower Hotel were frantically preparing their ballroom for the prestigious Vanity Fair after-party, which had already welcomed...
By Lew Irwin on 28 February 2012
Stormtroopers Share Popcorn At Star Wars 3d Screening
Star Wars cinemagoers in London were stunned this week, when a team of Stormtroopers marched into the screening of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Gardens, reports...
By Lew Irwin on 09 February 2012
Spike Lee Unedited: Hollywood Knows Nothing About Black People
At this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film director Spike Lee surprised audiences with a fiery tirade, peppered with expletives, explaining his feelings regarding the treatment of black people in the film industry. Lee did...
By WENN on 23 January 2012
George Lucas Had Near-fatal Car Accident In High School
George Lucas defied doctor's odds to make a full recovery after a severe car accident almost claimed his life in high school.The Star Wars creator was driving home from school in the middle of his...
By World Entertainment News Network on 23 January 2012
Kate Beckinsale's Underworld Takes A Bite Out Of Box Office Competition
Despite receiving a lukewarm critical response, Kate Beckinsale 's latest Underworld movie - Underworld: Awakening - has topped the U.S. Box office charts. According to Bbc News today (January 23, 2012), the film grossed $25.4...
By WENN on 23 January 2012
Movie Reviews Red Tails
If, as George Lucas has announced, Red Tails , his take on the all-black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, turns out to be his last Hollywood movie, he's going out in a blaze of...
By Lew Irwin in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 January 2012
Kate Beckinsale's Catsuit Expected To Win Box Office Battle
Kate Beckinsale squeezes back into her leather catsuit for the latest movie in the Underworld franchise, which looks on course to topple the box-office competition over the weekend. The actress, 38, reprises her role as...
By WENN on 20 January 2012
No More Star Wars: George Lucas Retires From Blockbusters
George Lucas says he is "retiring" from making blockbuster movies after his latest venture, war movie Red Tails, was rejected by all of the major studios. The director, who financed the project himself, says movie...
By WENN on 18 January 2012
Lucas To Retire From Blockbusters, Make "Personal" Films
Apparently disgusted with his treatment by Hollywood studios when he approached them to finance Red Tails, his film about World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen, featuring an all-black cast, George Lucas has told the New...
By Lew Irwin on 18 January 2012
George Lucas Is Retiring From Big Budget Films
Legendary filmmaker George Lucas has announced he is retiring from Hollywood, insisting he no longer wants to make blockbuster movies.The Star Wars creator is best known for his work on the iconic sci-fi franchise, as...
By WENN on 18 January 2012
George Lucas To 'Retire' Following 'Red Tails' Rejection
George Lucas has claimed that he's done with making blockbusters, revealing that it was the realisation that Hollywood weren't prepared to invest in his latest film 'Red Tails' that heralded the decision, the legendary film-maker...
By WENN on 18 January 2012
Lucas Hollywood Won't Make An All-black Big-budget Movie
His films may have earned more money than those of any other producer, but George Lucas says he was unable to find a single studio executive willing to back his film, Red Tails , about...
By Lew Irwin on 12 January 2012
Oprah Lifts Her Own Network
The only thing Oprah Winfrey's struggling cable network OWN needed was Winfrey herself, it seemed apparent on Tuesday as ratings for the second episode of her new series Oprah's Next Chapter attracted 1.6 million viewers....
By Lew Irwin on 11 January 2012
George Lucas Couldn't Get Studios To Support His Red Tails Movie
Movie studio executives turned down the chance to distribute Star Wars creator George Lucas' new war movie Red Tails - because they didn't think the big-budget epic about the heroic African-American Tuskegee Airmen would be...
By WENN on 11 January 2012
George Lucas Gives Determined Parents Of Sick Princess Leah Rare Helmets
Movie mogul George Lucas has pledged his support to the family of a desperately ill little girl named after one of his most iconic Star Wars characters.Little Leah Esquenazi, who is nine months old, is...
By WENN on 05 December 2011
Movie Reviews The Muppets
If George Lucas had been assigned the task of staging the motion-picture comeback of the Muppets, he might have done to them what he did to Yoda, his Star Wars character originally created in Jim...
By Lew Irwin on 23 November 2011
Indiana Jones 5 On The Way, Claims Spielberg
A fifth Indiana Jones movie is likely to begin production in the near future, after director Steven Spielberg revealed his close friend and collaborator George Lucas is working on the script. During an interview with...
By Lew Irwin on 27 October 2011
Robin Williams Marries In Front Of Spielberg And Lucas
Robin Williams tied the knot for the third time this weekend, marrying graphic designer Susan Schneider at a ceremony in the Napa Valley town of St. Helena, which saw a celebrity guest list including Steven...
By WENN on 25 October 2011
Robin Williams Marries Again
Robin Williams has married for a third time.The 60-year-old actor tied the knot with Susan Schneider on Sunday (23.10.11) at the luxurious Meadowood Resort in Napa Valley, California, his representative has confirmed.Famous guests at the...
By Bang Showbiz on 24 October 2011
William Shatner Blasts Star Wars As 'Special Effects'
William Shatner has risked incurring the wrath of Star Wars fans by claiming the legendary sci-fi franchise is simply "special effects" In a video posted on his YouTube page, Shatner suggested George Lucas' creation was...
By WENN on 21 September 2011
Sofia Coppola Marries Rocker Thomas Mars In Italy
Sofia Coppola, the multi-award winning filmmaker, married her longtime rocker beau THOMAS MARS during a civil ceremony in Italy on Saturday (27th August 2011). Sofia, the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, married the Phoenix frontman...
By Lew Irwin on 28 August 2011
Harrison Ford Would 'Consider' Bond Role
Harrison Ford wants to star in a James Bond film. The 69-year-old actor - who stars with the current James Bond Daniel Craig in new movie 'Cowboys & Aliens' - would think about accepting a...
By Bang Showbiz on 17 August 2011
George Lucas World War Ii Movie Gets Release Date
George Lucas's hugely anticipated World War II movie 'Red Tails' will open in U.S. cinemas on 20th January 2012. The announcement comes after fans got their first glimpse of the film in the first official...
By WENN on 29 July 2011
George Lucas Clamps Down On Star Wars Fans
A special fan screening of the Star Wars films in New York has been cancelled after creator George Lucas threatened legal action over the event.A group of sci-fi devotees had organised a 13-hour Star Wars...
By WENN on 08 July 2011
Jason Statham And Rosie Huntington-whiteley Return From Holiday
JASON STATHAM, the 43-year-old British actor who's currently starring in the new action movie 'The Mechanic', has returned home after spending almost a month in the Caribbean with his model girlfriend ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY. The couple...
By WENN on 25 January 2011
Rogen Stunned By Lucas' End-of-the-world Theory
Funnyman SETH ROGEN was left stunned by a recent encounter with his moviemaking hero GEORGE LUCAS - because the STAR WARS director spent 20 minutes telling him the world would end in 2012.Rogen was left...
By WENN on 18 January 2011
Films By Recently Deceased Directors Selected For Posterity
Less than two weeks after the deaths of directors Irvin Kershner and Blake Edwards, two of their films, Kershner's Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back , produced by George Lucas, and Edwards's The Pink Panther,...
By Lew Irwin on 28 December 2010
Lucasfilm Settles Legal Dispute
Executives at GEORGE LUCAS' Lucasfilm company have settled a legal dispute with America's Department of Justice over allegations the firm engaged in "anti-competitive" business practices.Bosses at the government body filed a complaint against the movie...
By WENN on 22 December 2010
Irvin Kershner Star Wars Director Dies Aged 87
Irvin Kershner, the American filmmaker best known for directing the second Star Wars movie 'Empire Strikes Back', has died in Los Angeles aged 87, reports AFP News Agency. His goddaughter ADRIANA SANTINI confirmed the news...
By Lew Irwin on 29 November 2010
Han Solo Should Have Been Killed Off Says Harrison Ford
HARRISON FORD, the 68-year-old Hollywood actor famed for playing the role of 'Han Solo' in the Star Wars movies, says that the character was not very interesting and should have been killed off. In an...
By WENN on 12 November 2010
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