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Word of Mouth: 'Shrek Forever After,' 'Toy Story 3,' capture all-ages audience
James Mangold wrestles 'Knight and Day' to the screen
Judge rules against Viacom in copyright suit against YouTube
Oscars producer: This year's show won't move to January (but could well feature Betty White)
Lions Gate talking to MGM about possible merger of lions
CNN pins hopes on new show with Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker
Book review: 'I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography' by Charlotte Chandler
'So You Think You Can Dance': How to stand out in the crowd?
The Performance: Andy Serkis as Ian Dury in 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'
NYC veterinarian dogs Mariah Carey over bills for terriers' care, says she owes nearly $30K

Word of Mouth: 'Shrek Forever After,' 'Toy Story 3,' capture all-ages audience

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

Families aren't the only ones flocking to such child-oriented fare as animated films and 'The Karate Kid.' In a boost to the summer season, older people are getting in on the family-friendly action.

Who says family films are just for families?

James Mangold wrestles 'Knight and Day' to the screen

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The film had multiple writers, stars and even a different director before the 46-year-old took the reins.

Call it the wildest cross-genre experiment in the history of summer movies .

Judge rules against Viacom in copyright suit against YouTube

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:54 PM PDT

The ruling says the website removes content when requested and is thus protected from liability by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

A federal judge delivered a swift and potentially fatal blow Wednesday to Viacom Inc.'s $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.'s YouTube online video site.

Oscars producer: This year's show won't move to January (but could well feature Betty White)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:23 PM PDT

Lions Gate talking to MGM about possible merger of lions

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Lions Gate Entertainment has been holding merger discussions with the management of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, according to people close to the situation.

Lions Gate Entertainment has been holding merger discussions with the management of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, according to people close to the situation.

CNN pins hopes on new show with Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The ratings-hobbled network, having dropped its decade-long bid to stage a straight newscast in the key time slot, will instead try a politically polarized pairing.

Reporting from New York — Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker want to clear up something from the outset: They have no intention of hosting a predictable political debate show.

Book review: 'I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography' by Charlotte Chandler

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The notoriously private actress reveals much about herself in the new biography.

Over a long career, biographer Charlotte Chandler has persuaded Groucho Marx, Billy Wilder, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman, Mae West, Federico Fellini and Alfred Hitchcock to speak revealingly and at length about themselves for her tape recorder. Chandler also befriended such illustrious directors as Fritz Lang, Michelangelo Antonioni and George Cukor.

'So You Think You Can Dance': How to stand out in the crowd?

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 08:45 AM PDT

What has Pasha been up to?

The Performance: Andy Serkis as Ian Dury in 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The actor, who lost weight and only worked out one side of his body to look like the polio-damaged rocker, says that the biopic's most outrageous moments are the most truthful.

In a biopic of a wild-eyed, libertine, punk-era wordsmith, some poetic licentiousness is to be expected. Rocker Ian Dury, the subject of "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," has even said, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." So what to make of an early scene in the film in which he's raucously rehearsing with his band in the living room — as his wife gives birth to their son upstairs?