Lara Croft is the latest Hollywood character to get the reboot treatment as GK Films announced its plans to launch new “Tomb Raider” movies and it doesn’t appear that original franchise star Angelina Jolie will be involved. Producer Graham King, whose credits include “The Departed” and “The Town,” announced that the first film in the series […]

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Warner Bros. is in the midst of remake fever, with the 1992 hit The Bodyguard the latest to get a retread. The studio has hired Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer to write the script Studio-based Dan Lin will produce. PHOTOS: More Hollywood remakes The original starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houstonand spawned one of the biggest ballads of all time, “I […]

For his next gig, Tyler Perry is losing the wig and donning the suit of detective-psychologist Alex Cross. QED is mounting a production based on the popularJames Patterson character that has already been portrayed by Morgan Freeman in two previous studio movies. Rob Cohen is on board to direct the new take, which has no distribution. QED will […]

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LEWIS RUN, Pa. – Actor Wesley Snipes began serving a three-year sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Thursday for failure to file income tax returns. Snipes, 48, arrived shortly before noon at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in the tiny northwestern Pennsylvania town of Lewis Run, federal prisons spokesman Ed Ross said. He […]

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        LOS ANGELES – Harry Potter has cast his biggest box-office spell yet with a franchise record $125.1 million domestically over opening weekend. In terms of revenue, that puts “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” ahead of the series’ best previous debut of $102.7 million for 2005’s “Harry Potter and […]

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        LOS ANGELES – Will Ferrell‘s dastardly schemes continue to succeed, with the animated “Megamind” staying at the top of the box office. The DreamWorks Animation 3-D comedy, featuring Ferrell as the voice of a super villain, made just over $30 million in its second week in theaters, according to Sunday studio […]

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        Mission: Impossible IV will be shot Dubai within the upcoming weeks, the Dubai Government Media Office told Reuters on Tuesday. www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/43373/ ‘Mission: Impossible IV’ Cast Adds Josh Holloway ‘Lost’ star reportedly set to join Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner in 2011 installment of spy franchise. www.mtv.com/news/articles/1648907/20100928/story.jhtml Josh Holloway Joins Mission: Impossible IV […]

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        LOS ANGELES – The fright flick “The Last Exorcism” and the heist thriller “Takers” were in a photo finish for the top spot at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. Lionsgate’s “The Last Exorcism” had a thin lead with a $21.3 million debut, closely followed by Sony’s “Takers” […]

        LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sylvester Stallone outmuscled Julia Roberts at the weekend box office in North America on Sunday to score the biggest opening of his career with his new film “The Expendables.” The action hero’s all-star mercenary thriller earned an estimated $35 million across the United States and Canada during […]

        is heading to Woodstock. The actress will play Janis Joplin in a biopic of the ’60s singer, Access Hollywood has confirmed. VIEW THE PHOTOS: Red Hot Big Screen Darling Amy Adams A biopic for Janis, who scored such hits as “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Piece of My Heart,” before her […]

        “Avatar” actress Zoe Saldana found herself playing the role of peacemaker on Tuesday night when famed stage actor and “Star Trek” alum Patrick Stewart picked a fight while on stage at an awards show. Stewart, who played Captain Jean Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” was being honored at […]

        The most famous star of the original “The A-Team” TV series is speaking out against the new movie remake. Mr. T, who played B.A. Baracus on the original series, says he was offered a cameo in the new film. However, he turned it down because he says he “knew what was […]