Amy Winehouse apparently blew her interview with the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square and was not granted a visa. So we will not be treated to the sight of Amy Winehouse wobbling unsteadily at the podium at the Grammys this Sunday.
Gosh, I don’t know why they wouldn’t stamp her passport. Could [...]

Is it pile on Kate Hudson time here at Box Office Weekly? Maybe.
According to Variety, Kate Hudson, the star of The Four Feathers and You, Me and Dupree is set to star in Big Eyes, the biopic of Margaret Keane. If there is some sort of contest for least necessary movie, we’re looking at a [...]

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In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: The writer’s strike may be over in time for my predictions to be correct… Courtney Love sinks her claws into a promising young actor… and in this week’s commentary I find the [...]

Make of this what you will: The Spice Girls, recently reformed, shined up and sent on tour, are cutting the circumnaviagation short according to the BBC.

The UK band said they would end their tour in Toronto on 26 February, with planned shows in Beijing, Sydney, Cape Town and Buenos Aires being axed. The shows had [...]

I love bad movies. Don’t get me wrong; I love good ones too, It’s all that crap in the middle that I can’t stand.
But get any group of bad movie fans together and inevitably you’re going to get the contest: what’s the worst movie ever made? Some say it’s RHINESTONE, a musical starrring Sylvester Stallone, [...]

Saw– and just loved– the Season 4 premiere of “Lost.” The pace has really picked up on the show, and substantial things are starting to happen. An intriguing new storytelling element was introduced during the Season 3 finale and it carries into the new show: flash forwards. “Lost” has abruptly stopped filling in backstories on [...]

Remember when you were a kid, and you spent hours enjoying the comic-page antics of Asterix and Obelix, two ancient Gauls? Don’t you? Are you sure? Oh wait, you’re American. Pardon, mon ami.
Well, this will be be news to you then.
PARIS — A massive publicity campaign, a star-studded cast and a huge number of prints [...]

I mentioned the painfully unoriginal one-sheet art for Fool’s Gold in comments a few entries down. In the words of Syd Field: Don’t talk, show!

I suppose this proves many Hollywood films are unoriginal, over-marketed pastiches. In other words, it proves nothing at all. It certainly adds to Daniel’s argument that we’re currently in a cinematic [...]