A butt-kicking panda cleaned up at the annual Annie Awards this year. Kung Fu Panda took home 10 trophies, including best animated feature, at the awards show that honors the year's best in animation. The Dreamworks flick, which features the voices of Angelina Jolie and Jack Black, beat out Disney's Bolt and Pixar's critically-acclaimed WALL-E … Continue reading Kung Fu Panda Smashes Competition At Annie Awards

Weeks after Disney decided not to bankroll another sequel in The Chronicles of Narnia series due to spiralling costs, 20th Century Fox has swooped in and rescued the big-screen franchise from almost certain doom by agreeing to team up with Walden Media to co-finance, market and distribute the next instalment, The Voyage of the Dawn … Continue reading Narnia’s Dawn Treader Set To Sail Under Fox

A terrifying moment on the Harry Potter soundstages Wednesday, as Daniel Radcliffe's stuntman was hospitalised with serious back injuries following an onset mishap. Because the accident took place during preproduction for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Radcliffe and the film's marquee stars were not on set at the time. The injury occurred when the … Continue reading Harry Potter Stuntman Hospitalised

Most of the time, A-list gods and goddesses don't have to read for anything. In fact, even B-plus talent often joins a project before a casting director is even hired. That's what happened with the movie Soul Men. Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac were both attached before casting director LaTanya Potts came … Continue reading Mickey Rourke And Auditions

It has become commonplace to describe any band more than a decade old and with a few albums under their belts as "influential", as though it were a badge of honour. But surely influential is just another way of saying "easy to copy". Wouldn't a truly great, original band have their own sound, one that … Continue reading Titus Andronicus

Another writer has filed a lawsuit claiming he pitched the original script for what ultimately became the hit Disney Channel series starring Miley Cyrus about a so-called average teen who moonlights as a pop star. After the complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by TMZ.com, Richard Fronduto maintains he penned a … Continue reading Another Writer Claims Hannah Montana

Michelle Obama, the first lady, is going to be honoured with a wax likeness at the Washington DC branch of Madame Tussauds. Honoured, that is, if you like the idea of a wax doppleganger of yourself sitting in a museum alongside representations of the Jonas Brothers, J. Lo and J. Edgar Hoover. First children Sasha … Continue reading Michelle Obama Wax Statue In Madame Tussauds

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have really Bonded over Tintin. Principal production on the first of a planned pair of 3-D motion-capture films featuring the intrepid Belgian reporter-sleuth has kicked off in Los Angeles, with Billy Eliot star Jamie Bell in the title role and Daniel Craig playing the nasty pirate Red Rackham, whose descendants … Continue reading Steven Spielberg Begins Shooting On Tintin

She's not afraid of getting her kit off in front of a camera, so The Veronicas blondie Jess Origliasso should have no probs at all when she takes on her next big photo shoot. The meat-shunning 24-year-old is set to become the next celeb to strip off in the name of animal rights, after PETA … Continue reading Veronicas Jess To Strip Again

The Michael Jackson comeback may have begun on Broadway. Finally making good on years of promises about his showbiz return, the erstwhile King of Pop today announced that he is working on a stage musical based on his 1982 masterpiece, Thriller, with the theatrical overlords in the Nederlander Organization. "The Nederlanders and Michael Jackson represent … Continue reading Michael Jackson Comeback Begins

Prolific, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike has died of lung cancer at the age of 76. According to publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Updike died at a hospice not far from his home in Beverly Farms, Mass. Several of his works wound up in Hollywood hands, most notably the James Caan-starring adaptation of one … Continue reading John Updike Dies Aged 76

Oprah Winfrey has already availed her troop-rallying services to President Barack Obama. Now comes word that she would "absolutely not" do the same for shamed Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevic, so it's probably just as well he never asked. Blagojevich, who opted to make the media rounds today in lieu of appearing at his own impeachment … Continue reading Oprah Winfrey Not Interested In Being A Senator