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*(Via THR.com) – “Tower Heist” spins on a crackerjack premise that’s played for broad entertainment value, rather than real interest in the contemporary economic issues at its core. Brett Ratner’s comic caper about a bunch of co-workers who turn the tables on a Bernie Madoff type who has swindled them out of their pensions is [...]
*Oprah Winfrey ended her show after 25 years on Wednesday by addressing her audience solo from her studio in Chicago, recounting the life lessons she learned from the show through a mixture of laughter and tears. So what did the critics think of her farewell? Needless to say, there were mixed opinions about the amount [...]
*Maybe preacher man Harold Camping will be proven correct about the world ending … only it’ll be this weekend when super raunchy “Hangover 2″ opens and unabashedly shows full frontal male nudity … a lot! “The amount of penises on screen is at a new level,” says one talent manager who attended the world premiere [...]
*They’re switching things up over at “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider.” Effective Monday, Kevin Frazier will leave “ET” to join “The Insider” as weekday co-anchor while Chris Jacobs from “The Insider” will move to “ET” as a correspondent. Also, Nancy O’Dell will replace Mary Hart on “ET.” “It took me a minute to digest it [...]
*Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones and Halle Berry are among the actors appearing in three separate covers of the Hollywood Reporter’s 80th Anniversary “Legends Issue.” For the special year-end package, THR brought together the biggest names in the business, both on screen and off, who have made a mark during the trade magazine’s 80-year history. [...]
*Denzel Washington’s newest film, “Unstoppable,” hit’s theaters in North America this Weekend and if you’ve seen the trailer or TV spots, you know it looks to be really exciting and entertaining. However, if you’re wondering if all the good parts were used in the clips you’ve seen, you might want to read what The Hollywood [...]
*Tyler Perry says he hasn’t read the Variety and Hollywood Reporter reviews trashing his new film “For Colored Girls,” but he has an answer for critics in general who don’t like his work. “What I will say to Variety, to Hollywood Reporter, to any critic is this: What I know for sure is that I [...]
*Earlier this week, before his new movie, “For Colored Girls” was ripped by critics from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Tyler Perry wrote to his fans about the concerns regarding then film. “There has been a lot of Internet chatter about me doing this film. I’ve heard everything from, ‘I’m glad he’s doing it!’ to [...]
*Press screenings of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” took place this week in advance of its Nov. 5 opening, and based on reviews from the two major Hollywood trade magazines, Oscar buzz has gone out the window. The Hollywood Reporter’s Kirk Honeycutt called it “a train wreck of a movie” that “utterly butchers Ntozake Shange’s [...]
*Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is back in the studio, doing his acting thing. The Hollywood Reporter says the actor and former wrestler is working on a sequel to “Journey to the Center of the Earth” called “Journey to the Mysterious Island.” Brendan Fraser was the lead star in the original adventure, but because of a [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter has reviewed the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Halle Berry’s new film “Frankie & Alice,” which stars the Oscar winner as a sex-crazed stripper with multiple personalities and Phylicia Rashad as her mother. The film’s official tag line: “A young multiracial American woman with dissociative identity disorder struggles to retain her true [...]
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