London, May 16 : Singer Amy Winehouse is expected to pocket 1million pounds to perform for Governor of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich's girlfriend....

New York, May 16 : Singer Shania Twain and her husband, producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, have separated after 14 years of...

London, May 16 : Britain's biggest new bands - the Arctic Monkeys and The Kooks have been waging a feud for over a year - because of a...

London, May 16 : After 29 studio albums and a lifetime in the music industry, veteran singer Neil Diamond has topped the US album charts for the first...

Washington, May 16 : Hindu groups have contacted various film related organizations in Canada urging them not to distribute or screen upcoming Hollywood movie "The Love Guru" till its presenter Paramount Pictures makes necessary changes to...

Washington, May 16 : A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reported the development of bacteria-resistant films applied to medical devices and other surfaces to ward off microbial accumulation....

Reliance BIG Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the $75 billion Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group, Friday announced that it would spend $1 billion on the Indian film and entertainment business over the next 12-15...

A Wellington film crew are tackling this year's 48-hour film challenge from Matiu/Somes Island in the hope its lack of mod cons will inspire them to glory. When the sixth instalment of the...

AFTERMATH: A woman has died after she was knocked from her mobility scooter which is seen wedged under a car after the accident on Mail Road,...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Could it be? The man behind the show seen in millions of TV homes each week is, himself, camera shy? "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller admits that it's...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 18:00 CDT LOS ANGELES, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM HD, the high definition movie channel from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, today announced it has signed an affiliate agreement...

A Wellington movie that was originally jilted by the Film Commission is being trumpeted at Cannes. Paul Murphy's new feature Second Hand Wedding, which opened in New Zealand this week, is the...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Outside the windows of a 36th-floor conference-room suite at New York's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the morning is gray and befit for April showers. Always the trendsetter,...

A 42 year old man who threatened to set himself alight during a domestic incident in Hastings this morning has been arrested. Police said a woman had called them about the man's behaviour and...

A grim Brazilian drama about society's descent into anarchy launched the Cannes film festival, and politics dominated the opening news conference held by jury president Sean...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11," said on Friday the new film would...

As he prepared to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister, Gordon Brown made clear his distaste for celebrity politics. He was marking a break from Mr Blair, who toasted New Labour's success with...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT PlayNetwork, a global leader in providing signature media experiences for businesses, announced today it has expanded its work with Chili's Grill & Bar to...

For some aging icons, the name of the Hollywood fame game now seems to be 'Take The Money And Run.' De Niro and Pacino, in particular, have been pilloried for career choices over the decade that...

Access Hollywood Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz, along with their families and friends, prepared for the big day with a slew of pre-wedding celebrations.With his father by his side, Wentz was spotted...

Police say results from a blitz in Wellington overnight make them hopeful the drink drive message is finally getting through. More than 1500 vehicles were stopped and nine drivers will face drink...

Honesty is not the best policy, especially when it comes to bad dates or the dreaded "do I look fat in this" question from a partner. One in two American men and women have told a lie to...

The rows of beggars on either side of the road stretched for miles, twin columns of human misery left by the winds and waves of Cyclone Nargis. Without clothes or shoes, the thousands of men, women...

Kiwibank is the first to drop mortgage rates to under 9 per cent as $45 billion in home loans comes due for renewal. The homegrown bank yesterday took its two-year fixed-term home loans to 8.99 per...

last year - have discussed marriage and are ready to cement their relationship. A source said: "They've been talking marriage for a while. They'll be formally engaged any day now. They...

Bunker-in-the-bush kidnap conspirator John Burrett has written a book proclaiming his innocence, and accusing a High Court judge of `trumping up' evidence. Such an outlandish crime was always...

The Subway Series gets underway tonight, and for once, the rest of the country can feel free not to care. Neither the Mets or Yankees are playing particularly well and Fox has decided to offer up...

Many people may feel they are struggling as the cost of living rockets. But on a wide range of measures, the average Kiwi is better off Over the past five years, real income per person has risen by...

Los Angeles - It's looking like business as usual at the Academy of Country Music Awards set for Sunday night where Kenny Chesney the winner of the entertainer of the year award for the past three...

Solange Knowles wastes no time setting the record straight about comparisons to older sister Beyonce on her sophomore album, "Sol-Angel and the Hadley Street Dream," due Aug. 26 via Music...

Two serving New Zealand police officers, a former officer and a man believed to be currently serving in the Queensland police force face charges of conspiring to defeat the course of justice after...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A talking lion is expected to devour Marvel superhero "Iron Man" at the North American box office this weekend, as Walt Disney Co. opens its much-anticipated fantasy sequel...

WASHINGTON - It's true: 'Desperate Housewives' will flash-forward five years.Marcia Cross, who plays domestic goddess Bree on the ABC comedy-drama, told AP Radio in a recent phone interview that a...

Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off this fall on The CW. He'll play Harry Mills, the son of aging Hollywood star Tabitha (Jessica Walter) who moves back to the 90210 ZIP code with his wife Debbie (Lori...

Although the trial of former private eye Anthony Pellicano did not produce sensational revelations about the inside workings of Hollywood executives or the lurid lives of celebrities, it did end as...

MUMBAI: Reliance BIG Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (ADA) group, has finalised a slate of 69 films in nine languages for production and distribution over...

More viewers over the age of 65 watch American Idol than those who are 18-24, according to an audience analysis of the show by Nielsen Media Research. As reported by Broadcasting & Cable...

Reporting on IFC Films' acquisition of the U.S. film The Pleasure of Being Robbed at the Cannes Film Festival -- it is set to close the Directors' Fortnight section of the festival next week -- New...

Director Steven Spielberg was "depressed" over the number of leaks about the plot of the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that appeared in the press and online and had to...

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Vietnam war was still on the distant horizon, JFK was in the White House and the sun was out for the 1962 Junior Rose Festival Parade. YouNewsTv contributor Sherina61 sent in...

heyday has died of natural causes. Max was about 19. In people years, anyway."I can tell you any pig that lives over the age of 12, the owner knows what he's doing and is taking care of...

NEW: Stars relieved conviction ends private eye's rein of terror Anthony Pellicano will star behind bars until Septemver sentencing A-list private investigator convicted of illegal dirt-digging...

May 16, 2008 Britney Spears is going on holiday with Mel Gibson. The Toxic singer and her father Jamie are heading to Costa Rica with Mel and his wife Robyn. The quartet will stay at the...

Fox Broadcasting plans to draw viewers to its new dramas Fringe and Dollhouse by drastically cutting the number of commercials and promos in them to half the usual number. Today's (Friday) Hollywood...

Virtually all reviewers compare Prince Caspian with the earlier Narnia movie. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A.O. Scott in the New York Times calls the newer film "more satisfying" than the...

A rather conventional computer-animated feature may seem like an unlikely choice for inclusion in the program of the Cannes Film Festival, but when it is voiced by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Jack...

Captain Daniel Vettori defied England's pacemen as New Zealand inched towards 300 at lunch on day two of the first cricket test here today. Vettori batted through the morning session on a cold,...

King: An e-mail from Griselda in Cooper City: "All those cheap shots you and Simon Cowell take on each other, real or playing a...

Sugarland will premiere a new single, "All I Want To Do," on Sunday's (May 18) Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast on CBS. The track introduces the country group's third album, "Love on the...

In tribute to the 35th anniversary of singer/songwriter Jim Croce's death, the artist's three studio albums will be reissued on CD in September via...