LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Superstar Spaniard Alejandro Sanz and three other singer-songwriters from Mexico, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic led the field of contenders unveiled on Wednesday for the 11th annual Latin Grammys with four nominations each. Sanz, a 14-time Latin Grammy winner ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The story of Ronald Reagan's life -- from boyhood to Hollywood actor to leader of the free world -- is about to spill out on the big screen in a way quite different from the miniseries that caused such a stir seven years ago. The feature film, titled ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Alt-metal rock band Disturbed claimed its fourth No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday despite a hefty drop in first-week sales. "Asylum," the band's fifth studio release, sold 179,000 copies during the week ended September 5, according to tracking firm ...

Makeda Jahnesta Marley pleaded guilty Tuesday to two charges including manufacture of a controlled substance after police were called to her West Chester, Pennsylvania home for a dispute two years ago and discovered almost a dozen marijuana plants in the basement, her lawyer Thomas Schindler ...

PARIS (Reuters) - James Bond fans with deep pockets will soon have the chance to get their hands on the ultimate piece of 007 memorabilia, as the martini-sipping, daredevil spy's Aston Martin DB5 goes up for auction next month. The sleek silver sports car, driven by the British secret agent played ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A film based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, a woman brought from what is now South Africa to Europe in the early 1800s and paraded as a freak of nature thanks to her appearance, has impressed audiences in Venice. "Venus Noire," directed by Tunisian-born ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater is putting his Hollywood dreams on hold while he deals with the legal fallout from his infamous exit down a plane's emergency exit last month. Slater appeared briefly in Queens Supreme Court Tuesday as lawyers for ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The TV producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman is a free agent. Robert "Joe" Halderman is out of jail, released for good behavior after serving four months of a six-month sentence. Now he's ready to go back to work.

LONDON (Reuters) - Electronic band the xx have been named the winners of Britain's 2010 Mercury Prize for their debut album, "The xx." The band, which consists of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith, recorded their album in a small garage part of record label XL's studios.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC suffered a few pre-trial setbacks on Tuesday related to former "Desperate Housewives" actress Nicollette Sheridan's $20 million wrongful-termination lawsuit against the network and series creator Marc Cherry. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Michael Caine is finalizing a deal to join the cast of "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," New Line's sequel to its 3-D remake of the sci-fi classic "Journey to the Center of the Earth." Brad Peyton is directing the movie, which is moving ...

TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) - Natalie Portman's highly praised, tortured turn in "Black Swan" could send her career into a new galaxy. Literally. As Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller rallied audiences at the Venice and Telluride film festivals last week, Portman has ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Comic actress Amy Poehler returns later this month to the set of "Saturday Night Live," this time as guest host for the launch of the show's 36th season on NBC. NBC's "Parks and Recreation" star and former "SNL" regular takes over ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A dearth of big Hollywood stars, Venice's notoriously high costs, fierce competition from Toronto -- this year's film festival on the Lido is fighting to keep its place on the map as one of cinema's most prestigious events. The venue itself is a building site, with completion of ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After starring with his daughter Miley on the Dinsey Channel's hit series "Hannah Montana" for four years, singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus is now teaming with another one of his children. "UFO: Unbelievably Freakin' Obvious" for cable network ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Veteran actress Betty White is the latest Hollywood star to get the comic book treatment. The 88-year-old performer will be drawn as a cartoon for "Female Force: Betty White," to be produced by Bluewater Productions.

TORONTO (Reuters) - It's normally a proving ground for movies hoping to make a splash during Oscar season, but in a 2010 film season that has been thin on critical successes, this year's edition of the Toronto Film Festival could grab an even bigger share of the spotlight. Following a Cannes ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rihanna unveiled her new single "Only Girl (In the World)" on Tuesday shortly after announcing the title of her fifth studio album, "Loud," on her official fansite. "Yes it is called 'Loud'," the pop star told fans while appearing on Ryan ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She is known as the significant other to one of Hollywood's biggest stars, but Vanessa Paradis is a triple threat in France, where she has been singing, modeling and acting since her teenage years. These days, her partner Johnny Depp is shooting yet another installment in ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A veteran Syrian director who has shocked audiences by portraying a religious zealot who abuses women says his popular television series could help stop an Arab slide toward extremism. Najdat Anzour's "What your right hand possesses," whose heroine Leila is forced by ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room. CEO Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full Internet ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A documentary premiering at the Venice film festival explores the trauma of U.S. soldiers returning from war in Iraq and struggling to readjust to normal life, with little if any help from the military. "Ward 54," by Italian journalist Monica Maggioni, is named after ...

JALLOZAI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie called on Tuesday for constant and long-term assistance for Pakistan to help it cope with its worst ever floods that have wreaked havoc on the impoverished country. The disaster has killed more than 1,750 people, affected more than 18 ...

"I've always admired those few who know when it's time to move on. This is the right time for me," said Westin, who added he would remain in his post through the end of the year. The New York Times quoted an ABC staff member as saying the decision was tied partly to a long-standing ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Has Telluride done it again? As the film festival wrapped its 37th year in Colorado's San Juan mountains Monday, the prevailing wisdom was that the event had launched yet another serious Oscar contender in the British royalty drama "The King's Speech."

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner has settled his lawsuit against a California RV dealership that failed to deliver his $300,000 trailer in time for the shoot of his latest movie. According to USmagazine.com, McMahon's RV has agreed to pay $40,000, which ...

Auctioneer Sotheby's auctioneer expects the 14 works, to be sold as part of its contemporary-art sales on October 15 and 16, to fetch over 1.5 million pounds ($2.3 million). The highlight is Freud's "Eight Months Gone," depicting Hall eight months pregnant with her fourth child Gabriel ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Whether a hoax or not, a new documentary about Joaquin Phoenix and his transition from acclaimed, brooding actor to bearded, shambolic hip-hop wannabe has captivated viewers at the Venice International Film Festival. "I'm Still Here" marks the directing debut of actor ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Seagal is back on patrol for a second season of his reality show "Lawman." Production of the suburban New Orleans-based law enforcement show was shut down in April after the martial-arts star was accused of sexual harassment. The suspension order ...

SYDNEY (Hollywood Reporter) - Australia may finally have a homegrown blockbuster on its hands with the terrifically engaging "Tomorrow, When the War Began," an action-packed war film for and about teenagers. Based on the first in a series of best-selling novels by Aussie John Marsden, ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As a thriller, "The Debt" performs many if not all the right moves. The suspense builds nicely, the twists come as surprises and its key characters are vivid enough. Where the John Madden-directed film gets into trouble is in wanting to deal with the ...

Reached in Switzerland by a reporter for The Australian newspaper, Anne-Marie Mieville cited the 79-year-old director's age as reason for his not wanting to travel to Los Angeles. But she also made clear that he had issues with the fact that the honorary Oscar was no longer part of the Oscar ...

McKagan, 46, performed a few concerts with the band, and worked on new material for its first album in seven years, but musical differences cut short his tenure. "Hey we wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record," the band said via email. "We love the songs ...

NASSAU (Reuters) - A judge in the Bahamas on Monday dismissed the charges against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from John Travolta over his son's death after the Hollywood actor requested the case be dropped. Senior Justice Jon Isaacs made the ruling after prosecutor Neil ...

"The American," in which Clooney plays a laconic gunslinger holed up in a picturesque Italian village, earned $16.4 million across the United States and Canada during the four days beginning September 3, distributor Focus Features said on Monday. "Machete," a violent fantasy ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A powerful Chinese film on the plight of political prisoners condemned to forced labor camps in the late 1950s wooed critics in Venice on Monday, with some tipping it as a strong contender for the festival's top prize. "The Ditch" tells the little-known story of some ...

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road. He died instantly in the freak accident on Friday afternoon.

Schimmel, 60, was a passenger in his 19-year-old daughter's car on August 26 when she lost control after swerving to avoid another accident on a Phoenix highway. The daughter was hospitalized, but is expected to recover. Schimmel's 11-year-old son was also a passenger in the car and was uninjured, ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Martin Scorsese's latest film pays a personal tribute to Elia Kazan, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's most influential directors but also a controversial figure who turned anti-communist informant in the McCarthy era. In "A Letter to Elia," an hour-long documentary ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox announced Friday what media reports have speculated for weeks: Kara DioGuardi is leaving "American Idol." "I felt like I won the lottery when I joined 'American Idol' two years ago, but I feel like now is the best time to leave 'Idol," ...

LONDON (Billboard) - At a recent media showcase in London, KT Tunstall offered an unusual description of the songs from her forthcoming third album: "Like Eddie Cochran working with Leftfield," she told the assembled press. After hearing Tunstall's new release, the reference to such ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rosanne Cash has worn many hats through the years -- country music star, acclaimed singer-songwriter, mother of five and firstborn child of the legendary Johnny Cash. Now, with her long-awaited memoir "Composed," Cash is a best-selling author as well.

Nathan Lee Parada, 31, of Redlands, California, could face up to six years in prison if convicted. Police said they do not know if Parada specifically targeted Hilton's home or if the burglary was random.

Klein, 31, also was sentenced to the four days he had already served in a Los Angeles jail and agreed to attend 18 months of alcohol education classes, officials said. The actor broke into Hollywood's ranks of young actors playing a naive teenager named Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 ...

Hogan, 70, has been barred from leaving Australia for nearly two weeks after the Australian Taxation Office served him with a departure-prohibition order while he was in the country to attend his 101-year-old mother's funeral. The office has refused to comment on reports that it was seeking tax on ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Directors Peter Weir, Danny Boyle, Mark Romanek and Errol Morris will headline the Telluride Film Festival, the annual Labor Day holiday weekend event that kicks off Friday in the Colorado mountain resort. Romanek's "Never Let Me Go," based on the Kazuo ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival on Friday honored Hong Kong director John Woo, one of the few Asian filmmakers to enjoy box office success in Hollywood as well as at home. The 64-year-old was awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Lion at the world's oldest film festival on the same day ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Social media" is among today's most popular catch phrases thanks to the success of, among other things, networking website Facebook -- the favored way for today's youth to communicate on a global level. Now Facebook is the subject of what's expected to be the ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Sofia Coppola's latest movie is a Hollywood insider's look at the life of an A-list actor -- five star hotels and Ferraris, adoration and sexual advances, but also loneliness, tiresome media attention and boredom. "Somewhere" is part comedy and part examination of a ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - If the new "Date Night" DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch -- or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter -- that figure represents a blockbuster. The ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Before summer began, no one had heard of Montana Fishburne. But the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Fishburne, now the main guy on "CSI," was eager to make a name for herself. On August 18, Vivid Entertainment released the aptly titled adult ...

Irish concert promoters MCD and the O2 Arena said that despite every effort to get the band on stage on time on Wednesday night, it did not arrive until nearly 90 minutes after the support act. During the second song, singer Axl Rose asked members of the crowd who were throwing plastic glasses ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - More than a half-century ago, the Cat in the Hat was on a mission. Challenged to create a figure that would make children more interested in reading, Dr. Seuss came up with an engaging feline with a red- and white-striped top hat. With his anarchic style and ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Food and travel provocateur Anthony Bourdain is celebrating the 100th episode of his genre-busting Travel Channel series "No Reservations" on Monday. The host, chef and author critiques other cooking reality shows, defends his pork enthusiasm, reveals ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The famously unflappable Cameron Bailey is looking a touch puzzled, and has for weeks. The Toronto International Film Festival co-director is standing in his Carlton Street office, studying a giant film schedule as if it were an abstract gallery painting.

The show, which earned wide acclaim in London's West End, is based on the popular Norwegian novels that tell of a pair of mismatched roommates, their friendship and their relationships with pizza, poetry and women. A movie based on the books was nominated for foreign language film Oscar in 2001, ...

The 93-year-old actress remains in a great deal of pain from being bedridden for around seven weeks, said spokesman John Blanchette. Gabor, who is as famous for her lavish lifestyle and number of husbands -- she married nine times -- as for acting, broke her hip on July 17 and had replacement ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies for this weekend's event, regarded as among the top U.S. movie gatherings of the year and an early highlight for Oscar hopefuls. The festival, which takes place over four days in the ski resort town of ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eminem led Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a seventh week on Thursday with "Love the Way You Lie," while Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" moved up one to No. 2, swapping places with Taio Cruz's "Dynamite." A day earlier, Perry's album, also ...

T.I. whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., 29, was arrested with his wife on Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night after police smelled marijuana coming from a car in which the Grammy award-winning rapper was a passenger. He was booked for possession of a controlled substance and was released after ...

VENICE (Reuters) - The lives of four Arab-Israeli women spanning three generations against the backdrop of conflict are at the center of "Miral," a film by Julian Schnabel based on his Palestinian partner's biographical book. From the 1948 creation of the Jewish state to the 1993 Oslo ...

Robert Joel Halderman, a former producer on the CBS news show "48 Hours", pleaded guilty in March to attempted grand larceny as part of a deal with prosecutors. He was sentenced to six months in a New York City jail, but was released early after serving four months due to good behavior, ...

VENICE (Reuters) - Critics are queuing up to praise Natalie Portman in her latest movie "Black Swan," the opening picture at this year's Venice film festival, with one review saying the performance "elevates her ... to a major star." The 29-year-old plays a New York ballerina ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed on as executive producers after the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere in 2009. "Precious" ...

The two sides had still not reached a deal early on Thursday morning according to an email from Time Warner Cable spokeswoman Maureen Huff. She said both sides were still working on a deal. The programing fee dispute between the two sides is over how much the cable operator would pay Disney for ...