EW has confirmed that producers Mike Tollin ("Varsity Blues," "Coach Carter") and Glenn Rigberg ("Struck By Lightning") have obtained the rights to make a feature film biopic about Henry "Hank" Aaron, the baseball legend who broke Babe Ruth's decades-long career home-run record on April 8, 1974.
CNN's Neil Curry previews the new movie "The Iron Lady" featuring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher.
There's always been something about Margaret Thatcher that makes grown men go weak at the knees, particularly members of the Conservative Party. Perhaps she revives memories of stern schoolmistresses; perhaps they just grudgingly admired a strong woman telling them what to do.
CNN caught a sneak glimpse of the final dress rehearsal for the new opera about the life of Winnie Mandela.
Her life story reads like a Hollywood movie. Full of grand highs and lows, there's no denying that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's life experiences lend themselves to drama.
Damon gets pumped up to play Douglas's lover in the upcoming Liberace biopic
The Water for Elephants costars join the ACM Awards roster in Las Vegas April 3
1. The story that will never be an e-Book "Gadsby" by Ernest Vincent Wright
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updated: Fri Oct 22 2010 13:31:00
"Sexy" Russian spy poses half naked in men's magazine. Jeanne Moos has a "sexy" American spy's reaction.
"I wore a T-shirt that said, 'Kick butt first. Ask names later,' " says the Twilight star
One of the stars of this summer's Hollywood hit, "Inception", Ken Watanabe has fought his way to the top of his profession.
Acclaimed actor Ken Watanabe has battled cancer and typecasting to forge a rich career.
There is only one Marilyn Monroe, but now two actresses are set to embody the bombshell on screen. It was announced this week at the Cannes Film Festival that Naomi Watts, 41, will play Monroe in a biopic based on author Joyce Carol Oates's controversial, fictionalized memoir, 2000's Blonde. The movie, also called Blonde, is reportedly slated to start filming in January.
There's a scene in "The Runaways" -- a biopic based on the Joan Jett and Cherie Currie fronted 1970s band -- where the group's manager informs them that the only place men want to see women is in the kitchen or on their knees.
HLN's Denise Quan talks to the real Runaways, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, after a movie about their band hit the silver screen.
On most mornings, my better half wakes up around 5:30, throws on some sweats and heads to the gym before work.
Soul food farmsupdated: Tue Apr 06 2010 14:24:00
CNN's Dan Simon has the story of a couple whose organic farm was saved by its customers after being destroyed by fire.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Just about everybody disagrees with me on this (and I don't blame them), but I'm all for putting events in one place and keeping them there forever. For instance, I'm all for having the Super Bowl in New Orleans every year. Sure, I know, the Super Bowl brings all sorts of revenue to various cities across the country. But I think the Super Bowl is just a better event in New Orleans.
From rocket-propelled roadside rescue men, to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II flying on a budget airline to save taxpayers money.
Yes, yes, James Franco is going to Yale, the third stop on his tour of schools in the tri-state area -- before graduating from Columbia and going all Ivy League business, Franco had a brief fling with New York University. Amongst those precious days he spent at the latter, I was fortunate enough to share an elevator with him on the way to one of my classes.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said he expects the unemployment rate to remain "unacceptably high" for a long time, even as the economy recovers and job growth slowly resumes.
"[You] get the first one out of the way, and it was fine," the Aussie says of the couple's onscreen smooch
The Twilight author's latest book follows the life of a newborn vamp
The couple deny reports of a major rift and look forward to life after The Hills
She might have won Africa's best director award in 2009, but back in her homeland Kenya Wanuri Kahiu is still struggling to win recognition -- even within her close family.
Since Seattle lost its NBA team in 2008, a handful of players are determined to bring pro basketball back to the Emerald City. A charity game, spearheaded by Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen and embraced by a litany of other players with ties to Seattle and the now-defunct SuperSonics, is in the works for this summer.
CKX Inc. confirmed Monday that it is in talks that could lead to the sale of the company that owns the popular television show "American Idol."
"She's tough," says the country star, who plays Bullock's husband in The Blind Side
A past attendee, the Oscar winner is skipping this Saturday's event
A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
From deserted islands to Harvard Law, find out what the groundbreaking girl band's members have been doing since calling it quits
The cast of "The Runaways" talks about their portrayal of Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, and Kim Fowley in the upcoming film.
When the Runaways cut their first LP in 1976, producer Kim Fowley made sure their ages were printed on the sleeve.
A down and out singer struggles to mend his "crazy heart."
It's two days until the Oscars, and we are so, so ready to see who wins already.
Whether they're overcoming odds to reach stardom, battling inner demons or dealing with tragedy, the personal histories of our musical heroes are made for the big screen.
The Screening Room's Myleene Klass looks at the rise of acclaimed British music biopics.
The retired actor raps at a L.A. hotspot while being taped by Casey Affleck
"It's like greener pastures, you know what I mean?" he says about retiring from acting
The two-time Oscar nominee says he's "not doing films anymore" and will concentrate on his music
While the Oscars is without doubt the grandest of all the awards ceremonies, it doesn't have the world stage to itself.
Oscar politicsupdated: Wed Mar 05 2008 10:23:00
CNN's Neil Curry reports on the buzz surrounding the Foreign Language statuette in this year's nominations.
Oscar said yes to "No Country for Old Men" and to European actors on Sunday night.
The 80th annual Academy Awards proved to be nothing if not international – honoring performers from Spain, England and France on Hollywood's big night Sunday.
Who won and who walked away empty-handed? The following are the nominees and the winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards.
In 2007, a low-budget feature by a first-time German director, "Das Leben der Anderen" won Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars. Over the next 10 weeks, the film better known to English-speaking audiences as "The Lives of Others" brought in $8.2m at the US box office.
It was a "Country" made for Oscar.
Ellen Page took top honors at the Film Independent's Spirit Awards, winning best actress for her role in Juno, but Angelina Jolie's baby bump was the show stopper.
Juno takes the top award, as Hollywood's annual pre-Oscar tribute to independent films has a beach party
As host of Film Independent's Spirit Awards, Rainn Wilson is forgoing traditional formal attire for a more revealing look.
The French raised the Oscar stakes on Friday night – sending La Vie en Rose's Marion Cotillard off to L.A. with a best actress win at the 33rd Annual César Awards ceremony.
The Oscars will be a showdown between a coldblooded killer and a coldblooded tycoon.
The Orange British Academy Film Awards honor some of Britain's best. CNN's Mallika Kapur is at the star-studded event.
Though she didn't get a chance to know Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett acknowledged the late actor's thriving career while accepting the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Julian Schnabel, the 1980s "bad boy" artist turned director and interior designer, is in the spotlight again for his latest release, "Diving Bell and the Butterfly." Schnabel is best known for his million-dollar broken crockery paintings and critically acclaimed biopics "Basquiat" and "Before Night Falls."
CNN's Anjali Rao talks to world famous artist and film maker Julian Schnabel about his creative works.
A coldblooded killer and a coldblooded tycoon led the Oscar nominations Tuesday, with a lawyer suffering from an ethical crisis also earning a strong showing.
Oscar surprisesupdated: Tue Jan 22 2008 22:42:00
CNN's Lola Ogunnaike dissects the winners and losers from the Academy Award nominations.
George Clooney and 20-year-old Juno star Ellen Page woke up to great news on Tuesday – they are among the top nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards, announced at dawn in Beverly Hills.
The Aussie actor, dead at 28, never seemed comfortable with the conflicts posed by his career, recalls Belinda Luscombe
Indies rule the day at the Academy Award nominations. Richard Corliss ruminates on a big year for little pictures
Who'll win and who will lose? The following are the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Winners will be announced February 24.
The awards season fails to produce Oscar favorites, while the writers strike casts a cloud. CNN's Kareen Wynter reports
The writers strike dramatically altered this year's Golden Globes. CNN's Brooke Anderson reports.
Following is a complete list of the nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards:
David Benioff was sitting on a plane, having a perfectly pleasant conversation with an elderly passenger about his job as a screenwriter, when he mentioned that he was working on an adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
Tim Burton's macabre musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won big at the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards, announced during a live press conference from Hollywood on Sunday, while the film's star, Johnny Depp, picked up best actor in movie comedy or musical.
The Golden Globe Awards are forced into a news-conference format Sunday by the Hollywood writers strike.
Not since Spinal Tap has there been a sharper satire of cinematic mythomania
Cate Blanchett was recognized for leading- and supporting-actress performances, and Into the Wild earned four top nods as the nominations for the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Thursday.
The nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced at an event in Beverly Hills.
"Atonement," the drama based on the Ian McEwan novel about a shattered love affair, led all films with seven nominations at Thursday's announcement for the 65th annual Golden Globes.
Trophy season kicked into high gear Thursday morning, with an impressive roster of seven movies nominated for best dramatic picture in the Golden Globes race.
The critics hailed films no one will see. Now the Hollywood Foreign Press tries to balance prestige and popularity
Nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California:
Just about every inspired film emerges out of some kind of obsession. The singular haunting beauty of "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' thrilling deep-vision meditation on the music and many lives of Bob Dylan, is that obsession isn't just its fuel -- it's the movie's spirit and subject, its driving force.
Todd Haynes's fictionalized version of the icon's life is a compendium of not-so-hot ideas. But Cate Blanchett does a great Dylan
It's easy to forget that with Britney, Lindsay and Paris, there are young, wholesome actresses in showbiz
showbuzzupdated: Thu Dec 22 2005 15:22:00
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Walk the Line," the Johnny Cash biopic, will be shown at Folsom State Prison next month, nearly four decades after the Man in Black famously performed there.
Sir Sean, Lady Day, and eight other things we recommend this week:
Hollywood loves biographical films, and movies about country music stars are almost a genre within that genre, from "Coal Miner's Daughter" (Sissy Spacek gives an Oscar-winning performance as Loretta Lynn) to "Great Balls of Fire" featuring Dennis Quaid's sweat-drenched performance) to "Sweet Dreams" (the fine Jessica Lange as Patsy Cline).
Peter Sellers has been called a comic genius -- which makes him a difficult person to play in a biographical movie.
"Kinsey" is a brutally honest, uncompromising and nonjudgmental look at a man who irrevocably changed American culture: sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, who published "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" in the late '40s and early '50s.
Gary Busey did it. Lou Diamond Phillips did it. Angela Bassett did it. Dennis Quaid did it.
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