<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hollywood: News &amp; Videos about Hollywood - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Hollywood</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Hollywood from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:09:38 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Hollywood: News &amp; Videos about Hollywood - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/female.fans/tztop.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Hollywood</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Hollywood from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Hey, Hollywood, the fangirls are calling</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/female.fans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/female.fans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Melissa Buttigieg, 23, saw "Twilight" 15 times in the theater. 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</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20231522,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20231522,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The actress joins honorees Halle Berry and Anne Hathaway at the annual event celebrating showbiz ladies</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A-list Women Celebrate Their Own in Hollywood</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1847935,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1847935,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In the year of Sarah Palin and "Sex and the City," perhaps it's no surprise that an event honoring women drew some of the biggest names in Hollywood</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fireproof: When Filmmakers Believe in Miracles</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1847179,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1847179,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The success of this low-budget movie lies in its appeal to devoutly Christian viewers</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Actor: More positive portrayals of gays, lesbians needed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/09/30/batt.gay.hollywood/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/09/30/batt.gay.hollywood/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There was once a time when the revelation of one's homosexuality in Hollywood was thought to be a career-killer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Greenest Celebrity in Hollywood</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1845272,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1845272,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hint: It's not who you think.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Britney Hits the Dance Studio in L.A.</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20226667,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20226667,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>&amp;amp;#149; Britney Spears, auditioning dancers at the

International Dance Academy in Hollywood. The singer is casting for her new
music video, "Womanizer," from her upcoming album Circus, a
source tells PEOPLE &amp;amp;#8211; and plans to start shooting the video "very
soon." After her casting call, the singer headed to dinner at the Little

Door, one of her favorite Hollywood spots.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Financial Crisis Puts Squeeze on Hollywood</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1842122,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1842122,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Big banks only recently got into the business of moviemaking. Now, some are bailing out 
</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>24 beauty secrets from Hollywood insiders</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/09/16/is.beauty.secrets/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/09/16/is.beauty.secrets/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>What do Hollywood beauty insiders (and their celebrity clients) know that we don't? After this article, not much. In Style gets them to give up their trade secrets</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Righteous Kill Pairing Earns Hollywood Shrug</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1841028,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1841028,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>De Niro, Pacino together was once an unmissable cinematic moment; now it's greeted with indifference in Hollywood. Here's why</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In living color - and three dimensions!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/02/technology/siklos_3d.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/02/technology/siklos_3d.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>No doubt you've heard that 3-D has become the thing at the multiplex, and that Hollywood bigs like Jeffrey Katzenberg, Robert Zemeckis, and James Cameron are making movies that capitalize on new digital-projection technologies.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The box office indicator</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/21/news/companies/Movies.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/21/news/companies/Movies.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>With "The Dark Knight" setting a record for highest-grossing opening weekend and "Pineapple Express" and "Step Brothers" also doing well, 2008 is on track for a record box office summer - suggesting once again that the movie business may be countercyclical to the economy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Next Potter Movie Pushed Back</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1832987,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1832987,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the sixth installment in the blockbuster film franchise about boy wizard Harry, is moving from its planned Nov. 21 release to July 17, 2009</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Critics of 'Tropic Thunder' are missing the point</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/miller.film.tropic/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/miller.film.tropic/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It is hard to imagine that DreamWorks and Paramount, the companies behind "Tropic Thunder," did not foresee some sort of reaction from activist groups.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brooks and Dunn Get Their Hollywood Star</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20216840,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20216840,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>Dr. Phil introduced the country stars at Monday's unveiling ceremony</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Will Smith, Cameron Diaz Named Top Hollywood Moneymakers</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20214402,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20214402,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>He made $80 million last year; she made $50 million &amp;amp;#8211; and Oprah: $275 million!</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dark Knight Shatters Hollywood Record: $158.3 Million</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20213667,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20213667,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>"It's Monopoly money to me &amp;amp;#8211; I can't even comprehend it," says Christian Bale</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome to Aussiewood</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/27/aussiewood.tsr/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/27/aussiewood.tsr/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When it comes to making movies, Australia would appear to have it all.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blake Lively Spearheads Hollywood's New Wave</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20209528,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20209528,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The Gossip Girl is among the latest of this generation's fast-lane celebs</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood Hotties Up for Grabs - Would You Date John, George, Lance or Jake?</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208263,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208263,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>Mayer sings, Clooney and Gyllenhaal act and Armstong cycles: pick who sets your heart a flutter
</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV Video Music Awards Shift to Hollywood</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208309,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20208309,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>September's 25th anniversary ceremony will include viewer nominations</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Major Union Leaders Back Hollywood Labor Contract</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1812878,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1812878,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios late Friday</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Black presidents nothing new to Hollywood</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/05/black.presidents/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/05/black.presidents/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Voters will determine if America is ready for a black president come November, but Hollywood, often ahead of the national curve, made up its mind about the issue ages ago.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can the USB go from computer dork to Hollywood player?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/15/db.usbfilms/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/15/db.usbfilms/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Foreseeing the future is a tricky business. Why, for instance, should Hollywood moguls have paid much attention when the USB standard emerged in the mid-90's? </description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blaze Erupts in Hollywood Club</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1736540,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1736540,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A fire at the storied corner of Hollywood and Vine spit flames 40
  feet into the air Wednesday, burning close to landmarks like the
  Capitol Records building and the Pantages Theater</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood finds depth: 3-D boom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/28/smbusiness/iconix_3d.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/28/smbusiness/iconix_3d.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>Hollywood is done with being shallow; it wants depth. 3-D depth, to be specific.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kung Fu: It's no laughing matter</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/25/kung.fu/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/25/kung.fu/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Western cinema's relationship with martial arts has been a rocky one. Like many genres, kung fu has drifted in and out of fashion, but it has never regained the same popularity as its glorious heyday in the early 1970s.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood on Terror: Tragedy, Farce</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1734812,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1734812,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Two new films take on the issue of the abuse of prisoners in the war on terror. They could hardly be more different</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Standard Operating Procedure: Too Much Style?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1734936,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1734936,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Errol Morris's documentary takes on the shocking photos leaked from Abu Ghraib but adds gloss where none is due</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eva Mendes Steps Out to Eat in Hollywood</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20186258,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20186258,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>&amp;amp;#149; Eva Mendes, shading herself from the sun &amp;amp;#8211;and stepping out for some food in Hollywood.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood to Recession: Bring It!</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1724889,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1724889,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>History shows us that people still go to the movies when the economy is weak. Indiana Jones and Batman are hoping the trend holds this time around</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Carson Daly Not Having 'Much Luck' with Hollywood Dating
</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20183923,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20183923,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>Carson Daly, who has famously been linked to Tara Reid and Jennifer Love Hewitt, has sworn off dating in Hollywood.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Steroids In America: The Real Dope</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroids1/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroids1/index.html</guid><description>Athletes who take performance-improving drugs make all the headlines. But the culture of personal physical enhancement has pushed the use of steroids and HGH everywhere -- from Hollywood to the music industry to your next-door neighbor who doesn't want to grow old. Don't blame only the jocks.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Traveling in style</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/03/07/travellinginstyle.show/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/03/07/travellinginstyle.show/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>We're in Hollywood on this month's CNN Business Traveller where we look at style on the road.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The films that bring an international flavor to the Oscars</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/21/foreignlang.lead/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/21/foreignlang.lead/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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. </description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Robbed! The Screening Room's top ten Oscars that weren't.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/19/top10.oscars/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/19/top10.oscars/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>We all have our favorites for the big honors at Hollywood's top awards show, but over its 80-year history there have been some classic films, performers and people behind the scenes that have been criminally overlooked by Oscar.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood writers vote to end strike</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/12/news/writers/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/12/news/writers/index.htm</guid><description>Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viggo Mortensen Won't Cross Oscar Picket Line</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20168763_20173013,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20168763_20173013,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>If Viggo Mortensen's mother saw his movie Eastern Promises, she saw her son onscreen completely naked and fighting off knives. But will she be able to see him at the Oscars?</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Snoop Dogg: My Home Life Is 'Irreplaceable'</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20167732,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20167732,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>Video courtesy APSnoop Dogg says the bright lights of Hollywood almost blinded him to the value of his family life, but in the end he realized he didn't want anyone else raising his children.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zac Efron Tops Teen List of 50 Hottest Guys in Hollywood</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20164437,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20164437,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>For some eye candy to slip into your holiday stocking, Teen magazine has listed the 50 Hottest Guys in Hollywood for its winter issue.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Interview with Maggie Q</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/14/talkasia.maggieq/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/14/talkasia.maggieq/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A rising star in the glare of the media, Maggie Q has long been famous as an action heroine in Asia. Recently however, she has joined the top rank of upcoming young actresses in Hollywood. Half Vietnamese, she was brought up in Hawaii, but began her career in Hong Kong's film industry after being spotted by Jackie Chan.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood writers return to negotiating table</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/16/news/hollywood_strike/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/16/news/hollywood_strike/index.htm</guid><description>Hollywood film and TV writers who've been on strike nearly two weeks will return to contract negotiations Nov. 26, their union and producers said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood writers poised to strike</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/news/hollywood_writers/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/news/hollywood_writers/index.htm</guid><description>Hollywood writers are poised to strike after their negotiating team recommended a walkout in a dispute over royalties at a Thursday night meeting of the union membership.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood scripts its own Halloween horror</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/news/companies/hollywood_strike.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/30/news/companies/hollywood_strike.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>This must be some screenwriter's idea of a Halloween prank, setting the contract between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to expire on October 31. But can anybody in Hollywood appreciate how frightening the situation that's now coming to a head really is?</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>It's David Beckham vs. Hollywood in Wildfire Fund-Raiser</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20155543,00.html</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20155543,00.html</guid><description>Hollywood has been enamored of David Beckham since his arrival in L.A. in July. Now, they get to take a crack at him on the soccer field.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Hollywood agency with star power</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/28/magazines/fortune/hollywood_agent.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/28/magazines/fortune/hollywood_agent.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>On a muggy Friday evening in September, photographers and fans lined the red carpet outside the Design Exchange in downtown Toronto. They were waiting for George Clooney, the guest of honor at the afterparty celebrating the premiere of "Michael Clayton," the hottest ticket at this year's Toronto Film Festival. Inside the cavernous room, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, Hollywood's undercover It Couple, quietly danced. A tipsy blond knocked over an ice sculpture.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Device in Florida bank robbery a fake bomb, source says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/26/fl.bank.robbery/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/26/fl.bank.robbery/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hollywood, Florida, police on Wednesday were trying to sort out a bizarre bank robbery in which a bomblike device was strapped to a bank employee.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Wild West's Long and Winding Road</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1664187,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1664187,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>From the silent era through its untimely death in the 1970s, the Western was one of cinema's defining genres</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood Stars' Do-Gooder Deeds</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1660271,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1660271,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Reese, Jake and George glam up a pair of politically worthy dramas in Toronto</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sanjaya and Family Uprooting to Hollywood</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20054490,00.html</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20054490,00.html</guid><description>Sanjaya is going Hollywood - which means a "For Sale" sign on his family's suburban Seattle home.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood basks in blockbuster summer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/03/film.hollywoods.summer.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/03/film.hollywoods.summer.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hollywood lived its own second-chance "Rocky" story this summer as a business that looked to be going down for the count two years ago rebounded with record revenue and an unparalleled string of blockbuster hits.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Superbad' keeps teens on top at box office</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/26/boxoffice.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/26/boxoffice.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hollywood notched its first $4 billion summer as teen geeks helped Hollywood end the season in record fashion.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hooray for Hollywood</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/30/news/companies/summermovies/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/30/news/companies/summermovies/index.htm</guid><description>Hollywood can sum up this summer on the silver screen with a phrase immortalized by the newest box office stud, Homer Simpson. "Woo-hoo!"</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ocean's Thirteen: Dead in the Water</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1625314,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1625314,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Oceans 13, the third installment from Clooney's crew, is limp, by-the-numbers movie-making </description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Star-gazing at Hollywood's hot spots</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/03/07/instyle.la.hotels/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/03/07/instyle.la.hotels/index.html</guid><description>If you're looking for some VIP treatment or just some star sightings, try these Los Angeles hot spots next time you're in town.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Diary of a mad businessman</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/02/19/8400222/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/02/19/8400222/index.htm</guid><description>Los Angeles is looking fabulous today. It's a November afternoon - bright, clear skies, sparkling ocean - and from this glass mansion in the Hollywood Hills, a flock of seagulls can be seen taking ... </description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: 'Crash' stars don't cash in</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/25/news/newsmakers/crash/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/25/news/newsmakers/crash/index.htm</guid><description>A low-budget movie that chalks up $180 million around the world, would seem sure to earn its creators a pile of money - but that hasn't happened with last year's sleeper hit "Crash," a news report said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Screenwriting 101</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/05/01/8376205/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/05/01/8376205/index.htm</guid><description>Letters pour in from all over the world - France and Israel and Russia - heartbreaking in their naivete and earnest ambition to make it big in the movie business. Lloyd "Skip" Press answers them al... </description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fox the day after tomorrow</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/15/magazines/fortune/chernin_futureof_fortune_052906/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/15/magazines/fortune/chernin_futureof_fortune_052906/index.htm</guid><description>In 1903, an Eastern European immigrant and one-time street peddler named William Fox built a 149-seat movie theater in a penny arcade in Brooklyn.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 19:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Money men</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/15/magazines/fortune/moneymen_futureof_fortune_052906/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/15/magazines/fortune/moneymen_futureof_fortune_052906/index.htm</guid><description>Like most movies directed by legendary filmmaker Robert Altman, "A Prairie Home Companion" is packed with stars. Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, and Woody Harrelson all have roles in the film based on Garrison Keillor's beloved radio show; Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play a musical sister act, and starlet Lindsay Lohan - hot off "Herbie Fully Loaded" - shows up, improbably, as Streep's poetry-penning daughter.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 19:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Celeb blogger: Publicists, schmublicists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/09/cnna.blogger/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/09/cnna.blogger/index.html</guid><description>Celebrity gossip blogger Mark Lisanti, who has scorched many a celebrity on his "Defamer" site, says his job is to dissect the Hollywood culture and "make fun" of it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 20:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hollywood's 'Mission': Summer movie hits</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/03/news/companies/summer_movies/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/03/news/companies/summer_movies/index.htm</guid><description>Hollywood hit a well-documented rough patch last year, with annual box office receipts declining for the first time since 1991. But so far in 2006, there's some good news.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 18:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Hollywood' faces murder charge</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/19/rowlands.hollywoodmurder/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/19/rowlands.hollywoodmurder/index.html</guid><description>"Alpha Dog," a new movie starring Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis, and Sharon Stone is shot and ready to be released this spring. But it could be some time before it comes to a theater near you because the movie's main character is awaiting trial for murder.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rio de Janeiro City Guide</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/04/13/rio.cityguide/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/04/13/rio.cityguide/index.html</guid><description>Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Brazilian city and send us your ideas and suggestions below.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>"Super" summer for the silver screen?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/31/news/companies/summer_movies/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/31/news/companies/summer_movies/index.htm</guid><description>Hollywood hit a well-documented rough patch last year, with annual box office receipts declining for the first time since 1991. But so far in 2006, there's some good news.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Monita goes to Hollywood</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/23/artoflife.blog3/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/23/artoflife.blog3/index.html</guid><description>Hollywood. It's an odd town. Where else would you find the world's most celebrated stars smack in the middle of what feels like a soulless strip mall?</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>After Mel... how Hollywood gets religion</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/16/news/companies/faith_film/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/16/news/companies/faith_film/index.htm</guid><description>Combining two of America's greatest passions -- marketing and religion -- niche firms in Hollywood are discovering that selling films to audiences of faith pays.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: Hollywood's blind spot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/09/tyrrell.oscars/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/09/tyrrell.oscars/index.html</guid><description>Darn, I missed the Oscars again. I adore gory spectacles. If cockfights were legal I would be there. Even bear-baiting would not be too gruesome for me. Yet somehow I always miss Oscar night.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oscar blog</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/05/leopold.oscar.blog/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/05/leopold.oscar.blog/index.html</guid><description>Editor's note: CNN.com entertainment producer Todd Leopold is covering the Oscars in Hollywood. Here are his observations as tonight's ceremony nears.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Scary Movie</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367927/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367927/index.htm</guid><description>HOLLYWOOD IS A TOWN WHERE RELATIONSHIPS ARE currency. All it takes is one or two box-office flops for today's star to become tomorrow's pariah. If that happens, the only thing that can save you are your friends at Spago. So movie industry people trade air kisses in public and rarely criticize their peers within earshot of others. That's why a meeting last June of the Directors Guild of America was unusual. </description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tarnished year for silver screen</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/02/news/funny/movies/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/02/news/funny/movies/index.htm</guid><description>Most movie studio executives are probably glad that 2005 is finally over.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Review: Run your own studio in 'The Movies'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/11/23/the.movies/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/11/23/the.movies/index.html</guid><description>Being a Hollywood power player may be glamorous, but today it's anything but.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The 25 Most Important Pop Culture Moments</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/21/cnn25.top25.entertainment/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/21/cnn25.top25.entertainment/index.html</guid><description>In the past quarter-century, popular culture introduced us to the moonwalk and rap music, it brought us closer to a world where wizards learn magic instead of algebra and confronted our preconceptions about AIDS.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Buy a piece of HOLLYWOOD</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/17/news/newsmakers/hollywood_sign/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/17/news/newsmakers/hollywood_sign/index.htm</guid><description>For as little as $300,000, you could own a piece of Hollywood history.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EW Role Call: Hollywood's top cradle robbers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/10/31/ew.role.cradle/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/10/31/ew.role.cradle/index.html</guid><description>Wait a minute. Is that Steve Martin romancing Claire Danes -- an actress less than half his age -- in "Shopgirl"?</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Can King Kong save Hollywood?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/19/news/fortune500/fallmovies/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/19/news/fortune500/fallmovies/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Darth Vader, Batman and Tom Cruise couldn't do it. Can a bespectacled teenage wizard, a not-so-cowardly lion and an enormous primate lift Hollywood out of its funk?</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>One word for you Hollywood: Machinima</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/12/technology/machinima_hollywood/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/12/technology/machinima_hollywood/index.htm</guid><description>Imagine filming a real-time animated movie for a fraction of the cost of a big-budget Hollywood film. All it takes is some creativity, a little bit of computer savvy and a video game.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>