The 2012 box office got off to a fine start this weekend, as Paramount's "found footage" (riiiight...) horror movie "The Devil Inside," which the studio acquired for just under $1 million, earned a tremendous $34.5 million in its first three days, becoming the first breakout box office star since "The Lion King 3D."
Tom Cruise rang in the New Year smiling, as "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" led the box office with an estimated $31.3 million over the three-day (Friday to Sunday) weekend. That represents a 6 percent jump from Christmas weekend.
"The Adventures of Tintin" is the first of two Steven Spielberg movies to hit theaters this week, the second being "War Horse," on Christmas Day.
"Only a fool looks for answers. The wise detective seeks only questions."
When Thomas Heatherwick competed to design the UK pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, he was sure about one thing: His team wasn't going to showcase "the same cheesy adverts for Britain and promote some silly stereotypes of Britain as fog and rain and Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter and Beefeaters and phone boxes."
Designer Thomas Heatherwick talks about form, function and his "hairy building" that stood out at the 2010 World Expo.
Veteran director Barry Levinson has been tapped to direct a "political thriller" based on the 1995 bombing of a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City.
Counterfeiters -- agnostic toward NFL teams, antagonistic towards trademark laws -- are flooding the U.S. with fake NFL jerseys.
If the price on that Super Bowl jersey is too good to be true, look a bit closer. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.
Sherlock Holmes said it best. In Arthur Conan Doyle's classic story "Silver Blaze," about the disappearance of a champion racehorse, there is an exchange between a Scotland Yard detective and Holmes:
A collection of wills reveals Karl Marx died a poor man and Charles Darwin left behind a large estate, an ancestry website said Wednesday.
Below is the list of nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. The Oscar ceremony will take place on March 7 and will be televised by ABC.
Romance proved to be a powerful foe for the epic "Avatar," which has dominated the box office for the last seven weekends. The Lasse Hallstrom-directed romantic drama "Dear John" won the weekend in a big way, grossing an estimated $32.4 million and setting a record for the highest-grossing Superbowl Sunday frame in history.
Well, Mel Gibson has joined Denzel Washington and Dwayne Johnson on the list of stars that couldn't stand up to "Avatar's" box-office might. The film on track to cross Titanic's domestic gross of $600 million in mere days took the top spot again this weekend, falling just 14 percent, which is a smaller drop-off than last weekend. Earning an additional $30 million, "Avatar's" domestic total now stands at $594 million.
Nothing can stop the reign of "Avatar."
London hopes to cash in on the huge success of the Sherlock Holmes movie.
Susan Downey says her husband often does better when he improvises a bit
Denzel Washington's "The Book of Eli" couldn't hold its early Friday lead, dropping into second place after Saturday's box office results filtered in.
There's no stopping "Avatar's" "shock-and-awe" performance at the box office. For the fourth weekend in a row, James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster was No. 1 with $48.5 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
Thanks to astronomic word-of-mouth, inflated 3-D ticket prices, and consecutive holiday weekends that began on a Friday, "Avatar" continued its seemingly unstoppable climb to the Hallelujah Mountains of U.S. and global box office.
Over the past week, "Avatar" and "Sherlock Holmes" sealed another record-breaking box-office year for Hollywood, with a little help from a trio of singing chipmunks.
It's Sherlock Holmes, but not as we know him.
Hollywood gave itself one heck of a Christmas present this year: the single best day in the history of the box office.
Certain groups of die-hard fans are protective of the characters they hold on a pedestal. "Star Trek" has its Trekkies and "Star Wars" has the Jedi religion.
From Penélope Cruz in Nine to Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes, which star will get your $10?
Maybe it's just elementary. There's something about the character of Sherlock Holmes that makes the pipe-smoking detective irresistible on the silver screen.
Forget umbrellas and raincoats. The hottest accessories for tourists flocking to London, England, this holiday season may be deerstalker hats and magnifying glasses.
Director Guy Ritchie says he was determined to make Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, the two male leads in his new movie, "Sherlock Holmes," off-screen pals to ensure the success of his film.
The Sherlock Holmes star's perfect day: in front of the TV
There's something for everyone at the movies this holiday season, from a musical with Daniel Day-Lewis to James Cameron's first feature since "Titanic."
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law battle evil with punches and punch lines
The director says his ex can outdo any 23-year-old at making things happen
Samantha Burke, with whom Law had a brief relationship, is "overwhelmed with joy," the model's rep tells PEOPLE
The actor's fourth child will be a daughter named Sophia, lawyers for expectant mom Samantha Burke tell PEOPLE exclusively
Samantha Burke, who is pregnant with the actor's child, is a model from Pensacola, Fla.
The actor "no longer is in a relationship" with the mother but "intends to be a fully supportive part" of his child's life, his rep says
Early in The Complete Guide to Man-to-Man Defense, one of three new instructional DVDs former coach Bob Knight stars in, he's in a quaint gym in Des Moines, Iowa, lecturing players from William Penn College, a nearby NAIA school, on the importance of "conversion" defense. Conversion is the term Knight prefers to "transition," which he views as inadequate for describing the goal of a fast break -- the conversion of a numbers advantage into points. And so this is what Knight tells the assembled players:
The actor talks about his on-screen romance with costar Jude Law
Her character outwits Sherlock Holmes in a scene from the film, out in December
The seventh and concluding film in the series will open July 15, 2011
While the two actors are close, right now "the timing is off" – she's shooting in London and he's focusing on music
The couple's eight-year marriage is terminated with a one-minute court proceeding
"Guy was in great form" with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, says a source
A pal says the director is "relieved" after news of his split from Madonna broke
The divorcing couple spent much of 2008 leading separate lives
"The main concern for Madonna and Guy are their children," a rep for Madonna tells PEOPLE. "It's a sad situation."
Amid the hubbub over his divorce from Madonna, the director continues to film Sherlock Holmes
Howard Blum's new history takes a look at the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, and the early 20th century war between labor and capitalism.
Madeleine McCann's parents still believe their missing daughter is alive as files from the Portuguese police probe into her disappearance do not reveal any evidence she has been killed, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
Pictures have been released in the case of missing British girl Madeleine McCann. ITN's Robert Moore reports.
Despite widespread speculation, the director says all is well "as far as I'm aware"
In order to keep his business AustinPCTech legal, Mike Rife may have to become a real-life Sherlock Holmes. He fears that a new Texas law will require his small PC repair company to obtain a private-eye license, or risk incurring a $4,000 penalty and jail time.
The Iron Man star and the filmmaker will revisit the British super sleuth
On any given day here at "O, The Oprah Magazine," there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 69 very talented, extremely detail oriented, high-energy, hardworking women and men all doing their jobs and doing them well. I love a few of them, I like a lot of them, I despise one of them. She is the Magneto to my Wolverine, the Saruman to my Frodo, the Dr. Octopus to my Spiderman. I call her The Tinkler.
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When the CEO of a small San Diego publishing company started receiving threatening e-mails from an anonymous address, he had a pretty good idea that someone in the company's IT department was involved. The CEO called his lawyers, who in turn called Peter Garza, a computer forensics expert and founder of EvidentData, an investigative firm in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to surmise that Bill Nygren's favorite stock is Washington Mutual (WM). The celebrated manager of the very concentrated Oakmark Select fund (a MONEY 100 selection fo...
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to surmise that Bill Nygren's favorite stock is Washington Mutual.
Like Sherlock Holmes's dog that did not bark, the most remarkable aspect of last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report is what its Democratic members did not say.
Christie's will auction over 3,000 personal documents, including letters and hand-written manuscripts, left behind by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The sale of the once-lost papers is expected to garner about £2 million or $3.6 million.
Sir Ben Kingsley doesn't look like he can be just anybody -- and maybe that's his secret.
I've often thought that if I failed to land that next job in journalism, I could be a private eye. I'd do many of the same things I do as a reporter--interview sources, put the pieces together to f...
Robert Hagstrom's investing role model is no mystery. He has made a name for himself both writing about Warren Buffett's value approach (in bestsellers like The Warren Buffett Way) and applying it-...
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Controversy erupted as soon as then SEC chairman Harvey Pitt began pushing for William Webster, former director of the FBI and CIA, to head the new accounting oversight board in late October. Many ...
Layoffs are mounting at Lucent. Cisco is sinking. Schwab's earnings are headed south. Gap is in the hole. Heck, even the euro, which has done nothing but slump, whimper, and whine since its debut i...
Sherlock Holmes knew the evil that deflation can rouse. "I have seen the will of the deceased wife. To determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the present prices of the investme...
No doubt you're waiting until the supercharged 32/64-bit systems like Atari's Jaguar or the Panasonic 3DO release enough games to justify the $700 price tags. Meantime, if you're hooked up to any o...
The price of credibility ought to be astronomical in Washington -- so little of it, so great the need. So whatever Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy pays ( partner William H. Webster, 68, the distingui...
THE COMPACT DISK was one of the great success stories of the 1980s, revolutionizing the recorded-music business in less than five years. Now something similar is happening in the personal computer ...
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An American mania for mystery is most conspicuous these days in the solve-it- yourself whodunits staged everywhere from hotels and cruise ships to corporate meetings. But it's the printed page that...
WHILE POETS have long extolled the uniqueness of each individual, biometrics technology is making a business out of it. Biometrics is the science of taking a biological characteristic, such as a fi...
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