Whether you're firing up your e-reader or lugging a tote full of books to the beach, the summer reading season is upon us. So if you're looking for some fun, escapist entertainment there are a bumper crop of titles awaiting you. From robot uprisings to mind-bending thrillers, even some peculiar pint-sized super heroes. Here are just a few popular picks for some hot summer reads.
Accused thief Colton Harris-Moore, 19, has become a hotfooted celebrity on the lam
CNN's Naamua Delaney talks with Actor Bradley Cooper about his new movie "The Hangover."
CNN takes you to the red carpet premiere of the summer romance "Letters to Juliet."
"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" has an appropriate subject for a sequel: money.
David Brown, whose producing credits included "The Sting," "Jaws," and "The Verdict," died Monday of kidney failure in his Manhattan home, The New York Times reports. He was 93.
Nothing can stop the reign of "Avatar."
Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend. "Inglourious Basterds," his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ "District 9," and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief.
When the highly anticipated movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" opened Friday in theaters, many fans had already seen it.
A version of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" that leaked to the Web may hurt the movie at the box office.
Taking precautions, star Hugh Jackman won't be traveling to Mexico City as the city grapples with the virus
"It's like a Ferrari without a paint job," the star says of the work print that hit the Web
Someone stole an "incomplete and early version" of the next installment in the blockbuster "X-Men" movie series and posted it on the Internet this week, according to the studio that owns the billion-dollar film franchise.
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is leaked online a full month before its release. CNN's Brooke Anderson reports.
They have come to glimpse the miracle. They have come to witness the revolution. They have come for "Watchmen" -- the allegedly unfilmable superhero movie, the long-awaited adaptation of the comic book that changed the face of comic books forever.
Controversy erupts over the Oscar fave's real-life impoverished Indian kids
The singer's 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, had been missing since Friday
CNN's KJ Matthews talks to the cast of the action-packed thriller "Max Payne."
After a slow start, the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival kicked into life about 6:20 p.m. Sunday when a little Indian boy took a deep breath and plunged into an outdoor cesspit to secure the autograph of his favorite movie star.
Twentieth Century Fox said Wednesday it has established an Asian
unit specializing in local productions, starting with India, becoming
the latest Hollywood studio to venture into the region
Speed Racer was lapped in its opening weekend at the box office as Iron Man continued to fire its jets with $50.5 million in ticket sales
Shortly before leaving the White House in 1829, John Quincy Adams reportedly said, "There is nothing more pathetic in life than a former president."
The surprise success of Under the Same Moon shows that Latino audiences will respond to films that tell their own stories
A new film adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic is smart, sensible and organic
The guys who brought you the 'Scary Movie' franchise are back with a send-up of '300.' CNN's JD Cargill reports.
U.S. stocks fell at the start of trading Thursday after ex-Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.
Stock futures turned lower early Thursday after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management on the future of the global markets.
Kate Walsh, who turned 40 on Saturday, says she had no angst about reaching that milestone birthday, largely because she got to share it with her new husband, movie executive Alex Young.
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.
Owen Wilson's film future remains bright despite his apparent personal problems.
Owen Wilson's film future remains bright despite his apparent personal problems.
The raunchy coming-of-age comedy "Superbad" took the top spot at the weekend North American box office and broke the record for a movie opening in late August, according to studio estimates released on Sunday morning.
The first known pirated copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to make it onto the Internet was tracked to a home raided by Australian police Friday, authorities said.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit rose 4.5 percent on higher advertising sales and affiliate revenue from the Fox News Channel and on more new subscribers at the Sky Italia satellite TV service.
"Transformers," the big-budget movie about alien robots battling on Earth, raked in $67.6 million at box offices over the weekend to land at No. 1 and bring its seven-day total to a record $152.6 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" caught a wave of moviegoers to the No. 1 spot at the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates as of Sunday morning.
Katherine Winter, played by Hilary Swank in her dutiful-yuppie-good-listener mode, is a former minister, and now a professor, who travels the world defusing the lustrous credibility of miracles. Swank must know the feeling: She has won two Academy Awards, and she's still doing movies like "The Reaping."
It's the age-old question -- major movie house or independent film? On the one hand, a multi-million dollar budget with directorial handcuffs; on the other, creative freedom limited only by concerns over cash.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is now an honorary member of the Las Vegas police department's K-9 unit.
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" raked in a lot of doubloons at North American theaters over the weekend, making a record $132 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates issued Sunday.
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Selma Blair has filed for divorce from actor-writer Ahmet Zappa after two years of marriage.
The much-anticipated X-Men: The Last Stand pulled in a boffo North American box office of $107 million this weekend. You'd think that would be good news for Marvel Entertainment, the creator of the X-Men comic-book series, which has seen films based on its characters gross more than $3.6 billion to date.
American TV viewers are no strangers to product placement. They've been seeing it in the past few years on everything from 24 to American Idol. The hottest trend: "brand integration," where product...
Fortune: Outwitting TiVoupdated: Tue May 02 2006 14:41:00
American TV is already packed with product placements.
The latest Hollywood DVD releases may reach your living room sooner than you think, according to a report published Wednesday.
Get ready for an epic battle of superheros at the box office. The two top comic book publishers are placing bets on the big screen: Batman Begins, from DC Comics and Warner Brothers (owned by FORTU...
Summer in Hollywood usually hits in early May, when the big-budget action-adventure flicks, comedies and epics start hitting the multiplex. Between then and Labor Day weekend, the movie industry makes more than half its money.
First-day DVD sales of the long-awaited 'Star Wars' trilogy topped an estimated $100 million worldwide, but entertainment industry analysts said the multi-disc set was unlikely to break records soon.
There are two ways to look at the summer movie season that winds down this Labor Day weekend.
DVD sales of Mel Gibson's blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" topped 4 million after one day, the film's distribution company reported Wednesday.
CNNMoney: Can Spidey do it?updated: Mon Jun 28 2004 13:51:00
He's still got lightning speed, Herculean strength and an uncanny ability to stick to walls.
When is a special-effects-laden disaster film not just a potential summer blockbuster?
Even as there is a push to toughen rules on obscenity and indecency on the nation's airwaves, the NC-17 rating is expected to be more prevalent in movie theaters than ever before.
The yoga backlash has officially begun. It seems that trendsetting sports aficionados have taken to a significantly more violent pastime: dodgeball. The sport started gaining popularity in Los Ange...
Fortune: Once Upon A Time...updated: Mon Jun 24 2002 00:01:00
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When Star Wars: The Phantom Menace opens on May 19, it will cap one of the most intensive publicity pushes for any film in history. But, in true Star Wars fashion, the end will also be the beginnin...
By now, moviegoers have become well acquainted with the phenomenon of product placement--the quid pro quo between corporations and filmmakers that made E.T. gobble Reese's Pieces and James Bond tra...
Unless you've been down a deep, deep hole, you've no doubt heard about the Y2K problem, the world's biggest computer programming boo-boo. But hundreds of companies are dealing with a more prosaic Y...
What's the most valuable show on television? Not ER, prime time's top-rated program. Not Seinfeld, the sitcom whose stars got GE stock options for returning to work this season. Need a clue? The tr...
Two words. That's all it took for Jeff Montgomery, the CEO of Harvey Entertainment, to hold up a major movie studio, make his company a cool $15 million, and reclaim the rights to a cache of cartoo...
Financiers have shown remarkable ingenuity over the past decade in finding new and unusual things to turn into tradable securities. Home mortgages, car loans, and lottery winnings are just a few of...
The business of content -- copyrighted material such as movies and TV shows -- has always been a game of musical chairs. The latest scramble began in November when Capital Cities/ABC created a $200...
Treat the state tables as an atlas. Pore over them for a picture of who's where among the Service 500. For the third straight year, the number of California companies fell, this time by two. Hilton...
ON THE WALL of Rupert Murdoch's office at Twentieth Century Fox are four clocks, keeping track of the time in Los Angeles, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. They remind visitors that here resides a gl...
While everybody else was atwitter about high-level happenings at the earth summit, the present scrivener dolefully did his bit for the trees by taking a grandson to FernGully, a G-rated cartoon fil...
In a replay of the monster movies where two behemoths terrorized cities before the gruesome finale, Hollywood's latest blockbusters are slugging it out. Who gets hurt? Often, U.S. box office receip...
It's no secret: The party in junk bonds is over. Whacked by widespread selling, the return from junk fell to 4% last year. The new year has been no kinder. Rocked by the $3.8 billion default of Cam...
Fortune: FAMILY BUSINESSupdated: Mon Oct 23 1989 00:01:00
When raider Marvin Davis, 63, made his recent bids for Northwest Airlines and United, he wasn't flying alone. Under his wing was son John, 35, who says he gave his father the idea to go after airli...
Fortune: ON THE RISEupdated: Mon Aug 15 1988 00:01:00
R. SCOTT JOHNSON, 37 JOHNSON FAIN & PEREIRA ASSOCIATES The design chief of this Los Angeles architectural firm has melded his aesthetic sense and business instincts to build headquarters for such c...
Why was the present writer visibly courting a hernia on the Avenue of the Americas the other night? What new commitment to sound public policy was causing him to gaspingly stagger up the avenue lug...
Fortune: Hollywood naturalupdated: Mon Dec 22 1986 00:01:00
Talk about dealmaking. When insider trading charges brought down Ivan Boesky, Hollywood studios and New York publishing houses flocked to get a piece of the action. (For more on the scandal, see Mo...
Though film purists turn purple with anger, Color Systems' technique for adding color to black-and-white movies is making things rosy in Hollywood. The Los Angeles company is coloring Walt Disney P...
As the new owner of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Denver oil magnate Marvin Davis began applying techniques he used in the oil business to mine the company for cash (FORTUNE, January 7, 1985). ...
By selling assets and funneling cash from Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. to its parent, TCF Holdings, oilman Marvin Davis paid down most of the debt he assumed when he took the company private (F...
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