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By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) Mansome is a mullet. Neither long hair nor short; neither here nor there. This Morgan Spurlock documentary about modern masculine grooming habits is neither all-out funny nor seriously thought-provoking. To mangle that famous quote by Gertrude Stein: There is no … [Read more...]
The SNL Digital Shorts are hilarious, and Andy Samberg and his team are celebrating their 100th episode with an over-the-top party. Cameos galore, with "updates" to their classic shorts. My favorites include D--- In A Box and Chronicles of Narnia, among others. This 100th celebration is really … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) It's called YouToo and it bills itself as "the first Social TV Network." and it's definitely not to be confused with ... well, those other guys. And while it shares similar characteristics of a video streaming service, it also allows users to provide user generated … [Read more...]
By Ronald Grover - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The big-budget action film "Battleship", produced by Comcast's Universal Pictures, is shaping up to become the next film to fall victim to "The Avengers'" record box office march. (Editor's note: Check out our story on how much money it's made … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock band Van Halen on Thursday postponed more than 30 concert dates of their U.S. summer tour, leading to speculation the "Runnin' with the Devil" group was feuding again. The band's official website, van-halen.com, took down all its dates after June 26, listing only 15 … [Read more...]
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) Dimension Films announced that Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will open October 4, 2013, and Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba will return to co-star in the film. The great Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller will co-write and co-direct, with William … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) Only the most cynical, disenchanted film fan would condemn Battleship as being yet another example of studio short sightedness. Of course, it is exactly this kind of contrived, jingoistic, sensory pollution, masquerading as family entertainment that has caused that … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - Donna Summer, whose music dominated the 1970s disco era, died of cancer on Thursday at age 63, leaving a legacy of hit singles like "Love to Love You Baby," "Last Dance" and "Bad Girls." Summer, who won five Grammys and sold more than 130 million records worldwide, died surrounded by … [Read more...]
By Sharon Waxman - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Judd Apatow, the modern master of human-scale comedy, sat down with TheWrap to review the Universal Studios archive in honor of the studio's 100-year anniversary this year. The writer-director of "Knocked Up," producer of "Bridesmaids" and director … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chuck Brown, known as the "Godfather of Go-Go" for the subgenre of funk music he helped create, died on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore after being admitted earlier this month suffering from pneumonia. A spokeswoman for the hospital … [Read more...]
By Brent Lang - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There is a thick veil of secrecy surrounding "Prometheus," but co-writer Damon Lindelof hinted to fans this week that the upcoming science-fiction chiller may lead to sequels. The indication that more deep-space terrors could await even after the final … [Read more...]
Kick-Ass was a movie that no studio wanted to touch. The idea of a comic book adaptation in which foul mouthed adolescents murdered bad guys seemed too risky. In order to get the production off the ground, director Matthew Vaughn (husband of model Claudia Schiffer) and writer Jane Goldman (wife … [Read more...]
By Ben Klayman and Alexei Oreskovic - DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will stop advertising on Facebook, even as the social networking website prepares to go public, with a source familiar with the matter saying the automaker had decided Facebook's ads had … [Read more...]
By Christina Kotlar (DoddleNEWS) Cannes Film Festival caused quite a stir with their announcement of films in competition, and not one directed by a woman filmmaker. This is the second time in three years where such an outright omission has happened. While we all naively believe that films … [Read more...]
By Zorianna Kit - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jennifer Lopez and Elizabeth Banks - stars of this Friday's baby comedy movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting" are two Hollywood moms who could not be more different. Lopez is a newly divorced, singer and actress with twin toddlers, Max and Emme, … [Read more...]
By Alexandria Sage - CANNES, France (Reuters) - It took no less than a live camel strolling the promenade in Cannes to steal the show on the film festival's opening day, a feat that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off with chutzpah on Wednesday. The British satirist, star of "Borat" and … [Read more...]
