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Sly fined for importing restricted drugs
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070521/ap_en_mo/people_stallone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070521/capt.tok10105210018.australia_stallone_tok101.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=Pv9C7f0woo7IAYOru7qctA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone poses for a photo during a press conference to promote his latest movie 'Rocky Balboa' at a hotel in Tokyo in this March 26, 2007 file photo. Stallone was formally convicted Monday, May 21, 2007 of importing banned drugs into Australia and ordered to pay more than 12,000 Australian dollars (US$9,870; euro7,300) in fines and costs. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Actor Sylvester Stallone was formally convicted Monday of importing restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and ordered to pay $10,651 in fines and court costs.</p><br clear="all"/>
Campion laments lack of female directors
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_en_mo/film_cannes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070520/capt.6b3a8545f79649cb911d267194a514d0.film_cannes_chacun_son_cinema_arrivals_vlm137.jpg?x=105&y=130&sig=ORzvysK88MlNYwHl6V6PXg--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="From left, Canadian director Atom Egoyan, New Zealand director Jane Campion and American director Michael Cimino arrive for the screening of the film 'Chacun Son Cinema' ('To Each His Own Cinema'), at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)" border="0" /></a>AP - When Jane Campion was honored onstage at the Cannes Film Festival with about 30 other major directors Sunday, she was the lone woman of the bunch. And she's still not used to how strange that feels.</p><br clear="all"/>
New fall TV season gets its freak on
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_new_season"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070518/capt.7fbe744d812f41eb8eb4001fef2e4694.aptopix_tv_new_season_fox_nysr102.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=ZGyIswJri.ELAOYWFGPI7g--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Actors Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton arrive to the Fox 2007 programming presentation in New York, Thursday, May, 17, 2007. Grammer and Heaton will appear in Fox's new television series 'Back to You.' this fall. ( AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)" border="0" /></a>AP - Old friend Jerry Seinfeld walked onto a Radio City Music Hall stage during NBC's yearly sales presentation to advertisers last week not to tout a new show, but his appearance in some gussied-up promos for a new movie.</p><br clear="all"/>
'Shrek' sets animated record with $122M
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_en_mo/box_office"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070517/capt.f628697458f842c5b9bb660d6283425f.people_antonio_banderas_ny114.jpg?x=91&y=130&sig=RQrc1CV5yHSm7ngW0Fr5HA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="This undated handout photo provided by DreamWorks Animation SKG shows Antonio Banderas along with Puss in Boots, the character he voices in the animated comedy 'Shrek the Third.' (AP Photo/DreamWorks Animation SKG, Saeed Adyani)" border="0" /></a>AP - The big green ogre keeps getting bigger. "Shrek the Third" took in $122 million in its first weekend, breaking the franchise's own record for best debut ever for an animated film, according to studio estimates Sunday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Dancer, actor Carl Wright dies at 75
(AP)
AP - Actor Carl Wright, who began his career as a tap dancer and comedian and later appeared in movies including "Barbershop" and "Big Momma's House," has died, his family confirmed Sunday. He was 75.
Disney parks providing extra loot for "Pirates" game
(Reuters)
Reuters - Disney
Interactive Studios is letting amusement park customers pillage
a little extra content for its latest "Pirates of the
Caribbean" game.
`Utopia' leads Drama Desk winners
(AP)
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — "The Coast of Utopia" was chosen best play of the New York theater season, and "Spring Awakening" was named best musical in awards given Sunday by the Drama Desk, an organization of theater journalists.
TV crew victim of theft while in Vancouver
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Boston TV crew's shoot in
Vancouver about how picturesque and livable that Canadian city
is took an ironic twist: Their camera equipment was stolen from
a rental van during a coffee break.
Disney parks providing extra loot for "Pirates" game
(Reuters)
Reuters - Disney
Interactive Studios is letting amusement park customers pillage
a little extra content for its latest "Pirates of the
Caribbean" game.
Stoppard play, rock show win early theater awards
(Reuters)
Reuters - Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia"
and the well-received rock musical "Spring Awakening" won top
Drama Desk theater awards on Sunday, firming up their
front-runner positions to win big at next month's Tony Awards.
Disney parks providing extra loot for "Pirates" game
(Reuters)
Reuters - Disney
Interactive Studios is letting amusement park customers pillage
a little extra content for its latest "Pirates of the
Caribbean" game.
Helmer team assembled to express "Love" for N.Y
(Reuters)
Reuters - Producer Emmanuel
Benbihy ("Paris, Je t'aime") has assembled a who's who of hot
filmmakers -- including Zach Braff, Mira Nair, Park Chan-wook
and Fatih Akin -- to head to New York to shoot his upcoming
project "New York, I Love You."
Mexico's 3 Amigos do the Cha Cha Cha with Universal
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070521/film_nm/chachacha_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070521/2007_05_21t020352_450x335_us_chachacha.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=6o3hm._ZkfTWvHIEnRwgwQ--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="(L-R) Directors Alfonso Cuaron Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Guillermo Del Toro, arrive at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, in this February 25, 2007 file photo. The Mexican filmmakers are teaming for Cha Cha Cha, a $100 million, five-feature production partnership with financing, distribution and international sales handled by Universal Pictures and Focus Features International. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Mexican filmmakers
Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu are teaming for Cha Cha Cha, a $100 million,
five-feature production partnership with financing,
distribution and international sales handled by Universal
Pictures and Focus Features International.</p><br clear="all"/>
Argento's "Mother" heads for Rome
(Reuters)
Reuters - Italian horror
director Dario Argento's new film, "La Terza Madre" (The Third
Mother), will premiere at this year's RomaCinemaFest, which
runs October 18-27.
Craig gives in to "Flashbacks"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Daniel Craig, the
latest incarnation of James Bond, is temporarily laying down
his Walther PPK to play a fading Hollywood star in Baillie
Walsh's "Flashbacks of a Fool."
Ellroy's real-life "Dark Places" to unfold onscreen
(Reuters)
Reuters - Crime writer James
Ellroy's memoir "My Dark Places" is headed for the big screen.
Spidey has legs overseas
(Reuters)
Reuters - Bumped by "Shrek the
Third" into second place domestically, Sony's "Spider-Man 3"
continued its run as No. 1 internationally during the weekend,
with an estimated boxoffice of $49.6 million from 15,850
screens in 105 countries.
Gray's Cannes entry "Night" falls to Columbia
(Reuters)
Reuters - Columbia Pictures has
snapped up North American rights to writer-director James
Gray's drama "We Own the Night," which stars Joaquin Phoenix,
Mark Wahlberg and Robert Duvall.
"Shrek the Third" breaks records in first weekend
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070521/film_nm/boxoffice_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070521/2007_05_20t121818_450x271_us_boxoffice.jpg?x=130&y=78&sig=Mbh8g8WD7lJjWaAEbz8vFQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Cast member Mike Myers smiles at the premiere of 'Shrek the Third' at the Mann's Village theater in Los Angeles in this May 6, 2007 file photo. DreamWorks Animation SKG's (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - "Shrek the Third" proved to be a
fairy tale come true for DreamWorks Animation SKG, defying
expectations to gross $122 million its first three days at the
North American box office and surpass "Shrek 2" for the biggest
opening weekend by an animated film.</p><br clear="all"/>
Roberts to play slain environmentalist Root
(Reuters)
Reuters - Julia Roberts will
portray African wildlife conservationist Joan Root, who was
murdered in her Kenyan home in January, in a feature she'll
produce in partnership with Working Title Films.
`Utopia' leads Drama Desk winners
(AP)
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — "The Coast of Utopia" was chosen best play of the New York theater season, and "Spring Awakening" was named best musical in awards given Sunday by the Drama Desk, an organization of theater journalists.
Gogol Bordello's gypsy punk goes galactic
(Reuters)
Reuters - Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene
Hutz has three words to describe the New York via Ukraine punk
rock on his band's forthcoming effort, "Super Taranta."
Bellamy Brothers celebrate outlaw gospel spirit
(Reuters)
Reuters - In the past couple of years,
there's been a plethora of successful gospel albums by country
acts, among them Alan Jackson, Alabama and, most recently, a
set from Brenda Lee featuring duets with Dolly Parton, Emmylou
Harris and Vince Gill, among others. With the May 8 release of
"Jesus Is Coming," the Bellamy Brothers became the latest
country act to celebrate their faith in song.
Mayer aiming for good times on summer tour
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070521/music_nm/mayer_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070521/2007_05_21t022143_450x335_us_mayer.jpg?x=130&y=96&sig=3xD04BppYj_GKTtqVVskGw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Singer John Mayer arrives to attend the '100 Most Influential People In The World' gala hosted by Time Magazine in New York, in this May 8, 2007 file photo. Mayer is predicting a 'laid-back' kind of summer when he hits the road on June 1 for a nine-and-a-half week continuation of his 'Continuum' tour. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - John Mayer is predicting a
"laid-back" kind of summer when he hits the road on June 1 for
a nine-and-a-half week continuation of his "Continuum" tour.</p><br clear="all"/>
Finnish band Lordi shooting horror flick
(AP)
AP - Lordi, the mask-clad heavy metal monster band from Finland, is thrashing its way onto the big screen with a horror flick.
Fats Domino returns to New Orleans stage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_en_mu/fats_domino"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070520/capt.a67c569d79c5481a8e22c84c5c3780a2.correction_fats_domino_ny107.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=3hodxkmVGugGAiw0BG2sHA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="This image provided by the Tipitina's Foundation shows Fats Domino performing before a sold-out crowd of hundreds at Timitina's nightclub in a New Orleans Saturday, May 19, 2007 marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's first public performance since Hurricane Katrina. Fans who for years longed to see Domino perform such hits as 'Blueberry Hill,' 'Blue Monday,' 'Ain't That a Shame' and 'Walkin' to New Orleans' finally got their wish. (AP Photo/HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fats Domino took the stage before a sold-out crowd of hundreds in a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's first public performance since Hurricane Katrina.</p><br clear="all"/>
McCartney: I don't read divorce coverage
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_en_mu/people_mccartney"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070516/capt.47a8a4d59c4942a7a80bfa5a253b9488.people_paul_mccartney_nyet148.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=sqtTQ9wVOjG1_7TRhK9YOg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Singer Paul McCartney. in New York on Nov. 13, 2006. British copyright laws should be extended to prevent aging artists such as McCartney and Cliff Richard from missing out on royalties later in life, an influential committee of British lawmakers said Wednesday, May 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Paul McCartney avoids reading media coverage of his difficult divorce because he does not want to see the details of his private life on front pages, he said in an interview published Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>
White Stripes put trust in new label for "Thump"
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070520/music_nm/stripes_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070520/2007_05_19t210020_450x419_us_stripes.jpg?x=130&y=121&sig=X6n_UZK.hgpoxQ0NOXyhVA--" align="left" height="121" width="130" alt="Meg White (L) and Jack White of The White Stripes perform during the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas concert at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, December 11, 2005. As the June 19 release of the White Stripes' new album, 'Icky Thump,' approaches, Jack White is less concerned about 'indie cred' than at any other time in the band's 10-year history. (Chris Pizzello/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As the June 19 release of the White
Stripes' new album, "Icky Thump," approaches, Jack White is
less concerned about "indie cred" than at any other time in the
band's 10-year history.</p><br clear="all"/>
U2 rock Cannes before 3D film screening
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_en_mu/people_cannes_u2"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070519/capt.44db002d2b9f4a22acc42f8bd830646a.film_cannes_u2_3d_arrivals_vlm168.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=L.PL7Yy83agb4CPPN0ZYhA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="U2's Bono performs prior to the screening of the movie 'U2 3D,' at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)" border="0" /></a>AP - U2 rocked Cannes' famous red carpet Saturday, playing to thousands of filmgoers and fans before a late-night screening of their new concert movie, "U23D."</p><br clear="all"/>
Concert promoter sues Alejandra Guzman
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070519/ap_en_mu/people_guzman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070519/capt.97ccab935094477b8bedd1d4913d74b0.people_guzman_ny108.jpg?x=83&y=130&sig=ruH3PY6fTFn16cullsfBxQ--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="Latin Grammy winner Alejandra Guzman participates in a press conference announcing the nominees for the 7th annual Latin Grammy Awards, New York, Tuesday, Sept 26, 2006. A concert promotion company has sued Mexican rock singer Alejandra Guzman and her promoter, alleging they backed out of a deal to have her perform at a June 16 concert in Southern California. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)" border="0" /></a>AP - A concert promotion company has sued Mexican rock singer Alejandra Guzman and her promoter, alleging they backed out of a deal to have her perform at a June 16 concert in Southern California.</p><br clear="all"/>
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