'Planet of the Apes' is No. 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) - 'Planet of the Apes' emerged as the 800-pound gorilla at the weekend box office in North America, breaking several records in the process. The simian saga, billed by director Tim Burton as a "re-imagination" of the 1968 sci-fi classic, opened at No. 1 with a three-day sum of $69.6 ...
| Lion gets chance at love
TORONTO (AP) - He's a veteran actor who was too busy making films, television shows and commercials to learn the ways of love. Now terminally ill, he is trying to make up for lost time by making time. If that sounds implausible, consider that the thespian is Bongo, a 14-year-old lion who starred in ...
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Disney prepping 2nd 'Country Bears' installment
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With "The Country Bears" still a year away from release, Disney has hired "Bears" scribe Paul Rugg to write a sequel. The first "Bears" movie, inspired by the Country Bear Jamboree park attraction at Disneyland, is in postproduction and slated for a summer 2002 release. ...
| Gilpin talks about 'Final Fantasy'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Peri Gilpin would like to be as buff as Jane Proudfoot, the character she voices in the new film, "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". Gilpin told AP Radio that when she saw her computer-created character, she thought, "Why can't I look like that? I think she's a really good actress, ...
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Rodriguez wants to write screenplay
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michelle Rodriguez, one of the stars of "The Fast and the Furious", also would like to work behind the cameras. "I really don't feel that for the rest of my life...I'm going to be satisfied just being an actress," Rodriguez told reporters. She made her film debut in last year's "Girlfight." ...
| Miramax attached to Soderbergh's next project
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Miramax Films has finalized the deal to distribute Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh's next feature film project, "How to Survive a Hotel Room Fire". The previously untitled project is being produced by Scott Kramer and written by Coleman Hough. There is no cast on board ...
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Almodovar film upsets animal rights activists
MADRID (Hollywood Reporter) - Pedro Almodovar's film "Speak To Her" became embroiled in a debate on animal rights when Animal Amnesty, a Spanish activist group, said Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against the Oscar-winning director and his production company, El Deseo, for bullfighting scenes ...
| Andie MacDowell getting married
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star Andie MacDowell is getting married to a childhood friend. MacDowell, 43, accepted an engagement ring last week from Rhett Hartzog, 43, an Atlanta jewelry businessman. Marion McBride, father of the bride-to-be, said his daughter plans to marry ...
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Nicole Kidman to star in 'Dogville'
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Nicole Kidman will star in Lars von Trier's next movie, the Danish director's production company said Thursday, three days after it announced it had called off negotiations with the Australian actress. Kidman will play the female role in von Trier's next film project, "Dogville," ...
| Katharine Hepburn home from hospital
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Actress Katharine Hepburn was discharged from Hartford Hospital Thursday morning after a week's stay for a minor infection. Hepburn was released just after 10 a.m. and returned to her home in Old Saybrook, hospital spokesman James Battaglio said. The four-time Academy Award winner ...
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Jason Priestley finishes counseling
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jason Priestley has completed an alcohol counseling program he was ordered to attend when he pleaded no contest last year to a drunken driving charge. Priestley's lawyer Peter L. Knecht showed proof in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday that the former star of "Beverly Hills, ...
| Hanks, Hanson elected to board
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Academy Award-winners Tom Hanks and "L.A. Confidential" director Curtis Hanson have been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences board of governors. Three governors represent each of the Academy's traditional 13 branches and are elected to staggered terms so that ...
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Hepburn expected to leave hospital
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - After spending a week in Hartford Hospital for treatment of a urinary tract infection, Katharine Hepburn is expected to sent home by this weekend, a hospital spokesman said Wednesday. Earlier this week, the hospital said the infection had been taken care of, but doctors were working ...
| Singer Eminem to shoot movie
DETROIT (AP) - Eminem helped put Detroit's rap scene on the map. Now, he's putting it on the silver screen. A drama loosely based on Marshall Mathers III's experience as a suburban Detroit hip-hop singer who became a superstar, temporarily named "Untitled Detroit Project," will begin shooting in and ...
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Dennis Quaid performs shoeless in Ore.
BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) - Dennis Quaid jumped on stage barefoot to perform with his band at the annual Taste of Beaverton party. The actor, better known for his rustic good looks on the big screen than as a musician, says he always performs without shoes because it makes him feel like he's in a living ...
| Bonham Carter: Easy being an ape
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) - Helena Bonham Carter says learning how to be an ape is easy. Faced with mastering the bowlegged, stiff-hipped ape walk for the new "Planet of the Apes," Carter and other cast members were sent to "ape school." Director Tim Burton arranged the training sessions with Terry Notary, a ...
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Venice Film Fest puts Fonda in spotlight
ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - The Venice International Film Festival's International Critics Week will honor Peter Fonda with a special screening of the U.S. actor-director's directorial debut, "The Hired Hand." The 1971 film will unspool along with seven new first works premiering in the revamped sidebar, ...
| Soderbergh revisits 'sex, lies and videotape'
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hot off his simultaneous Best Director Oscar win for "Traffic" and nomination for "Erin Brockovich," Steven Soderbergh is returning to his roots, directing an untitled project for Miramax Films billed as a sequel to his 1989 debut feature "sex, lies and videotape." ...
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Witherspoon to serve up tennis comedy
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After conquering the legal court as a Harvard law student in MGM's "Legally Blonde," Reese Witherspoon is now set to take her act onto the tennis court. Intermedia has acquired an untitled comedy pitch from writer Bruce Miller set in the world of women's tennis for ...
| Harrison Ford talks about flying
SEATTLE (AP) - Harrison Ford spoke eloquently of his love of flying to a most appropriate audience - those attending a fund-raising gala for the city's Museum of Flight. The event was part of an effort to raise $3 million for children's programs at the museum. Ford, who flew his own float plane into ...
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