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Josh Hutcherson has signed on to star in Monday, the directorial debut of Benicio Del Toro.
The project will tell the story of a tourist (Hutcherson) who is taking in the city’s culture for the first time, Deadline reports.
Monday will a part of 7 Days in Havana. Seven directors each take on each day of the week with storylines that take advantage of the countryside to provide a slice of life from the city.
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As a little girl Amanda Seyfried avoided reading old fables such as "Little Red Riding Hood" because they scared her, which seems ironic now.
On Friday, the 25-year-old embodies the little girl with the red hood and cloak in a film version, "Red Riding Hood," of the famous fairy tale. While she is no longer afraid of old stories with scary creatures, she is nervous about taking on an iconic role that is ingrained in western culture and has been written and rewritten hundreds of times.
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Move over Beatlemania. "Biebermania" hit the home town of the famous Fab Four when a noisy crowd of fans descended on central Liverpool to catch a glimpse of teenaged singing sensation Justin Bieber.
In scenes reminiscent of the hysteria that met the Beatles wherever they went in the early 1960s, police were called in on Thursday to control a large crowd of girls who had gathered outside the Hard Days Night hotel where Bieber was staying.
The 17-year-old Canadian pop star was in Liverpoo... |
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Disney Channel teen star Demi Lovato on Monday issued her first message to fans since leaving rehab in January, thanking them for their support in what she called "the darkest time of my life."
The 18 year-old singer and actress abruptly pulled out of a concert tour in November to enter rehab for emotional and physical issues. Her spokeswoman at the time said the "Sonny with a Chance" star had fought eating disorders and had struggled with cutting in the past.
"Your support is what got m... |
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Rocker Adam Lambert has announced he'll perform a reworked version of Aftermath on American Idol next week.
“Hey guess what?!” Lambert tweeted his more than 900,000 followers. “I will be performing Aftermath on American Idol on Thursday, March 10.”
The 29-year-old American Idol season 8 runner-up earlier announced that he'll donate the proceeds from the song to The Trevor Project, the California-based non-profit that runs the nation's only 24-hour confidential suicide hotline for... |
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Harry Potter fans can catch a glimpse of how the movies were made starting in spring next year, when Hollywood studio Warner Bros. opens the doors of its Leavesden facilities where much of the franchise was filmed.
Called Warner Bros. Studio Tour London -- The Making of Harry Potter, the tour will feature original sets, costumes, props and effects used in all eight "Harry Potter" movies.
Among the exhibits on the three-hour tour is the set for the Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcr... |
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The second single from Britney Spears' upcoming album "Femme Fatale" was posted on the internet on Thursday, and the upbeat dance anthem "Till the World Ends" has some pundits predicting a club hit.
Tracks leaking online has long been a problem for musicians seeking to control the release of their records, although Spears quickly took to Twitter to promote the "formal premiere" of the track on Ryan Seacrest's radio show on Friday.
Her record label also brought forward the single's digita... |
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Beastly
This Friday, the new film Beastly plans to entice viewers with an all-star cast (Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Neil Patrick Harris) and engaging storyline about outer vs. inner beauty.
Beastly is told through 17 year-old Kyle (Pettyfer) a spoiled and popular student who foolishly falls for Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen), a goth classmate that some students speculate to be a witch.
Hell-bent on teaching Kyle a lesson for the way he treats others, Kendra puts a spell on the shallow t... |
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Lindsay Lohan was warned on Wednesday that any plea bargain on her jewelry theft charge would involve jail time, but the troubled actress seemed set on rejecting any deals and opting instead to risk a trial.
Lohan, 24, was given until March 10, to consider a plea deal offered by prosecutors on a charge that she walked out of a Los Angeles jewelry store in January without paying for a $2,500 necklace.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed at Wednesday's hearing -- the latest in a series of... |
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Justin Bieber notched his second No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday as a remix set tied in with his hit 3D concert movie claimed the highest tally for a top album since Christmas week.
The first full week of post-Grammy sales also boosted albums by key winners and/or performers such as Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire and Esperanza Spalding.
Bieber's "Never Say Never: The Remixes" sold 161,000 copies during the week ended February 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the first t... |
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A single lock of Justin Bieber's newly-shorn hair is being auctioned off for charity and bids had reached $6,700 on eBay early on Thursday.
The 16 year-old Canadian pop idol cut his trademark floppy hair earlier this week, and presented one of the locks to TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.
"I'm giving pieces of it to different people," Bieber told DeGeneres. "We're doing something special. We want you to donate it to whatever charity you want."
DeGeneres put the hair, placed in a ple... |
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Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" has become the fastest-selling single ever on Apple's iTunes store worldwide, racking up more than one million downloads in five days, Apple said on Friday.
Apple said the song -- a Madonna-influenced dance track that the 24 year-old singer performed after "hatching" from a giant egg at the Grammy Awards -- had hit the No. 1 spot on iTunes in 23 countries.
"Born This Way", the title track of a new album to be released in May, also went straight to the top of t... |
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A veteran music executive has lambasted the Grammy Awards as "a series of hypocrisies and contradictions," in a full-page New York Times advertisement that ran a week after last Sunday's annual ceremony.
Steve Stoute's open letter to Grammy organizers ripped the organization and its 12,000-odd voters for snubbing Eminem and Justin Bieber at this year's ceremony, as well as Eminem and Kanye West at past events.
"Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business a... |
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Rocker Adam Lambert says gay teens struggling with their sexuality must first love themselves.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada, Lambert said being an openly gay celebrity was an opportunity to help people.
When asked if stardom comes with a degree of social responsibility, Lambert answered: “It's an amazing opportunity to help people. It is more than the music. It's a lifestyle thing. And I think that there isn't a ton of visibility for gays and lesbians.”
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Darren Criss says his recurring role on Glee feels like his second job.
In a cover story for gay glossy Out, the 24-year-old rising musician talks candidly about his gay mentors growing up and how landing the role of gay student Blaine Anderson, the unlikely romantic interest of Chris Colfer's gay character Kurt Hummel, on the Fox musical-comedy Glee has complicated the rest of career.
“I feel like I'm sort of moonlighting on Glee,” he said. “The coolest part is not that it's a hit... |
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