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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Uma Thurman, star of movies such as "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction," has given birth to her third child, a girl, the actress' manager confirmed on Monday. "Mom and baby are doing well!" Jason Weinberg, Thurman's manager, said in a statement. Weinberg did not reveal any other details, but celebrity …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His rants under control and his life seemingly on the mend, "Anger Management" actor Charlie Sheen has pledged $1 million to the USO, a U.S. military support organization, and the donation could go higher if his new TV show becomes a hit. The money, at least 1 percent of the profits he makes on the …

(Reuters) - Stage and film actress Celeste Holm, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1947 movie "Gentleman's Agreement," has died at home in New York City, age 95, according to reports citing her niece. Niece Amy Phillips told television news network CNN Holm had been admitted to a New York City hospital last week, but …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Ice Age: Continental Drift," the fourth film in the animated series featuring a woolly mammoth and his prehistoric friends, trampled "The Amazing Spider-Man" and took the top spot at U.S. and Canadian box offices on Sunday with $46 million. Featuring the voice of comedian Ray Romano as the warm-hearted …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film star Sylvester Stallone pleaded on Monday for the public to leave his son's "memory and soul" in peace amid a tabloid media frenzy over the aspiring actor and filmmaker's death at age 36. Sage Stallone was found dead on Friday in his home in Hollywood. Los Angeles County Coroner's examiners …

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and their fellow aging action heroes are back in fighting form for new movie "The Expendables 2," thrilling crowds at the giant Comic-Con pop culture event with footage from the upcoming film. The new movie, a sequel to 2010's surprise hit about a group of …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Quentin Tarantino unlocked the secrets of his upcoming action flick "Django Unchained" at Comic-Con on Saturday with explosive clips of the slave revenge movie, which takes place in the pre-Civil War U.S. South. The director entered the pop culture convention's main hall in his trademark …

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Director Peter Jackson took loyal fans at Comic-Con on a journey back to Middle Earth on Saturday with footage of his upcoming film fantasy "The Hobbit," calling the new epic "made by fans, for fans." Many die-hard loyalists from Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" series waited overnight at the giant pop …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Dark Knight rises in movie theaters this Friday on the wings of huge anticipation for the final film of director Christopher Nolan's "Batman" trilogy, but there is one man who remains calm in the face of the media hype, Batman actor Christian Bale. Bale slips into the bat costume of Gotham City's …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran Hollywood executive Richard D. Zanuck, the prolific producer behind the blockbuster shark thriller "Jaws," the best-picture Oscar-winner "Driving Miss Daisy" and a string of Tim Burton fantasies, died on Friday of a heart attack at age 77. Zanuck, son of famed 20th Century Fox chieftain Darryl …

(Reuters) - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc, the studio behind the "Shrek" franchise and this summer's "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," is in talks with Sony Pictures Entertainment about distributing its films, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Under a contract that expires next year, DreamWorks …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Green Mile" actor Michael Clarke Duncan has been hospitalized in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for his reality TV star girlfriend said on Friday. Priscilla Clarke, a representative for "The Apprentice" star Omarosa Stallworth, did not provide any further details on why Duncan was taken to the hospital. …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - John Hughes never made a movie about zombies, but the directors of "ParaNorman" told a Comic-Con audience on Friday that those two disparate genres served as the inspiration for Focus Features' new stop-motion animated film. The film chronicles a kid, voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee, who can speak …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Universal has given the greenlight to "The World's End," the final installment in an unofficial triology of dark British comedies, the company announced Friday as it began circulating a new teaser poster. The latest film directed by Edgar Wright and co-written by star Simon Pegg follows "Shaun of …

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and their fellow aging action heroes are back in fighting form for new movie "The Expendables 2," thrilling crowds at the giant Comic-Con pop culture event with footage from the upcoming film. The new movie, a sequel to 2010's surprise hit about a group of …

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The stars of "Twilight" gathered for the final time at the Comic-Con pop culture convention on Thursday, laughing and joking with fans as they reflected on a "bittersweet" end to the film franchise that catapulted them to fame. The "Twilight" films - five in all based on a series of young adult novels …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Daniel Radcliffe is about to plunge into the dark side again. Fresh off his horror hit "The Woman in Black," Radcliffe will once again do his best to avoid typecasting by playing a suspected murderer and rapist in the movie, "Horns." Radcliffe signed onto the project Friday, the film's co-producers …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "True Blood's" Ryan Kwanten will star in Serendipity Point Films' Canadian independent production "Sex and Sunsets," producer Robert Lantos said Friday morning. The film, directed by Jeremiah Chechick ("Benny and Joon") and written by Megan Martin, is based on the eponymous novel by Tim Sandlin. …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Many of America's top critics are giving "Ice Age: Continental Drift" a frosty reception. The fourth film in Fox's lucrative Pleistocene era animated franchise debuted Friday, and like the previous installments focuses on the misadventures of a group of wooly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In new TV series "Political Animals," Secretary of State Elaine Barrish Hammond, who has just lost a presidential bid, laments that the country just doesn't adore her as much as her womanizing husband and former President. If that sounds like current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, actress …

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - Barry Diller, the consummate Hollywood dealmaker who revamped the TV business in the 1980s, is back in the media spotlight after a federal judge threw out an injunction against Aereo, the online TV service he backs. Broadcasters including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox had sought to stop Aereo from …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood movie producer Richard D. Zanuck, whose films include Oscar winner "Driving Miss Daisy," died on Friday of a heart attack, his spokesman said in a statement. He was 77. "Richard D. Zanuck, one of the film industry's most progressive and distinguished leaders died today (Friday, July 13th) …

LONDON (Reuters) - Eliza Doolittle will screech in Cockney and sing posh as the quintessential London musical "My Fair Lady", a product of the Broadway stage, makes its BBC Proms debut on Saturday in a lavish production that owes a debt to Hollywood. A starry cast including West End regulars Annalene Beechey as Eliza, Anthony …