Russell Crowe No. 2 with $14m, Jason Stratham cranks up just $6.5m By Keith Williams HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/19/09 — It was Zac to the 80′s for this weekend’s raid on well-worn, dusty concepts with Zac Efron’s 17 Again body-swapping an estimated $24 million at 3255 basketball courts. State of Play, the latest no-see [...]
Entries from April 2009
HSM’s Zac Efron not just 17 Again but No. 1 at Box Office
April 19th, 2009 · 8 Comments
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Susan Boyle Is Scotland’s Diamond In the Rough
April 18th, 2009 · 6 Comments
It just keeps getting better and better for “Britains Got Talent” superstar Boyle By Stacey Silberman HOLLYWOOD (Hollywood Today) 4/19/09 – Susan Boyle visits CNN’s “Larry King Live” with Piers Morgan, gets swept up into Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter race, is invited to sit with Oprah, and has now hit upwards of 50-million views on YouTube [...]
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ABC Family: My Fake Fiancé
April 18th, 2009 · 9 Comments
ABC Family movie premiering Sunday has Sabrina the Teenage Witch marrying Dancing with Stars finalist *** 3 Stars By Gabrielle Pantera HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/18/2009 – “The great part about the movie is it has a really easy logline,” says ABC Family My Fake Fiancé star and executive producer Melissa Joan Hart. “It’s two [...]
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McCartney Wows Coachella Festival
April 18th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Sir Paul plays stunning 29-song set By Jeffrey Mitchell, Music Editor INDIO, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/18/09 — In an almost three hour long set, Beatle veteran Paul McCartney took the Coachella valley music festival by storm last night. Wearing Beatle boots and a black suit, collar turned up, and stiff white shirt with suspenders Sir [...]
Tags: Music
Celebrity Sighting: ’17 Again’s’ Matthew Perry
April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
‘Friends’ star takes in Broadway show By Matthew B. Zeidman NEW YORK (Hollywood Today) 4/17/09 – Fresh off his appearance on ABC’s “The View” to promote “17 Again,” in which he plays an older version of ‘tween idol Zac Efron, “Friends” star Matthew Perry stuck around New York Friday to take in a Broadway show. [...]
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Books: The Possession of Mr. Cave
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Gripping tale of father who loses sanity in obsession to protect teenage daughter *** 3 Stars By Gabrielle Pantera HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/17/2008 – “I wanted to write a horror story, in the vein of Dr Jeckyll but it ended up being more about destructive family relationships for some reason,” says The Possession of [...]