Archive: June 2010 (91-100 of 168)

Jun 16 2010 06:00 AM ET

Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage will star in Joel Schumacher's 'Trespass'

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Categories: Movies

Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage will play a married couple taken hostage in Trespass, an action-adventure movie from Nu Image/Millenium Films. Joel Schumacher will direct. Cage also collaborated with Nu Image/Millenium Films on the recently wrapped Drive Angry, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and The Wicker Man. According to Variety, production on Trespass will begin this August in Louisiana.

Jun 15 2010 06:17 PM ET

Laurie David denies Al Gore affair allegations

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People reports that an agent for Laurie David has denied a tabloid report claiming that Al Gore’s marriage broke up because of the producer and former wife to Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Larry David. “This report is completely, patently false,” David’s agent told People. “I have no idea where it started from or why, but it is absolutely, positively, and patently untrue.” Al and Tipper Gore announced their separation June 1.

Jun 15 2010 02:22 PM ET

'American Idol': House band files suit against the show

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Categories: Lawsuits

As was first reported in the New York Post yesterday, the musicians that comprise the band on American Idol are suing the show’s producers. The suit was filed on Friday in Los Angeles by the American Federation of Musicians, and asks for at least $500,000 in damages, alleging that the show failed to adhere to aspects of the musicians’ contracts by not paying them for the resale of video and audio of their Idol performances.

If the suit is successful, the final payout is likely to be even higher than that half-million, the plaintiffs contend. “It surely will be considerably more,” Jeff Freund, the general counsel for the AFM, told EW, “once discovery is conducted and once we’re able to get a complete accounting of all of the ways in which the product has been exploited and not paid for.” The payment under contention is for producers’ use of songs in formats that extend beyond the show and its soundtrack, such as iTunes sales of audio and video from Idol‘s weekly telecasts.

“American Idol is a different kind of show in a sense that it is so incredibly music-driven and there are exploitable pieces of work from the show that have a market value,” says Freund. “So there are individual songs that obviously capture people’s attention, ringtones that can be built off of the songs, the equivalent of music videos of the performances…this is a pretty music-intense show and pretty extreme conduct on the part of the producers.”

Spokespeople for Idol and its production company Fremantle Media had no comment on the suit. –Additional reporting by Michael Slezak

Jun 15 2010 02:18 PM ET

Tiffani Thiessen delivers baby girl

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Categories: Celebrity Babies!

White Collar actress Tiffani Thiessen has given birth to a baby girl, Harper Renn Smith. Harper, Thiessen’s first child with husband Brady Smith, was born Tuesday in Los Angeles, People reports.

Jun 15 2010 12:51 PM ET

Gary Coleman's will demanded 15 days of life support

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Categories: In Memoriam, Lawsuits

Court documents revealed that Gary Coleman, who died last month in Provo, Utah after suffering a brain hemorrhage, had stated in his will that he be kept on life support for 15 days unless he was in a reversible coma, CNN reports. The actor’s ex-wife, Shannon Price, however, took Coleman off life support one day after his coma. A spokesman for the Utah Medical Association said that family members’ decisions have more weight than what’s written in a will, explaining that living wills are involved only when a patient is already going to die. Coleman’s remains are being kept in a Utah mortuary, awaiting a directive from a state district judge.

Jun 15 2010 12:01 PM ET

Prince to get BET lifetime achievement award

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Prince will receive a lifetime achievement award later this month during the BET Awards. The Associated Press reports that BET plans to celebrate the singer’s “unique style” with a tribute dedicated to Prince. The show will air June 27.

Jun 15 2010 11:22 AM ET

Charlie Sheen's car driven off cliff for second time

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A Mercedes Benz belonging to actor Charlie Sheen was found off a cliff for the second time in the past five months, the Associated Press reports. The vehicle was discovered shortly after authorities in Los Angeles received a report Tuesday of a car driving over a cliff on Mulholland Drive. The car was indeed registered in Sheen’s name, but the actor was not in the car. This is the second time an event like this has occurred — Sheen’s car was stolen in February and driven off a cliff.

Jun 15 2010 12:38 AM ET

Mother of rescued teenage sailor says no plans for reality show about family

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Categories: TV Biz

Plans for a reality show about the family of a California teenager who was rescued during an around-the-world solo sailing voyage were nixed before 16-year-old Abby Sunderland’s journey began, Abby’s mother told the AP on Monday.  Marianne Sunderland of Thousand Oaks, Calif., noted that the family will not exploit their recent foray into the headlines. “There is no reality TV show, there’s no documentary that’s going to be made, there’s no book deal,” Sunderland said in an interview with the AP. Marianne also insisted that a New York Post report on Monday, in which Abby’s father, Laurence, said that he had inked a deal for a reality show in the weeks after his daughter commenced her sailing expedition in January, was inaccurate. Marianne did say that the Sunderlands agreed to allow the Santa Monica-based production company Magnetic Entertainment to shop a reality show about them (Abby’s older brother, Zac, held the record as the youngest person to sail around the globe by himself), but Magnetic Entertainment never found a home for the proposed series, and the family reacquired the story rights.

Jun 14 2010 10:21 PM ET

Michael Jackson video game to be released this holiday season

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Categories: Music, Tech

A Michael Jackson video game that allows users to emulate the singer’s iconic dance moves will be released in time for the holiday season, Ubisoft announced today at E3. The still-untitled game will ship for multiple gaming platforms, including the Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3, and Microsoft Xbox 360. For its controls, the game reportedly takes advantage of each platform’s motion-control systems, like Microsoft’s newly announced motion-detecting camera system Kinect and Sony’s Wii-like Move.

Jun 14 2010 09:11 PM ET

Gary Coleman's remains cannot be cremated for another 48 hours, says judge

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Categories: In Memoriam, Lawsuits, Television

A judge in Utah ruled today that the remains of Gary Coleman can’t be cremated before Wednesday afternoon, reports the AP. The order would give the Diff’rent Strokes actor’s ex-girlfriend/manager enough time to travel to the state from Oregon to view his body. An independent attorney was appointed to oversee Coleman’s estate and cremation, as both Coleman’s ex-wife, Shannon Price, and his former girlfriend, Anna Gray, are currently laying claim to being the administrator of the estate. (Gray was named by Coleman in a 2005 will; Price in a 2007 handwritten note). Meanwhile, TMZ has acquired legal documents bearing Coleman’s signature that Price filed today; under the section titled “Instructions for Health Care,” Coleman checked a “Choice to Prolong Life” box that reads, “I want my life to be prolonged as long as possible within the limits of generally accepted health care standards.” Price maintains in the documents that she was “forced” to sign off on removing the 42-year-old Coleman from life support last month after he suffered an intracranial hemorrhage.

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