You’ve never seen Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones quite like this. As old marrieds facing “intensive” couples counseling over their comatose sexual relationship, two of America’s finest screen actors are by turns silly, befuddled, awkward and confused. And “Hope Springs,” the new comedy from the director of “The Devil Wears Prada” and scripted by a “Game of Thrones” writer, is all the more amu...

A woman who resembles Kristen Stewart has taken to the Internet to explain why the Hollywood actress cheated on beau Robert Pattinson. Laura McDonald posted a 4 1/2-minute video of herself impersonating Stewart Saturday, the New York Daily News reported. As of Tuesday afternoon, it had gotten more than 700,000 hits. “Hi Rob, it‘s me, KStew,” she says in the video. “I want to explain what I did...

The dancers, however, do not say much onscreen: What they share is mostly shown through their dancing of Bausch’s distinctively original choreography. The 3-D effect offers an immersive artistic experience, taking the audience right into the visually striking dance movements. The technology brings depth and color while the dancers use their bodies to express the inexpressible. Bausch died sudden...

SYDNEY (AFP) ― Australia was once a regular destination for top Hollywood producers making big-budget blockbusters until it was priced out by its soaring currency ― but a clawed mutant could herald a revival. X-Men comics spin-off “The Wolverine” is being shot in Sydney, the home town of star Hugh Jackman, courtesy of a Aus$12.8 million (US$13.4 million) government subsidy. Some four years sinc...

Movie screenings to feature lives of ethnic Koreans in Japan Last year, Japanese-Korean director Yang Yong-hi’s personal documentary “Goodbye Pyongyang,” a portrait of her own family, drew attention in Seoul for its complex and painful expose of ethnic Koreans living in Japan. Seoulites will be given a chance to view more films about ethnic Koreans living in Japan this summer and learn about th...

The National Enquirer says it is standing by a report which claims Macaulay Culkin is addicted to heroin, despite the U.S. actor's insistence he is not. The former child star's representative told E! News last week the story is "not only categorically without merit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious." "We beseech the responsible media to consider the source and its reputatio...

DreamWorks Animation and Chinese partners announced plans Tuesday to co-produce the next “Kung Fu Panda” movie and develop an entertainment district in Shanghai, expanding Hollywood’s fast-growing ties to China. Hollywood studios have announced a flurry of deals with local partners to gain access to Chinese financing and a government-controlled film market that is growing strongly at a time of w...

Rick Ross “God Forgives, I Don’t” (Maybach Music Group/Def Jam) Throughout his career, Rick Ross has declared himself a “bawse.” On his latest album, “God Forgives, I Don’t,” the Miami rapper continues to live up to his catchphrase, proving he’s one of the top bosses not just in hip-hop, but in music period. His fifth solo album in six years is loaded with undeniable quality tunes, making his...

Gloriana “A Thousand Miles Left Behind” (Emblem/Reprise/Warner Bros.) Nashville trio Gloriana, rebounding from the departure of fourth member Cheyenne Kimball, manage to make their sparkling musical arrangements and sweet harmonies come across more engagingly than ever on their second album, “A Thousand Miles Left Behind.” Still working an acoustic-based string sound made contemporary through...

Kids, even the wimpy ones, grow up so fast. It’s hard to finish a film franchise with them before they’re shaving, dating and turning up in the tabloids. Zachary Gordon, the fresh-faced lad who landed the coveted “Wimpy Kid” role in the adaptations of Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies, has had a growth spurt. His Greg Heffley is taller than his portly pal, Rowley (Robert Capron), almos...

Actor Ha Jung-woo and actress Gong Hyo-jin, who together starred in last year’s box office hit “Love Fiction,” will once again co-star in an upcoming road trip film, “577 Project.” The film is a portrayal of Ha and Gong’s real-life walking trip from Seoul to Haenam, South Jeolla Province, which took them 20 days in total. Ha had promised to walk cross-country at the 46th Paeksang Arts Awards in...

Another iconic look: In May 1962, just a few months before her death, Monroe famously sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden. She wore a floor-length sheath of thin fabric - with nothing underneath - covered with rhinestones and fitting like a glove. The so-called “JFK Dress” sold for over $1.2 million at auction, and the “subway dress” sold for $5.6 million ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The first thing you notice when you see Marilyn Monroe’s full-length gloves in the storeroom of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is how small her hands were. “They’re one of a number of pairs she had,” says curator Dwight Bowers, gently lifting them out of the beige steel cabinet they share with Christopher Reeves’ Superman costume and the 10-gallon hat that...