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JK Rowling wins privacy for children despite 'legitimate interest'
London - Harry Potter author JK Rowling Wednesday won a legal battle to protect her children from media intrusion even though she admitted that the worldwide success of her books prompted a measure of legitimate media and public interest. Rowling, 4...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ UK (Entertainment) ]

Studios suspend talks with Hollywood actors
Los Angeles - Hollywood studios broke off talks with the Screen Actors Guild, giving rise to concerns that a second strike could hit Hollywood in less than a year. The talks on a new contract to replace the one with the guild that expires at the end ...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ US (Entertainment) ]

New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords flying high - Feature
Wellington - New Zealand is mainly known around the world for butter and cheese, lamb and kiwi fruit and for being the country that produced Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. It is not exactly famous for ...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ Entertainment ]

Judge grants Spears more time with children
Los Angeles - A family court on Tuesday granted Britney Spears more visits with her children, after a lawyer for her ex- husband Kevin Federline cited progress in her behaviour since her father was granted conservatorship of her affairs two months ag...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ US (Entertainment) ]

Dubai to get Legoland theme park - first in Gulf region
London - Merlin Entertainments Group, the world's second largest operator of visitor attractions, announced plans Tuesday to build a Legoland theme park in Dubai, its first outside the US and Europe. London-based Merlin Entertainments, which counts L...

[Posted on : 2008-05-06 ] Category : [ UK (Entertainment) ]

Pete Doherty out of prison after serving a month over drugs
London - Troubled British rock singer Pete Doherty was freed from prison in London Tuesday after serving just 29 days of a 14-week sentence for breaching his probation in connection with drugs offences. The 29-year-old Babyshambles frontman was sente...

[Posted on : 2008-05-06 ] Category : [ UK (Entertainment) ]

Cannes film festival gingerly rekindles spirit of May '68 - Feature
Paris - Among the films being screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, there is one 40-year-old movie that will forever be associated with the most tumultuous chapter in the festival's history. The forced cancellation of Peppermint Frappe, by Spani...

[Posted on : 2008-05-06 ] Category : [ Entertainment ]

Up for Cannes award, but Turkish industry seeks stability - Feature
Ankara - The nomination of the Turkish film Uc Maymun (Three Monkeys) for Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or was greeted with glee by the Turkish film media, but at the same time shows the huge gulf between auteurs and those in the film industry seeking...

[Posted on : 2008-05-06 ] Category : [ Entertainment ]

Italian cinema returns to Cannes - Feature
Rome - When Italy failed to make the cut at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, with no movies from the country chosen to compete for a prize, Quentin Tarantino was not surprised. Recent (Italian) films I have seen are all the same. They talk about boys gr...

[Posted on : 2008-05-06 ] Category : [ Entertainment ]

All eyes on future profits as Russia marks 100 years of film - Feature
Moscow - As Russia celebrates a century of filmmaking, its greatest directors and classics known by heart to all generations are unheard of in the West. But if Russian's film history was passed over, Western studios haven't failed to take note of the...

[Posted on : 2008-05-06 ] Category : [ Entertainment ]

 



 

 


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