CULTURE

While Jessica Simpson seemed to have the longest pregnancy in history, another singer may have the shortest.

This year, nine out of 10 of the top-grossing movies in China came from overseas. Most of those, including Men in Black 3, Battleship and The Avengers, are Hollywood blockbusters, which are apparently ruling the Chinese box office at the expense of Chinese films.

The highly anticipated film version of Fifty Shades of Grey now has two notable producers attached.

Pioneering hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. is reuniting after 10 years, choosing Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest to host their reunion in November. The surviving members of the group, Rev. Run and Darryl D.M.C. McDaniels, will headline the Texas festival, which runs from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

We love that the Vampire Diaries cast is just as excited about the upcoming fourth season as us! Cast and crew of the hit CW series have been using Twitter to tease fans with pictures and season four spoilers. The latest Vampire Diaries news comes from Michael Trevino (Tyler Lockwood) and Executive Producer Julie Plec.

Legendary Filipino comedic actor Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr., better known as Dolphy and the Philippines' King of Comedy, died Tuesday after a four-year battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83.

A newly discovered Microsoft patent filed in 2012 seems to confirm some of the details leaked last month about the company?s next-generation gaming console. The Xbox ?720,? also known as Project Durango, may have separate CPUS: one that runs games and another that runs applications.

ABC's Once Upon a Time is ready to bring out the big guns in season two. Last week we learned that Sleeping Beauty and Mulan were cast, and now this week show creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis announced that three more fairy tale characters will be showing up in Storybrooke.

Vampire Diaries fans may have thought that they'd seen the last of Klaus (body wise of course) when Alaric staked him in the season three finale. According to Jeremy's Steven McQueen, Joseph Morgan will be reprising his role as Klaus in season four of the Vampire Diaries.

Attention all Hunger Games enthusiasts - - it's time to rejoice. Another nugget of excitement has exploded now that Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will be playing the role Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Gamemaker of the 75th Hunger Games. Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire confirmed on Monday that the Oscar winner has won the role as the Head Gamemaker.

A supposed cheap shot was taken at the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, when a magazine cover was photoshopped to look like her teeth were rotting out of her mouth.The New Republic morphed Middelton's chompers into the American stereotype of Britons for a special politics and arts issue regarding the future of Britain- - clearly, the magazine doesn't think much of their former motherland's future or their dentition.

In the event that you ever wanted to walk around with your ta-ta's hanging free, you're in luck today. July 9 is national No Bra Day, as per the national No Bra Day Facebook page created by Anastasia Doughnuts.

Anthony Sedlak, a renowned chef and television host on Food Network Canada, died Friday after collapsing from an undiagnosed medical condition, Sedlak's family announced Monday. He was 29.

Americans for the Arts, Actors' Equity Association and the New York Innovate Theatre Foundation (NYIT) are just three of the groups that have been urging artists and arts enthusiasts around the country to write their local representatives and voice their opposition to cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts.

After studying Scientology for five years, Katie Holmes has decided to return to the Catholic Church amidst her split from Scientologist husband Tom Cruise.

With his divorce from Katie Holmes putting Tom Cruise and his Scientologist beliefs back in the spotlight, a review of the actor's greatest YouTube hits shows his growing reputation for eccentricity, at best.

It is difficult to reconcile the accusations that TomKat was merely a contractual agreement with the way the split has played out so far -- with Cruise convincingly playing the role of the jilted husband and Holmes the long-suffering wife who can't get away from him fast enough. On the other hand, the hasty settlement is more suggestive of a premeditated ending than a knock-down, drag-out fight would have been.

After an exhaustive Batman trilogy, writer/director Christopher Nolan believes he has said all he can say about the Caped Crusader.

When the Olympic Games began in ancient Greece around 776 BC, London didn't exist. More than two millennia later, the city of nearly 8 million people is ready to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal evidently has not hurt Penn State's fundraising as the school said alumni helped raise more than $208 million this year -- the second-highest amount ever.

Disney may be ready to cast another spell with a sequel to cult classic Hocus Pocus. EntertainmentWise.com is reporting that Disney is allegedly plotting a sequel to the 1993 film.

(Reuters) - The news: Americans love to publicly debate it, British people hardly ever pay for it online and Germans prefer to get theirs through more traditional means, according to a survey about media consumption released on Monday.

Can you sue the weatherman if he gets his forecast wrong? That?s the plan Belgian tourism officials have in mind.

Did he steal Eric Clapton?s girl?

Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her The View co-hosts were very hands-on with Mob Wives star Angela Big Ang Raiola. On Thursday, July 9, Big Ang appeared on The View and while speaking about her famous curves, instructed Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd to feel her chest area.

Hallelujah, it?s almost over.

At the end of every episode of HBO's True Blood, you can't but think That was crazy. Next week's episode, Hopeless, looks like it will be adding onto the insanity.

Chinese authorities hope that a new $4.7 billion theme park will promote ethnic harmony and attract an additional 5 million tourists each year to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Chinese name for Central Tibet.

As Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise embark on settlement talks prior to their divorce court hearing next week, a new report has emerged that Holmes will start shooting her next film, where she plays the role of a single mother, Fox News reported.