CULTURE

Is the Jane Austen-zombie craze over? Lionsgate's adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's horror and drawing room comedy mashup, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has just lost its third director in a row.

One stuntman was killed and another one seriously injured in an explosion the set of action film The Expendables 2 in Bulgaria, the movie's production company said on Friday.

Cry Baby Lane, a Nickelodeon movie about conjoined twins who are sawed apart, was deemed so scary after its one airing in October 2000 that it was banned by the network, never to be seen again.

The Halloween will fall on next Monday. All kinds of funny, scary and sexy costumes have hit the market - have you got one for your own Halloween? People always dress up as supernatural and scary beings during Halloween. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, vampires, witches, and devils, while in recent years, they are also those of science fiction-inspired characters as aliens and superheroes.

Elizabethan scholars may dispute the version of events recounted in Anonymous, Roland Emmerich's exploration of who really wrote the plays and poems history attributes to William Shakespeare, but those of us in the cheap seats (with suitable temperament) will have to admire how the director of 2012 and Independence Day took a topic appropriate for a doctoral thesis and turned it into a melodramatic potboiler.

Ever hear of wearing your heart on your sleeve? A design project at the intersection between fashion and technology takes the idea to a new level with Intimacy 2.0, a dress constructed of e-foils that communicates the mood of the wearer.

Salma Hayek has been many things: movie star, director, producer, wife and mother. On Friday, she adds clawless and lawless to that list as the fierce, female heroine Kitty Softpaws in new animated film, Puss in Boots.

Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film My Tehran for Sale, which is banned in Iran.

With numbers from Game 6 of the World Series on Fox still pending, The Big Bang Theory holds the top ratings spot of Thursday night. NBC's comedy block suffered a series of losses, and Prime Suspect hit a series low, according to preliminary numbers.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim releases Nov. 11 with plenty of new game play mechanics and a focus on dragons.

Looks like former Sabrina, the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart might have to counsel up some legal assistance.

Michael Jackson likely injected himself with a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol after popping an extra eight sedatives without his doctor's knowledge, a Los Angeles court heard on Friday.

Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey have joined the cast of Freedom Films' upcoming Iraq war movie Thunder Run, Freedom's CEO Brian Presley announced Thursday.

Violating Rules Runs in Family: Lindsay Lohan's Father Denied Bail; Not to be Released Soon

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Steven Spielberg's 3-D take on Georges Remi's treasured comic books, is already a hit overseas with audiences. But what about the critics?

Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will co-star in Roger Donaldson's Cities.

From Blade Runner to Total Recall, Hollywood has made millions spinning the futuristic tales of Philip K. Dick into big screen entertainments.

Halloween, which is round the corner, is one of the most anticipated holiday in the U.S and some other parts of the world such as continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Japan and other parts of East Asia. Children and adults alike participate in this festival by trick-or-treating, carving jack-o'-lanterns, attending costume parties, playing pranks on each other, watching horror movies, etc.

This may sound weird but Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis has told media persons that her relationship with ex-boyfriend George Clooney had a paternal bond! Canalis reportedly said that George Clooney was like a father figure for her!

Halloween is certainly the best time of the year. It is fun dressing in ridiculous costumes, enjoying yourself in the weirdest and the craziest manners possible without ever revealing your identity.

It cannot be too much of a surprise to learn that singer Nicki Minaj's costume for Halloween this year is the most searched for online. Of course, how she managed to beat out fellow singer Lady Gaga is something of a mystery.

Pop singer Nicki Minaj's fight with her maid resulted in police officials being summoned to Minaj's residence. An exclusive TMZ report stated that two weeks ago, the maid picked up a photograph of the singer from the trash and asked for an autograph; the singer apparently got angry with her maid and fired her.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is all set to hit theaters Nov. 18. But, even before then, the popular characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen have been showing up as popular disguises this spooky Halloween weekend.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall led the tributes paid to late charity campaigner and broadcaster, Sir Jimmy Savile, who died at his home at the age of 84.

American singer and entertainer Lady Gaga is scheduled to leave India on Sunday. The 25-year-old singer, who created a major controversy and certainly hurt the sentiments of animal lovers by showing off her meat dress at the 2010 MTV VMA awards, has been requested by animal rights group PETA to pose in a dress made from llettuce leaves while she is in the country. Now we need to wait and watch if she accepts the proposal. The singer herself has, so far, made no comment on the matter.

Two new promos for Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, were released on Friday and both of them have already gone viral over the Internet.

Kim Kardashian posted her new poisonous ivy look on Twitter Saturday for her followers and credited Hollywood makeup artists and stylists Monica Rose, Joyce Bonelli, and Rob Scheppy for the Halloween look.

Puss in Boots may be the cat's meow in theaters, pulling in $9.6 million on Friday in box offices, however this movie adaptation ain't this cat's first rodeo. Here are some of the original movies and adaptations of Puss in Boots.

The last weekend of October is here and it's your last chance to throw together your Halloween party. From candy corn jello shots to bloody martinis, you can't go wrong this Halloween if you tweek your cocktails and drinks in a Halloween theme.