ENTERTAINMENT

On a night with little original programming, NBC's Saturday Night Live special SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas and a repeat of CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles were the top-rated shows, while NBC took an overall ratings win for the night, according to preliminary numbers.

You better watch out -- because Santa Claus isn't always such a jolly old elf after all. In fact, sometimes he can be a real creep. At least in the movies.

The Duchess visited a London homeless shelter on Wednesday.

Thanks to monster hits like The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 and art-house breakouts such as The Artist, many of the major players in the independent film market racked up an impressive year despite the industry-wide box office decline.

TLC announced at the end of this week's Next Great Baker episode that contestant and Iraq War veteran Sgt. Wesley Durden had died -- not mentioning that it was reportedly of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Kate Middleton, like Princess Diana, is beautiful, exudes confidence, class and has an amazing taste in fashion. Therefore, a comparison between the two is inevitable.

Steven Spielberg is among the most prolific film directors ever, and as if to prove it, he has two movies in theaters this holiday week during what is one of the biggest box office periods of the year.

Lovelace also stars Hank Azaria, Peter Sarsgaard and Amanda Seyfried.

Batman star Christian Bale should feel embarrassed for trying to visit a prominent Chinese human rights activist detained in his home in eastern Shandong Province while he promoted his latest film, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

R. Kelly is ready to continue his widely-known, and widely-criticized, Trapped in the Closet series. But the singer doesn't just have one new episode up his sleeve, but rather 32 new chapters ready to be filmed. Here is a round up of chapters of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos.

Ryan Gosling and rumored girlfriend Eva Mendes cozy up for the new hilarious addition to Funny or Die's Drunk History series for Drunk History Christmas.

The first of the two-part prequel opens in theaters Dec. 14, 2012.

RadarOnline reported via a Star magazine exclusive that the Kardashians' products are made in sweatshops with the use of child labor.

While reports of the highly publicized divorce of Kim Kardashian begin to fizzle, the spotlight is on Reggie Bush after he finally made a public statement about his ex-girlfriend's divorce after 72 days of marriage and failed to mention his new girlfriend.

Army Sgt. Wesley Durden Jr., a former contestant on TLC's reality show Next Great Baker, was shown voted off the show on Monday night's episode. However, Durden, a Jacksonville native, completed suicide back in October after production ended, according to reports.

The Courage Campaign wants reality TV star Kim Kardashian to endorse the Millionaires Tax of 2012, a statewide ballot initiative that seeks to levy a higher tax rate on Californians who make more than $1 million a year. Their new ad pointedly explains that Kardashian made $12 million in 2010, significantly more than the average Californian whose income was $47,000.

Kendall Jenner, 16, the younger sister of American reality television star Kim Kardashian, is not a fan of big parties. She was reportedly upset on Monday night's special episode of Keeping up with the Kardashian and snapped back at her mother, Kris Jenner, who tried to relocate her birthday party to the Bahamas.

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady will solidify their fairytale lifestyle when the supermodel and her quarterback hubby move into their $20 million Los Angeles dream home.

The Academy Award statuette, given to famed American film director-actor, Orson Welles, for his 1941 classic Citizen Kane, has fetched $861,542 at a Los Angeles auction held on Dec. 20.

It's been eight years since epic fantasy lovers were able to see a 'Lord of the Rings' film. Now, fans will finally be able to go back to Middle Earth with the trailer for Peter Jackson's upcoming film, 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,' the first of a two-part prequel to the LOTR film trilogy.

After almost 10 years since the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film was seen in theaters, middle earth is getting much closer, as the first trailer The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel to the trilogy, was revealed on Tuesday.

Kate Middleton or, if one was to be official - Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge - exuded elegance and style, as she attended a military awards ceremony, The Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards at the Imperial War Museum in central London, on Monday. The resemblance to Princess Diana was, in many ways, striking.

Directed by Peter Jackson, who previously brought Oscar fame to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit is a prequel to that trilogy. Many of the same actors from Lord of the Rings appear in The Hobbit.

An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his semen that he advertises over the Internet.

After a miserable few weeks at the box office, Hollywood is counting on a flurry of big movies hitting theaters starting Tuesday to reinvigorate its business.

Netflix Instant can't wash your car. An IMAX sound system can't pilot an aircraft carrier. And motion-capture animation can't make non-creepy-looking human characters. All that may change one day, but the technology hasn't yet caught up.

Jay Mohr has landed a role in Burt Wonderstone, New Line's comedy starring Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi and James Gandolfini, TheWrap has learned.

It's another day, another lawsuit for the Jersey Shore crew.

The London Film Critics Circle, which this year moved its awards a few weeks earlier so as not to become an awards-season afterthought, has given Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive the most nominations for its 32nd annual Film Awards.