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Oscar organizers on Wednesday said a record 20 animated films have been submitted for Academy Awards, from studio hits like Up and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to independently made Mary and Max.

Good news for fans of Michael Jackson, the Beatles and other veteran artists.

Taylor Swift won Entertainer of the Year and three more awards Wednesday night at the CMAs including album of the year.

Taylor Swift won two awards Wednesday night at the CMAs including album of the year. The night also featured jokes about the infamous interruption of rapper Kanye West of Taylor Swift at the VMAs last September.

Singer Celine Dion is not pregnant, despite reports to the contrary from earlier this year, her representatives said on Wednesday.

Venerable English stage actor Ian McKellen has played all the great parts from Hamlet to Richard III, but in the twilight of his career, he is finding new roles in mainstream film and TV -- and as a gay icon.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler joined Joe Perry on stage in New York to set the record straight about the future of the feuding rock group.

The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps.

Actress Lindsay Lohan was dating actor Heath Ledger when he died in 2008, according to an audio tape published Thursday by Radar Online.com.

Simon Cowell, the acerbic American Idol judge, creator of America's Got Talent an record producer, is the top earning man on prime-time U.S. television with an estimated haul of $75 million, Forbes.com said on Tuesday.

Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood was divorced by his wife Jo on Wednesday on the grounds of his admitted adultery.

A judge made Michael Jackson's longtime attorney and a music executive the executors of his estate on Tuesday, giving them broad powers to run the late pop star's affairs despite objections from his father.

Twilight shone at the nominations for the People's Choice Awards on Tuesday, with its three stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner each in the running for a trophy at the event celebrating the most popular stars of film, TV and music.

The legal fight over rights to comic legend Dick Tracy is back on.

George Lopez's new late-night talk show drew 3.2 million viewers during its cross-network premiere on TNT, TBS and TruTv.

TBS made TV history on Monday with the premiere of Lopez Tonight, a late-night talkfest with a Chicano host. And just in case you didn't realize it, George Lopez hit you over the head with that information roughly every 90 seconds.

A Massachusetts man is pursuing a $400 billion lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Time Warner and Major League Baseball, among others, against all odds.

Donald Trump and Juma Entertainment are partnering for a TV reality dating show starring TV diva Omarosa on the TV One network, the Associated Press reported.

When an expanded list of 10 movies competes next year for the best picture Oscar, director Pete Docter hopes his Up will become the first animated film since 1991's Beauty and the Beast to vie for Hollywood's most coveted honor.

Aerosmith's front man Steven Tyler quit but apparently has not notified the band, according to a report.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reportedly purchased a $15 million house in New York City's Greenwich Village, according to several blogs.

Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu has brought his popular character Professor Munakata to London's British Museum, featuring some of the collection's most famous treasures in his drawings

Suppose they lifted the curtain on Family Guy and showed Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein pulling the levers behind the scenes. The results might look a lot like Family Guy: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show, which aired on Fox Sunday night, made up of equal parts humor, variety and promotion.

ABC has opted not to order additional episodes of Eastwick, its rookie supernatural comedy-drama starring Rebecca Romijn.

A judge on Monday granted SexyBack singer Justin Timberlake a restraining order against a woman the pop star said he has come to fear, after she snuck into his home.

Madonna, who has promoted school building in the African country Malawi, is now turning her star power onto projects to improve the notorious slums of Rio de Janeiro.

Sgt. Rock, a long-gestating movie project based on the DC Comics World War II hero, is moving forward -- by going into the future.

Fox Searchlight is going to the ballet.

Fox is feeling apocalyptic. The studio has bought an untitled pitch about the end of the world, with Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman in talks to direct and produce.