William Shakespeare's Othello has worked perfectly well onstage for more than 400 years, so it's a puzzlement as to why director Peter Sellars felt such the need to mess with it in his new production starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Lady Gaga said she will be performing a new single of her new album The Fame: Monster when she makes her appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live on October 3.
Michael Jackson's fans are ready to rock with him one last time, as next month's This Is It movie about the late pop star breaks records for advance ticket sales, the studio behind the film said on Monday.
The woman who inspired the iconic Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has died, a charity said Monday.
Three decades after defying the odds and persuading Carlos Santana to try out his hand-built guitar, Paul Reed Smith's quest for perfect tone is still reeling in enthusiasts from all over the world.
Tickets for Michael Jackson's This is It movie began selling on Sunday and can be purchased at any major movie ticketing Web site as well as at the flick's Web site www.thisisit-movie.com.
Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland over a U.S. charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition to the United States, his lawyer said on Monday.
The mobile music landscape is very much a study in good news, bad news.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Vincent D'Onofrio will leave the series at the beginning of the show's upcoming ninth season, USA Network said.
Amid the din of all the other music-based games being released this fall comes a unique twist on the convergence between music and video games: Brutal Legend.
Hoping to catch lightning in a bottle (or the ghost in the machine), Paramount Pictures has been treading carefully with its release of Paranormal Activity, which opened in 12 theaters on Friday.
The family cartoon Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs led the North American box office for a second weekend on Sunday while another slew of newcomers bombed amid crippling reviews and moviegoer apathy.
Joe Dante returns to coming-of-age horror with the 3D film The Hole, which is essentially a psychological thriller imparting a lesson.
Falling closer in tone to Shaun of the Dead than 28 Days Later or the George Romero movies, Zombieland has its tongue planted firmly in its rancid cheek while still delivering the visceral goodies.
NBC's primetime lineup is already laden with cop and hospital dramas, so it hardly seems necessary to add yet another to the schedule. And initially, the new medical series Trauma seems to be the same old tune, different verse.
TV reality star Khloe Kardashian, 25, and Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom, 29 got married on Sunday in a mansion in Beverly Hills, according to reports from People, US Weekly, the Los Angeles Times.
From Fred Dryer to Merlin Olsen, the small screen always has loved former pro football players. So it's no surprise that charismatic, gap-toothed former New York Giants star Michael Strahan is looking to score with a sitcom vehicle. What is surprising, though, is just how watchable and amusing Brothers is, even if it doesn't break new ground.
ABC has picked up Friends With Benefits, a single-camera project that will be written by (500) Days of Summer screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber.
Jerry Bruckheimer is expanding his presence at ABC with a new crime procedural.
fter a five-year run, Sean Diddy Combs confirmed to Billboard that he is exiting his exclusive deal with Warner Music Group/Atlantic Records at the end of September.
Miranda Lambert's set opens by proclamation: A warning siren roars from the loudspeakers as the house lights fall. A hip-hop track booms, its billowing bass and percussive clicks rattling the 20,000 or so fans who fill the Raleigh, North Carolina, Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion for Kenny Chesney's annual tour.
In the wee hours of the morning on Monday, September 14, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne was signing autographs after his band performed at upstate New York's All Tomorrow's Parties festival when a burly young fan approached him with a length of industrial strap. Coyne recognized it as one of his own, used for tying down equipment like the large cannons that shoot confetti into the crowd through...
A consummate Renaissance woman, Rosanne Cash has eschewed genre conventions throughout her long career. Of course, she had an excellent role model, being the eldest daughter of the late Johnny Cash. She scored a string of country hits in the '80s and continues to record, as well as write books and contribute fiction and essays to such publications as the New York Times and Rolling Stone.
Like all animals, Wolfmother faced two choices: evolve or die.
ARTIST: TOBY KEITH
ALBUM: AMERICAN RIDE
To Gloria Gaynor, it seems like only yesterday that she recorded the iconic disco/pop hit I Will Survive. Now she's celebrating the anthem's 30th anniversary.
A riveting Argentine thriller spiked with witty dialogue and poignant love stories, The Secret in Their Eyes interweaves the personal lives of a team of state prosecutors with a manhunt spanning 25 years. Director Juan Jose Campanella (Same Love, Same Rain, Son of the Bride) is one of Argentina's most communicative storytellers, and this entry qualifies as a high point in his career.
The family cartoon Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs led the North American box office for a second weekend on Sunday while another slew of newcomers bombed amid crippling reviews and moviegoer apathy.
She hit the silver screen as a sultry temptress in Et Dieu crea la femme (And God created woman) in 1956, instantly making Brigitte Bardot the face that symbolized France -- and French women.
Mos Def is in a Tokyo hotel room, wearing a bathrobe and smoking a cigarette. He's holding forth on the differences between Japanese and American culture, revealing how impressed he is by the intensity of the local hip-hop fans who have been filling clubs for a week to see him perform.
