ENTERTAINMENT

Zach Galifianakis, a co-star of the summer smash The Hangover, is in negotiations to join Emma Roberts in It's Kind of a Funny Story, a coming-of-age comedy-drama from the duo behind Half Nelson.

David Henrie of the Emmy-winning Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place will pair with Platinum Studios to develop its comic book series, The Weapon, into a feature film he'd star in.

Bond girl Eva Green turns up at a British girls boarding school as a free-spirited teacher who isn't all she's cracked up to be in the erotically-laced period drama, Cracks.

Some people seem to have all the luck. Include in that group actress, producer and now director, Drew Barrymore.

British actress Kate Winslet lead the pack of People magazine's 10 best-dressed women of 2009, with U.S. first lady Michelle Obama chosen for best accessible glamour.

Rap star Kanye West personally apologized on Tuesday to country teen star Taylor Swift after a two-day furor over his hijacking of an awards speech that even drew an off-the-cuff comment from PresidentBarack Obama.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday the agency will review the incident involving a fleeting glimpse of pop singer Janet Jackson's breast during the 2004 American football championship.

Jay Leno's closely watched new prime-time TV show drew a bumper audience of nearly 18 million viewers, cheering executives at struggling NBC on Tuesday but leaving TV critics underwhelmed.

Canadian singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado has embraced her Latin roots -- and the Latino music market -- with the release of her first Spanish language album, Mi Plan.

His previous pet TV project, Arrested Development, became one of the most acclaimed series of the past decade.

Jay Leno and Jeff Zucker have been thinking a lot about TiVo lately. And, at least in the case of the NBC Universal boss, not entirely in a good way.

He writes, he sings, he sometimes exchanges blows in the boxing ring. But Bob Dylan is also familiar with another type of canvas as a quietly prolific painter.

The Beatles boasted some of the best-selling albums on the U.S. pop chart on Wednesday after nostalgic fans scooped up the Fab Four's much-hyped reissues.

Singer Whitney Houston said in an interview aired on Tuesday that she is drug-free as she embarks on a career comeback, and that her faith guides her through her ongoing fight to stay clean.

Taylor Swift appeared Tuesday on ABC's The View to say she would accept an apology from Kanye West after his outburst at the MTV VMA Awards.

President Barack Obama will appear on comedian David Letterman's late-night talk show next week, the CBS network said on Tuesday.

The hotly anticipated follow-up to author Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was released on Tuesday amid positive reaction from critics but the American novelist admitted he was under pressure to sell well.

The storming success of World War Two shoot-'em-up Inglorious Basterds is the ticket out of financial difficulty for its backers, the Weinstein Co., director Quentin Tarantino said on Tuesday.

British star Clive Owen has specialized in playing macho men in two decades of movies and television: tough, taciturn and unshaven, with long stares from smoldering gray-green eyes.

Jay Leno launched his NBC prime-time TV talk show on Monday -- a venture whose success or failure is being closely watched by the industry -- with familiar offerings including a topical monologue and chats with fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld and a repentant Kanye West.

The Italian press, which before the Venice Film Festival had celebrated the high number of Italian films in the festival's official selection, has gone into a period of soul searching and finger pointing after Italian films were for the most part excluded from the event's major prizes.

Singer Whitney Houston said in an interview aired on Monday that life with former husband Bobby Brown descended into a nightmare of drugs and fights, and that at one point he painted evil eyes on the walls of their home.

Pathetic. Desperate. Lame.The Seinfeld reunion its creators swore would never happen for the aforementioned reasons finally takes place next month.

Author Dan Brown may have outraged the Vatican in The Da Vinci Code, but his new book, The Lost Symbol, is being welcomed by his latest subjects, the Freemasons.

Having conquered movies, Keanu Reeves is now taking on the Internet.

Kiefer Sutherland is to head a new actors conservatory at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Center in Toronto.

Actor Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a smoldering dance instructor in Dirty Dancing made him one of the iconic film stars of the 1980s, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Oprah Winfrey said she is looking forward to get the first interview with Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl whose story shocked the nation after she was rescued alive 18 years after living kidnapped with captor Phillip Garrido.

When it comes to generating Oscar buzz, a film like Precious could do far worse than having Oprah Winfrey's backing