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Here’s a movie trivia quiz: Who would you call the go-to actor for renowned filmmaker Martin Scorsese? Robert DeNiro? Leonardo DiCaprio?

Brad Pitt was reportedly rejected for jury duty at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse last week because the court said he would be too distracting to the proceedings. According to the Daily Mail, Pitt waited for hours along with other

In thelatest turn of events regarding the Sony hacking scandal, Fusion released an op-ed late Monday of ananonymous email containing a spreadsheet of Sony PicturesEntertainment’s 17 top executives and their salaries. The spreadsheet, which hasn’t been confirmed by Sony, depicts

Selma, the new Oprah Winfrey-produced film about a year in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., received “two thunderous standing ovations” at its first screening in New York Monday night, film critic Roger Friedman wrote on his website, Showbiz 411.

SPOILER WARNING: Though I won’t reveal plot points, there’s no way to talk about what makes “Fury” special without revealing its theme, which is a spoiler. This happens in the paragraph directly below and throughout. You’ve been warned. Other than

Brad Pitt–star of Fury, World War Z, and Fight Club–says he has owned a gun since he was six years old and does not feel safe without one in the house. According Fox News, Pitt told Radio Times “there’s a rite of passage

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has honored campaigning actress Angelina Jolie in a Buckingham Palace ceremony. The queen made Jolie an honorary dame for her work against sexual violence in war zones and her services to British foreign policy.

Ukranian red-carpet prankster Vitalii Sediuk has been placed on the no-fly list by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to the Hollywood Reporter. On Sept. 12, Sediuk was denied entry onto an airplane traveling from Instanbul to Los Angeles. The former

Box office observers probably thought things couldn’t get worse than the recently wrapped summer movie season. They were wrong. The weekend’s box office results are in, and the numbers were bad even by the most modest of expectations. The weekend

NEW YORK (AP) — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday in the French hamlet of Correns, a spokesman for the couple says. Jolie and Pitt wed in a small chapel in a private ceremony attended by family and

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who accosted Brad Pitt on a red carpet pleaded no contest to battery Friday and was ordered to stay away from the actor and Hollywood red carpet events. Vitalii Sediuk entered the plea during

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man was jailed on suspicion of battery after rushing up and touching Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere of the movie “Maleficent,” witnesses and police said, though Pitt was apparently unhurt

Brad Pitt’s next assignment will bring him into the complex world of Afghanistan, adapting a book written by the journalist whose work cost a key U.S. general his job. Animal Kingdom helmer David Michôd will write and direct The Operators, which will be developed

Ellen DeGeneres didn’t earn a plug nickel for taking that now famous selfie with the stars sitting in the front rows on Oscar night. That hardly means the Samsung-approved Oscar selfie lacked value. In fact, one media expert attached to

At last night’s Oscars, Ellen DeGeneres surprised the delivery guy from Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizzeria in Hollywood by having him delivery his pies to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars right on the air during the big show. DeGeneres passed

In 1970 when John “Duke” Wayne won an Oscar for his starring role as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969), the industry was a shadow of its current self. Or perhaps it’s the other way around. Veteran writer-producer, A.J. Fenady,

LONDON (AP) — The force of “Gravity” was strong at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday — but it was unflinching drama “12 Years a Slave” that took the top prize. Steve McQueen’s visceral, violent story of a free

Warren Beatty is prepping a new film that will bring him back into theaters for the first time since 2001. Showbiz 411 reports the actor/auteur, known for taking his time between movie projects, will star and write a film based

PARIS (AP) — The latest Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie sequel is being described as powerful and elegant with a “mouthwatering finish.” These raves don’t appear in movie publications — they’re from Decanter magazine’s review of the celebrity couple’s second vintage of

1. Jack Ryan Flops A disastrous opening for “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” could mean that the franchise will lay dormant for another dozen years, or more. “The Sum of All Fears” (2002) was itself an attempted reboot of the franchise

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (UPI)–Oprah Winfrey is joining the crew of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drama, “Selma,” as a producer, director Ava DuVernay said. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are already on board as producers as part

The fallout from a marketing campaign which snubbed the black star of 12 Years a Slave shows no sign of slowing down. Earlier this month the folks behind the publicity push for the film’s Italian debut caught heat for not

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 (UPI)–Hollywood’s Paramount Pictures says Brad Pitt’s zombie apocalypse film “World War Z” has passed the $500 million worldwide gross milestone. The figure surpasses the $497.3 million of “Troy” to become Pitt’s highest grossing film ever, Deadline.com

The stars of The Lone Ranger have a chip on their shoulders, and it’s in the shape of your garden variety film critic. The film is one of the summer’s highest profile flops, failing to reignite interest in a beloved

By JOCELYN NOVECKAP National WriterNEW YORKSo this was the deal: For $50, you got to see Brad Pitt’s hotly anticipated zombie thriller “World War Z” before all your friends. You also got 3D glasses to keep, popcorn and sodas, a

Much is being made this weekend about the respectable box office performance of World War Z, and rightly so. The Brad Pitt zombie thriller cost more than $200 million, required reshoots and rewrites, and could have become the summer’s ghastliest

This weekend’ summer box office race has an unprecedented three films securing over $50 million in a single weekend. Pixar’s “Monster University” is expected to come in first, with $73 million. “Man of Steel,” already a hit after its monstrous

(AP) – Was Kanye West inspired by One Direction? Kim Kardashian and Kanye West named their daughter North West, according to their Los Angeles County birth certificate. The baby was born at 5:34 a.m. Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in

Paramount Pictures’ zombie apocalypse tale “World War Z” starring Brad Pitt arrives in theaters June 21st.

Can’t wait to see World War Z, the new zombie film starring mega-star Brad Pitt? Better open up your wallet. Paramount will be screening the undead thriller two days before its June 21 release in select cities for a very

CBS Philadelphia: Actor Brad Pitt surprised fans when he showed up to an early screening of the zombie-themed summer blockbuster “World War Z” in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The film is set in Philadelphia.

Cynical industry watchers have already moved on from the disappointing box office returns for After Earth to the summer’s next potential dud–World War Z. The Brad Pitt zombie movie has been plagued by costly reshoots and other production woes, all

(AP) LOS ANGELES –Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the