LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A small hobbit racked up big sales at movie box offices during the weekend, generating an estimated $205 million at theaters around the world with the debut of highly anticipated sequel “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.”
LONDON, (Reuters) – Actor Peter O’Toole, who shot to international fame in the film classic “Lawrence of Arabia”, has died aged 81 in London after a long illness, his agent said today.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (Reuters) – Slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” and 1970s con-artist caper “American Hustle” led the Golden Globe Awards nominations announced on Thursday with seven nods each, fortifying their frontrunner positions in a crowded field ahead of the Oscars.
(Barbados Nation) Outspoken historian Trevor Marshall has lashed out at Barbadians calling their attitude towards international pop star Rihanna “reprehensible”.
(Reuters) – Eleanor Parker, a Hollywood leading lady of the 1940s and 1950s and three-time Oscar nominee who starred alongside big names including Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas and later appeared as the baroness in the blockbuster “The Sound of Music,” has died.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rapper Jay Z led all artists with nine Grammy nominations on Friday, but newcomers Lorde, Kendrick Lamar, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis edged out industry heavyweights for nods in the top categories of the annual music awards.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson told a court she had taken cocaine several times including when being subjected to “intimate terrorism” by her millionaire ex-husband Charles Saatchi, in the latest dramatic twist in a trial that has gripped Britain.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Paul Walker, best known for his roles in the “Fast and the Furious” action movies, died on Saturday in a car crash in Southern California, his publicist said.
(Trinidad Express) STRIPPED beauty queen Sherrece Villafana broke her silence yesterday to accuse pageant director, Athaliah Samuel, of being a bully who withheld funding from sponsors for the 2013 Miss World Pageant in September.
(Jamaica Observer) TRINIDAD & TOBAGO– Miss Trinidad and Tobago World 2013 Shereece Villafana who represented the twin-island republic in the Miss World pageant a month ago in Bali Indonesia, has been stripped of her crown.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Country-pop star Taylor Swift scored big at the American Music Awards yesterday, taking home four wins including the night’s top prize for artist of the year, as some of pop music’s biggest names came together for the fan-voted awards ceremony.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Two U.S.-born Puerto Rican artists, Marc Anthony and Draco Rosa, and the Colombian singer Carlos Vives yesterday won the top Latin Grammy music awards in a night that rewarded comebacks and long careers.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Katy Perry won the award for best female singer at the 2013 MTV EMA music awards tonight, pipping Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus to the post in MTV’s first award ceremony since the launch a week ago of the upstart YouTube Music Awards.
(India Times) Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler won the coveted Miss Universe 2013 crown on Saturday night, beating 85 other contenders from around the world at a glittering ceremony held in Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia.