Australian Stocks: Market plummets five per cent
MELBOURNE – The Australian share market plummeted to close five per cent lower today as the continuing fallout from the global credit crisis wiped $56 billion from the value of stocks listed on the local bourse.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped more than 7 per cent [...]
Johnny Depp will star in fourth ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie
Johnny Depp and Disney are setting sail for box office gold once again.
The star is set to reprise his now-iconic role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth installment of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
Depp took the stage dressed in full pirate garb [...]
Not since the naked wrestling scene in Borat has comedy looked as sweaty, as messy, or as difficult. So consider Tropic Thunder the comic Olympics: a star-studded cast of manly comic talent going head to head, each looking to steal scenes from his closest competitor with a combination of wit, zany reaction shots and bona [...]
The Dark Knight Batman movie broke a new box office record making $155.34 million in its first weekend. The previous record was set by Spider-Man 3 in May of 2007 when it made $151.1 million.
At 2007’s average price of $6.88, “Spider-Man 3″ sold 21.96 million tickets over opening weekend. Box office tracker Media By Numbers [...]
The movie starts off far more funny than the first Hellboy. This is very much in keeping with the quirky ad campaign that has been promoting the film (the inside the actor’s studio commercial for example is quite funny). Hellboy is once again Ron Pearlman- the genius bit of casting that made the first movie [...]
The 23-year-old is also excited about the song for the scene, which will allow her to mix herself in with two of Tisdale’s all-time favorite artists. “There is a song that is like Gwen-Stefani-slash-Fergie meets Sharpay Evans,” she explained, which to us means plenty of funky beats, spelling, and ego-driven lyrics about her curvy body. [...]
DreamWorks so far has been a strong supporter for AMD and heavily pitched its partnership with AMD following the production of Shrek 3 and the introduction of the Opteron quad-core processor with Barcelona core. Intel now claims that DreamWorks is “converting its computing infrastructure to an Intel-based system”, which could be considered a major blow [...]
The Army has been helping filmmakers ever since it furnished aircraft and pilots for 1927’s “Wings” — winner of the first best picture Academy Award.
Few directors focused on Iraq or Afghanistan have approached the military for help. Haggis did.
The problem for military officials is that some in Hollywood see their script advice as a subtle [...]
The pregnancy was first announced in January. Kidman has two other children with her former husband Tom Cruise: Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13.
“She’s never been happier and healthier,” says a close family friend. “She is absolutely radiant and enjoying nesting and homemaking with Keith at their new home in Nashville.”
But getting ready for their baby [...]
Those six stories range in content and tone from a light adventure in which young children recollect their memories of seeing Batman (one remembers him as a cyborg, one a shadow, etc.), to brooding tales in which the Dark Knight recalls his earlier training in India, to out and out action extravaganzas featuring Batman in [...]