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Katee Sackhoff, Tatum O'Neal, Shiri Appleby, Golden Globe winner Drew Barrymore, Miley Cryus, Gina Carano, Emily Osment and Ke$Ha lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.
Katee Sackhoff, Tatum O'Neal, Shiri Appleby, Golden Globe winner Drew Barrymore and Ke$Ha lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.
There was a golden glow in Hollywood on Monday as the town was still buzzing about Sunday's Golden Globe wins for Avatar, The Hangover and Glee. And as the cast of Avatar was waking up to its golden hangover, the film continued its hold on the weekend boxoffice throne, winning its fifth weekend in a row. The film, which stars Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Michelle Rodriguez, has a North American cume of $505.1 million, and $1.64 billion worldwide.
Come Tuesday, the ratings were in for Sunday's Globes telecast, hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais, on NBC, with viewership up 10 percent compared with a year ago. The two-hour season premiere of 24, which marked the drama's first appearance of Battlestar Galactica babe Katee Sackhoff, collected 11.4 million viewers, down 12 percent from a year ago.
Meanwhile, over at the Television Critics' Assn.'s winter press tour, Simon Cowell was working on staffing the judges' table on his upcoming singing competition show The X Factor. Talks circled a familiar name: Paula Abdul and X Factor U.K. co-star Cheryl Cole. Look for Cowell to resurface on X Factor after his time with American Idol is up next year.
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Tatum O'Neal has been cast opposite Dollhouse's Harry Lennix in the indie film Mr. Sophistication. Lennix will play a down-on-his-luck comedian, and O'Neal will play his supportive wife who helps him beat drug addiction. O'Neal will next be seen on the big screen opposite Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in the Joan Jett biopic The Runaways.
London's Birds Eye View Festival, designed to celebrate female filmmakers, has announced seven films set to screen at the March event: Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It being among them.
One of the WB Network's original stars has become a parent on the now-CW network: Roswell's Shiri Appleby stars as a DJ who is reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption on the new hourlong drama Life Unexpected. The Monday series premiere collected the most viewers in the time slot in more than a year, drawing 2.7 million viewers. Brittany Robertson, Kerr Smith and Kristoffer Polaha co-star.
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NBC quietly restocked its inventory for the 10 p.m. hour in the wake of the cancellation of The Jay Leno Show and the talk-show host's return to The Tonight Show. The network added four more episodes of Trauma, three more episodes of Law & Order and Community and two more of Law & Order: SVU and Park & Recreation.
It was a sad day at Disney Channel on Monday as production on the fourth and final season of Hannah Montana began. The final episodes will air in spring 2011 and the actress will next star in Disney's big screen film The Last Song in April, co-starring Emily Osment, Jason Earles and some guy named Billy Ray Cyrus.
Step Up heartthrob Channing Tatum — what, a lesbian can't have a crush? — has joined MMA star Gina Carano in the feature film Knockout, co-starring Michael Douglas and Ewan McGregor. Carano will play a high-level security operative who is convinced she's been betrayed by her boss and government. Sounds very Angelina Jolie in Salt, no?
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Turning to music sales, Vampire Weekend's "Contra" bowed atop the Billboard 200, as Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" continued to sell well for the week at No. 2. Meanwhile, last week's chart topper, Dinah Shore headliner Kei$ha's "Animal" slid a notch to finish at No. 3.
Looking to the weekend at the boxoffice, it's a great weekend to catch some of the Globes winners as the frame's new releases look mostly like disposable fare: Keri Russell stars opposite Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser in Extraordinary Measures, while Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson slums it for cash in The Tooth Fairy and Dennis Quaid fights possessed grandmothers in the horror-thriller Legion. Skip the three and check out Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart instead!
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