TV and Movie News (page 1504)

Believe it or not, this year's Super Bowl was the most watched show in television history. It beat out the long standing record held by "M*A*S*H" since 1983, and other amazing TV milestones.

The Houston Chronicle reported that "Sunday’s game between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers from Cowboys Stadium in Arlington was viewed by an average audience of 111 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Co.

Simon Cowell may be smiling (or smirking), but to be honest, he's a little nervous about his newest show "X Factor." While "American Idol" promised a $1 million dollar prize, Cowell announced that the new show will offer a whopping $5 million dollar prize. The show will also lower the competing age from 15 to 12, and the winners will get a recording contract with the Syco label, Cowell's joint venture with Sony Music.

Will no one take the throne of Oz?

The title role in the Sam Raimi project "Oz: The Great and Powerful" has been up for grabs for the last two weeks after frontrunner Robert Downey Jr. dropped out of the project. Johnny Depp was next in line to be offered the role, but finally turned it down late last week. Now, James Franco is the next choice to play the "man behind the curtain.

�Tron: Legacy� actress Olivia Wilde and her husband Tao Ruspoli have decided to end their eight-year-long marriage. Wilde was only 18-years-old when she and Ruspoli, who is an Italian Prince, eloped. The couple got married secretly on an adandoned school bus in 2003. "The bus was the only place we could be completely alone, the wedding was a secret, and we wanted to do it someplace where we could hide with our best friends.

It may not be the first time someone has told Hayden Panettiere her acting made them want to puke, but it’s probably the first time it could end up bringing about legal repercussions.

Panettiere will play accused college-aged murderer Amanda Knox in the upcoming Lifetime movie “Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy." The network recently released a trailer for the film, and let’s just say it made Amanda a little nauseous.

As has been widely reported on Yidio and other sites, Charlie Sheen was recently rushed to the hospital after a massive binge where he reportedly smoked a "tennis-ball-sized" rock of cocaine and tried to set up his own personal porn colony, in the meantime revealing to his new "adult" friends that he has fake teeth.

He has since recovered from a supposed hernia and was recently shuffled off into an in-home rehab program.

The first half of the season was spent wondering why Juliet wanted to bring Serena down so badly.  With the help of Dan, Blair, Toxic Damien and the great state of Connecticut, we solved it.  Now we have to deal with Juliet's brother, Ben.  What exactly is Ben's motive for hanging around the girl responsible for his five-year incarceration?  Yes, Serena is gorgeous, but she is so frustratingly stupid.

Scandal at awards shows is nothing new, but who knew there could be such an uproar over an awards show for kids?

DreamWorks' "How To Train Your Dragon" was the biggest winner at the recently concluded 38th Annual Annie Awards held at the UCLA Royce Hall, which honor excellence in animation, but the real scandla was in who didn't bother to show up.

Pixar Animation Studios and The Walt Disney Company did not participate in the annual awards process, with Disney-Pixar president Ed Catmull saying, "We believe there is an issue with the way the Ann

If Bob Marley hadn't passed away in 1981, after succumbing to cancer from a malignant melanoma, he'd be 65 years old today.

The reggae legend and transformative musical figure died of complications from brain cancer, which ultimately resulted from a poorly treated malignant tumor that started in his toe.

Marley died on May 11, 1981, but not before introducing millions to the joy of reggae and serving as a vocal advocate for peace (and dope-smoking) throughout the globe.

You have to hand it to Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino: it takes a big personality to match a nickname like that. But with his forays into "Dancing With the Stars", his own line of vitamin products, and a number of big-name endorsements (including Reebok's ZigTech), has The Situation gotten too big for "Jersey Shore"?

In an interview with E! News this weekend, Sorrentino said he hopes to be in a movie "by the end of the year.