LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Whenever the media cover Oprah Winfrey litigation -- whether it be with poets, flight attendants, physical trainers, or diet pill makers -- it's usually with an air of dismissiveness. She's a billionaire media personality and can hire the best lawyers -- who's ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twentieth Century Fox on Tuesday set Earth Day, April 22, for the DVD and Blu-ray release of "Avatar". But fans will have to wait until November for another disc with all the usual extras, and even longer for a 3-D version. Fox said it had chosen Earth Day as ...

Corey Feldman, who was Haim's co-star in 1980s movies "The Lost Boys" and "License to Drive," did not attend the funeral but released a statement remembering his friend, who died on March 10. In the 911 tape, Haim's mother, Judy, called paramedics from a Los Angeles apartment ...

The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was also placed on 20 months probation by Maricopa County Court Commissioner Christine Mulleneaux. Simmons, 39, was arrested last week after authorities said he admitted to using cocaine and not complying with the terms of his treatment plan. He faced ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop band Abba was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday in a ceremony that honored genres from the Swedish group's catchy tunes to the theatrical British rock band Genesis and reggae master Jimmy Cliff. Abba's singer-songwriter Benny Andersson and vocalist ...

Michael Barrett, 48, had pleaded guilty to stalking Andrews over an 18-month period and removing the peepholes from the doors of at least three different hotel rooms to shoot video of her naked on his mobile phone. After a celebrity web site turned down buying the videos, Barrett posted 10 of them ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lee Daniels is firming up the cast of "Selma," his civil-rights follow-up to "Precious," even as its funding is on shaky ground. David Oyelowo, the British actor who appeared in "A Raisin in the Sun" and stars in George Lucas' ...

Lawmakers are considering extending the program through 2015 to help New York compete with similar tax incentives on offer in 42 other U.S. states, Washington D.C. and 11 Canadian provinces, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a statement. "There's also an intrinsic added value that's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Popular legal thriller author John Grisham has broken his holdout against selling his books in an electronic format and will sell all of his 23 titles as e-books, his publisher said on Tuesday. The former lawyer, whose best sellers include "The Firm" and "A Time ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Canadian teen pop singer Justin Bieber will begin his first headlining tour of North America on June 23 in Hartford, Conn., he said Tuesday, a week before his new album hits stores. The "My World" arena tour will visit 40 cities before wrapping on September 4 in ...