It's Official: Warner Bros. Moving 'Gangster Squad' to Jan. 11

The move will allow the studio to reshoot a climactic scene that involved a shoot-out at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

 Warner Bros. is moving the release of Gangster Squad to Jan. 11, postponing it from its scheduled Sept. 7 release date in order to accomodate reshoots because of a scene of a movie theater shoot-out in the completed film that became problematic in the wake of the Aurora, Colo. massacre.

The studio announced the release date change late Wednesday. The only other release currently scheduled for Jan. 11 is Paramount's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton.
The film, which is based on efforts of the Los Angeles police to control the Mafia in the '40s and '50s, included a climactic gun that was filmed at Grauman's Chinese Theater. The scene could be glimpsed in a trailer for the movie that the studio pulled from circulation on July 20 after the shooting that claimed 12 lives.
Since then, the studio has been holding discussions about how to revise the movie, directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Will Beall and featuring a large cast, including Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn and Josh Brolin.

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Comic-Con 2012: Inside Tim Burton's Frankenweenie Art Exhibit — PICS

 There's always going to be something fascinating when it comes to Tim Burton, whether he's building new worlds or reviving old ones. In his upcoming stop-motion animation film Frankenweenie, Burton does both. Based on a short he created at the beginning of his career, the eccentric writer/director pays homage to the classic horror story Frankenstein, while bringing the black and white horror riff to new life (pun wildly intended.) With Frankenweenie, Burton creates is also creating a strange, but wonderful new reality where children can reunite with long lost pets.
We got a chance to check out the interactive Frankenweenie exhibit at this year's San Diego Comic-Con which featured some classically spooky, yet sweet Burtonesque artwork that the anticipated film will have in store for moviegoers. Sit, heel, stay, check out what we saw from Frankenweenie at Comic-Con and  on the set of the movie. Frankenweenie comes to life in theaters on October 5
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Comic-Con 2012: The CW's 'Arrow' Shoots For Thrills, Mystery, Biceps

It's the age-old story: troubled playboy billionaire becomes self-made crime fighter after a traumatic incident. But the heroic protagonist at the center of the CW's new action series Arrow bears little resemblance to a certain caped crusader that you may be thinking of. For one thing, this one wears a hood. And it's green.
In the wide world of DC Comics superheroes, the Green Arrow is certainly one of the more obscure ones, compared to the Batmans and Wonder Womans that have permanently permeated pop culture. But a lack of Hollywood attention also means that there's nothing to compare it to, so the CW has carte blanche to re-tell the origin story of the Green Arrow — that of socialite Oliver Queen, who returns home after being stranded on a deserted island for five years following a shipwreck that claims the lives of both his father and his ex-girlfriend's sister (more on those dramatics later).
Oliver (Stephen Amell and eight abs) struggles to come to terms with the reality of having to return to his old life after surviving for half a decade on an island (with no talking volleyball to befriend): his mother has a new husband, his sister has moved on, his bodyguard won't let him out of his sight, and he can't just snap back into his party-boy ways with old wingman Tommy (played with a pop of energy by Broadway transplant Colin Donnell). And then there's his ex-girlfriend Laurel (Gossip Girl's Katie Cassidy, looking mighty fine as a brunette), a lawyer who harbors a certain — shall we say, resentment? — towards her former lover after finding out not only that her sister died in the shipwreck, but that she got busy with Oliver just moments before the crash.
All that seems difficult enough for Oliver to process until he and Tommy find themselves kidnapped and facing present danger in an abandoned warehouse. Without spoiling too much, it's this act of crime that essentially spurs Oliver to do what he had prepped for during his tenure on the island: seek vengeance. Against a whole lot of people, it seems. And herein lies our superhero story! There's action, sex, intricate costumes, underground lairs and — if you're not tired of archers yet — plenty of crossbow action. Plus, there are at least two (!) killer twists at the end of the pilot that will definitely keep you buzzing until Episode 2.
Without a doubt, Arrow is poised to be the network's new Smallville, and it certainly seems like it's game for replicating the comic book mythos and twentysomething melodrama that made the Superman vehicle a smash hit. The show is carried by Amell, who brings a mysterious flair to Oliver that's surprisingly satisfying, even though we don't quite know whether his smirk is deceitful or playful. Oliver is a peculiar and guarded individual, but his heroics are endlessly fascinating, almost in the same unpredictable vein as a Jack Bauer or Ethan Hunt figure. Amell is of course supported by a number of supporting players (including his torso) who bring the comic book characters to life with unique pizazz. (Personally, I can't wait to see how Speedy and Merlyn emerge over the course of the show.)
It's no television groundbreaker, but for a superhero saga, Arrow is a solid entry that stands out among a sea of past failed attempts at television crime fighters. The pilot is a strong start (despite some expositional dialogue that's less than brilliant), and I'm already aching to see what happens in the second installment. And to create that much intrigue from 45 minutes of television is a feat that, in itself, is super.
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Ice Age 4' has Indian connection

New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) Hollywood's animation extravaganza "Ice Age 4: Continental Drift" has a special connect with this country - Indian origin actors Kunal Nayyar and Aziz Ansari have done the voiceovers for the film.

The latest franchise is set in a pirate ship.
Britain born Kunal, who played Raj in "The Big Bang Theory", has done the voiceover for a character named Gupta, a prehistoric badger whose back is patterned with a skull and crossbones - the Jolly Roger iconic pirate flag.
The actor says he enjoyed doing the voiceover.
"Yeah, that I'm good at it because I have an innate ability to overact! So that stuff comes naturally to me," he said in a statement.

Aziz, a popular stand up comedian based in the US, has lent his voice to a fellow pirate named Squint - the pirate crew's smallest member.
"Squint is always ready to fight, but never gets to chop it up with anybody," said Aziz.
The Fox Star Studios production, set for release July 27, also has another special India connect.
Recently, the creative team from the film released a video featuring popular character Sid the Sloth with people from all over the world, including that from Mumbai. They were featured in front of the Gateway of India.
"Ice Age 4" will be dubbed in Tamil and Telugu, apart from Hindi.
Directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier, the film also features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah and Jennifer Lopez.
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Pics od Rachel McAdams Should Get Pregnant ASAP! PIC

 Professional cute person and perpetual-26-year-old, Rachel McAdams is making a movie! And she's pregnant in the said movie. And her pregnancy is also— TWIST! — adorable. Word on the street is that McAdams is sporting a bump for only half the time though, as the movie — DOUBLE TWIST! — has her playing dual roles! Say what? Yep! Two parts, one film. This woman can literally do anything. The photo, taken on July 4th in the romantic-and-chic Notting Hill neighborhood of London, makes it look like McAdams is on her way to the hospital.

The new film About Time is being directed by British screenwriter Richard Curtis who is known for such romantic comedy staples as Four Weddings and a Funeral, the never-not-good Bridget Jones's Diary, the can't-not-watch-it-if-its-on favorite Notting Hill, and the holiday feel-good-time Love Actually.
I was going to write more about this, but I mean, look at her! This woman needs to be a mom (if she wants, totally no pressure from

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this stranger because that would be really weird and creepy) someday!


What do you think about the premise of About Time? Will you see it when it comes out? Are you curious about Rachel McAdams' dual roles? Let us know in the comments!
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Anderson Cooper Thanks Supporters for Well Wishes

It may be the Fourth of July, and not Thanksgiving, but Anderson Cooper is in an appreciative mood.
The announcement that this CNN anchor is gay was met by a horde of fans and celebrities sending their best wishes and congratulations to the reporter, all recognizing his bravery and well-reasoned statement explaining why he seemed to take so long to exit the closet.

Now, while he continues to travel the globe and do his job as a journalist, Cooper has taken a moment to thank those who have reached out.

"I appreciate all the nice tweets," he Tweeted yesterday. "I am in Botswana working but want to wish everyone a great 4th of July!"

We wish the very same to you, Anderson, and to every single one of our readers!

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America's Got Talent Results: Who's In?

The votes were in. The eliminations were announced. The tension was palpable on America's Got Talent last night.
Read on for a rundown of who advanced and who is going home...

Elimination 1 - Music
When Nick Cannon called the first three acts, it was clear who was safe. In comparison to the other two, Shanice & Maurice were the only ones that the judges even gave positive feedback to with their live performance. Harkening back to how good one was in Vegas won't help a public that may have only tuned in this week.

The obvious point is that all these acts can't have an off week like American Idol contestants can because we see them once in the quarterfinals. Michael Nejad was compared to the vacuum cleaner he played. Nikki chose a very sleepy song. While Shanice & Maurice picked a song that was from Pearl Harbor, the message worked perfectly for a father/daughter team.

Out: Michael Nejad, Nikki Jensen
In: Shanice & Maurice

Elimination 2 - Dancers
The biggest issue I have with 787 Crew was that it is repetitive. If you ever watched ABDC, it used that breaking circle choreography then as well. It doesn't help that Puerto Rico has such a small voting block that they couldn't really support him. For me child acts tend to be wild cards. In Vegas, all the young singers trumped the Female Vocalist category including Nikki Jensen.

Lil Starr could have made it through on another week with a song that wasn't LMFAO but it also didn't help that she went fourth. If she went tenth, she could have been clumped with the talented end acts. That being said, The Scott Brothers are great at what they do and floating hat trick, while kind of easy (you twirl your fingers around a hat), showed the variety that they needed to advance.

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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves: Expecting Again!

It looks like Matthew McConaughey has put his Magic Mike stripper training to very good use.
Less than one month after marrying Camila Alves, the actor announced yesterday that the couple is expecting its another child in the near future.

In classic McConaughey prose/style, the star Tweeted: “Happy birthday America, more good news, Camila and I are expecting our 3rd child. God bless, just keep livin.”

Matthew and Camila are already parents to Vida, two-and-a-half, and Levi, who turns four this week. They met in 2006 and got engaged on Christmas Day 2011.

We send our very best wishes to these happy parents-to-be!

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Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy: Expecting!

Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy are expecting their first child later this year, according to reports. The acclaimed Homeland star is pregnant!
Danes, 33, who won a Golden Globe for her performance in January, wed Hannibal star Dancy, 37, in a private ceremony in France in 2009.
Here's a photo of the couple from earlier this year:

Claire's pregnancy is not expected to impact the production of the second season of Homeland, which premieres on Showtime September 30.
In other celebrity baby news ... Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves will soon be welcoming their third! Quite the exciting morning all around.

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Hillary Clinton Slams Barack Obama in New Mitt Romney Campaign Ad

Mitt Romney's latest TV ad uses old, unrelated footage of Hillary Clinton - a popular figure from President Obama's own party and cabinet - to drive home his point.
One of the oldest tricks in the book, but effective.
The Romney campaign would say it's not necessarily unrelated, either, as the new ad uses clips of Clinton railing against Obama for lying about her record.
The GOP challenger is accusing him of the same behavior today.
"Shame on you, Barack Obama," Clinton says in footage from the 2008 Democratic primary, recycled in the spot for Romney, who hopes to unseat him in 2012:

Mitt Romney Ad - Shame On You, Barack Obama!

The Romney ad uses the Clinton footage to back up a recent Washington Post article about an Obama ad accusing Romney of outsourcing jobs overseas.
Obama's claim about Mitt Romney's record while he was governor of Massachusetts was "misleading, unfair and untrue," according to the commercial.
"But that's Barack Obama," a narrator in the Romney ad declares. "He also attacked Hillary Clinton with vicious lies." Clinton did, at one point, allege this.
"He continues to spend millions of dollars perpetuating falsehoods," Clinton said in early 2008 footage now used to discredit Obama's claims about Romney.
Clinton, now Obama's Secretary of State and the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, regardless of what happens this year, had no comment.

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Private Investigator Must Reveal Who Gave Phone Hacking Orders

The U.K.'s Supreme Court has ordered Glen Mulcaire to hand over details of who told him to carry out the hacking at News Corp.'s now-shuttered News of The World.

LONDON – Glen Mulcaire, the private investigator convicted and jailed for phone hacking, has been ordered to reveal - at least in one case - who instructed him to intercept voicemails for News Corp.'s now-shuttered News of the World.

The U.K.'s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Mulcaire must pass on the previously secret details concerning phone hacking in a case brought by Nicola Phillips, the former assistant of PR impresario Max Clifford. Britain's highest court opted to discard Mulcaire's claim for privilege against self-incrimination, ending a 20-month legal appeal by the former investigator over his "legitimate legal interests," according to a report in The Guardian.
Mulcaire must now share potentially incriminating details – including who at the News of the World allegedly instructed him to hack phones, the journalists he is alleged to have passed intercepted messages to, and how victims were allegedly targeted.
It was not immediately clear when he would provide the information on who ordered the hacking, but other reports mentioned the information could be shared within a few weeks. The information is scheduled to go to a so-called "confidentiality club" made up of the lawyers and litigants in the civil phone hacking case.
The private investigator had earlier challenged two rulings by the high court, in 2010 and in 2011, and the court of appeal in February, which found that the hacked voicemails were confidential.
Judge Lord Walker said in the judgment: "The supreme court unanimously dismisses Mr Mulcaire's appeal...the proceedings brought by Ms Phillips are 'proceedings for … rights pertaining to…intellectual property' and the conspiracy proceedings to which Mr Mulcaire would expose himself on disclosure of the information amount to a 'related offense'."
A lawyer for Phillips called the ruling as a precedent and said other potential suitors could now apply for the same information.
The Guardian quoted Mulcaire as saying in a statement that he would comply with the decision, but review his legal options beyond the case. "I will comply with the supreme court's ruling to answer questions in Ms Phillips's case," he said. "I will consider with my lawyers what the wider implications of this judgment are if and when I am asked to answer such questions in other cases."

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Kelly Clarkson's 'Stronger' Makes History as Best-Selling 'American Idol' Single of All-Time

Carrie Underwood may have recorded “Independence Day,” but it is Kelly Clarkson who makes American Idol history today, July 4, as the latest sales figures from Nielsen SoundScan confirm her current hit, “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” to be the best-selling Idol single of all time, surpassing the long-time champion, Underwood’s “Before He Cheats.”“Stronger” has sold 3,510,000 singles as of today, beating “Before He Cheats,” which has moved 3,509,000 copies since its release in 2006. “Stronger” ruled The Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, making it Clarkson’s longest-running No. 1 (“A Moment Like This” reigned for two weeks in 2002 and “My Life Would Suck Without You” ruled for two weeks in 2009). “Stronger” went to No. 1 on 11 different Billboard charts, including Hot Digital Songs, Adult Top 40, Hot Dance Club Play and the Adult Contemporary tally, where it is in pole position for the fifth consecutive week.

“Before He Cheats” peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100 and was on the chart for 64 weeks. Only five songs in the 54-year history of this survey have had longer runs. On Hot Country Songs, “Before He Cheats” was No. 1 for five weeks in November-December 2006.
“Stronger,” which rebounds 22-21 in its 27th week on the Hot 100, recently surpassed “No Air” by Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown, which was the previous Idol sales runner-up to “Before He Cheats.” “No Air” peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 2008 and has sold 3,437,000 copies to date.
While Clarkson has bested Underwood’s record for best-selling single by an Idol, the latter is still ahead in total domestic album sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Underwood has sold 13,205,000 albums to date and Clarkson is close behind with 11,664,000. That fulfills a prophecy made by Simon Cowell during the fourth season of American Idol. The theme was Billboard’s No. 1 hits and Underwood sang Heart’s “Alone.” In his comments after her performance, Cowell said, “Not only will you win this show, you will sell more records than any other previous Idol winner.”

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