The animated rat movie is the best reviewed big studio movie of the year.

They are films that won over critics and captured the Oscar for best picture in the process. Movies like "The Departed," "Crash," "Million Dollar Baby" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

The Decemberists, Shakira and others are giving fans the chance to make their own music videos.

It's the "Hips Don't Lie" effect.

Invasion's toll on a bomb disposal squad is at the heart of the film, which was inspired by the screenwriter's embedding with a similar unit.

Much has been made of the lack of success -- both at the box office and artistically -- of the topical movies that have come out since the American invasion of Iraq.

The musician, who'll christen the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, has a new T-Bone Burnett-produced album.

B.B. King is full of it. Humility, that is.

It's the slowest weekend at movie theaters in five years.

Rain and wind may have been whipping the Southeast, but "Tropic Thunder" was muted this weekend as moviegoers stayed home, leading to the slowest weekend for theaters in five years.

The Pang brothers remake their audacious 1999 film, but without the gritty, seamy feel of the original, it seems like just another bullet ballet out of a Steve Wynn dream.

For those unfamiliar with the Pang brothers' audacious 1999 " Bangkok Dangerous," the new version starring Nicolas Cage will seem like any other fast-food bullet ballet. Viewers who recall that original burst of adrenaline, however, will be left with hunger pangs.

Viewers of the awards show got to see the relaunching of the Britney Spears brand.

Shelley Malil is accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 20 times.

Prosecutors have brought additional charges against Hollywood actor accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 20 times.

Incident follows argument between the two men.

Actor Gary Coleman hit a pedestrian with his truck after arguing with him in a local bowling alley, police said.

The basketball star is promoting the doc "More Than a Game."

As the nation prepares to vote, movies take a political turn. In the past, that has not meant good box office.

The president believes he is above the law. America hasn't been caring for its soldiers. Liberals have no clue about what makes our country great.

The stakes are higher as the franchise moves to the big screen, but the cast members still act like kids.

YOU MIGHT expect the set of “ High School Musical 3: Senior Year” :-senior-year to be a bit like summer camp, with a bunch of young actors running around in shorts and T-shirts. And to a certain extent, it is. During a recent visit to a night-shoot set in a junkyard here, the preternaturally familiar cast members are surrounded by the colorful rusted-out carcasses of cinematically groomed classic cars and are killing time between shots doing what any group of high school or college kids might do between classes.

Raphael Saadiq, Eric Benet and others are also part of a bumper crop of releases due this fall.

LOOKING classic-casual in a summer blazer, gray fedora and matching silk scarf, Ne-Yo leaned over his laptop in a West Hollywood recording studio one mid- August afternoon, playing selections from "Year of the Gentleman," his third solo album, out Sept. 16. "The thing that sticks out on this record is the drama," said the 25-year-old singer-songwriter and soul ace as he pushed a button and the swirling ballad "Lie to Me" blasted out of the room's stereo system. "You can almost see it."

The releases, concerts and events that matter.

Afronaut auteurs

The director and actor think 'Body of Lies' will be the Iraq-war movie that finally draws a crowd.

SUFFICE IT to say that Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott agree to disagree about certain principles of the Geneva Conventions.

CLARK GREGG, one of those actors everyone recognizes as the strait-laced good guy -- see also: "The West Wing," "The New Adventures of Old Christine" -- was looking for his first film project to direct. Then “ Choke,” the fourth novel by "Fight Club" scribe Chuck Palahniuk (rhymes with "politic") came his way: a heartwarming tale of a sex addict whose mother is lost in dementia and who, as Gregg puts it, "deliberately chokes on food so that he can form parasitic relationships with the wealthy people who Heimlich him."

OSCAR-WINNING filmmaker Barry Levinson doesn't think his latest project -- the Hollywood satire "What Just Happened?" -- is too "inside baseball" for mass audiences.

The Charlize Theron film opens to mixed response.

Will Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire come back for two more sequels?

A production boom in Colombia will be felt.

I N THE film " Paraíso Travel,” a young immigrant named Marlon finds himself lost and broke shortly after arriving in New York and being separated from his girlfriend, the cunning and sexy Reina, played by Angélica Blandón. He meets an older man, a fixer for new arrivals, who helps him find shelter and asks the naive illegal what else he might need.