Hollywood hopes for better 2012

Tom Cruise's new mission remains impossible to beat at the box office. Studio estimates yesterday placed Mission: Impossible Ñ Ghost Protocol in the No. 1 spot for the second-straight weekend with US$31.3 million. With a US$134.1 million domestic…

Katy Perry, Russell Brand head for divorce

Russell Brand is divorcing Katy Perry after 14 months of what appeared to be a storybook marriage. "Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage," Brand said in a statement released to The Associated Press on Friday. "I'll always adore her and I know…

LeBron James Is Engaged

LeBron James had more on his mind than just ringing in the new year on Saturday night. At a New Year's Eve dinner and party at the Shelborne hotel in South Beach, the Miami Heat star, 27, proposed to his longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson. And he…

Steven Tyler Is Engaged, Jeweler Confirms

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and his girlfriend of five years, Erin Brady, got engaged over the holidays, the rocker's go-to jewelry maker has confirmed. Reports that the "American Idol" judge, 63, had popped the question emerged…

Kelly Rowland wants to get a ‘movie kiss’ on New Year’s Eve

The former Destiny's Child star is currently single, but says she would like to see 2012 in with a passionate embrace. She said: "I don't know what I'm doing, but hopefully I'll just get a kiss! I want a good kiss where someone just takes your face…

Rihanna To Perform New Year’s Eve Concert in Barbados

Bajan pop star Rihanna is set to perform a private concert in Barbados on New Year's Eve, where the audience will include Simon Cowell.  This is AWESOME!  The government of Barbados has invested a lot of money in Rihanna as an Ambassador and it…

Lady Gaga to help drop New Year’s ball

Lady Gaga has been inescapable for 2011, so it makes sense that she'll also be on hand to help us draw this year to a close. The New Yorker will be back in town on New Year's Eve as Mayor Bloomberg's special guest, a spokesperson for the mayor…

Ghost Rider writer loses legal bid

The rights to Marvel Comics hero Ghost Rider - played by Nicholas Cage in two films - belong to the firm and not the writer who conceived him in the 1970s, a New York judge has ruled. Gary Friedrich launched a legal bid to cash in on film rights…

Jordan is engaged and so is Judd

Talk about a slam-dunk way to cap off the holiday season: Michael Jordan is engaged. The former NBA pro, 48, popped the question over the Christmas weekend to his girlfriend of three years, Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, rep Estee Portnoy…

Fast Five is ‘top pirated film of 2011’

Action movie Fast Five was the most pirated film of 2011, according to file-sharing blog, Torrent Freak. The fifth instalment in the Fast and the Furious film series was downloaded 9.2 million times, figures have shown. In second place was The…