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How does Brad Pitt feel about being stormed by out-of-control paparazzi at an event for his new movie? The superstar shares his thoughts with ET!

“Though they were exceptionally more aggressive than usual,” Brad tells ET of the paps, “breaking through a security barrier and into a private holding area, ultimately [it was] just another day in the life …”

Brad was trying to get into an event for his new movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin ... read more

Will she be the next Wonder Woman?

She’s played sidekicks to super-goofs “Austin Powers” and Inspector Clouseau (”The Pink Panther”). Now, Beyonce aspires to fly solo as a legendary superheroine.

“I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman?” Beyonce tells the Los Angeles Times. “It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It’s time for that, ... read more

Voiceover Master Don LaFontaine has died. He was 68.

LaFontaine, known as the “King of Voiceovers,” died Monday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. LaFontaine’s agent, Vanessa Gilbert, tells ET that he passed away following complications from Pneumothorax, the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity, the result of a collapsed lung. The official cause of death has not yet been released.

Over the past 25 years, LaFontaine cemented his ... read more

Though “The Dark Knight” has been a bona fide cultural event, boasting rave reviews and boffo box office, it hasn’t been immune to criticism. Some have quibbled with its political undercurrents, and others have criticized a muddled theme.

But here’s the critique most widely held: Why does Batman talk like the offspring of Clint Eastwood and a grizzly bear?

Donning the costume for the second time, Christian Bale has delved deeper into the lower registers. As ... read more

Thousands of Batman fans finally got what they were waiting for Friday as sold-out midnight showings of “The Dark Knight” kicked off a weekend of screenings across the country.

Media By Numbers, a tracking firm, said the Warner Bros. movie set a box office record for a midnight debut, bringing in $18.5 million Friday from its midnight screening in 3,040 theaters.

That bested the 2005 performance of “Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith,” which ... read more

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions.

Federal judge William Terrell Hodges on Wednesday approved the actor’s motion to travel to London and Bangkok, Thailand. Snipes will be in England about three days this month for post-production editing of “Gallowwalker,” and in Thailand for eight weeks to film “Chasing the Dragon.”

A jury convicted the ... read more

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Why another Hulk? The comic-book geeks running Marvel Studios have an answer: $54.5 million.

That’s how much money “The Incredible Hulk” hauled in over opening weekend, the big green guy’s latest adventure coming just five years after his previous Hollywood adaptation was quickly laughed out of theaters.

‘Incredible Hulk’: photos, video, reviews and more

Despite the sour taste of 2003’s ... read more

The war of words between two of Hollywood’s greatest directors continued to rage on this weekend.

Last month at the Cannes Film Festival, Spike Lee criticized Clint Eastwood for his World War 2 movies about Iwo Jima. Lee said he was upset that neither “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” didn’t portry any African-American soldiers in the epic battle.

The former “Dirty Harry” fired back in an article printed Friday in ... read more

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Sandler became a box-office superstar by interpreting his favorite character: the repressed man-child.

He soared to fame portraying short-tempered Peter Pans in the “Happy Gilmore,” “Billy Madison” and “Big Daddy” films, branding himself the poster boy for guys who don’t want to grow up.

Now the 41-year-old actor-comedian will be rewarded for his antics with the Generation Award at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, ... read more

MOSCOW (AP) — Members of Russia’s Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist competing in 1957 with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.

It hit Russian screens Thursday.

Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 “did not send terrorists to the ... read more