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LOS ANGELES – The Easter bunny has hopped into the top spot at the weekend box office.
Russell Brand's family comedy "Hop" debuted at No. 1 with $38.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
LOS ANGELES – A highly anticipated film starring John Travolta as the leader of the legendary Gambino crime family has a name: "Gotti: Three Generations."
Film spokesman Steve Honig confirmed the title Saturday and says the biopic about "Dapper Don" John Gotti will be shot on a budget of about $75 million this year.
LOS ANGELES – Intricately plotted, visually inventive and compellingly portrayed, "Source Code" takes audiences into one of the last frontiers, a world that has fascinated scientists and fiction writers for centuries: time travel.
LOS ANGELES – From the makers of the blockbuster "Despicable Me" comes a new comedy that blends state-of-the-art CG animation with live action: "Hop." The follow up to Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide hit tells the story of E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand), the teenage son of the Easter Bunny.
LOS ANGELES – John Travolta will play legendary Gambino crime family leader "Dapper Don" John Gotti in an upcoming film about Gotti's life.
LOS ANGELES – One of the reasons James Marsden took on the starring role in the family film "Hop" was so that his two children could see his work.
But Marsden says that 10-year-old Jack and 5-year-old Mary don't really like seeing their dad on screen.
LAS VEGAS – James Cameron plans another innovation for his next "Avatar" installment: shooting at double or more the film speed that has been Hollywood's standard since the 1920s, a move he says will greatly improve 3-D images.
LAS VEGAS – As big-screen teachers go, Cameron Diaz will not be joining, say, Sidney Poitier or Sandy Dennis as inspiring role models to her classroom kids.
The title of Diaz's school comedy pretty much sums up her character: "Bad Teacher."
LOS ANGELES – A couple years ago, British comedian Russell Brand was an American unknown who hoped to gain fans stateside by hosting the MTV Video Music Awards.
Now, he's become the kind of A-list leading man who opens big-studio movies on back-to-back weekends.
NEW YORK – "The Kennedys" opens on the eve of Election Day 1960 with John F. Kennedy voicing high hopes to supporters as a long presidential race comes to an end.
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