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Kevin Costner is suing his fellow Dances with Wolves and The Bodyguard producer in a dispute over a company the Oscar winner set up nearly three decades ago and was looking to end.

The flap over Good Ones Productions, which Costner launched in 1992, involves his longtime business partner, Jim Wilson, and his failure to give up his rights to the company that Costner was looking to wind down last year. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here), the actor claims Wilson refused to sign away his stake in Good Ones.

The pair met in 1983, when Costner landed his first lead role in a movie, the Wilson-directed Stacey’s Knights. Per the suit, Costner says “he never forgot the opportunity Wilson provided for him.” When Costner was up for his first directing job after becoming a star with such films as Silverado and Bull Durham,...

The Price Is Right had an extra exciting episode on Thursday, when one lucky contestant shattered the Plinko record -- though we're pretty sure he would've been thrilled to just have been on the show.

Contestant Ryan could not contain his excitement when host Drew Carey invited him up onstage, as he ran through the aisles cheering and high-fiving the crowd.

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Ryan then went crazy when he found out he'd be playing the Plinko game, in which contestants drop a chip down a gigantic pinball board to land on a winning sum. "Oh my God!" he yelled when he dropped his first chip on the top amount, $10,000, before landing on $1,000, $10,000, $500, and another $10,000 on his last attempt -- which is when he really lost it.

"Ryan! Ryan!" the crowd cheered as he ran around the stage in shock, hugging the model...

The ladies of The Talk paid tribute to Cher the best way they know how.

Julie Chen, Sheryl Underwood, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne and Aisha Tyler all took turns embodying a specific era of the icon's career for an episode that aired on Tuesday.

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"I've been dieting since we heard that Cher was coming, so I can fit into the outfit," Underwood said.

The comedian went with the singer's getup from the "If I Could Turn Back Time" music video, while Chen opted for the unforgettable Bob Mackie outfit from the Oscars, Gilbert went with the Sonny and Cher era, Tyler took on '70s Cher and Osbourne dressed like Cher from her farewell tour.

"It's every girl's dream to be Cher for a day," Chen admitted.

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The Price Is Right is getting major star power starting Monday for their Celebrity Charity Week.

Jack Black, Jane Lynch, Wilmer Valderrama, Chris O'Donnell and Julie Bowen will be participating for a good cause next week, and Et's Leanne Aguilera stopped by the set to see how they were doing.

Read: Julie Bowen Responds to Sofia Vergara Feud Rumors

"It's incredibly anxiety-producing. I've been shouting and jumping for the last hour," Bowen admitted. "It was stressful. When you're picking between a two and a three, and the difference between someone winning a car or not winning a car? Oh my gosh! I need to rest. I need to rest now!"

Host Drew Carey explained how the rules of the special week work, saying, "Different celebrities come on and they play along with the contestants and we match their winnings dollar for dollar and give it to a charity of the celebrity's choice."

And Carey couldn't...

Adam Rees Nov 4, 2016

Once a blockbuster staple, the power ballad was the ultimate movie accompaniment. We look back at some of the classics...

For a glorious period from the mid-80s throughout the 90s, the biggest summer blockbusters were only worth their salt if they had an equally gargantuan song at the head their soundtrack. Often the success of one was inexorably linked to the other, with the likes of Four Weddings And A Funeral's feats matched and even exceeded by Wet Wet Wet's accompanying Love Is All Around.

The greatest and most successful songs belong to the power ballad genre, and are as emotionally charged and forceful as the gods of epic balladry such as Journey, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Meat Loaf. As the 90s became the 00s and the charts became increasingly irrelevant, the movie ballad became almost defunct, with even the song-dominant film soundtrack being...

“Zootopia” trampled “London Has Fallen” at the Thursday night box office and broke a Disney record in the process. The animated comedy, which has been almost unanimously praised by the critics who are counted on Rotten Tomatoes, roared to $1.7 million, while the Gerard Butler action sequel managed to make just $850,000 in 2,400 domestic locations. “Zootopia” now boasts Disney’s highest-grossing Thursday-night opening for a non-summer animation movie. Also Read: 'Deadpool's' Winning Streak May Be Ended by Two Newcomers This Weekend “Big Hero 6” opened to $1.4 million in 2014, and “Frozen” made $1.2 million in Thursday previews in 2013. “Zootopia” had a score of...

Hollywood screenwriter and author Michael Blake, most famous for his Oscar-winning movie Dances with Wolves, has died.

Blake's manager and producing partner Daniel Ostroff told The Hollywood Reporter that Blake died peacefully in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday (May 2). Blake, who was 69, was battling a long-term illness.

In 1988, Blake wrote Dances With Wolves and later adapted it as a film feature in 1990, directed by and starring Kevin Costner.

The movie went on to win seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Blake. Costner also won the Academy Award for Best Director.

Prior to Dances With Wolves, Costner and Blake worked on the 1983 drama Stacy's Knights - the duo's first collaboration.

Blake also got behind the camera as a director in 1998's Winding Stair, which he also adapted into a screenplay from Douglas C Jones' novel.

Blake is survived by his wife Marrianne Mortensen Blake and their three children.

Michael Blake, who wrote the novel Dances With Wolves and penned its subsequent film treatment, has died at 69, Variety reports.Blake spent his childhood in Texas and Southern California, where he became enamored with the story of the southwest. He studied journalism briefly before switching to film at the University of New Mexico. He then pursued a career in screenwriting. Only one of Blake’s screenplays made it to the big screen in the 1980s, but that film, Stacy’s Knights, starred Kevin Costner, who proved instrumental to Blake’s career. Costner convinced Blake to write the novel Dances With Wolves, which subsequently sold 3.5 million copies and was translated into 15 languages. Costner, of course, directed and starred in the 1990 cinematic adaptation for which Blake won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The novel and film depict a Union Army Lieutenant in the Civil War-era west who meets a group of...

Film strikes a rare and welcome balance between screwball comedy and touching emotion

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have been a match made in indie-film heaven since “Greenberg” in 2010, and the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Mistress America” this weekend showed the two fully in sync once more.

By turns wacky, amusing and touching, the new film isn’t as focused as “Frances Ha,” the last film directed by Baumbach, starring Gerwig and co-written by both. But the Fox Searchlight project is one of the delights of this year’s festival, and one of the most satisfying, sure-handed and touching...

Last year, DreamWorks’ Benedict Cumberbatch-led film about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange created a conversation about hacking in Toronto (even if the movie wasn't all that well received). Also read: Toronto Preview: The Big Festival Arrives With a Winning Streak on the Line This year, “Who Am I — No System Is Safe” looks to continue the topical theme. The German film, directed by Baran Bo Odar (“The Silence”) features “A Coffee in Berlin” breakout star Tom Schilling as a young hacker who gets caught up with a hacktivist collective bent on causing trouble for the powers that be. (Their name,...

Barkhad Abdi, the Oscar nominated actor who played a Somali pirate opposite Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips is reportedly broke despite his success.

Abdi, 28, a Somali refugee, fled Somalia with his family when he was just seven-years-old and finally moved to the U.S. when he was 14. Abdi has said that he was just about to start school in Somalia when the war broke out and he and his family were forced to leave.

“I remember I had my uniform and everything, like, finally I get to start school tomorrow. That afternoon, I started hearing gunshots. And, I remember… I wasn’t allowed to play outside anymore. The next day, it was war,” Abdi recounted in an interview with CBS News.

Abdi and his family settled in Minneapolis surrounded by a strong Somali community. Thrust into a whole new American world, Abdi struggled to learn English and assimilate. After high school,...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, the esteemed actor who was found dead in his New York apartment earlier this month, died as a result of an acute mixed drug intoxication.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's Cause Of Death

The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner Public Affairs revealed that the lethal drug combination that took Hoffman’s life included heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines (e.g. Xanax, Valium) and amphetamines (e.g. Mdma, Methamphetamine). It was also determined that Hoffman’s death was accidental.

Hoffman admitted during his film career, in which he won an Oscar for portraying Truman Capote in the eponymous film. that he struggled with heroin addiction after completing college. Since then, he’d remained clean and sober, focusing on his career and on his family with longtime partner Mimi O’Donnell.

The demons that plagued Hoffman reemerged last year, causing the actor to voluntarily check himself into rehab. At the time,...

The Academy announced a list of all the celebrities that will be presenting at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday, including previous host Whoopi Goldberg and Sherlock superstar Benedict Cumberbatch.

The list of presenters contains many past Oscar winners and even more past Oscar nominees. As previously reported, last year’s Best Actor/Actress winners, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Christoph Waltz and Anne Hathaway will be on hand to present. Joining them are previous Best Actor winner Jamie Foxx, Best Supporting Actress winner Penélope Cruz, and many more.

“We are very excited that the Hollywood community will be turning out in force for Sunday’s Oscar ceremony. We sought to include a tremendous diversity of stars to represent not only this year’s nominees, but the legacy of the motion picture business as well,” said Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron on Monday, Feb. 24.

Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres tweeted...

Last year’s Academy Award winning actors, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway and Christoph Waltz will act as presenters at this year’s Oscars ceremony.

Traditionally, last year’s winner of the opposite sex presents each acting category, meaning Best Supporting Actress winner Hathaway would present the award for Best Supporting Actor, and so on.

Last year at the 85th Academy Awards, 2012 winner for Best Supporting Actress, Octavia Spencer, gave out the award to Waltz, who won his second Oscar for his role in Django Unchained, Meryl Streep presented the award of Best Actor in a Leading Role to Daniel Day-Lewis, Christopher Plummer presented Hathaway with her award, star of The Artist, Jean Dujardin was also on hand to give out the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role to Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook.

However, which specific categories the actors would be presenting were not disclosed by the Academy.

It's almost too good to be true: a bunch of major movie stars (among them Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louie C.K. and others...), dressed up in insane '70s clothing, in a movie that often feels like a period version of "Ocean's Eleven."

But yet, here we are, reviewing "American Hustle," the new film from "Silver Linings Playbook" director David O. Russell. Based in part on an actual FBI sting operation, it features cops and criminals and the grey area in between, with an emphasis on memorable characters and identifiable situations as opposed to, well, a bunch of criminal underworld type stuff that no one would really care about.

Of course, given the glut of incredible movies mobbing the multiplexes this Christmas, is "American Hustle" worth your hard-earned dough? Should you hustle to see this movie? These are the groovy questions at hand, and...

The Affordable Care Act kicks in next Tuesday, Oct. 1, but “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart has mixed feelings on the law. “I like my healthcare like I like my women: Universal and with a waiting list for non-essential procedures … And single prayer,” Stewart said Tuesday night. Also read: Emmys: ‘Colbert Report’ Breaks ‘Daily Show’s’ 10-Year Winning Streak With Variety Show Award Senator Lindsey Graham is a little less torn, and much more to the point. “This bill sucks,” he said in a recent televised interview. He then reiterated the sentiment in case someone missed his momentary lack of southern gentility.

Hoping for a flashy dance number at the Emmys? Be careful what you wish for. After a series of tearful tributes to recently deceased TV stars threatened to turn this year's Emmys into one of the most depressing awards shows in recent years, inviting the nominated choreographers -- typically a category relegated to the Creative Arts ceremony -- to mount a fun dance piece might have sounded like a good idea on paper. Emmys 2013: 'The Colbert Report' Ends 'The Daily Show's' 10-Year Winning Streak What resulted, however, left audiences at the Nokia Theatre and home viewers confused, bemused and -- in

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