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- 'Jersey Shore' star Snooki in Italy car crash
- 'Hangover' hurls up huge numbers with $86.5M debut
- Lindsay Lohan settles suit over 2007 highway chase
| 'Jersey Shore' star Snooki in Italy car crash Posted: 31 May 2011 12:55 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP): Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and a fellow "Jersey Shore" cast member have been involved in a minor traffic accident in Italy. The popular MTV reality show is filming its fourth season in Florence. The network said in a statement late Monday that two cast members were involved in a crash. The statement said no alcohol was involved and no one was arrested. It provided no further details. SallyAnn Salsano, executive producer at "Jersey Shore" production company 495, tells The Star-Ledger newspaper that the incident was "just a minor fender bender." She says the show is still filming. Photos posted on celebrity gossip website TMZ.com show Polizzi and co-star Deena Nicole Cortese, apparently uninjured, sitting on the sidewalk after the crash. The show's first and third season were set in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The second season sent the cast to Miami. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| 'Hangover' hurls up huge numbers with $86.5M debut Posted: 29 May 2011 06:04 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood's hangover is a lot bigger the second time around. "The Hangover Part II" hauled in $86.5 million in its first weekend, putting Hollywood on course to set a new revenue record for the long Memorial Day weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. From Friday to Sunday, Hollywood's domestic take totaled about $220 million. Once Monday's receipts are counted, the industry should finish the four-day weekend with around $270 million, easily topping the $254.6 million Memorial Day record set in 2007, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "The Hangover" sequel did nearly twice the business of the original blockbuster comedy in its $45 million opening weekend two years ago. In its first four days since opening Thursday, the Warner Bros. sequel has taken in $118.1 million and is on track to finish the long Memorial Day weekend with about $140 million in the bank. The first "Hangover" did not hit the $100 million mark until its second weekend. The movie went on to gross $277 million domestically. "The Hangover Part II" reunites stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis as they awake in another haze and attempt to piece together the mayhem of their drunken night in Bangkok, Thailand. Overseas, the sequel opened in 40 other countries and added $59 million. DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda 2" opened solidly with a $48 million weekend, though it came in well below the $60.2 million debut of the first installment three years ago. Since opening Thursday, "Kung Fu Panda 2" has pulled in $53.8 million. Distributor Paramount estimates the sequel will reach $68.2 million when the holiday weekend closes. With voice stars Jack Black and Angelina Jolie returning, "Kung Fu Panda 2" follows the menagerie of martial-arts heroes as they face a villain aiming to conquer ancient China with gunpowder and cannons. "Kung Fu Panda 2" also took in $57 million in 11 overseas markets, including $18.5 million in China. After a No. 1 debut the previous weekend, Johnny Depp's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" slipped to third-place with $39.3 million. Distributor Disney estimates the sequel's domestic revenues will reach $163.6 million by the end of the holiday weekend. "On Stranger Tides" also has taken in nearly half a billion dollars overseas, with its worldwide total through Monday estimated at $646.5 million. Director Terrence Malick's sweeping drama "The Tree of Life" drew huge crowds in limited release, debuting with $352,320 in just four theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. That gave the film a whopping average of $88,080 a theater, compared to a $23,923 average in 3,615 cinemas for "The Hangover Part II." "The Tree of Life" stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain in the story of a grown son reflecting on his boyhood with his two brothers, saintly mother and loving but domineering father. The film, which won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival the previous weekend, expands to more theaters Friday. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Lindsay Lohan settles suit over 2007 highway chase Posted: 27 May 2011 07:06 PM PDT BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP): Lindsay Lohan has settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who was chased by the actress in a pre-dawn pursuit that has haunted the actress in civil and criminal courts for nearly three years. The starlet on Wednesday settled the lawsuit filed by Tracie Rice, who claimed she was traumatized and lost a well-paying job because of the incident, court records show. Rice was a passenger in a car driven by the mother of Lohan's former assistant, who the actress pursued down the scenic Pacific Coast Highway in July 2007. The chase ended with Lohan's arrest in the parking lot of a police department; Rice has said she thought the actress was trying to carjack her. No details of the settlement, which was first reported Friday by celebrity website TMZ, were released. "Lindsay is very pleased to put this unfortunate event behind her," her attorney, Ed McPherson, wrote in a statement. Lohan was arrested twice for driving under the influence in 2007, and remains on probation for offenses. She has struggled to comply with the terms of her release, with three separate judges sending her to jail since July 2010. The "Mean Girls" star was sentenced to four months in jail last month for violating her probation by taking a necklace without permission, and on Thursday surrendered to authorities and began serving her term on house arrest. She is expected to spend roughly 35 days on home confinement. Rice's case against Lohan has been repeatedly delayed in the past year because of Lohan's stints in jail and rehab. Rice's attorney, Paul L. Hoffman, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Friday. Lohan is also being sued by three men who were in the sport utility vehicle the actress used to pursue Rice. McPherson wrote the actress expects to be vindicated in that case. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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