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This week's big global release is the DreamWorks animated prehistoric comedy-adventure The Croods, led by an all-star vocal cast including Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds. Look for a huge push for must-have spin-off merchandise for this one, as it's packed with cuddly creatures. And hope it does well at the box office, because it would make a great franchise too.

Doing the publicity rounds this week, Gerard Butler has been out promoting his new White House thriller Olympus Has Fallen. Flitting between New York and Los Angeles to appear on every chat show possible, it's no wonder that he was somewhat fed-up by the time he reached David Letterman's Manhattan studio. Of course, the paparazzi caught it on camera as he lost his patience with a fan trying to get multiple autographs. But he manages to recovers his usual charm.

Continue reading: A Week In Movies: Cage, Stone And Cuddly Creatures In The Croods, Jim Carrey Features In Kick Ass 2 Trailer While New Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer Hits The Web

Bieber Blues: What is happening to Justin Bieber? The former loveable scamp appears to have become a target for the tabloids, especially the British ones. He endured a torrid time in London before cancelling a show in Portugal, apparently owing to poor ticket sales. Is this a crisis?

Credit Check: Ever wondered how much Ashton Kutcher has in the bank? How about Jay-Z, Mel Gibson, Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger or even Joe Biden. Well, one hacker - seemingly based in Russia - has posted the financial details of the world's biggest stars onto a hastily made website. Some of the numbers are big. Huge, in fact.

Continue reading: A Week In News: Justin Bieber Loses Fans? Elin Nordegren Finds Love? Miley Cyrus Single?

Brandi Glanville is not necessarily a name that sticks with you, something that is especially true when the person trying to recall her name is Scottish actor Gerard Butler, who admitted that he had slept with the reality star before, he just couldn't remember her name afterwards. Butler confirmed that the pair got down to business during Howard Stern's Sirius XM show last night (March 11), saying that the liaison happened over 'one afternoon,' rather than the week-long love fest described by Glanville during the Jan. 24 episode of Watch What Happens Live.

Apparently, Butler became aware that his run-in with the Real Housewives of Beverley Hills star was common knowledge when a paparazzo reportedly told him 'Brandi Glanville says you're great in bed.' Butler then responded by asking 'who's Brandi Glanville?' (he isn't the only person asking this in the world we're sure) because apparently the hunky Scot never found out Brandi's surname nor did he know she was famous in the first place, nor did he know that she 'was going to f--king tell people about it!'

Continue reading: Brandi Glanville's Night Of Passion With Gerard Butler Turns Out To Be True!

Gerard Butler has admitting to hooking up with 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Brandi Glanville, but says he forgot her name. The actor, star of Olympus Has Fallen, confirmed the tryst on The Howard Stern Show on Monday, saying, "It was a one-afternooner, but it was fun.She is wild."

Glanville, 40, made the whole thing sound like a much bigger deal when she went public during the January 24 episode of 'Watch What Happens Live' saying she and Butler "had a little week of fun" and giving him an "11" out of ten rating. The 300 star was later informed of the comments by a paparazzo, who said, "Brandi Glanville says you're great in bed." Gerard's response? "Who's Brandi Glanville?" Ouch.

The actor recalled the incident to Stern, "And you know what I said: 'Who's Brandi Glanville?" Butler laughed, "Because one, I didn't know her last name and two, I didn't know she was a celebrity and I didn't know she was going to f--king tell people about it!" Once the actor figured out who she was, he called Glanville up, "I said one, 'I'm not very happy you did that because there are certain things you keep a little private.' And two, 'I'm sorry I said I didn't know who you were!"

Continue reading: Gerard Butler Admits Sleeping With Brandi Glanville: "She Is Wild"

It’s become the case that as sure as night follows day, so the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show will run a bang up program post-Oscars awards show.

The show followed the immediate aftermath of the 2013 Oscars, which saw the likes of Argo and Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lawrence, Ang Li and Bradley Cooper walk off with the main honors, and Kimmel was once again quick to mock the Hollywood film industry with a show brimming with satire. MTV reports that Kimmel opened with a lively monologue which saw him throw barbs at E!’s Ryan Seacrest, saying that he “took home the award for Best Animated Short” as well as poke fun at John Travolta, who’d struggled to pronounce film name Les Miserables at the event itself.

Then there was the sequel to Movie the Movie, the fake movie trailer that has since gone on to become a Youtube favorite after its debut at last year’s Oscar post-show. The sequel was called Move the Movie V2 and switched between a multiple of genres and featured the likes of Rachel Weisz and Armie Hammer which most notably mocked The Twilight Saga. A zombie apocalypse meanwhile takes care of the likes of Jude Law, whilst Gerard Butler also appears for a cameo. Yet inspite of the undoubted hi-jinks, there was something lacking in Kimmel’s show last night, and it wasn’t his fault – more over it just seemed that the material he had to work with, the Oscars themselves, was a little dull this year.

Being Valentine's Day week, cinemas are flooded with romantic movies like the new teen franchise-launcher Beautiful Creatures. US audiences can also weep their way through the new Nicholas Sparks drama Safe Haven, while in the UK couples instead can laugh at Judd Apatow's epic rom-com This Is 40 and the clunky British farce Run For Your Wife. And for alternative viewing, there's the ultimate date movie A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis' fifth instalment in the crashing, exploding franchise.

And this kind of action dominates the week's new selection of trailers, starting with the very explosive-looking Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler as a Secret Service agent trying to retake the White House after a terrorist invasion. The muscly cast includes Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett and Melissa Leo. It opens in March.

Continue reading: A Week In Movies: Beautiful Creatures Opens, Tom Cruise Visits A Post-apocalyptic Earth And Billy Crystal And John Goodman Reunite In Monsters University

There was another new face atop the Box Office charts at the end of this weekend (26-28 October), with Ben Affleck’s newest project, Argo, taking the top spot on it’s third week in the chart.

Argo made the leap from second to first;after an impressive weekend saw it take $12,355,000, estimates report, taking its overall domestic earnings to just over $60 million. Meanwhile, last weeks number one, Paranormal Activity 4, slid right down to number four as audiences decided they would prefer political thrills to supernatural frights over Halloween weekend. Hotel Transylvania and Taken 2 were the other non-debutants in the top five, with newbie Cloud Atlas taking third spot in the Box Office with a rather meagre $9,400,000.

Three other debutants marked a strangely slow start to their Box Office careers, with Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Fun Size and Chasing Mavericks all collectively taking only slightly more than Argo pulled in by itself. Silent Hill, which tied with Taken 2 for the fifth spot on the movie chart, pulled a reasonable $8 million, whilst the high school comedy Fun Size took a little over £4 million and Gerard Butler’s surfing movie Chasing Mavericks took a scanty $2.2 million.

Continue reading: Box Office Round Up: Argo Takes The Top Spot After Sluggish Weekend

Can Paranormal Activity 4 and Argo be shifted from the top of the US Box Office? It's slim pickings this week, in terms of big money releases but if any movie is going to do it, it will be Cloud Atlas, the sprawling adaptation of David Mitchell's novel. We'll also look at the rest of this week's main releases: Chasing Mavericks, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D and Pusher.

Cloud Atlas has been getting some heavy promotion over the last few weeks, so curiosity, at the very least, should get movie fans into the theaters this week. The movie's producers will be hoping that this is the case, because the film is on thin ice with the critics, having scored a shaky 60% on the Rotten Tomatoes site. The general consensus seems to be that although the movie is well made, it could have done with a firmer editorial hand. Claudia Puig summed it up by saying "The cumulative effect is one of spectacle over substance."

You can watch the Cloud Atlas trailer here

Continue reading: Hot Tickets! This Weekend's Movie Releases: Cloud Atlas, Chasing Mavericks, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, Pusher

It's a big few weeks for movies, but a little surfer flick has floated in under the radar; we've taken a look at some Chasing Maverick reviews, and promise to ride the waves of surfing puns for a long as we can stay on our board.

Refusing to wax up and hit the waves is Alonso Duralde, who gives the film a wholly negative review. He writes, "With a storyline as by-the-numbers as a square dance, the movie's one surprise comes with the closing credits -- namely, that this trite "inspirational" movie is the product of two world-class filmmakers, Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted." And this review is endemic amongst the multiple negative pieces out there. Kathleen Murphy sounds like she wants to bail: "...you see what 'Chasing Mavericks' missed entirely: the transfiguring energy that animated this remarkable child of the sea." And Rafer Guzman of Newsday can't wait to get the wetsuit off, writing: "Chasing Mavericks" invents minor conflicts but avoids major problems, coming off less like a biographical drama than a visit from a guest lecturer during Sunday school."

Overall, Chasing Mavericks, which gains little from the rugged good looks of Gerard Butler, who plays Frosty Hesson, got a low average score of 42% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. And we've run out of surfing metaphors because we don't really know anything about it. Bye.

Gerard Butler’s latest film Chasing Mavericks hits cinemas on October 26^th. The movie tells the tale of an adventurous boy, his surfing teacher and a mammoth wave, and filming it wasn’t the safest thing to do, recalls Butler.

Talking to ABC News, the Scottish born star said “That’s crazy!” while watching a clip of an accident that occurred amidst a giant wave. “Even when I see that it brings back memories. I was down and I just didn’t come back up, really, I was down for that wave and I was down for a long time. I started to think ‘wow I’m going to die making a movie,’” explained Butler, before going on to highlight some of the perils of become a surfer. He did express his desire to get out there and surf, though, so it looks like the incident didn’t put him off the sport for life, in fact the whole experience seems to have given him a zest for life, and encouraged him to take on new challenges. Sounds like a empty new years resolution to us.

Continue reading: Gerard Butler Explains His Near Death Experience

Gerard Butler has opened up about the ordeal of being pulled under the waves after a surfing trip went badly wrong last December. Butler stars in ‘Chasing Maverick’ as real-life surfer Jay Moriaty, who in 1994 as a 16 year-old drew notoriety and acclaim from the surfing fraternity in 1994 after being wiped out by a 30-foot wave only to continue surfing almost instantly.

Butler though faced his own wipeout moment last year when filming and didn’t handle it quite as well, nearly drowning. Talking to USA Today, the Scottish actor said that underwater "all of those things were going around my head, going 'This is it. If I panic now…" Things got even worse as a second wave hit him and he found himself submerged again. “I felt very present” he reflected. “There was something that felt very normal about it. But by the time I got to the point I got to thinking, 'I'm in big trouble now,' that was only a about a quarter of the way through it. It went on and on and on. And then I started thinking, I just wanted to scream. And I was so deep underwater. I wanted to scream 'Help, somebody!' Or 'Mom!' Or something. And yet I knew the second I did that I was done."

Thankfully a crew member was nearby and Butler managed to grab onto his hand and was pulled out of the water. It was a near scare that only gave the Hollywood A-lister an increased respect for the surfer he portrays in ‘Chasing Maverick’, out this Friday. 

Justin Timberlake has been snapped enjoying a few pre-wedding cocktails in the Italian countryside.

US Magazine have published a picture of Justin looking dapper, but relaxed, in a black jacket, white suit and a trilby. The 31 year-old is scheduled to marry his sweetheart Jessica Biel this weekend, in Southern Italy. (October 18, 2012).

On Thursday, Justin and Jessica were joined by family and friends, including comedian Andy Samberg and music manager Johnny Wright. Jessica’s 7th Heaven co-star Beverly Mitchell was also there enjoying some fancy food and cocktails with the happy couple. The wedding party reportedly enjoyed a pleasant evening by the beachfront, which had been decorated by lanterns and at around 9:30pm, guests watched a 10 minute firework display before returning to their upmarket hotel.

Continue reading: Pre-Wedding Cocktails And Fireworks For Justin Timberlake And Jessica Biel