Hollywood News Now

Tonight on The Voice , Blake Shelton sang a country song called "Over." But just like in country songs, it ain't over yet. Before the two-part grand finale airs next week, Teams Blake and Xtina had to work their way through a very wholesome-sounding Killers cover . Coaches Cee Lo and Adam had to listen to Christina take credit for their song choices. (Apparently, Christina already performed Juliet Simms' pick at the Grammys, and had already optioned Tony Lucca's pick for her own team member, Moses. Is no song safe?) And the rest of us got to hear some pretty inspired interpretations of James Brown, Journey, and a little-known hipster favorite named Bach. So before Justin Bieber steals their spotlight on May 8, let's get to the semi-finalists. TONY LUCCA - TEAM ADAM "TON-ee LOU-cah," growled Cee Lo in his best Godfather accent, "Your performance pleases me." Cee Lo wasn't the only one who felt that way. Tonight, Tony made his b...

ABC/ADAM TAYLOR Monday night's Dancing With The Stars was on fire! With the finale less than a month away, there's no room for low scores and heavy criticism. The final seven gave it their all, but not everyone got a glowing review.  So who did the judges make mad, spiraling them into an angry rant, and what dancing duo was celebrating a season first? We got the stars to spill after the show! MORE: Scripted TV Is Coming to E!â€"From Notable Names Like Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca and John Wells Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player . There's no doubt Derek Hough and Maria Menounos owned the night. Grabbing the season's first perfect score of 30 with a sizzling paso doble, they had major bragging rights. When we caught up with the unstoppable two, they were still on cloud nine! "It's really crazy, it hasn't even sunk in yet!" Derek told us. ...

The superhero saga "The Avengers" lived up to its blockbuster buzz with $178.4 million in overseas weekend ticket sales. It opens in U.S. theaters Friday. The cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson. The comedy "Think Like a Man" was No. 1 domestically for the second-straight weekend with $18 million. Four movies were bunched up for the No. 2 spot in the $11 million range: "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" with $11.4 million; the romantic drama "The Lucky One" with $11.3 million; "The Hunger Games" with $11.25 million; and the romantic comedy "The Five-Year Engagement" with $11.2 million. Jason Statham's action tale "Safe" from finished at No. 6 with $7.7 million and John Cusack's Edgar Allan Poe mystery "The Raven" ended No. 7 with $7.3 million. "The Hunger Games" climbed to $372.5 millio...

Blake Shelton (left) and Adam Levine Mario Anzuoni/Rueters/Landov In what host Carson Daly described as a "pressure-packed night" the remaining eight contestants on The Voice â€" two from each coach's team â€" gave what could be their final performances during Monday's semifinals. Audience votes plus scores from judges Blake Shelton , Christina Aguilera , Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green will determine which four singers go home Tuesday night and which four make it to next week's finals. Read on for more. From Team Blake, Erin Willett became overwhelmed with emotion after a powerful performance of David Guetta's "Without You." "I just emotionally kind of got lost," a tearful Willet, who lost her father during the competition, told Daly after her performance. "I would give anything to have a tenth of the talent that you have," her mentor, Shelton, told her. "Your singing is unbelievable." Shelton...

Click photo to enlarge In this film image released by Disney, Thor portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, are shown in a scene from "The Avengers" (AP Photo/Disney) Not all superhero movies scale great heights. Despite the hype, last year's "Green Lantern" couldn't hold a candle to much of anything, leave alone Christopher Nolan's "Batman" series. "Wolverine" was an outright dog, "Spider-Man 3" a tangled mess. Now along comes "The Avengers," and we're reminded there's a way to do it right. Joss Whedon's take on the Marvel collection of good guys is about as great as a superhero movie can get. It's bursting with imaginative action, jacked up on clever dialogue, directed with fanboy exuberance and teeming with well-drawn Marvel comic-book icons -- Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Nick Fury. Most remark...

E! is delving deeper into the music business with opening acts and a Jonas Brother. As part of its upfront presentation to advertisers Monday, the cable network will announce new unscripted series from Nigel Lythgoe and  Ryan Seacrest , in addition to a robust scripted slate.   The former, Opening Act, revolves around finding acts to open for some of music’s biggest names; the latter, Married to Jonas , centers on the oldest of the Jonas Brothers, Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle. On Act , Lythgoe will usher the cable network into the competitive music competition market with a series that counts  Mary J. Blige and Rock Mafia producer Antonina Armato as part of its artist development team. That team will comb the Internet in search of talented amateurs capable of opening for such acts as Nicki Minaj, LMFAO, Brad Paisley , Gym Class Heroes and Jason Mraz.  Olivia Lee, best known for her hidden camera segments on The Tonight Show, will surprise these unknown acts...

Who got Whitney Houston started using drugs? Bobby Brown says it wasn’t him, thank you very much. Houston's drug use started "way before" he entered the picture, he told Matt Lauer in an interview that will air this week on the “ Today ” show. "I didn't get high [on narcotics] before I met Whitney," Brown said. "I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one that got Whitney on drugs at all." He said that watching the reality show they did together in 2005, “Being Bobby Brown,” was enlightening.  “We was able to see that our drug use had affected our relationship, had affected the love that we felt for each other." The couple, who got together at the start of the '90s, split in 2006 and finalized their divorce in 2007. Brown, who last week pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor DUI charge stemming from a daytime arrest in March, is "very much clean and sober from narcotics," he said. He repo...

LOS ANGELES â€" "The Avengers" isn't playing yet on U.S. movie screens, but the superhero dream team already is a marvel at the worldwide box office. Final figures from distributor Disney on Monday put the overseas haul for "The Avengers" at $185.1 million since it began opening in 39 markets last week. That's nearly $7 million more than the studio had estimated Sunday. The overseas results for "The Avengers" overshadowed a fairly quiet weekend at the domestic box office. The ensemble comedy "Think Like a Man" remained the No. 1 draw for the second-straight weekend with $17.6 million, holding off a rush of new movies that did only modest business at U.S. theaters. Among the revenue highlights for "The Avengers": $25.5 million in Great Britain, $19.8 million in Australia, $16.9 million in Mexico and $13.9 million in France. Based on the Marvel Comics series, "The Avengers" cast includes Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Ma...

By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY Updated Carrie Underwood has a lovely country-pop voice and a winningly sweet, self-effacing manner. Yet you'd be hard-pressed to assign her an artistic personality beyond that. Carrie Underwood's singing is impeccable on her fourth album, 'Blown Away,' but there's a lack of excitement. Carrie Underwood's singing is impeccable on her fourth album, 'Blown Away,' but there's a lack of excitement. Certainly, the songs on her new album, Blown Away (* * * out of four) cover a range of emotions and experience, and Underwood co-wrote some intriguing ones. In the pulsing Two Black Cadillacs , a man's widow and mistress meet at his funeral after sharing a secret phone conversation; Good in Goodbye charts a failed romance with two happy endings. Underwood's singing, as usual, is impeccable â€" technically supple and elegant but full of girlish pluck. Even when wor...

April 30, 2012 Joss Whedon's The Avengers has sparked renewed interest in the films building up to Marvel's big superhero ensemble extravaganza. Three of the five pre-Avengers titles currently reside on Amazon's top 10 bestselling Blu-ray chart days ahead of The Avengers theatrical release this Friday. Sitting in position four is the Blu-ray and DVD combo edition of Thor starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman. Amazon has it priced at $19.99 or 56 percent off the $44.99 list price. Also of note is the Blu-ray 3D combo pack edition of Thor is currently the fourth bestselling Blu-ray 3D title at Amazon. Captain America: The First Avenger starring Chris Evans sits a couple spots lower at number six. It shares the same $19.99 price as Thor , more than 50 percent off list. The Blu-ray 3D edition is also a couple spots lower than Thor at spot six on that chart. Coming in position 10 at Amazon is Iron Man 2 starring Robert Downey Jr. This one is priced a li...

LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" A federal judge ruled Monday that producers of the Golden Globe Awards acted properly when they negotiated a deal keeping the glitzy gala on NBC through 2018. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz 's 89-page ruling states that the production company, dick clark productions, has a right to negotiate the deal and work on the show as long as it airs on NBC. That right was a key part of a long-running dispute between the company, known as dcp, and the Globes' organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association . The association sued over the broadcast deal in November 2010, but the two sides have worked together on the past two awards shows. The production company has claimed it has a perpetual right to work on the show as long as it airs on NBC, but the association argued that it never agreed to those terms and it was facing the loss of its creation. The Globes have become big business, with Hollywood A-listers appearing each year. The journalists...

startraksphoto.com; Getty Images Washington D.C. shined a whole lot brighter this weekend when Hollywood's A-list descended upon the capital for the White House Correspondents' Dinner alongside Barack and Michelle Obama . From Kate Hudson to Charlize Theron to Reese Witherspoon and more, the stars dazzled on the red carpet. PHOTOS: Fashion Spotlight: Kate Hudson Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player . The Change-Up actress Leslie Mann (aka Mrs. Judd Apatow ) was in full bloom in an elegant floral single-shoulder Naeem Khan belted gown. She added fuchsia accessories, including heels, clutch and lipstick, to her bouquet of lovely. Meanwhile, Kate got jaws dropping in a sparkling purple three-quarter-sleeve Jenny Packham stunner, topped with a high bun and a black Edie Parker clutch. This is the most glamorous the Almost Famous star and mama of two has looked in ages! PHOTOS:...

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; Jon Furniss/WireImage.com There's more to being a duchess than just looking fabulous every single day (even though Kate Middleton already has that part down). Heck, it's practically a job requirement that she produce an heir for her hubby, Prince William . And since the duo just celebrated their first anniversary yesterdayâ€"along with those adorable pics of Will holding a baby â€"we have to wonder whether Kate's feeling the pressure to get pregnant. But we hear there are bigger things weighing on her mindâ€"like little sis, Pippa Middleton , who's been busy distracting tabloids with more than just her tush. READ: Happy One-Year Wedding Anniversary, Will and Kate! If you look at Princess Diana (whom Kate has long been compared toâ€"remember that creepy Newsweek cover ?!), she had a bun in the oven within her first year of being a royal. By that standard, Kate is already behind! Hello, you either have...

Michael Yarish/AMC Don Draper invites his daughter, Sally, to a grown up dinner where he receives an award. Sally Draper's growing up.  And maybe a little too fast.   On last night's episode of Mad Men , "At the Codfish Ball," Donald Draper allowed his 12 year old daughter to enter his world, without makeup on of course.   The night started with Sally placing a call to her old friend, Glen, you know, the kid who was obsessed with Betty back in season one.  No longer is Glen a shy, misunderstood little boy, he's a cool cat.  Leaning up against wall talking to Sally, he loves that the other boys around him think she's his girlfriend.  And I think they both wish this were true.   But right in the middle of the conversation, Sally's grandmother trips over the phone cord that was stretched in Sally's room, breaking her foot.  So Don has to take the kids at an inconvenient time as Megan's parents are also staying in the apartment...

“Blown Away,” the new album by Carrie Underwood, the shiny but tough country star, starts out loud, sassy, rollicking and wise. “Good Girl” is the first song â€" a little Pat Benatar, a little Tanya Tucker â€" and it plays out like a sequel to Ms. Underwood’s 2006 smash “Before He Cheats,” except, instead of taking out her rightfully stoked dissatisfaction on her ex, she opts for unity and warns the next woman instead. After that it’s a one-two punch of brutality: a quick-paced “Blown Away,” in which a young woman hides in her basement, waiting out a tornado that she hopes her abusive, alcoholic father sleeping upstairs doesn’t survive; followed by “Two Black Cadillacs,” in which a wife and a mistress conspire to kill the man they share, not a murder ballad so much as a murder celebration. Ms. Underwood enjoys rage; her huge voice, both naïve and muscular, is well suited to it. Her best songs have historically been in the range between fu...

NEW YORK â€" One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peek over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. The milestone is a preliminary one. Workers are still adding floors to the building once called the Freedom Tower. It isn’t expected to reach its full height for at least another year, at which point it is likely to be declared the tallest building in the U.S., and third tallest in the world. Video The rebuilt World Trade Center becomes New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, taller than the Empire State Building observation deck. (Editor’s note: no audio) Those bra...

Back in 2008, Marvel Studios began one of the most ambitious projects ever conceived in the medium of film. The plan was to create and release individual movies about Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America and then bring them all together for a team-up film called The Avengers . In that time the studio has had its ups and downs, successes and mistakes, but this Friday it all comes together when the Joss Whedon-written and directed movie arrives in theaters. But while fans have likely been following along these past four years, the truth is that there are probably still a lot of people out there who have no idea what The Avengers is, who the characters are, or what makes the project so special. So I’m here to lend a hand. Just as I did before the releases of Iron Man 2 , Thor , and Captain America: The First Avenger , I’ve drawn up a quick encyclopedia with need-to-know information that will help you better understand not only what’s going on in The Avengers , but...

BREAKING NEWS: there was no nudity in this week’s episode of Game of Thrones! A lot happened last night. Stannis is murdered, Brienne must flee, Daenerys learns about the city of Qarth, and Cersei is tired of Tyrion’s “schemes and plots.” Those are the same things dear sister, sighs Tyrion. And so they are! But above all else, we can pretty much all agree that it was the lack of boobs, ladies of  the night, and sex that was the predominant theme. At least in our debauched minds. On to this week’s power ranking! 1. Stannis Baratheon So it’s a little unclear, but it seems that the ghost shadow thing that the red-lady-priestess-turned-lover birthed was maybe Stannis (readers of the books will know that it was ), but either way, the shadow stabs Renly through the back (low even for a shadow creature) and in one swoop Stannis has acquired all of Renly’s army except for the Highgarden children. Margaery is distressed, but not quite as much as Loras, who she convinces to ...

NBC Bobby Brown says he "didn't get high" before he met Whitney Houston . Whichâ€"as Today 's Matt Lauer pointed out during an interview with Brown, his fiancée and three of his children airing Wednesday and Thursdayâ€"would surprise those who have assumed for years that Brown got the diva hooked on drugs. "It makes me feel terrible," Brown says of being blamed for the habit that ultimately led to Houston's death on Feb. 11 at only 48 years old. "But I know differently." So, just how skewed, according to Brown, were those assumptions regarding his and Houston's 14-year marriage ? MORE: Whitney Houston Still Shines in New Sparkle Movie Poster Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player . "I think if anyone ever knew us, if anybody ever spent time around us instead of time lookin' through the bubble"â€"which, for a t...