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Angel Fernandez/AP Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes back in 2009. Holmes rented a New York flat, separate from the home she shares with Cruise when they’re in the city, Us Weekly reported Saturday. Before actress Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, she already had a secret escape plan. Holmes rented a New York flat, separate from the home she shares with Cruise when they’re in the city, Us Weekly reported Saturday. The dark-haired beauty made the clandestine arrangements while Mr. Top Gun was 2,600 miles away in Iceland working on the sci-fi flick “Oblivion.” She quietly filed for divorce in New York on Thursday and is seeking sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri. The split is reportedly rooted in his fierce loyalty to Scientology and its potential future impact on Suri. The actor looked calm in a pair of aviator shades when spotted taking off in a private helicopter on Saturday from an Iceland airport. The heartbroken hubby was reportedly heading bac...

Angel Fernandez/AP Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes back in 2009. Holmes rented a New York flat, separate from the home she shares with Cruise when they’re in the city, Us Weekly reported Saturday. Before actress Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, she already had a secret escape plan. Holmes rented a New York flat, separate from the home she shares with Cruise when they’re in the city, Us Weekly reported Saturday. The dark-haired beauty made the clandestine arrangements while Mr. Top Gun was 2,600 miles away in Iceland working on the sci-fi flick “Oblivion.” She quietly filed for divorce in New York on Thursday and is seeking sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri. The split is reportedly rooted in his fierce loyalty to Scientology and its potential future impact on Suri. The actor looked calm in a pair of aviator shades when spotted taking off in a private helicopter on Saturday from an Iceland airport. The heartbroken hubby was reportedly heading bac...

Most predicted it , and now it's official: Justin Bieber 's Believe scored the year's biggest chart debut, selling more than 374,000 copies and blasting the competition on the Billboard Top 200. Believe â€" Bieber's fourth album to debut at #1 â€" slightly edged Madonna's MDNA, which sold 359,000 copies when it was released in late March, to claim the title of year's biggest bow, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's also the best first-week number any album has posted since Adele's 21 rode a post-Grammy surge to sales of more than 729,000 copies in February. Bieber's album also sold nearly twice the copies as its closest competition, Kenny Chesney 's Welcome to the Fishbowl, which opens at #2 on the chart with an impressive 193,000 copies in its first week of release. Usually that number is more than enough to take #1, but not this week. Fiona Apple 's first album in seven years, The Idler Wheel, debuts at #3, se...

Star-Ledger Staff South Orange native, Lauryn Hill, signer/rapper for The Fugees, is pictured in this undated Star-Ledger file photo. The Fugees, Lauryn Hill: Photos through the years gallery (35 photos) NEWARK â€" Moments before Lauryn Hill admitted today to federal income tax evasion, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Shipp asked the eight-time Grammy winner if anyone had forced her â€" either directly or indirectly â€" to enter the guilty plea. Hill took a long pause, then said: "Directly, no, but indirectly, yes." She then consulted with her attorney, Nathan Hockman, in whispers before answering "No" when the judge asked the question a second time. "Ms. Hill is very particular about language," Hockman said. "Language is very important to Ms. Hill." Hill then pleaded guilty to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million she earned over three years. The 37-year-old South Orange native and mother of six cou...

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It didn't take much convincing director by Steven Soderbergh to get Matthew McConaughey to sign on for "Magic Mike," but the actor admitted it did take a bit longer to convince himself to take the stage and strip down for the film. Photos: Matthew McConaughey gets cozy with wife Channing Tatum takes it off in 'Magic Mike' Stories: Matthew McConaughey marries fiancee Camila Alves Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves having a weekend wedding, report says Matthew McConaughey talks about stripping for 'Magic Mike' "I got the call from Steven Soderberg, the director, and in 10 minutes after he pitched the story and pitched the character to me I said I was in," McConaughey told OnTehRedCarpet.com host Rachel Smith at the movie's Los Angeles premiere on June 24. In the movie, McConaughey portrays Dallas, the owner and patriarch of the all-male strip club. Channing Tatum stars as the club's money-maker, "Mag...

Steven Soderbergh is a chameleon.  His films are more experimental in choice than most other filmmakers. All are radically different (with the “Ocean’s 11” sequels as an exception) from each other as he searches for something unique to either say or technically achieve. Some, like "Sex, Lies and Videotape," and "Bubble" push boundaries and step outside the Hollywood box, while others like last fall’s “Contagion” and the “Ocean’s” movies are mainstream cash cows.   “Magic Mike,” Soderbergh’s third film in less than a year (his other was “Haywire”), is another one of those experiments. It’s an unusual project for the director , but it achieves little more than putting a new, albeit mediocre, spin on the usually female-dominated stripper film by focusing on male dancers instead.   “Magic Mike” is a run-of-the-mill character study about two different men; Mike (Channing Tatum), an aging stripper who struggles to save enough cash ...

Universal Pictures/Warner Bros. The box office surged on Friday as Ted and Magic Mike scored some of the best numbers ever for the R-rated comedy genre. Tyler Perry's more tame Madea's Witness Protection also did good business. Directed by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane , Ted grossed $20.2 million on Friday for a weekend debut in the $51 million to $52 million range -- the top opening of all time for an original R-rated comedy and eclipsing the $45 million earned by The Hangover in 2009. Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis , will have no trouble winning the weekend race and received an A- CinemaScore. Media Rights Capital produced and financed the $50 million film before sealing a distribution deal with Universal. Scott Stuber also produced. Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike -- billed as a comedy-drama and loosely based on star Channing Tatum's early days as a stripper --  also has plenty of reason to celebrate. The Warner Bros. p...

For Tom Cruise , the shoe is finally on the other foot. Cruise's publicist said the actor was "deeply saddened" by Katie Holmes' divorce filing this week, and a source close to the "Rock of Ages" star told ABC News that Holmes' decision came as a "complete surprise." 33 The Magic Number For Cruise? Curiously all of Cruise's marriages ended when his ex-wives were 33 years old. The previous times Cruise has gotten divorced, he was in control. He filed for divorce from actress Mimi Rogers in January 1990 after three years of marriage. She seemed to get over it quickly. In October 1990, she told the Associated Press , "As far as I know, we're divorced, but I've been so busy on this new film that I haven't had time to check, so I'm not sure. I bet that sounds pretty silly, huh?" Later on, she seemed to loathe the fact that she was ever married to the mega movie star. ''[I'm] waiting for...

My Three Sons cast members, from left, Stanley Livingston, Barry Livingston, and Don Grady are shown March 2, 2003 in Hollywood. (Robert Mora/Getty Images) Don Grady, who was one of television's most beloved big brothers as Robbie Douglas on the long-running 1960s hit My Three Sons , died Wednesday. He was 68. His My Three Sons co-star Barry Livingston, who played youngest brother Ernie, confirmed Grady's death to The Associated Press. Livingston said Grady had been suffering from cancer and receiving hospice care at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The exact cause and place of death were not immediately clear. Felt like real brothers "It's the oldest cliche in the world when TV brothers start referring to each other like biological brothers, but he was the oldest, and somebody I looked up to and learned from a great deal about life," Livingston said. Born in San Diego as Don Louis Agrati, Grady had a brief stint singing and dancing on The Mickey Mouse...

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ' marriage may have looked like the picture of perfection from the outside, but insiders say the couples' troubles were nothing new, stemming at least in part from Cruise's commitment to Scientology. "She was never truly comfortable with the Scientology thing," a source close to Holmes told E! News. "It was something she accepted and put up with for many years because it was important to Tom, and for that reason, important to her. But over the past year, they had started to see things differently, and she was beginning to pull away." MORE: Five Star Splits That Caught Us by Surprise (as Badly as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes') "It wasn't that she was against Scientology," the source continued. "She wasn't at all. She definitely saw its benefit, but she also didn't want it to be her everything, and for Tom, in some ways, it was. She wanted more freedom t...

Adele and Simon Konecki on January 2, 2012. Credit: XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM The usually unlucky-in-love Adele has changed her tune about romance -- with a little help from her boyfriend of six months, Simon Konecki . The pair first went public during a PDA-packed trip to the Everglades in early January, and a source told Us Weekly at the time that Konecki, 37, was just what Adele needed after her toxic former flings. "Simon is a nice guy and would never use her," the insider explained. "He likes her for who she is." (Adele and Konecki made their formal debut together at the Grammys in February, when he attended as her date.) VIDEO: Adele's most glamorous look ever? On Friday, Adele took to her website to share even happier news with fans -- she and Konecki are expecting their first child together. Gushed the "Rumor Has It" singer, "We're over the moon and very excited! Here, Us rounds up five need-to-know facts about Simon Konecki: ...

Image Credit: Universal Pictures According to Friday estimates, “bear” beats “bare” at the box office â€" but only by a bit! Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s $50 million comedy Ted , which is being distributed by Universal, snuggled up to a huge $20.2 million worth of tickets on Friday. The raunchy laugher, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and a bong-smoking teddy, is headed for the second-best debut ever for an R-rated comedy, behind only The Hangover Part II . Wahlberg’s last summer comedy, 2010′s The Other Guys , earned $13.1 million on its first Friday on the way to a $35.5 million start. If Ted follows the same trajectory (and I see no reason why it shouldn’t), it could take in a truly remarkable $55 million this weekend. Close behind in second place, Warner Brothers’ stripper tale Magic Mike  stripped moviegoers of a whopping $19.4 million on Friday â€" $2.1 million of which was earned at midnight shows . The guilty pleasure de...

Movie audiences were ready for some raunch, as R-rated comedies "Ted" and "Magic Mike" debuted explosively Friday at the U.S. box office.  Universal's "Ted," Seth MacFarlane's tale of a talking teddy bear, made $20.2 million Friday and has a good shot at a $51 million weekend. Warner Bros.' "Magic Mike," Channing Tatum's take on male strippers inspired by his early days as an exotic dancer, was nearly as hot, rolling to $19.4 million Friday and putting itself on pace for than $45 million. "Family Guy" creator MacFarlane's feature film bow "Ted," starring Mark Wahlberg, far exceeded expectations, which were in the $25 million-$30 million range for the weekend. And word-of-mouth should help on Saturday and Sunday, as audiences gave it an "A-" CinemaScore. Also read:   Raunchy Box-Office Battle: 'Ted,' 'Magic Mike' Gross More Than $2M in Midnight Shows The same is true...

By Sara Nathan , Alison Boshoff and Nadia Mendoza PUBLISHED: 12:09 EST, 30 June 2012 | UPDATED: 12:28 EST, 30 June 2012 Tom Cruise has taken the literal sense of 'getting it away from it all', by flying into the air. The Hollywood veteran was seen taking flight from the set of his latest film Oblivion in Iceland. Wearing a pair of aviator shades and giving little away in terms of expression, the Tropic Thunder actor was seen in the passenger seat of a private helicopter while flying out of Reykjavik airport. The show must go on: Tom Cruise took off from Reykjavik airport, following his divorce from Katie Holmes It is unknown if Tom was being taken back to the production of the sci-fi movie or returning to New York in a bid to call off the divorce which his wife of five years, Katie Holmes, has filed this week. Meanwhile, Katie has reportedly been planning the bombshell for weeks, with  Radar reporting she 'secretly rented a Manhattan apar...