COLOGNE, Germany (Hollywood Reporter) – The 3D delights of "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland," particularly the delightful surcharge for 3D screenings, helped boost German box office sales in the first quarter.
The Warner Bros. release opens Wednesday evening in about 3,000 2D and 3D theaters. Starting on Friday, it will play in roughly 3,700 theaters, with about half showing the action fantasy on at least one 3D screen and the others playing it in 2D only.
Tyra Banks -- who clearly got herself in tip-top shape for the new season of "America's Next Top Model" -- flaunted her fab figure on the orange carpet at the Kids' Choice Awards in a fire-engine-red frock that hugged her signature curves in all the right places.
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Phish is the first group confirmed to perform during the weeklong Rolling Stones tribute on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" next month, the jam band's first television performance since it reunited in 2009.
"My wedding is going to be the biggest day of my life," Mirza said in a statement from her home town of Hyderabad, where she is recovering from a wrist injury that has seen her ranking slip from 27 in 2007 to 92.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Bruce Beresford's "Mao's Last Dancer," a biopic about Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, who defected to the U.S. in 1981 to join the woman he loved.
"You may not necessarily be able to own the podium, but I gotta tell you, from the bottom of my heart, it sure is thrilling to be given the use of one for 17 years," Budd told her listeners on the show.
Katy Perry, with fiance Russell Brand, looked like she'd successfully got all the green goop out of her hair from Saturday's Kids' Choice Awards when spotted at LAX on Sunday. Perry joked with MTV at the event that Brand is turning into "a total bridezilla." The "I Kissed A Girl" singer added, "Every time we go out for breakfast he's like, 'Can we just stop and get a bride magazine?' "
Richie, known for Say You, Say Me, Endless Love and All Night Long, is making his first appearance at the annual jazz festival. Richie, 60, has spoken recently of a Commodore's reunion, but has been most active recently as a producer, including in the remix of We are the World this February.
If British Columbians were to implement the same conservation measures for one hour every evening, the provincial utility reported, the combined savings would be enough to power nearly 2,200 homes for an entire year.