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Want to be in the movies? Want to see behind the scenes of a blockbuster film? Here is the good news -- you can do it and get paid for your time. Sign up to be a film extra. What's a film extra, you ask? Well, an extra are those plain-looking folks walking around the glamorous stars in all your favorite films. To better understand what goes on behind the scenes in some of your favorite films, I went undercover as a movie extra in an upcoming film called "I Love You Phillip Morris," starring Jim Carrey.
NICE, France (AP) -- The world's entertainment press tripped over themselves, making embarrassing errors along the way, as they fought to be first to report the biggest celebrity story of the year: the birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Superheroes battling inner demons often rule the box office. This time, the superhero was a demon as "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" pulled in $35.9 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend film.
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie, were arrested during a bar fight Saturday morning, police said. Shreveport police Sgt. Willie Lewis said Brolin, Wright and five others were arrested just after 2 a.m. at a club called the Stray Cat bar.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Robert Downey Jr. is trading Iron Man's metal suit for Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker hat. Downey is following his action blockbuster "Iron Man" with the title role in "Sherlock Holmes," a mystery drama based on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective and an upcoming comic-book about Holmes by Lionel Wigram, one of the movie's producers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, didn't mind hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career. Perlman, who reprises his title role as a wisecracking demon turned superhero in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," says he was able to put more into his acting when he was disguised as a caveman, a hunchbacked monk or the homely half of TV's "Beauty and the Beast."
John Sayles was directing music videos for Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s when he began hearing tales about the dawn of rock ’n’ roll. In the years before glossy LP jackets and 45-rpm-record picture sleeves, before television became ubiquitous, many people had no idea what a recording star looked like.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend — and even outgunned Angelina Jolie. "WALL-E," the Pixar Animation tale of a robot toiling away on a long-abandoned Earth, debuted as the No. 1 movie with $62.5 million in ticket sales.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Audiences still get Maxwell Smart. Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway's "Get Smart," the Warner Bros. big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, raked in $39.2 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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A day as an extra with Jim Carrey
Want to be in the movies? Want to see behind the scenes of a blockbuster film? Here is the good news -- you can do it and get paid for your time. Sign up to be a film extra. What's a film extra, you ask? Well, an extra are those plain-looking folks walking around the glamorous stars in all your favorite films. To better understand what goes on behind the scenes in some of your favorite films, I went undercover as a movie extra in an upcoming film called "I Love You Phillip Morris," starring Jim Carrey.
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Check out trailers for some of 2008's most anticipated movies.
Traitor
  • Traitor
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  • Star Wars: the Clone Wars
  • American Teen
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    Richard Roeper
    Richard Roeper talks about this weekend's big movies

    Get the inside scoop with videos about some of your favorite movies.
    Wanted
  • Angelina Jolie discusses 'Wanted.'
  • Behind the scenes of Hellboy 2: the Golden Army
  • Morgan Freeman talks about 'Wanted.'
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    'Hellboy II' catches fire with debut
    Hellboy
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Superheroes battling inner demons often rule the box office. This time,the superhero was a demon as "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" pulled in $35.9 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend film. Universal's "Hellboy" sequel, starring Ron Perlman as the red-skinned devil fighting for the good guys, took over the top spot from Will Smith's superhero tale "Hancock," which slipped to second place with $33 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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    DVD releases for the week of July 15, 2008
    The Bank Job
  • The Bank Job
  • Shutter
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