Erin Brockovich News

By the time Melissa Atkins Wardy's daughter celebrated her seventh birthday, the gender stereotype crusader and author of the forthcoming Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, Birth to Tween had yet to buy her little girl a single item featuring a Disney princess.

Starring Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, and Drew Barrymore, the beloved film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and brought in $435.1 million.

The district attorney in Las Vegas says environmental activist Erin Brockovich will face a misdemeanor charge of operating a boat while intoxicated following her arrest at Lake Mead.

Las Vegas, June 10: Erin Brockovich, whose environmental saga was vividly chronicled in a motion picture, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated on Lake Mead near Las Vegas.

The attackers had rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least one large bomb.

The Kickstarter model of financing movies was front and center this morning at a Produced By conference panel entitled "The State of Producing - Finding Funding, Lining Up Talent & Securing Screens," which replaced the scheduled session with Tom Cruise .

Erin Brockvich -- who was famously immortalized by Julia Roberts in the movie about her life -- was arrested in Las Vegas on Friday for allegedly operating her boat while under the influence ... TMZ has learned.

Erin Brockvich -- who was famously immortalized by Julia Roberts in the movie about her life -- was arrested in Las Vegas on Friday for allegedly operating her boat while under the influence ... TMZ has learned.

Made for TV usually means 'not good enough for the cinema'. Here's the exception.

I don't know about you, but I'm still on a high from Behind the Candelabra, an endlessly entertaining movie that marked the supposed end of Steven Soderbergh's filmmaking career.

Now that the Cannes Film Festival is drawing to a close, it's clear that HBO has grown into a major film-making force beyond the small screen.

The credit card giants may get a spanking from the regulator, but it is consumers who are set to be the real losers Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich a her battle looks like peanuts compared to the action by American retailers on credit card fees.

Michael Douglas as Liberace, and Matt Damon as his young lover Scott Thorson in a scene from Behind the Candelabra, premieres May 26 on HBO.

Director to donate auction profits to children's charity as exit looms despite success of new film Behind the Candelabra Retiring from the fray a Steven Soderbergh at the premiere of Behind the Candelabra in Cannes this week.

Here's a true win-win situation. Director Steven Soderbergh , whose latest film Behind the Candelabra premieres May 26 on HBO, has taken to the web to do some good.