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THE festive spirit takes over cinemas this week with the release of a Christmas Carol, an animated retelling of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

Rodney King says boxing is helping him stay sober. King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was captured on videotape and helped spark riots a year later, is among a group of D-list celebrities appearing around the country as part of the Celebrity Boxing Federation.

Bubbly "pic-a-nic" basket thief Yogi Bear is set to have his own live action/CG animated film in the near future, and casting is already underway.

It was hard for me to reconcile the hard-living Tom Arnold of tabloid and Internet fame with the friendly, humble guy on the other end of the phone ... the Tom Arnold I spoke with is a man remorseful for mistakes and grateful to still be accepted in the public entertainment eye.

Jim Carrey says his latest film, 'A Christmas Carol', mirrors his own journey out of depression.

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash? While Zemeckis loves Alastair Sim's 1951 'A Christmas Carol,' he said previous adaptations never captured the full impact of Dickens' ...

Know what goes well with candy corn? Apparently, chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

It's a megadose of Jim Carrey in Disney's version of "A Christmas Carol". He plays not only Ebenezer Scrooge, but also the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future.

Entertainment Weekly has learned that Anna Faris,A Dan Aykroyd , andA Justin Timberlake are in talks toA star in the hybrid live-action/computer animated feature based on theA Hanna-Barbera cartoonA Yogi Bear .

Yesterday, they finally announced who would be hosting the Academy Awards ceremony next year, after it was revealed that Hugh Jackman would not return following last year's show-stopping performance.

Fox Searchlight and Danny Boyle have firmed plans to make their next collaboration "127 Hours," a film that tells the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston.

Every tourist has some war stories. The thriller remake "The Tourist" has run into another set of hiccoughs, with major players shifting around like luggage on a conveyor.

I'm still in awe of how Zach Galifianakis, a terrific stand-up comedian who mostly unknown in the American mainstream, has become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood after his performance in "The Hangover".A Even better, his performance in that film is true to his style of comedy.A I never felt that he was trying to be something he wasn't. I'm ...

Halloween is already a distant memory, but not enough to scare away the upcoming romantic vampire thriller "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," one of the most anticipated movies to hit the big screen this holiday movie-going season.

THE FOURTH KIND : Milla Jovovich stars as Dr. Abigail Tyler in Universal Pictures' new film The Fourth Kind .

The Oscars will get a double dose of funny this March when not one but two all-star comic actors take the stage in Hollywood 's biggest awards night.

Caption: Steve Guttenberg AARP Expo Vegas@50 at Sands Expo Center - Day 3 Las Vegas, Nevada .... STEVE GUTTENBERG will poke fun at his status as an '80s icon in his latest movie role.

Jim Carrey helped turn on London's Christmas lights as his new Scrooge film premiered in the capital.

Tom Selleck , Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg are reuniting for another Three Men and a Baby sequel.

Less documentary than closely and manipulatively edited homage to the new-agey "genius" of frequent Michael Jackson collaborator and High School Musical auteur Kenny Ortega , This Is It is about as honest as the song it's named after - which was co-written with and then stolen from Paul Anka in 1983, sold to the '80s freestyle starlet Sa-fire in ...