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Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to announce the return of Malcolm Gets to the Broadway at Birdland concert series. Gets will be celebrating the release of his new cd, ?The Journey Home? (PS Classics) on Monday, June 1 at 7pm. Composer/pianist/Emmy winner John McDaniel will serve as Musical Director for the evening.

International News: 'Wolverine' to open May 9, 'Museum' June 12 -- Fox announced new Mexico release dates Friday for its summer tentpoles 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' and 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian' with restrictions on theater capacity due to the flu outbreak still in effect.

DENVER (Billboard) - Activision Blizzard is releasing three new music-based video games this year -- 'DJ Hero,' 'Guitar Hero 5' and 'Band Hero' -- and has confirmed that 'Guitar Hero: Van Halen' is on tap.

Cannes 2009: Buyers cautious due to static admissions -- A growing numbers of pics are competing for a static number of viewers in the Japanese market -- annual admissions have peaked at about the 160 million mark -- while a handful of megahits are grabbing larger market shares. 'There is no middle in the Japanese market anymore -- it's all either big commercial films or small arthouse releases,' says industry veteran Kiyo Jo, prexy of indie production and sales company Gold View.   Local distribs of foreign product, arthouse or otherwise, have accordingly become more cautious in their buying strategies, entering into joint distrib deals for major pics or, like former indie powerhouse Gaga, even exiting the acquisitions game altogether. For local indie producers, this shift has made it harder to raise coin, forcing reductions in budgets. They have compensated by making more pics on DV, but this strategy, notes Jo, has its downside. 'Those films are harder to sell abroad because the p

The dispute between Bollywood producers and Indian multiplexes over revenue sharing hardened this week, with no end in sight to the monthlong boycott of new releases.

Warren Zevon composed dark and humorous songs of political and sometimes historical themes. Zevon was among the best new artists to have emerged in the 1970's. In 1978, Zevon made a breakthrough with the released of his third album, 'Excitable Boy.'Source: Olga L. ChaconPublished: May 08, 2009

MUMBAI, India?The dispute between Bollywood producers and Indian multiplexes over revenue sharing hardened this week, with no end in sight to the monthlong boycott of new releases. Indian movie fans?who spend an estimated 63 billion rupees ($1.27 ...

[The Monitor occasionally reprints material from its archives. This book review originally ran on Sept. 6, 2008.] First, the bad news about Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News? The accompanying press release states this is the final book in her series about detective Jackson Brodie.

ET has the latest on Kiefer Sutherland's legal woes. Officials say the actor has a summons on June 22 at Manhattan Criminal Court, after being charged with assault in the third degree. Yesterday, the "24" star turned himself in to a new york City police station and was later released.

ET has the latest... Action star Keanu Reeves is heading to the big screen for a modern twist on a classic tale. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 'Speed' and 'Matrix' actor has signed on to headline the new movie 'Jekyll,' based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. There's no release date yet and Universal is keeping the plot under wraps.