"You've got to remember Britney is 12-years-old, she's just begun to live. This girl hasn't learned to walk straight and chew gum and you've got to give her an even break." Rocker Gene Simmons feels sorry for troubled pop star Britney Spears.

Josh Hartnett's romance with ex-girlfriend Scarlett Johansson almost put his role in movie 30 Days Of Night in jeopardy - because she gave him glandular fever.

Busting at the seams with outrageous action sequences, deliciously over-the-top characters and gross special effects, Robert Rodriguez's (Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) Grindhouse Presents Planet Terror explodes onto DVD as a two-disc extended and unrated edition on October 16

CANNES, France (AP) - Scarlett Johansson, whose screen credits include ''Lost in Translation'' and ''Match Point,'' will star as Mary, Queen of Scots, in an upcoming historical film epic.

Josh Hartnett struggled to cope following his "really painful" split from Scarlett Johansson. The pair dated for a year after meeting on the set of movie Black Dahlia, but went their separate ways in November because their busy schedules made it impossible for them to spend time together.

Aaron Eckhart was honored with the 2007 Ray-Ban Visionary Award on Sunday, January 21, in Park City, Utah. The Ray-Ban Visionary Award, established in 2003, honors the work and dedication of an individual who possesses extraordinary passion, creativity and leadership, and whose work showcases vision, imagination and originality.

Academy awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak theatre at Hollywood & highland center, and televised live by the ABC television network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment, “The Road to The Oscars.” Babel is nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Nominations By Category - 79th Awards

Emmanuel Lubezki, (Children Of Men), Dick Pope, (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler, (Apocalypto), and Vilmos Zsigmond, (The Black Dahlia) are vying for top honors in the feature film category at the 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition.

The stylish screen adaptation of James Ellroy's novel, The Black Dahlia, details one of the most notorious unsolved murders in Hollywood history. Elizabeth Short was a struggling actress looking to make a name for herself in 1940s-era Tinseltown. Unfortunately for Elizabeth, it was her grim fate that would ultimately overshadow anything she would accomplish during her short and tragic career. Also on DVD: Jackass: Number 2, The Descent, Haven and Factotum.

Two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank goes to extreme measures to make her characters believable and even developed a potential health problem because of her strict diet for one role. Swank won her Academy Awards for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby and insists the intense training required to play a boxer pushed her body too far.