Atlantic Records has announced the forthcoming release of P.S. I Love You - Music From The Motion Picture, the original motion picture soundtrack to the Warner Bros. Pictures/Alcon Entertainment romantic comedy/drama. Due in stores on December 4th, the album features tracks from a diverse range of top artists, including James Blunt, Paolo Nutini, and the one-and-only Pogues. P.S. I Love You, the film, is slated to open in theaters nationwide on December 21st.

P.S. I Love You - Music From The Motion Picture is highlighted by Same Mistake, the second single from James Blunts acclaimed ne...

Hilary Swank fought back tears when she was honored for her work in recent humanitarian movie Freedom Writers at the Time For Peace Awards on Thursday night.

An emotional Swank struggled to maintain her composure when the film's director Richard LaGravenese presented her with the award at the Bel Air Hotel event in Bel Air, California.

Swank said, "It's a reminder that I was able to be a part of a movie that is so important. It's one of those stories where you learn how one person can make a difference in someone else's life."

In "Freedom Writers," Swank plays a teacher wh...

Oscar winner Hilary Swank has received a haircut from talk show host Oprah Winfrey as part of a cancer charity campaign. The Freedom Writers star had been growing her locks long so she could donate them to a cancer sufferer, through hair product giant Pantene's Beautiful Lengths campaign.

The charity push aims to encourage women and men to cut and donate their hair for wigs to aid cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

During an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, set to air on Friday, Swank had nine inches of her flowing hair cut off by the media mogul.

She said, "I've b...

The Last King of Scotland is based on Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes that he is trapped in an inescapable nightmare, and Forest Whitaker assumes the role of the notorious despot. Also on DVD: Freedom Writers, Smokin' Aces, Notes On A Scandal, and The History Boys.

Spoof comedy Epic Movie has topped the US box office after its first weekend of release, taking $19.2 million.

The film lampoons recent movie blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, The Chronicles of Narnia and X-Men, beat off competition from gangster thriller Smokin' Aces, which took $14.3 million.

Family comedy Night At The Museum is still wowing audiences in third place, while new entry Catch And Release entered the charts in fourth place.

Oscar buzz surrounding award hopefuls The Pursuit Of Happyness, Pan's Labyrinth, Dreamgirls and The Queen ensured they all stayed in the to...

School teachers can see the new Hilary Swank movie Freedom Writers for free at AMC Entertainment Inc. cinemas for a week from Friday. The double Oscar winner stars in the film as an idealistic English teacher trying to overcome racial intolerance among her students in a Long Beach, California high school.

However, the move to entice teacher cinemagoers follows their unhappiness that Swank features in the movie - after coming under fire for taking on the role because she never finished high school herself. "Freedom Writers" has so far taken $26.5 million at the U.S. box office, where i...

Rapper Common raised his game to a new level when recording a song for new movie Freedom Writers because he was performing alongside the late Martin Luther King Jr. The hip-hop star teamed up with Black Eyed Pea Will.I.Am to record "A Dream" for the film, about a teacher who inspires a class of at-risk students to not let their impoverished backgrounds hold them back.

But for Common, the reality of rapping alongside civil rights leader King was a revelation.

He tells MTV, "The movie was already inspiring, but to be on a song with Martin Luther King, I had to write to the best of...

Hilary Swank has come under fire for her role as an inspirational school teacher in new movie Freedom Writers because the actress never graduated from high school. The star, who admits to being somewhat disruptive in her youth, faces controversy for her part in the film, which is based on a true story.

She says, "I'm not proud to say I'm a high school dropout. I'm not proud that that's something that happened, but it happened. I think school is really, really important and we have an education problem in this country and it's a shame. It's a shame for any kid to feel hopeless about th...

Ben Stiller's family hit Night At The Museum is still making an exhibition of itself at the top of the box office after taking over cinemas during the lucrative Christmas and New Year period. The film, in which Stiller plays a night security guard at a museum that comes alive, scored a healthy $24 million in its third weekend on release, taking its impressive overall tally to $164 million.

The Pursuit Of Happyness remained in second place with a $13 million weekend take, while Children Of Men jumped up to third place with a second-week take of $10.2 million. Hilary Swank's new role in...

Rocker Courtney Love has a new look for the New Year after reportedly undergoing rhinoplasty and lip surgery during a pre-Christmas trip to France. Sources claim the star visited a surgeon in Paris, who specializes in fixing cosmetic disasters.

A friend of Love, who has sported collagen-pumped lips for years, tells Us Weekly magazine, "She's happy to have her mouth back." Love fueled the surgery reports on Thursday night when she arrived at the premiere of new movie Freedom Writers looking swollen.

Asked if she had undergone surgery in France, Love said, "I'm not going to comment ...

Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller -The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Continue Summary

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Chad Lowe's father is stunned to hear his former daughter-in-law Hilary Swank wants to start a family because she never wanted to have children when she was married. The Oscar winner, 32, was married to Lowe for eight years before the couple announced they were divorcing in May.

Lowe's father Charles, an attorney in Dayton, Ohio, tells the National Enquirer, "All I can say is wow! I'm a little shocked. She didn't want kids when she was married to Chad - he did!" Swank is currently seeing her agent, John Campisi, who has a three-year-old son and is still married to his wife Kirsten. Sh...