Vampire junkies of all ages hooked on the Twilight saga will get their fix this week with release of "New Moon." Further excitement about the premiere has generated among those obsessed

Werner Herzog is the kind of director that Quentin Tarantino used to be. Remember the nineties, when 'Pulp Fiction' had just exploded like a hydrogen bomb in Hollywood

Exploring the multidimensional nature and shifting personae of revered musician Bob Dylan - from the public to the private to the fantastical - I'm Not There debuts on DVD on May 6th from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company.

"We're so labeled. If you're too sexual, you're slutty. If you're not sexual enough, you're a prude. I like to put it out there as a topic of conversation. Why does it bother you? What's your problem with it? Am I really hurting you? Let's get to the root of it." Christina Aguilera on the subject of female sexuality.

Actor Christian Bale only landed the role in Rescue Dawn because he was willing to eat snakes and maggots, according to director Werner Herzog. The German-born filmmaker was reluctant to use special effects in the movie so was only prepared to cast an actor who was willing to bite a snake in half to make the role appear believable.

Actor Christian Bale winces when he catches sight of his painfully thin torso in television screenings of The Machinist, because he can't believe he put his body through so much abuse for a movie role. The usually-buff Bale lost 60 pounds for his part as an insomniac industrial worker in the 2004 film, a trick he repeated for recent Vietnam drama Rescue Dawn.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The shape-shifting robots of ''Transformers'' have taken on a new form: Huge piles of cash. The sci-fi saga ''Transformers,'' DreamWorks and Paramount's big-screen take on the Hasbro toys, debuted with $67.6 million in ticket sales in its first weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That gave it $152.5 million since opening with preview screenings Monday night.

Christian Bale was left horrified on the jungle set of new movie Rescue Dawn when a wildlife expert told him the spider he was handling could kill him with one bite.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Lakers have always been the more Hollywood basketball team in town, the one that draws the celebrities to those pricey courtside seats to see and be seen.

Canadian crooner Michael Buble is still haunted by a childhood experience which saw him search dark waters for a missing fisherman. The singer spent time as a youngster working on his father's fishing boat and admits the hunt for a missing man whose boat had overturned while heading to see his waiting family scarred him for life. He says, "It really affected me. I couldn't stop thinking about his wife and kids."