Posted: 4:02 PM "The Avengers" launched domestically early Friday with $18.7 million from midnight screenings. That puts it at No. 8 all-time for midnight debuts, just behind the $19.7 million start for "The Hunger Games" in March.
Posted: 3:37 PM The newly formed Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame's first inductions include names that are nationally recognized along with announcers who are longtime local voices.
Posted: 3:18 PM Adam "MCA" Yauch, a founding member of the pioneering rap band Beastie Boys, died Friday after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, the band's publicist said.
Posted: 11:02 AM Demi Moore is no longer (at)mrskutcher, in real life or on Twitter.
Posted: 5:01 PM After popping up in cameos during the credits of Marvel films as the authoritative, eye-patch-wearing Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson steps fully into his role as the head of peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D. in "The Avengers."
Updated: 12:10 PM Carrie Underwood played a full set on Tuesday night's Live on Letterman from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Watch the full concert.
Posted: 10:23 AM The low-tech musical "Once" based on the love story of a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician and vacuum cleaner repairman in Dublin got a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Tuesday.
Posted: 5:10 PM The Theatre Development Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on providing access to live theater, bought all 1,797 seats for Sunday's matinee and offered reduced price tickets to families with an autistic member.
Posted: 5:06 PM International Jazz Day was launched in Paris on Friday by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in partnership with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, of which Hancock is chairman.
Posted: 1:25 PM The actress' rep Steve Honig confirmed to the Washington Post that she will attend as a guest of Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.
Updated: 1:44 PM Donald Trump on Wednesday swept into Scotland's parliament to demand the country end plans for an offshore wind farm he fears will spoil the view at his exclusive new $750-million-pound ($1.2-billion) golf resort.
Posted: 1:17 PM Tiago Klimeck, 27, was hanging for four minutes before fellow performers realized something was wrong, BBC reports. He was pronounced dead Sunday following more than two weeks in a coma.
Posted: 5:50 AM DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the maker of "Shrek," ''Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda," is teaming up with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to help people convert their old DVDs into an online movie library.
Updated: 2:31 PM James Cameron has shored up his position as king of the worldwide box office.
Posted: 6:05 PM The Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association hopes higher quality of entertainment will draw in bigger crowds to the 2012 Elvis Festival set for May 31-June 3.
Posted: 5:22 PM The popular musician who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and been nominated for 13 Grammy awards has seriously pursued painting throughout his musical career.
Posted: 10:43 AM Previously, Amazon customers were able to trade in electronics, books and video games, but not music. Amazon announced Wednesday that their Trade-in Program will now accept CDs.
Posted: 7:00 AM The Bob Marley documentary "Marley" will stream on Facebook simultaneously during its theatrical opening, a signal that social media may also play a role in shifting movie release windows.
Posted: 6:10 PM There'll be no Guns N' Roses reunion at this weekend's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Axl Rose says he won't attend and is declining his induction into the hall.
Posted: 6:05 PM Authorities have released the 911 call hotel security made to paramedics after Whitney Houston's lifeless body was found in a hotel room two months ago.
Posted: 4:09 PM Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, seven months after star designer John Galliano was convicted by a Paris court for drunken anti-Semitic ravings.
Posted: 3:41 PM Box office figures to be released later Monday show that "The Lion King" last week swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera," The Associated Press has learned.
Posted: 8:51 AM A wildly popular Internet video turned African warlord Joseph Kony into a household name and boosted the international hunt for the brutal rebel leader. Can a sequel do more?
Posted: 10:05 AM A two-year-old feud over who owns the so-called Elvis Bus continues in a Mississippi court. It may be a while longer before the issue is settled.
