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Glee concert film flops at US box office

A three dimensional film featuring the cast of TV's Glee has unsuccessful to create the united states box office Top Ten after taking $5.7m (£3.5m) over the past weekend.

Glee: The three dimensional Concert Movie was rated eleventh within the weekly chart after opening in additional than 2,000 screens.

Based on monitoring site Box Office Mojo, only an believed 500,000 tickets were offered for that movie.

Rise from the Planet from the Apes, last week's top film, maintained pole position with takings of $27.5m (£16.9m).

Feel-good movie The Assistance and horror follow up Final Destination 5 rounded off this week's top three.

The first kind, by which Emma Stone plays a youthful lady looking into the lives of black housekeepers in sixties Mississippi, required $25.5m (£15.6m) in the first weekend in movie theaters.

The second, by which Dying tracks lower the children of the bridge collapse, gained $18.4m (£11.2m) between Friday and Sunday.

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Women in Film honors Annette Bening, Katie Holmes

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Annette Bening, Katie Holmes, CBS Leader Nina Tassler, director Pamela Fryman and cinematographer Reed Morano happen to be acknowledged as leaders within their fields by Women in Film.

The nonprofit group honored the ladies Thursday at its annual Very and Lucy honours ceremony in Beverly Hillsides.

In accepting her award, Bening stated she's "getting into a brand new phase" and "beginning again" and suggested at some interesting projects in next season. Holmes thanked her parents, who have been within the audience, and husband Tom Cruise, "whose resolve for his work and family inspires me daily."

"Bridesmaids" star Melissa McCarthy sang and danced as host from the evening. Martin Sheen, Geena Davis, Neil Patrick Harris and Jenna Elfman were one of the stars who attended the fundraiser event in the Beverly Hilton hotel.

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Singer Shania Twain will get Hollywood star

Canadian country pop diva continues to be honored having a star on Hollywood's storied Walk of Fame, and voiced surprise that she'd come to date.

"I am talking about, do not know girl from Timmins, Ontario, standing here, obtaining a star about the Hollywood Walk of Fame?" the Grammy-champion requested. "I truly have no idea... it is a small miracle, to tell the truth, that i'm here today."

Twain, who just released her memoirs and released a brand new Television show, was became a member of by veteran actress Bo Derek to get the star, the two,442nd to sophistication the pavement along Hollywood Boulevard.

Born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, she and her two siblings were adopted by her mother's second husband, Jerry Twain, who legally transformed their last names to his.

Twain started singing in bars when she was eight years of age to assist her family pay the bills. At 13, she carried out about the Canadian TV series the "Tommy Hunter Show" and is at several bands before departing senior high school.

Her mother and stepfather died inside a vehicle crash later, when she came back to her home town of Timmins to look after her more youthful brothers and sisters, but Twain launched a self-entitled debut album in 1993 that arrived at 67th about the US country charts.

Her large break included her second album "The Lady Within MeInch in 1995, which continued money than 12 million copies, and won her a Grammy Award in 1996 for the best country album.