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celebrity April 2008
Aides jump in for Cruise, Katie over split-up talk
Aides close to Tom Cruise (right) her first date with But her representative insists all
Jackie, Jet
and Katie Holmes have dismissed movie star Cruise talk of a broken marriage and an
reports that the couple is planning looms on April 29, unhappy Holmes is ridiculous.
a trial separation as “absolutely sources claim the A spokeswoman says: “She and
false.” actress is tired of her husband enjoy a close and
An article in the new issue of dressing up as Mrs loving relationship.”
In Touch magazine declares that Cruise and playing According to the In Touch
pump up for
Holmes plans to move to New York the perfect wife in article, Holmes plans to move
City from Los Angeles with the public. to Manhattan with her daughter
couple’s daughter Suri. One insider tells In Touch: “Of to pursue her Broadway acting
The exclusive story, which graces course Katie still loves him, but she ambitions.
the cover of the publication, leads does often feel like the little wife A source says: “She’d love to go
US box office
with the headline “Katie wants her that has to sit there quietly and to Broadway to show the world she
life back.” smile serenely at everything he can act. But it doesn’t mean her
As the three-year anniversary of says.” relationship with Cruise is off.”
juggernaut
Forbidden Kingdom likely to rake in
millions on its much-hyped debut
A
ction heroes Jackie Chan
(right) and Jet Li will grab
the keys to the “Kingdom” at
the North American box office this
weekend.
The Forbidden Kingdom, a martial
arts fantasy that marks their first
onscreen pairing, is likely to bow
at No 1 with up to US$20 million
during its first three days.
“We’ll be very happy with a gross
of US$15 million or beyond, but
tracking certainly indicates that we
have a shot at doing in the high teens
or better,” said Steve Rothenberg,
president of distribution at Lionsgate,
which is partnered on the project
with the Weinstein Co.
It’s nice when
Kingdom, directed by Rob Minkoff
(Stuart Little), has earned mixed
people comment
early reviews but should attract
positively about a
mostly younger moviegoers who
eschew critics’ brickbats. campaign
Universal has mounted an edgy
campaign for its R-rated comedy
ADAM FOLGESON
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, with
Universal Pictures
billboard messages including “You
suck, Sarah Marshall” getting lots of reach. If the tough-to-track college
free ink. “It’s nice when people out crowd comes out in big numbers
there comment, almost completely for Marshall--which counts comedy
positively, about a campaign,” kingpin Judd Apatow among its
said Adam Fogelson, Universal’s producers – something a bit more
president of worldwide marketing lucrative could be in the offing.
and distribution. “But clever for Apatow’s openings have proven
the sake of clever doesn’t win you hard to forecast, but the April
anything.” slotting for Marshall suggests that it
Toss in solid reviews, and you should bow somewhere between the
might have something. Fortuitously, US$21.4 million rung up by The 40-
pre-release tracking on Marshall Year-Old Virgin in August 2005 and
doesn’t suck, so a bow in the mid- last month’s disappointing US$10.3
teen millions seems safely within million debut for Drillbit Taylor.
Britney told to pay lawyers
US$400,000 in legal fees
Britney Spears (right) has been Spears since taking
hit with a legal bill of almost over her estate issues
US$400,000. with the pop star’s
A Los Angeles court ordered father, Jamie, in
the pop star to pay the cash to the February.
numerous lawyers involved in all Meanwhile, the
her legal affairs over the past three law firm that won
months. Jamie Spears control
That includes her custody battle of his daughter’s affairs will also be
with ex-husband Kevin Federline advanced $175,000, and a lawyer
and her conservatorship issues. representing the singer’s brother
At a hearing on Thursday, Bryan has been handed a $22,000
Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled windfall.
that Spears’ court-appointed attorney Finally, Spears’ new divorce
Samuel Ingham will continue to lawyer, Stacy Phillips, has been
receive US$10,000 a week and awarded US$75,000. Spears has
Andrew Wallet, the co-conservator been placed by the court under the
of Spears’ finances, will receive an custody of her father after a series of
advance of $100,000. psychological evaluations. None of
People.com reports Wallet has not this has gotten in the way of her plan
received a salary for his services to to mount a music tour.
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