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Neil Patrick Harris may be the most versatile star in showbiz. The Emmy-award winner can sing and dance, perform voice-overs, host award shows, and still finds to act in the TV show "How I Met Your Mother." Now, he's working with little people in family film "The Smurfs," which mixes live-action characters with the blue animated creatures made famous in the cartoons. The film hits theaters Friday with Harris playing a marketing executive whose life and career are thrown into chaos when the...

Darren Criss says it would be “cool” to succeed Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway. But the actor best know for playing out-and-proud Blaine Anderson on the Fox musical-comedy Glee cautioned that “it's definitely not confirmed by any means.” Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood first reported that Criss was negotiating a three-week stint to succeed Radcliffe as the corporate ladder-climbing J. Pierrepont Finch in the Broadway musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Criss wo...

Katy Perry believes keeping "good people around" helps her deal with the pressures of being one of the world's biggest pop stars, which currently has her on a global concert tour and taking part in her first movie. As the music world mourns the death of British singer Amy Winehouse, Perry told Reuters she is not tempted by the hedonistic lifestyle that has helped fuel the demise of talented performers before her. Perry, whose hits include "Teenage Dream" and "Firework," said she is able to...

Cody Simpson will be coming to a mall near you! The 14-year-old musician has just announced that he will be launching his Mall Tour with a special performance on The Today Show on August 5th and then hitting the road on August 6th, performing in Simon Malls across America. Cody’s new album will be out in September and his single, “On My Mind” is available on iTunes now! Check out all the tour dates inside… Cody Simpson Tour Dates 8/6 Smith Haven Mall (Lake Grove, NY) @ 2PM 8/7 Sout...

This Friday, actor Chris Evans is poised to become a household name when he takes on the role of Captain America in the Marvel Studio's feature film "Captain America: First Avenger." Evans famously turned down the role several times before accepting the part of a skinny, bullied orphan during the 1940s named Steve Rogers who is transformed into the muscular Captain America thanks to a top secret serum developed by the government. He goes on to lead the U.S. Army in a fight to victory against ...

Harry Potter's final film adventure has bolted to a big start at worldwide box offices, breaking the record for midnight screenings in the U.S. and Canada with $43.5 million and setting the stage for a massive weekend debut. Internationally, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" has sold $82.5 million in tickets since Wednesday, when it opened in dozens of countries, distributor Warner Bros. said on Friday. Combined, Thursday's midnight screenings in domestic theaters and the tw...

Three of the biggest stars on hit musical TV comedy "Glee" will "graduate" high school next year and won't be back on the show for a fourth season in 2012, the show's creator said on Wednesday. In an interview with showbusiness website The Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Murphy said that Lea Michele (Rachel), Chris Colfer (Kurt) and Cory Monteith (Finn) "are not going to be back at all for Season 4." Murphy said the decision had been taken in order to keep the dark comedy, which features a group ...

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will co-host the 45th annual Country Music Association Awards on November 9, sharing the duty for the fourth time, they said on Monday. The two made the announcement via Facebook from the set of their new video, "Remind Me." The CMA Awards, which annually are among the highest honors for country singers, will be handed out at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, and will be broadcast live by ABC. "We wanted to take a minute to share some very exciting news,"...

Country-pop singer Taylor Swift on Wednesday canceled three more of her U.S. concerts due to bronchitis but said she hoped to be better for a July 14 date in Montreal. Swift, 21, said she was advised by doctors not to perform at all this week. She postponed dates in Charlotte and Atlanta on July 8, 9 and 10 for October and November, after pulling out of a show in Louisville on July 2. It's the first time that the popular "Speak Now" singer has had to postpone or cancel a show because of il...

The young actors who have worked on the "Harry Potter" movies for half their lives said on Wednesday they were struggling to come to grips with the series ending. Their journey began with "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.), which was released by Warner Bros in 2001, and it ends 10 years later with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" which has its world premiere in London on Thursday. The central cast members, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grin...

As the studio behind the Harry Potter films likes to remind us, "It all ends here." "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2," the eighth and final installment in one of cinema's most successful series, has its premiere in London in a week, and experts predict records could tumble when it hits theatres on July 15. The cast and crew have promised the most explosive Potter movie yet, even though computer-generated special effects and action scenes have been predominant throughout. "...

Action flick "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" opened to $13.5 million at box offices in its late night and midnight screenings in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates released on Wednesday. The 3-D film based on toys from the 1980s saw its debut night box office figures come in below the last movie in the series, 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" which opened to $16.6 million in midnight screenings. But with the July 4 weekend approaching, the film is expe...

Actress Lindsay Lohan was released from home detention on Wednesday after spending 35 days at her Los Angeles apartment for stealing a gold necklace, authorities said. A private company that handles monitoring equipment for home detention inmates removed the electronic ankle bracelet from the "Mean Girls" star on Wednesday morning, said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department. Lohan was sentenced in May to 120 days in jail, but the 24 year-old actress qualified for a short...

Megan Fox and her former co-star Shia LaBeouf have each shared their views on why the actress was replaced in the upcoming “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” and now director Michael Bay is having his say. Fox, 25, was just in “a different world, on her BlackBerry...You gotta stay focused,” Bay tells GQ in the magazine's July issue. Screenwriter Ehren Kruger adds, “She was there for rehearsals. But she seemed like an actress who didn’t want to be a part of it. She was saying she wa...

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has launched a new website called "Pottermore," but fans of the boy wizard will have to wait to see what it entails as the entry page says simply "Coming Soon...." The site, www.pottermore.com, was launched a month ahead of the release of the eighth and final Potter movie on July 15. Some Potter fan sites, which have been instrumental in generating a large and loyal fan base for the movies and seven-book series on which they are based, were given a sneak p...