Russian-speaking Harry Potter fans will have to wait until November to read the seventh and final installment in the adventures of the boy-magician, a spokesman for the book`s Russian publisher said Monday.
Marge Simpson, a romantic at heart, would surely approve. The French pair who have dubbed Marge and Homer for 18 years fell in love while playing the Simpsons, America`s longest-running and arguably best-known animated sitcom.
The seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series has become the fastest selling book in history, publishers said on Monday, with more than 11 million copies sold during the first 24 hours in three markets alone.
As part of their European tour, The Rolling Stones will give their only Russian concert in St. Petersburg July 28, the city`s press committee said Friday.
The show opened with the song Creeping Death, from the Ride the Lightning album, after the traditional introduction featuring a scene from a spaghetti Western and Ennio Morricone music.
Organisers of a new Asian literary prize to be awarded in November unveiled an initial list of 23 contenders Friday dominated by writers from India.
Anna Todd and Kelsey Barry, both 20, jumped up and down, screaming and hugging as they touched their Harry Potter books and smelled them as if handling a newborn baby. "It smells like fresh parchment," said Barry, among the first in line at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan`s Union Square. "It smells like magic."
Filming started Thursday on a movie starring Tom Cruise as the real-life mastermind behind a plot to kill Adolf Hitler, amid German grumbling about the high-profile Scientologist playing a national hero.
John Travolta didn`t show up for the premiere of "Hairspray" in the city that inspired it. Neither did Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah or Christopher Walken.
Even Jane Austen would have trouble finding a publisher today, a struggling author revealed on Thursday.
Departing from tradition, the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday chose the homegrown drama "Emotional Arithmetic," starring Susan Sarandon and Christopher Plummer, to close its 32nd edition, which runs September 6-15.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" whisked its way to No. 1 at movie box offices with weekend ticket sales of $77.4 million and a five-day total of just over $140 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
The Russian starlet Semen Varlamov signs a three-year contract with Washington Capitals.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" star Orlando Bloom disappointed thousands of female fans, insisting Wednesday he would not strip off in his London stage debut, despite fans` hopes he would follow the lead of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe.
The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison`s life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub at the age of 27.
Legendary American rockers, Aerosmith, will complete the European leg of their world tour Thursday with a sellout concert at the Olimpiisky Arena in Moscow, a representative for the organizers said.
Respected author Sebastian Faulks has written a new James Bond novel, reviving the 007 spy over four decades after Ian Fleming`s last book, it was announced Wednesday.
Theatre producers announced Tuesday plans for a London musical version of pop queen Madonna`s 1985 film "Desperately Seeking Susan" that will feature hit songs by punk rock band Blondie.
Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman will produce and star in the romantic comedy "Monte Carlo," the US entertainment press reported Tuesday.
Japanese audiences will have plenty of opportunities to sample contemporary Russian theater, music, dance, movies and circus during an arts marathon that kicks off in the country last Monday.
The Live Earth concerts spanning seven continents with an audience of more than 2bn people - 1 in 3 people on the planet - are underway.
He has honed a career in the make-believe world of the stage but renowned Russian theatre director Lev Dodin has all-too-real fears about the danger his country could be facing.
Freshmen series "Heroes" and "Ugly Betty" are on the Emmy-nominations short list, according to a Web site that tracks entertainment awards.
Classic director Orson Welles was firmly enthroned as the king of US movie making Thursday when critics voted his 1941 mystery "Citizen Kane" the best film ever, the American Film Institute said.
An early 20th-century Russian painting was sold at a record price of $10 million at Christie`s art sale Monday, breaking the previous record for a Russian painting set last week, the London-based auction house said.