Posted: 11:11 PM Misdemeanor battery charges related to a bar dust-up have been dropped against Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr.

Posted: 11:08 PM Stevie Wonder is ending his 11-year marriage to fashion designer Kai Millard Morris.

Posted: 10:24 PM The choreographer of a somber segment in the London Olympics opening ceremony says he's disappointed that NBC decided not to show it to an American audience.

Posted: 4:17 PM These are good days for the "Anger Management" star Charlie Sheen, whose FX sitcom is halfway through its initial 10-episode run and poised to get an order for 90 more.

Posted: 4:13 PM Jessica Biel says that before Justin Timberlake proposed, she didn't expect to ever get married.

Posted: 11:03 PM The stars of "Modern Family" have reached new deals for the hit comedy, ending a dispute that threatened to spill over into a courtroom.

Posted: 11:01 PM The judge overseeing the guardianship of Michael Jackson's children wants an independent investigation into their well-being.

Posted: 11:00 PM "Dancing with the Stars" is repeating some steps for its fall season.

Posted: 4:34 PM Darlene Love, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who's considered one of the best background singers of all time, is recovering from a mild heart attack.

Posted: 4:32 PM Artist Todd McFarlane's original cover art for "The Amazing Spider-Man" No. 328 has sold for a record $657,250 at auction, just one among several pieces from the 1990s that went for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Posted: 4:31 PM More than 50,000 Olympic revelers have packed London's Hyde Park to watch the opening ceremony on huge TV screens and a rock concert celebrating the four corners of the United Kingdom.

Posted: 4:16 PM The star of the 1970s TV series "Medical Center" who went on to appear in such films and shows as "Mulholland Drive" and "Melrose Place" has died. Chad Everett was 75.

Posted: 9:44 PM 'The Vampire Diaries" has sucked up five trophies at the Teen Choice Awards.

Posted: 10:20 PM A film trailer featuring mobsters firing automatic weapons into a movie audience was still running in some theaters, even after Warner Bros. pulled the promo following the Colorado shooting during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."

Posted: 10:18 PM PBS President Paula Kerger says she's disappointed that public TV's federal funding is again under attack by lawmakers.

Posted: 10:16 PM Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.

Posted: 3:31 PM Warner Bros. Pictures says it has canceled appearances by the cast and filmmakers of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Mexico and Japan after a shooter killed 12 people and injured at least 50 Friday in a Colorado theater during a midnight premiere of the newest Batman movie.

Posted: 3:29 PM Hollywood studios are aligning in a rare show of solidarity to give their weekend box-office reporting a rest because of the shootings in Colorado at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."

Posted: 3:27 PM "The Dark Knight Rises" star Christian Bale says his heart goes out to the victims of the Colorado shootings at a screening of the Batman film.

Posted: 1:07 AM The movie industry is struggling to deal with the deadly shooting at a midnight screening last night of the new Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises."

Posted: 1:05 AM "The Dark Knight Rises" director is speaking out about the Colorado theater slayings, calling it a "senseless tragedy" and "devastating."

Posted: 9:49 PM Christopher Nolan is defending fans irate over negative reviews of "The Dark Knight Rises."

Posted: 9:55 PM Godzilla is coming. Legendary Pictures chief Thomas Tull made the announcement Saturday at Comic-Con without saying a word. He just rolled the never-before-seen footage and the crowd of more than 6,000 erupted.

Posted: 9:54 PM The residents of Bon Temps are in for more supernatural craziness.

Posted: 3:59 PM Quentin Tarantino is redefining race relations in the pre-Civil War South with "Django Unchained," his Western-style saga that he previewed at the Comic-Con fan convention.