Tom Cruise has insisted learning to sing for musical Rock of Ages was just like working out for an action movie – just using a different set of muscles.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is to star in 'Broken City'.

Katie Holmes threw husband Tom Cruise a surprise 49th birthday party on Saturday.

Russell Brand will play narrator Lonny in ‘Rock of Ages’.

Anne Hathaway is set to star alongside Tom Cruise in 'Rock of Ages'.

WHEN the trashier end of the media is desperate for dirt on an entertainer, and can’t find any, there is a tendency to manufacture non-events.

Tom Cruise is being lined up for a part in 'Rock of Ages'.

Zac Efron and Justin Timberlake are going head-to-head for a role in 'Memphis'.

Alec Baldwin isn’t nervous about hosting the Academy Awards.

HOLLYWOOD veterans Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are to share hosting duties at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Hollywood veterans Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are to share hosting duties at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Sandler – who usually comes across as charmless – manages to break his hoodoo with this kiddies film that is, indeed, a charmer. It even has elements that will appeal to adults.

The Spice Girl have hired choreographer to the stars Adam Shankman to help make their comeback tour a spectacular affair.

John Travolta in drag, and very good he is too.

John Travolta fans finally have their two big wishes: His return to movie musicals after almost 30 years and his first role as a plump housewife.

It is actually Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - not counting the previous films on a similar theme from long ago - since it continues the Martin-Hunt partnership, along with their clutch of children.

Stateside audiences still their mindless pap; so step forward Mr. Diesel, running on fumes!

The recent years have been fallow ones for Martin, one of the nicest guys in Hollywood … but he's back with a bang.

According to reports, Jennifer Lopez is being sued for $3m for stealing a director's idea for a film version of the opera Carmen, along with her manager and Absolute Entertainment.

Jennifer Lopez is being sued for £15m (€21m) by the director of her film The Wedding Planner because he claims she cut him out of a remake of Carmen.

Jennifer Lopez is being sued for £3m (€4.2m) by a Hollywood director who claims she stole his idea for a film based on the opera Carmen.

Curiously, the phenomenon of crop circles has never been used before now as the basis of a Hollywood film ... it is a strange and mysterious world in which we live.