IBT Staff Reporter

She's been atop the leader board on TV contest Dancing With the Stars several times, but Ricki Lake still doesn't believe she'll end up with the mirror ball trophy. The winner, she thinks, will be J.R. Martinez.

Stocks tumbled on Tuesday after investors were blindsided by a surprise call for a Greek referendum on an EU bailout plan, casting doubt on the sustainability of the recent market rally.

Bill Murray has joined the cast of Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III, TheWrap has confirmed.

A month before he directs and co-produces his second Academy Awards show, Don Mischer will receive an honor of his own at one of the key Oscar precursor shows, the Producers Guild of America's 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards.

Sunday Night Football surged a remarkable 78 percent Sunday night, while Fox's animated slate, led by The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episode, also showed strong gains, according to preliminary numbers.

Prison time for crack cocaine offenders has gone down.

The Greek government believes it will win a confidence vote on Friday and will hold a referendum on an EU aid deal as planned, a spokesman said after several ruling party members asked for snap elections instead.

FX announced Monday that it has ordered 13 season-two episodes of the Ryan Murphy/Brad Falchuk series American Horror Story.

During the recent Golden Bell Television Awards last month in Taipei -- Taiwan's equivalent of the Emmy awards -- Huang Ming-chan, who won one of the top prizes in the director categories, gingerly walked up to the stage and snapped a cellphone photo of himself (over the shoulder) while approaching the podium.

After three years of reboots, sequels and prequels, the market for original scripts is finally sizzling again in Hollywood.

Ryan Kwanten, Leslie Bibb and Amy Smart are starring in CBS Films thriller 7500, the studio announced Tuesday.

Animated movie Puss in Boots landed on its feet with a $51 million global debut over the weekend and likely set a Halloween weekend record for a domestic opening, according to studio estimates released on Sunday.

With the Grand Theft Auto V trailer coming out on Nov. 2 details have been leaked about the game's specifics.

Under the Mistletoe isn't just Justin Bieber's first Christmas album. More significantly, maybe. it's his first album as a baritone.

Actress Scarlett Johansson has addressed her nude photo scandal from earlier this year, saying there was nothing wrong with her taking the photos, in an interview with Vanity Fair on Tuesday.

Paul Brooks' Gold Circle Films and Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions have combined forces to form Angle Films. The companies simultaneously announced on Tuesday a first-look distribution deal for their new production company with Universal Pictures.

There may be legitimate reasons to dislike Susan Boyle. But Someone to Watch Over Me, her surprisingly tasteful third album, is not one of them.

Ranking magazine takes MCATs and grade point averages into account too heavily, medical school deans fear.

Actor Hugh Grant, known for films such as Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary, has welcomed a baby girl into his life following a brief affair with an unidentified woman, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Monday afternoon's announcement that Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin will be the closing-night film at the AFI Fest would be more newsworthy if the film won't already have been playing around the world for two weeks by the time it debuts in Hollywood on November 10.

Lonely Planet has just released their picks for top 10 cities in 2012. Some are obvious choices, but many will surprise.

Michael Jackson's doctor said Tuesday he will not testify in his own defense during his trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the 2009 death of the pop star.

Surgeons in Northern California began a nine-hour operation on Tuesday to separate a pair of twin 2-year-old girls conjoined at the chest and abdomen.

Hewlett Packard Co unveiled plans to develop extremely low-energy servers, partnering with companies such as chip designers ARM Holdings Plc and Advanced Micro Devices Inc in a move that could threaten the dominance of Intel Corp.

Call it putting a gloss on some bad news, but Credit Suisse chief Brady Dougan reckons the bank is ahead of the pack with Tuesday's announcement of an overhaul of its investment banking operations.

A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product-liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them.

Germans expressed fury and frustration on Tuesday at the Greek prime minister's shock decision to call a referendum on a new financial rescue package, political leaders saying it could plunge Greece into bankruptcy and force it out of the euro zone.

Stocks tumbled 2 percent on Tuesday after a surprise proposal that Greeks should vote on a EU bailout plan threatened to upend weeks of painstaking negotiations and unleash the region's sovereign debt crisis with renewed force.

Global factory activity slowed in October on weak demand for exports, with a sharp contraction in Britain's manufacturing sector suggesting that Europe was on the brink of a new recession.