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'I hope 2012 brings a re-election for President Obama,' Says Scarlett Johansson (Photos)

Matisyahu, the renowned Hasidic Jewish reggae star, altered his religious image on Tuesday after he posted photos of himself on Twitter with a shaved beard.

Director David Fincher's film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo earned solid early reviews on Tuesday following its London premiere, and the studio behind it pushed up the release in a crowded holiday season.

In 2009, British film writer/director Guy Ritchie shocked Sherlock Holmes purists by rebooting the classic crime-fighting character for a new generation of movie fans.

Silent film The Artist and animated movie Hugo led nominations for Hollywood's Critics' Choice Awards on Tuesday, in a key week that will firm up the field of likely Oscar contenders.

This is the first in a series of Studio Report Cards from TheWrap. First up, Warner Bros.

A music-industry executive died on Monday of wounds he suffered last week when a gunman opened fire on motorists in a famed Hollywood intersection, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The former GOP vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is in the process of pitching a follow up to the Mark Burnett-produced reality show Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Killam gives a unique behind-the-scenes look at the SNL writers' room.

The Artist and Hugo lead the way with 11 nominations each.

Rumors suggesting Aishwarya Rai would be making a comeback to the silver screen with Sanjay Leela Bhansali have been crushed, after the Bollywood icon allegedly revealed to a friend she would be taking at least a year off to be with her new baby, Apun Ka Choice reported.

From an untamed heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, to a gipsy fortuneteller in Sherlock Holmes 2, Noomi Rapace has become one of the most talked about new-comers into Hollywood.

Among the main beneficiaries of the graphic new movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be babysitters.

The All-American Muslim show has been saved by Hollywood celebrities who have bought the remaining ad slots for TLC's reality series after Lowe's and other companies pulled out.

Perrette, best known as the go-to goth girl Abby Sciuto on NCIS, has been voted one of TV's Most Likeable stars, thanks to her recent announcement not to marry fiance Thomas Arkie until California's Prop 8 is overturned. Watch Pauley Perrette's NOH8 video here, and find out why she was voted the most likeable TV star.

More than 100 million apps for Apple's Mac line of products have been downloaded in the Mac App Store since it debut on January 6, Apple said, Monday.

John Atterberry, chief of the Death Row Records, died Monday after being shot in the face by a rampaging gunman on a Hollywood street Friday morning.

Orson Welles' Oscar for writing Citizen Kane -- regarded as one of the best films ever made -- is going up for auction again later this month in a hot market for Hollywood memorabilia.

Wealthy jewelry collectors, movie fans and the just plain curious are training their eyes on this week's auctions of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor's collection of jewelry, haute couture and memorabilia.

The Imitation Game, Graham Moore's story of a British World War II cryptographer who poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being gay, tops this year's Hollywood Black List of best unproduced scripts of 2011.

Moviegoers will have a lot to choose from under the big box office tree this Christmas holiday -- in fact, they might even have too many choices.