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Kanye West ends VMA boycott

LOS ANGELES - A year after vowing never to perform on the MTV Video Music Awards again, hip-hop star Kanye West will close the show's 25th annual ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday, joining a lineup that includes Christina Aguilera and the Jonas Brothers, organizers said. The outspoken rapper was upset by his treatment at last year's show, when his performance was relegated to a small stage in the Las Vegas venue.

Toronto film festival gets off to a romantic start

TORONTO - The curtain rose on the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night with romance "Passchendaele" playing to a packed theater and starting a 10-day parade of films and stars at one of the world's top movie gatherings. In keeping with tradition, the event opened by shining its spotlight on a Canadian movie, but Hollywood invades in the days ahead with the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and even Paris Hilton in town.

"Dark Knight" reigns as new Imax king

LOS ANGELES - The Imax-format release of Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" has blown past "The Polar Express" as the giant-screen exhibitor's top first-run release. Imax also touted the Batman sequel's having passed an average tally of $400,000 per screen on the company's 139 worldwide screens.

Edwards heads back to "ER" in guest spot

LOS ANGELES - Actor Anthony Edwards, one of the original stars of the NBC hospital drama "ER," will return to the landmark TV show in November in flashback scenes playing his now-deceased character of Dr. Mark Greene. He will share scenes with actress Angela Bassett, previously announced as a new addition to the "ER" cast for the show's upcoming 15th and final season, the General Electric Co.-owned network said on Thursday.

"RocknRolla" finds Ritchie back with a vengeance

TORONTO - First the good news: Guy Ritchie is back. Then the even better news: Guy Ritchie is back with his most accessible and enjoyable film yet in "RocknRolla." After getting swept off course by Madonna ("Swept Away") and pretension , the English writer-director, who in the late '90s invented a new form of criminally funny pulp fiction set in an exaggerated London underworld, returns to this gangland with renewed vigor. It's all here: the ingenious, obscenity-laced language, the double-crosses that turn into triple-crosses, the swaggering characters so in love with themselves. GottaLove "RocknRolla!"

Tarantino's take on WWII draws fire in Germany

BERLIN - Seems you can't even be nasty to Nazis anymore. A leaked script of Quentin Tarantino's World War II drama "Inglorious Bastards" already is stirring up controversy for scenes of vengeful Americans bashing, scalping, shooting and strangling German soldiers.

"Seinfeld" hits the road to connect with new fans

NEW YORK - Stroll around Manhattan's Union Square these days, and you come across billboards touting the start of the fall TV season with promotions for the likes of "Heroes," "The Mentalist" and "Private Practice." But an evergreen -- the '90s hit sitcom "Seinfeld" -- has stolen the spotlight here, not with a billboard but with a bus. The show may have ended its primetime TV run a decade ago, but Sony Pictures Television expects one of TV's most valuable franchises to extend its longevity in syndication, on DVD and in new media -- and now with a 26-city "Seinfeld Campus Tour."

Michael Moore to release free documentary on Web

LOS ANGELES - Firebrand filmmaker Michael Moore will release his latest documentary exclusively on the Internet for free on September 23, eschewing a traditional theatrical rollout, he said on Thursday. "Slacker Uprising" documents Moore's 62-city tour of key swing states during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, when he tried to convince young non-voters to give voting a shot.

Next U2 album pushed to early 2009

NEW YORK - Initially expected this fall as a fourth-quarter blockbuster, U2's next album has been pushed to early 2009 while the band continues to write and record material. "I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there's more priceless stuff to be found?," frontman Bono writes on U2.com .

George Washington biopic gets green light

LOS ANGELES - "Elegy" scribe Nicholas Meyer will pen a screenplay about the life of George Washington for Paul Allen's Vulcan Prods. Allen said his goal is to present a historically accurate account of America's early years and the country's first president.

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