By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: It was the great debate of 2012: Could you understand Bane in the “Dark Knight Rises” prologue, or did Chris Nolan need to tweak the villains inaudible dialogue to help audiences hear his dialogue?

It sounds like the latter half of the argument is winning out.

Citing an anonymous projectionist, Collider reports...

By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Consider it a tune-up before the big show.

As Van Halen prepares for a world tour (with dates for concerts going on sale Jan. 10), the band has revealed that it will play a concert this Thursday at Café Wha? in New York’s Greenwich Village. That has to be the smallest venue the band has played in decades, a real...

HollywoodNews.com: Brad Pitt has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2011 in Quigley Publishing Company’s 80th Annual Poll of Motion Picture Exhibitors. This is Pitt’s sixth appearance in the Poll, but his first win. Exhibitors felt Pitt was responsible for more traffic to theatres than any other Hollywood star based on his...

By Scott Mendelson

HollywoodNews.com: As is often the case, the last weekend of the year is basically a repeat of last weekend, both in general ranking and numbers, as the holiday weekend tends to keep drops low, if often absent. Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol led the pack of major Christmas and holiday releases that actually went up from...

By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” was the best movie I saw in 2011.

Granted, it didn’t register as my favorite movie immediately after a pre-Toronto screening. But I found myself thinking about Miller’s adaptation for weeks. I went out of my way to see it again. Then one more time. By year’s end, no other film stuck t...

HollywoodNews.com: Katy Perry is apparently pretty lucky to have a friend like Rihanna to lean on as she is reportedly getting her support during her divorce with Russell Brand.

Perry is reportedly leaning on her good friend of years since the news of the split just recently broke, states RadarOnline.com. And while they aren’t in the same...

HollywoodNews.com: Lindsay Lohan apparently had a bit of a fright at her Venice Beach home last night as a strange man reportedly showed up at her doorstep and wouldn’t leave.

The man allegedly knocked at her door, and when she answered, told her that he needed to speak with her, states TMZ. Lindsay reportedly asked him to leave, but he...