RYAN PHILLIPPE, MALIN AKERMAN AND TAYLOR KITSCH CAST IN DRAMATIC FEATURE TORONTO, March 9 /PRNewswire/ - E1 Entertainment today announced that Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch have signed on to star in the The Bang Bang Club, a Canada/South Africa co-production from producer Daniel Iron of Foundry Films Inc.

One of the scariest summer reads of recent years, The Ruins (Paramount, $29.99) didn't quite create the same level of excitement when it was brought to the big screen.

B.B. King was awarded the key to the city Saturday at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

The bust-up of country superstar Shania Twain's marriage to music producer Robert "Mutt" Lange might be because someone came between them - not because the couple was "growing apart." People maggie reports that Mutt left his Revlon spokesgal wife for Marie-Anne Thibaud, a longtime secretary and manager of the couple's chateau in Switzerland.

By Bob Strauss Paramount Pictures has been criticized for trying to sell "Stop- Loss" as a movie about youths going wild rather than the box-office toxic Iraq war hangover movie that it is. I say, give the marketers a break.