Oprah Winfrey
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey topped Forbes' list of the highest-paid celebrities, raking in $165 million between May 2011 and May 2012.
Winfrey, whose earnings actually fell by $125 million from the previous year, remains at the top thanks to the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as her eponymous magazine, OWN, her spin-off shows and Sirius radio deal.
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Coming in just behind Winfrey is movie director Michael Bay, who earned $160 million. His Blockbuster film Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, which he earns profits on, took in a whopping $1.1 billion at the box office.
Steven Spielberg took the No. 3 spot, earning $130 million in the last year. His company DreamWorks produced Falling Skies, Terra Nova and Smash for television and the Oscar-nominated films The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse.
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Michael Bay
Michael Bay has teamed up with Starz for the new original series, Black Sails, the network announced Thursday.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes trumped The Change-Up at the weekend box office, Box Office Mojo reports.
The prequel to the 1969 film, starring James Franco, grossed an estimated $54 million in its first weekend of release.
Cowboys & Aliens ties with The Smurfs for top spot at the box office
The Smurfs, last weekend's No. 1 film after final figures were in, drew $21 million in its second week. Cowboys & Aliens lassoed $15.7 million to come in....
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Daniel Craig
In one of the closest — and most colorful — box-office battles this year, Cowboys & Aliens tied with The Smurfs for the top spot, Box Office Mojo reports.
Cowboys & Aliens, the sci-fi action film starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, grossed...
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Chris Evans
Captain America: The First Avenger ousted Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as the top grossing film at this weekend's box office.
The film, which stars Chris Evans, raked in $65.8 million, according to Box Office Mojo. This makes the Paramount and Marvel Studios movie the summer's top superhero box office debut.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
The Harry Potter franchise is going out on a high note — a very high note.
The eighth and final film — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — broke records for top midnight grosses, largest opening day, largest opening weekend in the U.S. and...
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Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon became the highest-grossing film of 2011 this week, holding on to the No. 1 spot at the box office, despite a strong debut by Horrible Bosses.
The third Transformers film grossed an estimated...
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Shia LaBeouf
The third Transformers film provided plenty of fireworks over the holiday weekend, blowing up box-office records for the Fourth of July weekend and logging the best opening weekend of 2011 thus far.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon grossed an estimated $97.4 million over the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. That total eclipses Spider-Man 2's $88.2 million July Fourth debut in 2004 and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' $90.1 million opening earlier this year. The action film, starring Shia LaBeouf, took in...
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Michael Bay and Megan Fox
Michael Bay says Steven Spielberg told him to fire Megan Fox from the Transformers franchise after she told Wonderland magazine that the director "wants to be like Hitler on his sets."
"She was in a different world, on her BlackBerry. You gotta stay focused," Bay tells the July issue of GQ. "And you know, the Hitler thing. Steven said ...
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Patrick Dempsey
Is it true Patrick Dempsey is leaving Grey's Anatomy after next season? — Amy E., via email
I chatted up P. Demp at the MTV Movie Awards, where he was promoting his role as car-collecting mogul Dylan Gould in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (out June 29). "It's not in my court — it's up to ABC and...
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