LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Usher was deposited at the guarded front gate in a black Cadillac SUV. The inside courtyard teemed with people watching a large flat-screen monitor documenting the assembled celebrity chorus; inside the studio a disembodied voice declared, "We're not finished; we still have to do the harmony." Noted perfectionist Barbra Streisand stood in a separate studio running ...

The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season. Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just ...

"Crash" director Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology, in part because of what he alleged as the organization's stance against gay marriage. Haggis wrote a letter addressed to Tommy Davis, the head of Scientology's Celebrity Centre. In it, Haggis said he ...

Liam Neeson has signed on to a Hollywood remake of the French thriller "Pour Elle," entertainment industry Daily Variety reported on Monday. Neeson, 57, will play an ex-con helping a teacher, played by Russell Crowe, trying to break his wife out of prison after she is wrongly convicted of murder, Variety reported. The film -- to be released as "The Next ...