'Once' stars going on tour
Oscar winners and real-life couple Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova can add one more modifier to their union: tour mates.
The Once co-stars will embark on a 27-stop tour with their band The Swell Season starting April 23 in Phoenix. Among the tour highlights: stops at music festivals Coachella and Bonnaroo and a date at Radio City Music Hall.
Mariah fills in for sick Janet on `SNL'
NEW YORK - "Saturday Night Live" has replaced a flu-ridden Janet Jackson with another diva: Mariah Carey.
Carey, 37, will fill in for Jackson on the March 15 "SNL" telecast, NBC announced Wednesday.
Jackson, 41, was scheduled to perform live Saturday night in support of her latest album, "Discipline," which was released last month. The singer's publicist, Patti Webster, said Tuesday she dropped out because she has the flu and "needs some time to get better."
Carey's latest album, EMC2, arrives April 15.
Last `Harry Potter' book becomes 2 films
LOS ANGELES - Harry Potter was the center of seven novels, but he'll star in eight films.
The final book in the wildly successful series will be made into two films, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
Producers are expected to announce Thursday that J.K. Rowling's last "Potter" installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be split into two parts on the big screen. The first film is slated for release in November, 2010, with part two following in May 2011.
"It was born out of purely creative reasons," producer David Heyman told the Times. "Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book."
Filming began in September on the sixth "Potter" flick, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
"It's been brilliant," said star Daniel Radcliffe. "It's also, I think, the funniest of the films so far."
The "Potter" film franchise has pulled in $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office.