Taylor Kitsch

Three days after Walt Disney Studios said it would incur a $200-million loss on "John Carter," the film's star, Taylor Kitsch, was still licking his wounds. He had just returned to his Beverly Hills hotel, cheeks flushed following a boxing workout where a fellow gym rat had tried to console him about the box-office dud. "This guy came up to me and goes, 'Next one. Don't worry about it, you'll be fine,' " Kitsch chafed. "I'm like, 'I'm not worried about it, man. I didn't market the movie.

"It's that kind of a story where things got so out of control," says O, the narrator of"Savages. "She's talking about the plot, but she might be talking about the filmmaking as well. Adapted from the bestselling Don Winslow novel, "Savages" has a lot going for it, including a pip of a story, a propulsive narrative drive and the über-cool blacker-than-night attitude and language of author Winslow, who told one interviewer, "I don't know that I'd want to visit my brain except with a gun and a flashlight.

As befits a movie filled with explosions and visual effects spectacle, “Battleship” director-producer Peter Berg rolled up to the film's U.S. premiere Thursday in a “shredder,” modeled after aliens' powerful metal machines in the movie. Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna and others in the cast didn't make quite that grand an entrance but were welcomed with plenty of cheers from the crowd flanking the blue carpet - especially the hip-hop artist, whose fans constantly shouted “Ri-Ri!

Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 24 - 30 in PDF format TV listings for the week of June 24 - 30 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies   CBS This Morning Director Seth MacFarlane. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Matthew McConaughey; Channing Tatum; R. Kelly. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Usher; Oliver Stone; Taylor Kitsch; chef Michael Symon.

"It's that kind of a story where things got so out of control," says O, the narrator of"Savages. "She's talking about the plot, but she might be talking about the filmmaking as well. Adapted from the bestselling Don Winslow novel, "Savages" has a lot going for it, including a pip of a story, a propulsive narrative drive and the über-cool blacker-than-night attitude and language of author Winslow, who told one interviewer, "I don't know that I'd want to visit my brain except with a gun and a flashlight.

Rihanna isn't having the best clubgoing experience lately. A bodyguard for the singer and actress was caught assaulting a paparazzo in London on Sunday as she left a nightclub with female friends. The large man, helping Rihanna and her party out of Mayfair's upscale Whisky Mist lounge, threw a punch that sent one clamoring photog to the ground - and it was all caught on tape.  PHOTOS : Celebrity scuffles with the media Indeed the pack of British shutterbugs overwhelmed Rihanna and her camp, as they were repeatedly asked to give the "S&M" singer space to walk.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 24 - 30 in PDF format TV listings for the week of June 24 - 30 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies   CBS This Morning Director Seth MacFarlane. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Matthew McConaughey; Channing Tatum; R. Kelly. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Usher; Oliver Stone; Taylor Kitsch; chef Michael Symon.

It won't be smooth sailing for the costly newcomer"Battleship"at the box office this weekend, as "The Avengers" is set to dominate ticket sales for the third consecutive round.  The superhero adventure film is expected to be No. 1 yet again with about $50 million in ticket sales, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys. The movie already has surpassed the $1-billion mark at the global box office and will have grossed more than $400 million in the U.S. and Canada alone by Sunday.  "Battleship," the popcorn movie about a maval fleet battling aliens which cost Universal Pictures $209 million to produce, probably will start off with a so-so $40 million in ticket sales.

The box-office debut of"Battleship" - an attempt to transform the kids' strategy pastime into a summer blockbuster - looked like a very different board game over the weekend: Trouble. Universal Pictures' $209-million alien invasion spectacle fizzled badly in its domestic premiere, grossing just $25.3 million and finishing a distant second to the third weekend of Disney's "The Avengers," according to Sunday estimates. The debut of "Battleship" - whose ticket sales were about 40% lower than some predictions - was even worse than the $30.2-million March opening of"John Carter,"one of the biggest fiascoes in Hollywood history, and the film's audience was surprisingly old. "I'm hugely disappointed in this opening," said Nikki Rocco, Universal's president of domestic distribution, who added that the film's respectable international numbers will soften the domestic blow.

When his movie "John Carter" thudded into theaters in March, director Andrew Stanton escaped to New York and spent the next three weeks riding the subway, noodling on scripts and visiting with his daughter and some friends. For the first time since he started at Pixar Animation Studios in 1990 at age 24, Stanton was facing an unfamiliar sensation - the gut punch of a public failure in an industry that hardly shelters it. The film had forced Walt Disney Studios to take a $200-million write-down and helped lead to the departure of two top executives.

Rihanna isn't having the best clubgoing experience lately. A bodyguard for the singer and actress was caught assaulting a paparazzo in London on Sunday as she left a nightclub with female friends. The large man, helping Rihanna and her party out of Mayfair's upscale Whisky Mist lounge, threw a punch that sent one clamoring photog to the ground - and it was all caught on tape.  PHOTOS : Celebrity scuffles with the media Indeed the pack of British shutterbugs overwhelmed Rihanna and her camp, as they were repeatedly asked to give the "S&M" singer space to walk.

The box-office debut of"Battleship" - an attempt to transform the kids' strategy pastime into a summer blockbuster - looked like a very different board game over the weekend: Trouble. Universal Pictures' $209-million alien invasion spectacle fizzled badly in its domestic premiere, grossing just $25.3 million and finishing a distant second to the third weekend of Disney's "The Avengers," according to Sunday estimates. The debut of "Battleship" - whose ticket sales were about 40% lower than some predictions - was even worse than the $30.2-million March opening of"John Carter,"one of the biggest fiascoes in Hollywood history, and the film's audience was surprisingly old. "I'm hugely disappointed in this opening," said Nikki Rocco, Universal's president of domestic distribution, who added that the film's respectable international numbers will soften the domestic blow.

It won't be smooth sailing for the costly newcomer"Battleship"at the box office this weekend, as "The Avengers" is set to dominate ticket sales for the third consecutive round.  The superhero adventure film is expected to be No. 1 yet again with about $50 million in ticket sales, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys. The movie already has surpassed the $1-billion mark at the global box office and will have grossed more than $400 million in the U.S. and Canada alone by Sunday.  "Battleship," the popcorn movie about a maval fleet battling aliens which cost Universal Pictures $209 million to produce, probably will start off with a so-so $40 million in ticket sales.

Three days after Walt Disney Studios said it would incur a $200-million loss on "John Carter," the film's star, Taylor Kitsch, was still licking his wounds. He had just returned to his Beverly Hills hotel, cheeks flushed following a boxing workout where a fellow gym rat had tried to console him about the box-office dud. "This guy came up to me and goes, 'Next one. Don't worry about it, you'll be fine,' " Kitsch chafed. "I'm like, 'I'm not worried about it, man. I didn't market the movie.

As befits a movie filled with explosions and visual effects spectacle, “Battleship” director-producer Peter Berg rolled up to the film's U.S. premiere Thursday in a “shredder,” modeled after aliens' powerful metal machines in the movie. Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna and others in the cast didn't make quite that grand an entrance but were welcomed with plenty of cheers from the crowd flanking the blue carpet - especially the hip-hop artist, whose fans constantly shouted “Ri-Ri!

While promoting the movie"Battleship"in Tokyo last month,U.S. ArmyCol. Greg Gadson found himself face-to-face with a stunned reporter. "He thought I was computer-generated," said Gadson, a burly former West Point football player who walks with the aid of futuristic-looking titanium prosthetics. "He thought my legs were movie magic. " There was no CGI needed for Gadson's performance as a wounded combat veteran in "Battleship" - both of his legs were amputated above the knee after he was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007.

Today Neil Diamond; Javier Colon; Hot Chelle Rae. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Taylor Kitsch; Doris Day; chef Alton Brown. (N) 7 a.m. KABC The View Jeremy Piven. (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Talk Debbie Reynolds; Elizabeth Mitchell. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS Dr. Phil A woman says her bodybuilder husband spends $10,000 a year on tanning, transplants and neurotoxin. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS The Ellen DeGeneres Show Kristin Chenoweth; Kym Douglas; Stevie Wonder performs. (N) 4 p.m. KNBC Anderson Tracey Gold; Elton John.