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'Lost' actor Matthew Fox - who plays a WWII Army Officer in Peter Webber's new movie 'Emperor' - says the cast were walking on egg shells around Tommy Lee Jones during filming. The historical-drama follows Fox's character General Bonner Feller who is tasked with deciding whether Japan's Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox - who appears in nearly every scene of the movie - explained how he had been shooting for around eight weeks before Jones turned up to shoot his scenes. "The combination of Tommy's persona, and what he's done as an actor, combined with the fact that he's playing MacArthur, one of our most iconic U.S. military figures, you could feel the energy on the set; people were on eggshells," he said.

Jones has always been infamous for his straight talking rough around the edges persona - something controversial Oscars host Seth MacFarlane played on last month. For Fox, it only added to the role. "I knew it was going to work for us because I think that's probably the way that all the people who worked around MacArthur in 1945 felt," he said.

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Good things come to those who wait, that is unless you're waiting for the new World War Z trailer set to air during Super Bowl sunday because it has already been made available online.

In the new clip of the Brad Pitt-starring apocalyptic action film we begin with Pitt and his on-screen family stuck in a New York City traffic jam (nothing new there then), before all hell breaks loose as the third world war, 'World War Z', gets underway. Not too much is given away in the trailer other than the fact that the film contains zombies, lots and lots of zombies.

As well as the zombies, the film, based on the Max Brooks book of the same name, follows Pitt's character, a UN worker, as he travels back and forth across the globe in a bid to stop the deadly outbreak of zombie-itus. Matthew Fox, David Morse, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale also star, whilst Marc Forster takes care of the directing duties.

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There's been some paranormal activity this weekend in the U.S Box office. Most notably: the fourth incarnation of the found footage horror film performed well below industry expectations, but still usurped Taken 2 at the top of the charts.

A $30.2 million opening posted by the latest in the Paranormal Activity franchise was roughly $10 to $20 million lower than industry analysts expected, but still enough to it put at No.1. The popular scream-fest was also dominant outside North America too, as it edged out Taken 2 thanks to a $26.5m weekend debut in 22 countries, which contributed to a $56.7m worldwide opening weekend. The success just goes to show that fans of the genre don't pay much attention to reviews, and Paranormal Activity 4 has had a truly awful critical response, amassing the unimpressive score of 27% on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. New York Magazine, in particular, weren't fans: "We're still seeing things through handheld devices and built-in laptop cameras, even though nobody seems interested in looking at the footage the cameras were supposedly recording," they said.

Ben Affleck's on and off camera performance in Argo netted the second spot, with a healthy $43.2m. Taken 2 slipped down to 4th, with Hotel Transylvania gleaning a domestic $13.5m. Alex Cross, starring Lost's Matthew Fox makes up the top 5 with a poor $11.8m on its opening weekend, according to The Guardian

Star of HBO's Lost, Matthew Fox has had a pretty bad year, having been given a DUI and also taken to court by a bus driver, which he spoke candidly about to Ellen Degeneres on the Ellen show tonight (Oct. 17th 2012).

He admitted being very embarrassed after being arrested for a DUI USMagazine.com reports. “I was not happy about the DUI at all. I was terribly embarrassed by that. And take full responsibility for it. I really own that and have done every single thing the state of Oregon requires for a first time DUI offender,” he said. “I have learned a ton. I did four weeks of alcohol informational training. And just learned an enormous amount." Fox generously shared some of his new found knowledge with Ellen and the audience, something that is certainly worth baring in mind: "50 percent of people that get one DUI will get another." This was a fact that we, alongside Fox find astounding, he said "I will absolutely not be in the statistic. There is just no way."

Fox was also arrested and exploited by a female bus driver who accused him of hitting her. She took him to criminal court, a trial which was dismissed as the prosecutors saw that it was a “hoax”, She then made it a 'civil case' which makes everything far more complex, according to Fox. Eventually though Fox was completely aquitted that he was, unsurprisingly, very relieved about. He felt the accusation was an upsetting defamation of character, saying "It's difficult to be accused of something that you did not do. I've never hit a woman in my life. Never have, never will. That's not a part of who I am as a man and hold that very dear to how I define my character. So that's been very difficult."

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The first few reviews of 'Alex Cross' are in, and it's not making pleasant reading for director Rob Cohen and his assembled cast and crew. The film's stars Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox and Edwards Burns are all fully on the promotional campaign for the film, which comes out on November 30, 2012, but they might have a bit work to do to sway the critics if the opening conclusions are anything to go by.

The Hollywood Reporter rant "You almost feel sorry for Tyler Perry, stepping out of his own universe for the first time to try to expand his range and finding himself in something as thoroughly dismal as Alex Cross". Variety are slightly kinder, but still come down on the negative side, writing "The director acquits himself on the action front, but makes the simple procedural elements feel wooden and melodramatic, particularly in sappy home-life scenes."

Screen International are another unimpressed with Perry's attempt to step away from his hugely popular drag character Madea Simmons. "While Tyler Perry no doubt envisions "Alex Cross" as his opportunity to branch out, the actors around him rightly regard this pedestrian effort as just another gig" they write. With the film still over a month away there is the chance it could claw back some acclaim, but two bad reviews from the usually reliably Hollywood Reporter and Variety are bad news indeed.