“Up” won both best picture and director at the 37th annual Annie Awards on Saturday night. The nine-time nominee beat out all four of its competitors for best animated feature at the Oscars — “Coraline,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Princess and the Frog” and “The Secret of Kells” — as well as “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”

“Coraline” — which topped the list with 10 nominations — won three Annie Awards: character design, music and production design. “Princess” took three of its eight races at the Annie Awards: animated effects, character animation and voice acting. Critics’ choice “Fantastic Mr. Fox” won just one of its three nods, for the script by director Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.

“Beauty and the Beast” — which, like “Up,” was a best picture nominee at the Oscars — won the first Annie Award for animated feature back in 1991. Since the Academy Awards introduced a separate award for best animated feature in 2001, the winners of the two prizes have matched up six times. The exceptions: in 2006 when “Cars” won the Annie but “Happy Feet” danced off with the Oscar and last year when “Kung Fu Panda” swept the Annie Awards but “Wall-E” waltzed off with the Academy Award.

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Down goes Avatar!

The Channing Tatum-Amanda Seyfried romantic drama Dear John unseated James Cameron’s record-busting blockbuster at the box office, with a far-bigger-than-expected $32.4 million Friday-Sunday take, per estimates.

Avatar, which saw its weekend winning streak end at seven, didn’t get knocked out cold. It gobbled up another $23.6 million, and upped its all-time domestic haul to $630.1 million.

More on the weekend that was:

• The $34-million Dear John was projected to open with a solid $20 million or so. But then Twilight army mobilized, and the movie ended up setting a new record for a Super Bowl weekend debut.

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Award-winning R&B crooner/producer Ne-Yo isn’t holding out much hope of ever laying down any more tracks with actress Lindsay Lohan.

The singer worked with LiLo on her 2008 single “Bossy.” They made arrangements to head back into the studio to record even more music together for her forthcoming third album, Spirit In The Dark. However, two years later, Universal Motown has halted production on the project and Ne-Yo isn’t sure he’ll hear from the tabloid darling again.

“We were doing some stuff and then it just fell off and hasn’t got back on. I’m not gonna hold my breath,” he told FOX News’ Pop Tarts Column on Friday. “Lindsay, when you’re ready to get it in, give me a call.”

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Verizon’s HTC Incredible with Android 2.1 appears in photos, video

HTC Incredible is a new Android 2.1 smartphone (like the Google Nexus One) that should be launched by Verizon sometime later this year – and it could be the next best thing since the Motorola Droid.

Unlike the Droid, the HTC Incredible doesn’t have a hardware keyboard, but it does have some really nice features, like a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a WVGA touchscreen display (3.5 or 3.7 inches, maybe AMOLED), and an optical mouse. There’s also 256MB of RAM, and a photo camera with dual LED flash. HTC’s Sense UI is featured, too.

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BRAD Pitt has allegedly told pals his relationship with Angelina Jolie has been a “hellish” existence.

The actor apparently didn’t care when late last year he learned that no fewer than three tell-all books were being written about Brangelina.

“As far as he’s concerned, no book could come close to accurately portraying the hellish existence he’s had to endure at times during their relationship,” a source close to the couple told the UK’s Grazia magazine.

“He’s no saint but in comparison to Angelina, Brad is the most straightforward guy you could care to meet.

“He’s a traditional Midwestern boy of limited education who was no match for Angelina when she decided she wanted him.

“He was happy with Jennifer Aniston before she came along. Angelina chewed him up and now it looks like she’s just about ready to spit out.

“Ask anyone who really knows Brad and they’ll tell you he’s been badly damaged over the past few years.”

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KATE Hudson wants to get back with ex-beau Owen Wilson.

The Bride Wars actress — who recently split from New York Yankees slugger Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriquez — has been been bombarding Owen with phone calls and text messages, the National Enquirer reports.

“Kate realizes now that A-Rod wasn’t right for her,” a source told the tabloid. “Owen is the one guy who truly understood her.

“After Kate and Alex parted company, she started phoning Owen practically every day, hoping for another chance.

“She’s also invited him to visit her in New Orleans, where she’s filming her upcoming movie Earthbound, for the next two months.”

The source adds that Owen — who tried to kill himself in August 2007, just three months after he and Kate split for the first time — is “a lot more stable emotionally now and has his life back on track.

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It’s been 11 weeks since her life-changing plastic surgery but Heidi Montag is still very much healing.

“I’m very fragile,” she tells PEOPLE. “I’m not in a great place right now.”

The long road to recovery hasn’t been an easy one but Montag, 23, with weekly massages, exercise and therapy, has been working hard at the process. Still, setbacks like a stressful trip back home to Crested Butte, Colo., to confront her mom, have pushed back her healing some.

“I was hysterical the whole time,” she says of the trip. “It was so hurtful. My body really set back from recovering from all the crying, stress and that traumatic experience.”

Says Montag: “My insides were just throbbing and pounding but I know it’s part of what I had to go through.”

Despite the pain, Montag is very sure of one thing: there are no regrets. “I’m thrilled,” she says. “I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my life.”

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ENews tvN recently ran a survey amongst 30 Korean entertainment reporters to get them to rank male and female idol groups according to various categories.

Go under the cut to find out where your favourite idol group is ranked in different categories like vocal skills and dancing skills.

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Just in case you missed the Devour’s televised debut in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, Motorola and the internet at large have gone ahead and posted it online, along with some bonus footage (spoiler: no bonus Megan Fox scenes). Jury’s still out on if it’ll assuage any Motoblur disdain. Commercial after the break, extra scenes via the source link — your move, Stephen.

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It was Google’s first-ever Super Bowl ad–and one of their few TV spots at all, to boot. On Sunday, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLIV, the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant aired an ad called “Parisian Love,” featuring a Valentine’s-worthy romance spelled out in Google search queries.

The queries flow chronologically from “study abroad paris france” through “how to impress a french girl” and “what are truffles” to “long-distance relationship advice” and finally “how to assemble a crib.” Awwwww.

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