June 16, 2006

After her famous and claiming-fame role as Lieutenant Ripley in the 1979 "Alien", Sigourney Weaver is ready to show some actions in a new thriller by Columbia Pictures, "Vantage Point".

The movie itself is revealing the assassination attempt on the U.S. President, and having Pete Travis as the director and Barry Levy wrote the movie script. Meanwhile, Neal Moritz will collaborate with Tania Landau in the credits for the producer and executive producer.

Despite all the publication he's made during the year, Tom Cruise is still chosen as the top. The actor has on Thursday June 15th, 2006 reclaimed his No. 1 spot on Forbes magazine's annual list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Stars.

Speaking on Cruise choosing as the No. 1, the publication revealed it was the much on the "media onslaught" he drew for his pairing with actress Katie Holmes as it did to his "awesome" box office clout, that made Cruise deserves the position.

In a reader poll, which is about to be released Friday June 16th, 2006 in Country Weekly, the name of country singer Keith Urban comes up as the Sexiest Male Country Star, beating the likes of such country music artists as Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, all of whom rounding out the top five, in order.

"The biggest surprise is how rapidly over the last couple of years Keith Urban has shot to the head of the class," Editor Bill Gubbins said. Meanwhile he added that there are about 32,000 readers voted in the first annual poll, both online and by mail.

Claiming-fame-from -"Good Will Hunting" actor, Ben Affleck, is on the top list to be the leading role in the next TV-series adapted movie, "Magnum P.I.".

Although it has not yet been the final result, Charles Floyd Johnson as one of the producers would love to have the "Daredevil" star as the very first choice to respectively take Tom Selleck's role as the mustachioed, Hawaiian private detective.

A challenging cast for Smitty in the late 80s TV series, The Cosby Show, Adam Sandler is waiting straight ahead. This time, the cast for "Happy Gilmore" star is to pretend to be a gay firefighter married to his couple, played by "Hitch" star, Kevin James, in order to meet the Fire Department's domestic partner benefits. The movie will hit the screen under the title of "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry".

The production itself won't take place until the late of August, and is set to locate in Los Angles and New York. Having Dennis Dugan (who also directed Sandler in "Big Daddy" and "Happy Gilmore") as the director and both Alexander Payne and James Taylor as the scriptwriters, "I Now Pronounce You" will be premiered in theaters on July 20, 2007.

Mandy Moore and Zach Braff have split up, blaming the large age gap for the decision. What an unfortunate.

The decision was reportedly amicable, with Moore (22) deciding she was too young for a completely committed relationship with Braff (31).

Aging but still agile, that's Madonna. The queen of pop music is still as charming as the way she used to be during her young age.

And now as she's close to 50, Madonna is still very productive. She will have her single "Get Together," which is the third in a string of dance hits from her number one album "Confessions On A Dance Floor", released on July 24th later this year.

The Angel joins the actor-musician in "Watching the Detectives"

One of "Charlie's Angels" is now on her way to make another silver screen performance. The prominent Asian-American actress, Lucy Liu is in talks to take part in Paul Soter's new romantic-comedy, "Watching the Detectives".

Paris Hilton smokes marijuana? Why not? The hotel heiress was spotted at Pink Elephant nightclub in New York City at 1:30 a.m. Thursday. Sitting there with her friends, an onlooker who sat two tables away from her saw her hold something white in her hands as she turned her back to the main room.

Afterwards, the eyewitness who happened to be a TMZ staffer, saw her turned back and a female friend leaned down, took what appeared to be a fat, hand-rolled cigarette and lit it. The TMZ staffer then saw the friend take two hits and hand it over to Paris who then took a hit herself and handed it back to the friend.

The brilliant movie-director seems to find himself fond of the quest for outer space. Steven Spielberg is now on his way to direct new sci-fi movie, with Lynda Obst as the producer. This time, the story goes with a group of space traveler having their journey through the wormhole and another dimension.

The intriguing point of this movie is that Spielberg based the story on the controversial wormholes theory by a Caltech physicist whose expertise is in relativity, Kip S. Thorne. The theory itself explains the possibility of existence of the wormholes and its accessibility to be a time-travel portal. It does sound promising and challenging for the highly imaginative Spielberg.

Britney Spears' parenting skill has been questioned, again, after she was said to change her son Sean Preston's diaper on store's dirty floor. The pop superstar was at a Victoria's Secret lingerie shop in Mission Viejo, California on June 4th when Preston needed to have his diaper changed.

And so the young mother put him down on the floor next to the cash register and changed his diaper and then handed it to a sales clerk saying, 'Can you throw this away for us?' This obviously stunned shoppers and staff there and worse put Spears herself in another parenting skill woes.

She previously dumped Britney Spears as her best friend, but now the rumors on the street say that Madonna has found Spears replacement in another teen star, who happens to be Lindsay Lohan.

The two stars have reportedly become new best friends due to their links to Kabbalah, and now they're in secret talks to record a tune together. "Madonna's giving Lindsay advice on her music career, and she wants to work on a film with Madonna, too!" an insider told America's In Touch magazine.

The movie telling the story of a heroin addict-and-fugitive found the director truly runs away from the project starting its production in the spring of 2007. Peter Weir has left the project after several irreconcilable differences in the interpretation with Warner Bross, Graham King and Johnny Depp as the producer in adapting the Gregory David Robert's 944-page novel, "Shantaram". Weir was a qualified choice then, due to his respectively easy-going behavior.

The quest for new director is still ongoing, without any doubt that the production will be able to start on its targeted time instead of meeting a total cancellation. So far, the search has reached the exotic India and the land of Europe (Spain and the UK).

After two big male rappers, 50 Cent and Eminem, gave a shot on the big screen, it is now the time for female rappers to join the club. Missy Elliott is ready to broaden her enormous talents, in the music business and on the silver screen, after her previous in "Shark Tale" and one in "Honey" with the "Good Luck Chuck"'s star, Jessica Alba.

Following 50 Cent's debut in "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and Eminem's in "8 Mile", Miss Misdemeanor is setting up for another biopic, Missy as herself in her own life-story-based movie.

Christina Milian has been dropped from her record label Island Def Jam, that's an unfortunate for the R&B singer after only a month releasing her third album "SO Amazin'."

Milian was reportedly dumped by the music label after angered Island Def Jam boss L.A. Reid due to poor album sales. In a further reports it is mentioned that Milian refused to record "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" - which went on to be a huge hit for Milian's label mate Rihanna.

Another action-heroes movie is waiting in the line. This time, it is the turn for the battlefield-born, Cimmerian, far north Barbarian Conan, or commonly known as Conan the Barbarian, a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard.

Warner Bros has Boaz Yakin to be the scriptwriter, who is also probably set as the director. Boaz, known as the director of "Remember the Titans", has apparently been a huge fan of Howard's series since his childhood. This personal boundary leads him to propose a movie plan with a deep conscientiousness to Howard's original version, impresses Warner Bros.