June 26, 2006

After having an epic brought into big screen's trilogy, a young adult fantasy book series is ready to keep moviegoers joining the queue.

This fantasy trilogy is going to be the project for 20th Century Fox. John Davis is tackling the producer line, which will have Davis' spouse, Jordan. No further details upon the casts so far.

After several Hollywood's lining up movie projects are dealing with novel adaptation, it is time to bring a Broadway musical performance into the big screen.

Adam Shankman, the helm for the movie project, has joined New Line Cinema to produce the adaptation of Broadway's "Hairspray".

Be ready to have the "Priest" make us eerie. It is the new horror movie directed by Andrew Douglas, who also helmed another horror screenplay, "The Amityville Horror".

The movie is attaching Gerard Butler as the leading role. Butler is also known as the Phantom in the adapted version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". He is also attached to Warner Bros.' next movie plan, "300" after currently performed in "Butterfly on a Wheel", together with Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello.

Following the footstep of fellow celebrity couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt who recently sell the photos of their baby daughter for charity, newlyweds Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are said to do the same thing.

The now pronounced husband-and-wife is planning to sell their wedding pictures with proceeds go to charity. The money from the picture reportedly will be donated to a children's hospital in Australia.

Recent up-date for this week box office!

The top place is "Click"ed to Adam Sandler in his high-concept comedy. The movie smashes all bad reviews blocking on the way. Estimating the gross of $40 million only in the premiere week, the movie grabs the average of $10,669 in 3,749 theatres. The movie might be Sandler's fourth highest opening screenplay since "The Longest Yard", "Anger Management", and "Big Daddy".

Film star Kate Winslet has on Friday June 23rd, 2006 flew back home to Bristol from the set of her latest movie to officially open a new unit for sick children sponsored by the Tiny Lives charity.

The actress has been tapped to cut the ribbon at Southmead Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit after a fundraising drive paid for its £1.2m (€1.8m) makeover.

It is difficult of course for Backstreet Boys to announce the departure of one of their members, but the show must go on. That's the fact.

Kevin Richardson, the center who also is the oldest of the boy-band, has decided to quit. Was leaving to pursue other interests, the man said in a statement, "It was a very tough decision for me but one that was necessary in order to move on with the next chapter of my life".

Melanie Griffith's hubby, Antonio Banderas, is now taking the lead together with Warren Beatty's heart conqueror, Annette Bening, in a new mystery screenplay, under the title "Homeland Security".

The mystery movie itself is the one with the same atmosphere as "To Catch a Thief", another Alfred Hitchcock's piece of work. It will be very much interesting how the mystery shall drag the audience to shivering and shaking sequences.

Becoming famous is not always easy. This is apparent as we look at what happens to celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Besides becoming the center of media attention, they also are such an easy prey for the starving shutterbugs, even more after the birth of baby daughter Shiloh Nouvel.

Down the stage after singing the country tunes as Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line", a reservation has been put upon Joaquin Phoenix.

This time, though there hasn't been any confirmation which cast is set for Phoenix, this next screenplay is another novel-based written by John Burnham Schwartz. It is his second novel entitled "Reservation Road" to be adapted onto the big screen version.

The popular Canadian Jazz pianist and singer, Diana Krall, is expecting. The good news was confirmed Sunday June 25th, 2006 by Krall and husband Elvis Costello's spokesman.

The baby is due in December later this year, just in time for the couple's third wedding anniversary. Good news come in two for the pair then.

DreamWorks Pictures is working on dream projects! One of which involves Hollywood's outstanding movie director, Steven Spielberg.

Through its CEO, Stacey Snider, DreamWorks stated that Spielberg is targeted to direct new screenplays, after his 2005 "War of the Worlds" and "Munich". The next queuing project for him is the sequel of the legendary "Indiana Jones 4". This new lining up project will be under George Lucas' Lucasfilm and Paramount Pictures's financing. The script is penned by David Koepp and scheduled to be ready in the following three months, at the most.

Portraying the Man of Steel in the highly anticipated and long awaited movie "Superman Returns" has made Brandon Routh an idol, especially for female fans. It wasn't a surprise then to see hundreds of movie fans soaked the red carpet at Century 20 Theater at the Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines for a glimpse of the starlet.

The actor and his girlfriend for two and a half years, Courtney Ford, walked the red carpet before a private charity screening as he glad-handed fans for more than an hour.

Another big wedding took place during the weekend besides that of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's. It's the wedding of Marcia Cross and stockbroker Tom Mahoney.

The pair walked down the aisle on Saturday June 24th, 2006 at the Church of Our Savior Episcopal Parish in San Gabriel, California. Reception followed at the Ritz-Carlton in nearby Pasadena, so said a source.

The big big big day finally came. After all the rumors and speculation, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at last said "I do".

The actress and the singer said their vows Sunday night June 25th, 2006 just after sundown at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel outside of Sydney.

It was a great loss for Hollywood entertainment industry. The TV mogul, Aaron Spelling, died Friday June 23rd, 2006 at his Los Angeles estate with wife Candy and son Randy at his side. He was 83.

Detailing on his death, Aaron's publicist Kevin Sasaki revealed the TV titan passed away at 6:25 p.m. The cause of death was complications from the stroke he had suffered June 18.