November 28, 2006

Star of the Emmy-winning hit show "Lost", Matthew Fox, will host the December 2nd "Saturday Night Live", it has been confirmed. The actor will host the show with musical performance from Tenacious D.

Meanwhile, on December 9th viewers will see Oscar and Emmy nominee Annette Bening as host with Gwen Stefani as musical guest.

Still happily lingers in comedic genre, Anna Faris is set to topline "Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel", a farcical sci-fi comedy of Picturehouse production in association with BBC Films and HBO Films.

Joining several British comic actors like Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootan, and Dean Lennox Kelly, Faris will come under the direction of Gareth Carrivick who is going to helm from the script written by Jamie Mathieson. Filming is scheduled to begin next week in the U.K.

The 33rd annual People's Choice Awards is on its way. For the sake of the event, organizers have booked Queen Latifah as host.

Queen Latifah is a musician, a television and film actress, a record label president, an author and an entrepreneur. She will next be seen starring in "Life Support," which she also executive produced.

Snatching one more film project under its wings, Lionsgate Films is about to develop a comedy feature titled "The Escape Artist" of which script it obtained from producer Todd Garner, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.

Originally hatched by brothers Jim and Brian Kehoe, the project revolves around a relationship consultant who gets paid to break people up. Garner, who has helped the writers in elaborating the script, will produce via his Broken Road Productions.

It's no longer about Hollywood stars. This time around we bring you news from Bollywood leading stars, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan. The two stars fuel wedding rumors when they visited a temple to perform religious rituals reserved for married couples.

Aishwarya and Abhishek accompanied by Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and actress Jaya Bhaduri, arrived in the city late Sunday Nov 26th, went from one temple to another to perform the rituals in the dead of night. It is reported that the companions went to the Hindu city of Varanasi to appease Mars and take ritual baths, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said on Monday.

Coming together on one screen, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine, and Bob Hoskins have all given their agreement to take part in "Go Go Tales", a screwball comedy coming from writer-director Abel Ferrara.

Here Dafoe will become the co-owner of a New York go-go dancing club while Modine is billed as his brother also his financial backer who threatens to pull the plug on his business and Hoskins as the owner plus his accountant.

This just in. Talk is heating up that teen actress Hilary Duff and boyfriend Joel Madden have called it quit.

Reports have surfaced that this past weekend the Good Charlotte frontman was overheard telling fans that he is single. That's according to the Chicago Tribune's Red Eye.

Academy Award-winning American actress Hilary Swank will add more to her award collection as she'll be granted an Emery Award, honoring her Oscar-winning role as a transgender teen in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999).

Emery Awards are presented by the Hetrick-Martin Institute to honor support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths aged between 12 and 21.

Seems the award season does not end yet for "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." Previously took home an Academy Award earlier this year, the engaging animated flick triumphantly took the Best Film title at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Children's Awards held Sunday night, November 26, 2006.

Responding to this attainment, the movie's creator Nick Park humbly remarked that part of the attraction with the characters was that they appealed both to children and adults, thereby making the picture really work among all ages.

Subsequent to the release of her new LP "Loose", the time has come for Nelly Furtado to embark on a tour to support the new set. The Canadian singer-songwriter has just announced details of a highly anticipated North American tour.

The gig, dubbed "Get Loose Tour", will be kicked off early December this year in Indianapolis. For the entire enlisting of the tour dates you can visit Nelly's official site.

The already-starry cast of "Arthur and the Invisibles" no doubt gets remarkably brighter by now as six more stars have reportedly been picked up to lend their voices in the project.

The latest addition includes big names consisting of Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Anderson, Chazz Palminteri, Jason Bateman, plus Jimmy Fallon. All thereby are joining the likes of Madonna, David Bowie, and Snoop Dogg who have already included in the list to voice Princess Selenia, Maltazard, and Max, respectively.

Last year we had the likes of Lionel Richie, Beyonce Knowles and Sting performed at Dolce Vita charity ball. As of this year, we would enjoy performances from Will Young, Beverley Knight and the Opera Babes.

This year's Dolce Vita charity ball is about to take place at London's Billingsgate market on December 11th. With ticket sold at £800 per head, organizers are aiming to raise £1 million for the CLIC Sergeant children's cancer charity.

It is reported Monday Nov 27th that Elton John left the stage briefly during his concert in Brisbane Sunday Nov 26th after being struck by a bout of nausea.

The singer and pianist left the stage without a word about two hours into his first concert of an Australian tour in Brisbane, and was gone for about five minutes, Australian Associated Press reported.

With her husband Keith Urban in rehab, the time is just not right. But rumor has it that Nicole Kidman is pregnant with her first child with the country crooner.

The Aussie actress was again surrounded by baby rumors as she attended the London premiere of "Happy Feet." "Kidman certainly isn't hiding the changes in her body now and seems to be very comfortable with them," the Daily Mirror quoted a source as saying.

American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal was named Best Actress for her performance in the drama flick "Sherrybaby" at the 17th annual Stockholm Film Festival held Sunday Nov 26.

"Sherrybaby," directed by Laurie Collyer, follows a young woman's struggle to resume her life and reconnect with her young daughter after a three-year prison term for a crime she committed as a 19-year-old heroin addict, also picked up the Bronze Horse award for best movie at the Swedish event.

Continues to hit the jackpot in the foreign market, "Casino Royale" gloriously remains unmoved from its last-week position on the weekend international box office in its second spin ended Sunday, November 26, 2006.

The latest 007 series even scores much bigger this time as it successfully garnered a superb tally of $66.2 million at 6,600 theaters in 50 markets, creating an impressive per-location average of about $10,000 to post the sixth-biggest weekend of 2006 internationally.

Westlife is still the darling across the pond. The Irish boy band leads the pack in the UK album charts Nov 26 with their "The Love Album". The boys' latest effort was the chart-topper, besting best of albums from some of the best bands in the world, including The Beatles, U2, and Oasis.

Oasis' "Stop the Clocks" is at the 2nd spot, ahead of the Beatles' "Love" at 3rd, and U2's compilation "U218 Singles" at No. 4. George Michael's "Twenty Five" is the fifth great album on the chart.

More tidbits have been revealed on "The Smurfs" as producer Jordan Kerner eagerly sat down and shared some info about the upcoming project with Moviehole.net.

Claiming he has been researching the Hanna-Barbera's popular 80s cartoon extensively, Kerner confirmed that the flick is planned to be a trilogy which can fill in all the "holes" of the TV series, making clear the unexplained things happened in the episodes.

Take That comeback to music scene is proven worth with the music act hits the No. 1 slot on the UK singles chart Nov 27th with their track, "Patience".

It is the group's ninth chart-topper of their career. Their first chat-topper was "Pray" back in 1993. Thanks to their sell-out tour that the boys could finally climb to the top spot after landing at number four a week ago based on download sales alone.

He's young, energetic, and most of all very talented. The multi-platinum hip-hop icon Bow Wow blows the music industry again, this time with his highly anticipated new LP, "The Price of Fame".

"Finally I've gotten the green light to talk about what I've wanted to talk about for so many years. It's definitely a real rap album. I've stepped up lyrically. I want to become known as more of a lyricist, I want to prove I am more than a heart-throb," the star said on his new effort.

It was surely the worst Thanksgiving Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock have ever had. The couple has undergone such a rocky path in their marriage and apparently has had enough of it that they finally call it quit.

Pam and Kid each filed divorce papers Monday Nov 27th, seeking to end their marriage of less than four months. In their divorce filings in Los Angeles County Superior Court, both parties citing irreconcilable differences, but gave different dates of separation.