February 21, 2007

Heading towards good progress, "The Night Watchman¹" is getting big support from Fox Searchlight and New Regency as both companies have agreed to co-finance the flick together.

Originally penned by authors John Ridley and James Ellroy, the thriller drama focuses on a cop who's always done what was needed to solve homicides and crack down on gang violence. However, everything falls apart when he gets a wakeup call and decides he can no longer play the game that made him so effective.

Nominees for this year's Gospel Music Association's (GMA) Dove awards have been revealed Tuesday Feb 20th. Among numbers of leading nominees, Chris Tomlin is the top one. The Christian singer, who was last year's leading nominee and also Artist of the Year, leads the 38th annual GMA Dove Awards with nine nominations.

Among the awards Tomlin is up for this year include Artist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Song of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year for "Made to Worship," Praise and Worship Album and Pop/Contemporary Album for "See the Morning" and Special Event Album for "Passion: Everything Glorious." In addition to those, Tomlin also vies for the category of Worship Song of the Year for "Made to Worship" and "Holy Is the Lord."

The "American Girl" finally finds a new home to settle in. Recently abandoned by Walden Media which originally was in charge to handle financial matters, the project now is set to be developed under HBO Films following its acquisition to the film's rights for Picturehouse Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.

Based on a popular line of historically accurate dolls and books for girls, the flick will present the story of one of the dolls, Kit Kittredge, and a nine-year-old girl who has to deal with hardships during the Great Depression. Apart from backing it up, HBO has also signed with the retailer to create and distribute feature films, specials and documentaries based on the girls.

This just in. Chris Tucker and India.Arie have been spotted together at star-studded events in Los Angeles, thus prompted rumors they are dating.

Tucker, an American actor and comedian who was famous for his action in the 1998 martial arts action comedy "Rush Hour" and its sequel "Rush Hour 2," was seen at the opening of Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy For Girls In South Africa last month with the two-time Grammy Award-winning American soul singer.

Fresh from her role in game-based flick "DOA: Dead or Alive", Holly Valance is reportedly taking her next big screen acting in "Taken", which has just submitted "Lost" star Maggie Grace in the cast lineup.

No word yet on what role the beauty will play, but the film's story centers on a former spy, played by Liam Neeson, who tries to rescue his estranged daughter (Grace) upon learning that she is kidnapped by slave masters in Europe.

Listen, Tom Brady is happy about becoming a father. Speaking on his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan's pregnancy, the football star said he is "excited" about their impending child.

"Tom and his family are excited about the pregnancy, and want to thank everyone who has shown support, and particularly for their consideration of Tom's privacy," Brady's agent, Don Yee, told The Associated Press Tuesday Feb 20th.

Do not expect much for a Van Halen reunion. That sounds too good to be true, at least for this time around. Rumor has it that the Van Halen reunion tour that was never officially announced is now officially postponed indefinitely.

Report on the band reunion first sparked after original singer David Lee Roth signed to again join with the rest of the band's line up. It was announced previously that the reunion tour will be a 40-city tour with tickets expected to go on sale this weekend.

Seems the change of title will still afflict the fourth installment of "Rambo" series. After coming up with the name "Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye" then "Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra", the project is reportedly set to be simply called "John Rambo" instead.

The decision to rename the flick is said to come from Sylvester Stallone himself during an interview with Richard Wilkins of Australian Nine Network's Channel Nine. It is assumed that the change is an attempt to mirror the approach the actor took when he made "Rocky Balboa" for MGM.

She won't take a break from catwalk. Kate Moss, on the other way around, is investing more of her time to develop her own fragrance.

Moss, a British supermodel, has signed a deal with the world's largest fragrance company Coty Inc. to front her own series of perfumes. The deal is said to be worth up to $9.75 million.

Jude Law sent a shock after there were rumors on the street say he's dating Icelandic TV beauty Halla Vilhjalmsdottir.

The actor was spotted out for a romantic dinner with the Icelandic X Factor presenter in Reykjavik, followed by a heated clubbing session, it has been reported.

Yes, it finally hits the web. Screen Gems has smoothly put the new teaser trailer for "Resident Evil: Extinction" online following its decision to bring it to the theaters last week where it was shown in front of the "Ghost Rider" screenings.

Placed on Yahoo! Movies at http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/ 1809697875/trailer, the trailer, while hinting that the movie has a larger production value than its predecessors, provides brief look on Vegas which is out of commission and covered in sand also fast-clipped shots of our heroine Alice fighting zombies with big boots and a couple rusty butter knives.

Among the headliners for this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival are Bjork, Beastie Boys, Arcade Fire, Interpol, and M.I.A.. As of this year, the festival is set to take place May 26-27 at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash.

Sasquatch! Music Festival is a music festival held annually at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. It is presented by the House of Blues. Tickets for the 6th annual Sasquatch! Music Festival will go on sale beginning March 3 at 10 a.m. and will cost $55 U.S. per day until March 4. After March 5, tickets are $65 per day; week-of tickets are $75 per day. For more information about ticket sales and camping arrangements, check out www.sasquatchfestival.com.

Giving larger portion to female actors to be the presenters at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, producer Laura Ziskin unveiled yesterday, February 20 that she has added four more actresses namely Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Keaton, and Jessica Biel to the list.

The beauties thereby join the previously announced fellow actresses like Cate Blanchett, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, and Kate Winslet, giving more highlights to the anticipated event for sure. Out of the four, only Paltrow and Keaton who has been honored the Oscars as best actress, the former in 1999 through her role in "Shakespeare in Love" while the latter in 1978 for hers in "Annie Hall."

Now that their divorce has been finalized, Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro are officially single again. The former husband-and-wife had a Los Angeles judge finalized their divorce Tuesday Feb 20th, with all their personal belongings have been split up as previously agreed upon in a prenuptial agreement.

Electra, a former "Baywatch" star, and Navarro, former Jane's Addiction guitarist, announced in July 2006 that they were amicably separating after less than three years of marriage. Soon thereafter by the next month, the actress filed for legal divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

Keeps carrying out its tradition in recognizing the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films officially revealed yesterday, February 20, the contenders for its 2007 Saturn Awards, set to take place in Universal City on May 10.

Showing up as the leader of the pack is "Superman Returns" which amazingly gains ten nominations, five of them being in acting categories besides those of Best Fantasy Film, Best Director for Bryan Singer, Best Special Effects, Best Music, and Best Writing.

Nicole Richie is clean. The US reality TV star was pleaded not guilty Tuesday Feb 20th to charges of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol stemming from December 2006 incident when she was seen driving the wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway.

The socialite did not appear in the Glendale Superior Court, near Los Angeles, but her lawyer entered her plea. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for April 2nd later this year.

The fact that posing nude for Penthouse has cost her to lose her Miss America crown back in 1984, could not stop Vanessa Williams to pose nude once again. The beauty, who is a Grammy and Tony Award nominated American R&B/Pop/theatrical singer and actress, is about to pose nude for Allure Magazine.

Unlike the Penthouse shots, which showed Williams engaged in sexual acts with another woman, her posing for Allure magazine's May "Look Better Naked Issue" won't be too raunchy though an insider at Conde Nast said she was completely unclothed for the shoot at Lux Studio.

Britney Spears has changed her mind. The pop singer, who has just shaved off her hair, has checked herself into rehab facility after being pressured by her mom and family.

This is of course another breaking news from the star following her shocking new hairdo and tattoos. Last week, Ms Spears checked herself into Eric Clapton's Crossroads Centre rehab clinic on the Caribbean island of Antigua, but stayed only 24 hours. Now that she has checked into rehab again, let's hope she will make it 'till the end of the program.