March 27, 2007

Despite all the persistent rumors claiming she's romancing Jamie Dornan, Mischa Barton claims she's single.

Set the record straight on the speculation, the actress says, "I think I'm too busy for men. I'm a single girl right now."

Slated to provoke good laughs from moviegoers, Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear have both agreed to team up in highlighting a romantic comedy feature entitled "Ghost Town (2009)", The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.

A DreamWorks Pictures production, the picture concerns a dentist who dies briefly during routine dental surgery and gains the ability to see dead people who ask him for help in contacting the living.

After announcing the release date of "Snakes & Arrows", Rush finally brings it together with tour dates.

The trek will begin June 13 at HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta, stop at other venues such as Tampa, San Diego and Seattle before wrapping up on September 21 at ScotiaBank Place, Ottawa. Then the tour will continue with European dates that start in Glagow, Scotland on October 3 until Oct 29 in Helsinki, Findland.

Jessica Simpson showed the good part of her celebrity status, making donation to a Mexican orphanage she supports.

The singer-actress donated a brand new minivan to the Casa Hogar Elim orphanage in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico Sunday March 25th.

Bee Gees is not only invited to the private awards dinner of Broadcast Music Incorporated, but will also be honored with Icon Award. The lifetime achievement award will be handed to the surviving members, Barry and Robin Gibb on May 15.

Held at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, it is not certain whether the brothers will perform as a duo. After all, the only sang twice since the death of Maurice. If they are not to play, then other artists will take the place by singing their hits.

Charlotte Church has to, unfortunately, put her television career on hold due to her pregnancy.

Carrying her and boyfriend, Gavin Henson's child, the professional singer turned TV presenter was forced to postpone the filming of the third series of her Friday night program "The Charlotte Church Show" until an unspecified date.

Family Values Tour is back this year. Korn's Jonathan Davis had announced through VirtualMTV.com that Evanescence is made the headliner.

Supporting this event are metalcore band Atreyu, alternative rock band Flyleaf, trash metal band Trivium and the newly formed rock band Hellyeah. "It's gonna rock," he typed on the computer. One of Korn's members, David Silveria meanwhile, will not be present because he is in hiatus.

Kid Rock is dating Anderson. Note that it's not Pamela Anderson, but another Andersen who happens to be May Andersen, a Sports Illustrated and Victoria's Secret model.

Rock, who has his divorce to Pammy finalized Feb 1st, has been seen strolling the streets of NYC on Saturday March 24th with the new lady. The new couple, moreover, also attended Elton John's birthday concert in NYC the next day, looking happy and comfortable around one another.

Begin to line up names following the inclusions of Timothy Olyphant and Dougray Scott, the filmmakers of "Hitman" have successfully enticed the likes of Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, and Michael Offei to gather together in the film's cast, Variety has learned.

Adapted from the Eidos popular video game, the thriller finds Olyphant assuming the role of Agent 47 who is hired by a group dubbed "The Agency" to kill targets for cash. Things, however, go awry for him as he later ends up being chased by Interpol and the Russian military as well as Scott's character.

Her star would shine even brighter throughout the year judging from the early good start she had at the beginning of the year. Halle Berry has been selected to receive the 2,333rd star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

The actress, who has just made public her vow to never get married again, is slated to receive the honor Tuesday April 3rd.

Known to have brilliantly portrayed real figures on the big screen as seen in "Rob Roy" and "Schindler's List", Liam Neeson is about to carry it out once again in his next project.

The Academy Award-nominated actor is being poised to topline a biopic of Reverend Ian Paisley, a senior politician and church leader from Northern Ireland who is also noted to be an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic faith. Neeson himself has been noticed expressing his admiration to the man whose sermon he often hears.

Indie band Spoon has confirmed two things that have been waited by their fans. The sixth album will hit the stores by July 10th and the title is "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga". Yes, that is 5 GAs.

There will be 10 tracks in the album that follows 2005 "Gimme Fiction". Unknowingly, whether intended or not, some of tracks are strangely spelled such as "Rhthm and Soul", "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" and "Don't You Evah". Others raise questions just by the titles like "Black Like Me" and "Eddie's Ragga".

Carmen Electra set the record straight on her being romantically linked to Joan Jett.

A representative for the sexy beauty tells American magazine Us Weekly, "They are just friends."

Christian leaders set another pressure to Elton John. This time, the Caribbean Island Christians ban the singer from performing at Plymouth Jazz Festival in Tobago in fear that he will influence the young people there with his homosexuality.

Two parties have stood in each corner to pursue this matter. CL Communications as the festival's organizer has been persistent that the show scheduled in late April would go on despite the boycott threat. Meanwhile, a number of Christian churches have tried to persuade Tobago House of Assembly into canceling the show.

Young age and a bright acting career, Emma Watson has just found her love that makes her life even more complete. The teen movie star is hopping into dating saddle.

Emma, who is 16th, reportedly dating rugby player of her age named Tom Ducker, who is regarded as such a rising star that he has been signed up by the elite Wasps Academy.

No stranger to Hollywood as he previously appeared in few movies, singer Jack White is on the way to jump into the big screen one more time. The White Stripes' lead vocalist and guitarist reportedly will make a cameo appearance as Elvis Presley in Columbia Pictures' musical biopic parody "Walk Hard."

Toplined by John C. Reilly, the flick sees the actor play a fictional musician with shades of Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash named Dewey Cox whose professional and personal ups and downs become the center of the story. Also starring are funnyman David Koechner, SNL member Kristen Wiig, and "The Office" star Jenna Fischer who is said to portray a June Carter Cash-like love interest for Cox.

The Edge makes good with his best friend, guitar, by making donation to charity. The guitarist of music group U2 is donating his vintage 1975 Gibson Les Paul guitar to an auction benefiting charity Music Rising.

Music Rising, for you to know, is a charity The Edge co-founded to replace musical equipment lost or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Ready to construct memorable onscreen team with Brittany Snow, Idris Elba of "The Wire" fame has landed deals to join the Tampa-born actress in "Prom Night", which is set to be produced under Original Films banner for Screen Gems to distribute.

A remake of the 1980 slasher classic directed by Paul Lynch, the project revolves around a group of youth who are stalked by a masked killer at their high school dance. Here Elba will portray a police detective with names like Brianne Davis, Jana Kramer, and Hugh Scott also taking roles.

They work it out the other way around. While Britney Spears worked on her dance moves back in Los Angeles, Kevin Federline spent the day partying as a way to celebrate his 29th birthday.

K-Fed who turned 29th Wednesday March 21st arrived in Las Vegas on Friday afternoon March 23rd to celebrate his birthday in the sin city the following day. He brought along his sons, Sean Preston, 1, and Jayden James, 6 months.

Evanescence recently completed the shooting of their new video "Sweet Sacrifice". Unlike the previous videos, vocalist Amy Lee said, it's a non-crazy one where wolves, tricks and stuffs will not be present.

Directed by Paul Brown who has worked with Audioslave, this video suits the band's favor. "It's mostly live performance," she said in a statement "It's more really just about the song, and that is unique for us." Going a bit metaphoric, the video took the set of a four-wall room which is inspired by Jennifer Lopez's movie "The Cell" (2000). "Like we're in the walls of our minds, sort of," she continued.

Departing from her independent label That's Why There's Chocolate and Vanilla, Sinead O'Connor signed deal with Koch Records for new album. Her twelfth album will be released in a double CD format under the title "Theology" on June 22.

The two CDs will consist of the same songs but with different versions. One CD employs the acoustic and voice sound only while the other is presented in a full musical rendition. Two of the tracks "If You Had a Vineyard" and "Jeremiah (Something Beautiful)" have been issued for free download in her official website.

Seems to have no shortage of offers for this year, Vera Farmiga has given her agreement to take starring part in Holocaust-prestige feature "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" for Miramax Films.

An adaptation of the best-selling novel by Irish writer John Boyne, the dramatic flick focuses on a boy from a German family moving into Auschwitz who befriends a kid from the town's concentration camp. It is said that Farmiga will be billed as the German boy's mother, who grows horrified as she begins to know the truth about the camp.

With the D-day coming nearer, the 20th Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards committees are in full speed preparing the actual event on March 31. Among the program recently added is the act from Maroon 5.

The band with the new album "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" that is still due May 22 will sing the first single in the event. "Makes Me Wonder" will be delivered for the first time in the award event that is hosted by Justin Timberlake.

Drama follows where the Beckhams go. David Beckham and wife Victoria Adams are said to have been planning to throw a posh party to mark their move to Los Angeles later this year.

The high profile couple reportedly is planning a £750,000 American-themed party, which a source claims as a way to outdo their Full Length and Fabulous Pre-World Cup party from last year.

Another music festival is heading to New Orleans and it brings could-not-be-missed artists along. Essence Music Festival to be held on July 5-7 at Louisiana Superdome will feature different artists to headline each day.

A string of performers such as Beyonce Knowles, Chris Brown, Lionel Richie, Mary J. Blige and Maze has been announced before to headline the festival. Now the string is pulled longer with the addition of Ciara, Ludacris, Ne-Yo, The O'Jays, Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, Robin Thicke and comedian Steve Harvey. More artists are still to be announced next week in the complete lineup news.

Lindsay Lohan quickly changes her heart. The pop star was reportedly seen partying with British singer James Blunt at an LA nightclub.

MSNBC reports the two were spotted leaving a Hollywood nightclub together, with Lohan tried to hide from onlookers under her coat. Now rumor has it that they are dating.

Soon about to unravel the horrifying tragedy occurred in Arizona back in 1993 through its new horror feat "Bryan Loves You", Landau Motion Pictures has delightfully posted a couple of first looks of the movie and in-depth conversation about it on the web.

Both available at JoBlo, the exclusive sneak peek can be viewed here while the interview can be read here.

The fine art, philopsohy and literature addict David Bowie is busy tying artists to appear at the High Line Festival. Among the performers that he had successfully bagged are band Arcade Fire, comedian Ricky Gervais, duo Air, rock band Deerhoof, 3 piece band Secret Machines and symphonic rock band The Polyphonic Spree.

The lineups will perform on the festival starting from May 9-19 at venues near High Line, Manhattan. Beside them, there will be many other various acts such as film, visual art and performance.

Are they back together again? Hugh Grant and former girlfriend Jemima Khan have sparked speculation they have rekindled their romance after being spotted together two days in a row, just weeks after they announced their split.

Grant and Khan were spotted went out together on Saturday night March 24th and were later seen at his home. The next day the actor was seen leaving Khan's home wearing the same clothes he worn the night before.

Launching his self-titled debut album on March 26, Tony Parker is anxiously waiting to see the reaction of people. The French hip-hop album was wrapped in a package containing the names Jamie Foxx, Faboulous and Booba.

Parker said that his encounter with Foxx went unplanned. "I'd receive a call while in Los Angeles with Eva (Longoria). Jamie anted me to stop by his studio where he was recording with Beyonce for a song in the movie (Dreamgirls). I took this moment to show him we had done in the music. As he liked it, he offered to do a song together in my album. This is how it started with Jamie," he stated.

Bruce Willis turned 52nd Monday March 19th and that was surely his happy day. The "Die Hard" actor reportedly spent his birthday canoodling singer Courtney Love at Roxy Nightclub in Sunset Boulevard.

Willis and Love were seen making out fervently in the venue that was crowded with people, who had gathered to watch the Brit singer Amy Winehouse's performance.

The big question finally is answered as it was revealed Monday March 26th that Anna Nicole Smith's death is an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

Officials said there are at least nine prescription drugs, including methadone and anti-anxiety drugs, among others that killed Smith. In a detailed autopsy report released that day, a medical examiner noted Smith refused to go to a hospital three days before her Feb. 8 death. She chose to ride out her illness in a hotel suite littered with pill bottles, soda cans, SlimFast, nicotine gum and an open box of Tamiflu tablets.