May 21, 2007

Only few days after being said to topline Edward Zwick's "Defiance", Daniel Craig has again landed a new acting stint for his burgeoning resume.

The actor reportedly is about to star in a dramatic feature entitled "Flashbacks of a Fool", which details the story of a hedonistic British actor whose Hollywood career begins to nosedive in his 40s. His childhood friend's death causes him to journey back home for the funeral and so, prompts flashbacks to his teenage experiences, including the tragedy that forced him to flee for a new life.

It's been quite a long time since filmgoers saw Julia Roberts stunningly play a real-life character in "Erin Bronkovich", but need not weary, folks for she soon will step once again into the area in her new project.

Yes, the Oscar-winning actress is said to have reunited with Working Title Films to develop together a movie about wildlife conservationist Joan Root, who got murdered earlier this year in her Kenyan home. Here, she will take double duty as the leadstar and producer, the latter being conducted via her Red Om Films.

Turning into a new field, supermodel Eva Herzigova is preparing to descend from the catwalk to spark a new profession as film writer and director.

The beauty has revealed that she will go behind the camera for the first time to work on a film feature inspired by her own life, saying that she is going to start filming it after she delivers her first child by boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj.

Progress in bringing a movie inspired by the best-selling intelligent robot Robosapien to life seems to go rather smoothly in the follow-up to the announcement about the project made by toy company Wowwee Ltd. back in early March.

Variety has brought in news reporting that the flick has already been set to enter production this November in the U.S. using budget between $25 million-$30 million. "Raise Your Voice" director Sean McNamara is attached to helm from script written by Max Botkin and Avi Arad, who is also on duty to produce alongside Steven Paul.

Heading for the same destination, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinnie Jones, Christopher Lee, George Harris, Gary Stretch, Stephen Rea, Geoff Bell, and Jean Marsh have all signed on to bring highlight to "The Heavy", a crime thriller set up at Parkland Pictures' pit.

Pic concerns a henchman (Stretch) who is forced to forgive a debt to his shady businessman boss (Rea) by killing his own brother, a high profile politician. The plan, however, begins to unravel when he gets involved with a student (Sossamon), whose flat he plans to use for the crime, and a corrupt detective (Jones) gets on his trail.

After hearing Elton John's disappointment upon her cancelled gig through his publicist, Amy Winehouse apologized to the fellow British singer.

"Sorry about that. There'll be a next time," said Winehouse who was actually stunned about Elton's public statement. Elton had bought the tickets for him and partner David Furnish to her London gig when she suddenly pulled out at last minute and simply cited "unforeseen circumstances".

Though production is still underway on "John Rambo", a trailer from the action movie delightfully has come up online at Ain't It Cool News for all the fans to see and give comments on.

Running at three minutes and a half, the footage is claimed by AICN to be handed down exclusively by lead star Sylvester Stallone himself, who made it for the film distributors at this year's Cannes Film Festival. It signals the flick to positively be an R-rated movie as it shows a number of blood-drenched kills and even spots the titular character pulls out a man's throat as well as performs one outright beheading.

Looks like the city of Edmonton, Canada will be the next destination of Carmen Electra, particularly its West Edmonton Mall.

Yes, the beauty reportedly will fly to the city's sprawling shopping centre to join the cast of comedic holiday feature "Christmas in Wonderland" as most of the film scenes will take place there.

Britney Spears' comeback gig in House of Blues has been hampered by the news that she embarrassed herself during the lip sync. While some exaggerate the failure, many still defend the pop queen's professional act and consider it no big deal.

Britney was in Orlando when she was performed a sold out gig at House of Blues. A technical difficulty had disturbed her performance and confirmed the rumor that she does lip sync in her comeback gig. It was during the song "Do Something" that the CD skidded and forced Britney to turn back.

Joining the star studded Virgin Festival is The Police. The newly reunited band has confirmed their presence to close the first night of the Baltimore festival.

With the addition of The Police, V Festival becomes the event with big reunion bands. The Smashing Pumpkins also make one of their early reunion appearances in this festival. Like The Police, The Smashing Pumpkins is made the headliner of Baltimore leg but on the second day. Baltimore's jaunt takes place August 4 and 5.

Pulling out "Without Remorse" from the state of being trapped in development hell, Relativity Media has announced Thursday, May 17 that the big screen project is getting set up under its banner from now on alongside period epic "Mary Queen of Scots."

An adaptation of Tom Clancy's best-selling novel of the same title, pic takes focus on former Navy SEAL and CIA operative John Kelly, code-named Mr. Clark, who first appeared in 1994's "Clear and Present Danger." It initially was developed at Paramount Pictures with John Singleton attached to helm, but sadly being put into turnaround last year by the giant company.

After lining up renowned names for the cast of "Hairspray", New Line is now adding the musical film anticipation with its soundtrack release. The soundtrack that will feature the original voice of the cast will premiere 10 days before its movie.

In debt of this project is New Line Records that will release the first single from the 17-tracks-album on May 15. Zac Efron's "Ladies' Choice" is made the very first single which will be available for digital download. Apart from Efron's song, there will also be other two other original scores titled "New Girl in Town" and "Come So Far" that were created specially for the film version of the Broadway musical.

Following a bitter divorce feud, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are now making good of one another for the sake of their young daughter Beatrice.

The estranged couple has decided to put their differences aside amid fears about the effect their nasty divorce battle is having on the three-year-old Beatrice.

Blockbuster franchise continues to work its magic toward the moviegoers and this time, it's "Shrek the Third" turn to capture the majority of attention to claim itself as the new champ on weekend domestic box office running May 18-20, 2007.

Plays broadly to general and family audience, the third installment of the big green ogre's tale superbly hits high at $121.6 million in its three-day opening, thereby goes past its predecessor of 2004's "Shrek 2" to break the series' own record for best debut ever for an animated feature. The Thursday previews counted, "Shrek the Third" in total collects $122.5 million apart from the $13.3 million drawn from four overseas markets of Russia, Ukraine, Romania and the Philippines.

Soaring high following the critical success of "The Last King of Scotland", Kevin Macdonald has submitted into his resume a new directing stint for "The Eagle of the Ninth", an epic Roman drama he is set to helm after finishing work on Universal Pictures' "State of Play."

Based on the classic 1954 teen novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, the project is set in Britain during the 2nd century A.D. and centers on a wounded Roman soldier who carries out a perilous journey alongside his Celtic slave to discover what happened to the missing Ninth Legion, of which general is his father.

Following the two sold out shows at Wembley Stadium, Muse has arranged a unique line-up to support their act. Not only coming from rock genre, Muse selected their favorite musicians such as Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela and rapper The Streets.

Muse tapped Mike Skinner aka The Streets to be the main support for their first gig on June 16 while having Rodrigo Y Gabriela as the other supporting act. The next day will see Muse performing with My Chemical Romance and Scottish band Biffy Clyro. DJ Zane Lowe is also on the bill to guide the mega gigs.

Not taking into account what people say on their being together, Cameron Diaz and Criss Angel keep working on their spell. The twosome was reported spending time together again in Sin City.

Diaz and Angel were seen hanging out in Las Vegas this weekend, making their rounds from dinning to partying. If only the talk is true, it is the second week in a row that they hung out together.

Initially intended to support a big comeback, All Saints' "Studio 1" turned out to be a flop. Member Shaznay Lewis later admitted that the group did not put enough effort in the materials.

"It was almost like the record company thought how easy it was for Take That, let's just put the album out and it will be a huge hit," Shaznay said in a statement. "It didn't work like that. Then it was hard because everybody was comparing our comeback with Take That's." Shaznay added that they should have relied on a new fan base rather than counting on the old one.

Getting into the same vehicle Colin Firth is riding, Hope Davis and Catherine Keener have given their agreement to take part in horror mystery "Genova", which Andrew Eaton produces for Revolution Films and FilmFour.

Along with the pair's inclusion, relative newcomers Willa Holland and Perla Haney-Jardine reportedly have also been added into the cast. As for the story, the flick is said to take focus on a recently widowed man who travels to Italy with his two teenage daughters to make a fresh start in his life yet later finds out that he can't escape the ghosts of his past.

Rumor has it that Shakira has set the date for her wedding. The Latin pop star reportedly is going to marry fiance Antonio de la Rua September later this year.

Shakira and Antonio, a lawyer and the first son of former Argentine president Fernando de la Rua, have been dating since 2000 and engaged for 7 years. They are said to have their wedding takes place in her mansion located in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

Australian rock group INXS is giving a chance for unsigned bands that want their career launched. By supporting the group's UK tour, the virtually unknown bands will get the chance to be "discovered".

Interested bands are welcomed to apply by linking their MySpace page or YouTube video featuring audio or video clips. INXS' official site posted, " All submissions will be reviewed and the winning bands will be contacted in the coming weeks". There is one condition though; the chosen ones will need to find their own way of transportation to UK. For more information visit inxs.com.

Ludacris, a rapper and actor as well, is about to invade the small screen. He will make a guest appearance on the animated TV show, "The Simpsons."

The star reportedly will appear on the popular show's 400th episode, playing a character named Luda Crest, a tube of toothpaste that raps.

Heidi Klum, a model and mother of three, still has the guitar body shape. The German beauty has thus been signed as the new face of clothing company Jordache.

Klum recently posed for Jordache's new jeans line, which campaign was shot by "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner at Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood in a large suite.