May 24, 2007

Fixing eyes on the young generation, Cuba Gooding Jr. is attached to star in while going to produce an edgy teen comedy simply entitled "Harold", a collaborative production of City Lights Pictures and M.E.G.A Films.

Being aimed for a PG-13 rating, the project is said to center on a premature balding young teen who tries to adapt to a new high school. Gooding Jr. reportedly is poised to portray the school janitor who befriends and helps him through merciless teasing.

While many once-great R&B groups has come ill fated, Tyrese Gibson keeps his spirit high by forming a group with buddies Ginuwine and Tank. Not taking too much trouble naming the group the trio simply employ TGT, an abbreviation of Tyrese-Ginuwine-Tank.

"Imagine us putting all three of our worlds together for the ultimate R&B fan experience," Tyrese said during a phone interview. "Me, Tank and Ginuwine been talking about this forever. The reason why this makes sense is that besides all of us being R&B singers, we're all good friends. In this industry, you can't have a real conversation with a lot of people. It almost feels like you're having a conversation with somebody famous, instead of having a real conversation. Every time I see Tank, every time I see Ginuwine, we all had good energy regardless."

Putting no pause in lining up its future film slate, Columbia Pictures has purchased a pitch by Sarah Thorp to develop it into a promising big screen feature in association with Neal H. Moritz's Original Film.

Still not yet titled, the project follows a bounty hunter who gets hired to track and bring back his former wife. Madhouse Entertainment's Robyn Meisinger, who represents Thorp, reportedly has come onboard to executive produce.

Notable for its entertaining, family-friendly slate, Walt Disney Pictures is smoothly adding one more film project entitled "Monday Monday" into the list, Variety has learned.

Set to be made in the similar vein as "The Groundhog Day", the comedy focuses on a neurotic teenager who has to relive his disastrous first day at a new high school until he gets it right. It will be developed based on script by first-time feature writer Flint Wainess.

Barbra Streisand's tour, which is known to reach high gross, apparently has infuriated the Italians who claim that the tickets' price is unreasonable. As a result they want Streisand's concert in Stadio Flamino, Rome next month to be pulled.

The Italians that are represented by The Adusbef and Codacons group sought the help from the authority to settle this matter. The group also encouraged the city of Rome and the Italian Olympic Committee to stop Streisand from performing in the June 15 night.

Going into family fare, Arnold and Anne Kopelson are both on the move to produce a fantasy family adventure titled "Land of Lost Things" through their Kopelson Entertainment for Paramount Pictures' Nickelodeon Movies.

Accompanying the two on the producer's seat will be former exec of Kopelson Entertainment Sherryl Clark, who now runs the film side of J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot. Clark last co-produced Paramount's 2004 thriller "Twisted" and is currently attached as the executive producer of "In the Navy", which the Kopelsons are also set to produce.

On the heels of rehab reports, representative for Nicole Richie stands up to set the record straight.

Contrary to the joint report brought by The National Enquirer and Star magazine which claimed Nicole re-entered rehab at Beau Monde on May 11th to fight anorexia and a painkiller addiction, her representative Nicole Perna insisted, "She is not in rehab, and is home in Glendale, California."

The 2008 series of "Madden NFL" video game will feature the song from Black Sabbath's former frontman Ozzy Osbourne. Taken from his latest album "Black Rain", the song "I Don't Wanna Stop" will be the theme song of the highly popular game franchise.

"The anticipation for both Ozzy's album and this year's Madden NFL creates a perfect storm of excitement which made I Don't Want to Stop an ideal lead song for the Madden NFL 08 soundtrack," said Steve Schnur, EA's Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing. "Now, The Prince Of Darkness meets The King Of Videogames and we're enormously proud to have a killer new song from a legendary artist as our first announced track. This is going to be the biggest, wildest and best Madden NFL soundtrack yet."

Still burningly hot off its decision to pick up "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" under its banner, Warner Bros. Pictures is also set to develop another new movie entitled "Skulduggery Pleasant", Variety has revealed.

An adaptation of Irish author Derek Landy's book of the same name, the comic-horror adventure will center on a wise-cracking skeleton detective and his young female accomplish who team up together to stop the return of the evil Faceless Ones. Warner Bros. is said to not only have picked up the rights to the book, but those to the future titles in the potential nine-book series as well.

In support of a charity project called Tibetan Health Initiative, Tom Waits and other artists' 2003 concert will be molded into a live album titled "Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation". This album, which will be released July 10 via Anti-, is aimed to increase awareness of Tibetans' declination.

"The release of this CD helps us raise awareness about the worsening condition of Tibetans both inside and out of the region," Healing the Divide co-founder Richard Gere said. "The funds raised not only allow us to positively change the lives of the Tibetan people, but will also allow us to promote invaluable Tibetan Buddhist concepts of peace and compassion."

Gained a great portion of attention in "Spider-Man 2" as Doc Ock, Alfred Molina has secured a new acting stint to add into his diverse resume as the actor reportedly will accompany Kate Bosworth to star in supernatural thriller "After.Life."

Story depicts Bosworth as a young woman lying in a transitional state between life and death who struggles to avoid being buried alive. Meanwhile, Molina will play the funeral director who holds her fate in his hands.

One of the twin sisters goes solo. Mary-Kate Olsen makes her way returning to television, sans Ashley Olsen, with a co-starring role on Showtime's dark comedy "Weeds."

On the Lionsgate-produced show, Mary-Kate will play Tara, a devoted Christian girl living in the newly developed megachurch community Majestic who becomes a love interest for Nancy Botwin's, Mary-Louise Parker's role, son Silas, played by Hunter Parrish.

After announcing that their "Paper Walls" might be coming earlier than expected, alternative rock band Yellowcard comes with the date July 17. With the new album completed, the band directs the concentration to summer tour.

"Five months of work ... I have to say we are so proud and excited to give these songs to you all," vocalist Ryan Key posted on the band's MySpace. "As the dude who writes the words, I had so much to say and didn't even know it. When I listen now, it is awesome to hear what has actually been going on in this head of mine for the last year or so compiled into one body of work."

Previously recruited to give his touch on the script of "Casino Royale", Paul Haggis will delightfully return to perform the similar task for the hit flick's follow-up "Bond 22", the Los Angeles Times has confirmed.

Currently in the editing room finishing up "In the Valley of Elah", Haggis is said to about polish the movie's screenplay that regular 007 scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have already finished writing. The man's rewrite of "Royale" script proved to help revitalizing the franchise and hook a new generation fans to pull over $588 million tally on the worldwide box-office.

Jay-Z is in hot water that a waitress filed a lawsuit, accusing him for failing to pay employees the minimum wage.

Celeste Williams, a former waitress at Jay-Z's club 40/40, filed a lawsuit Tuesday May 22nd on behalf of herself and others, including bartenders, table clearers, and waiters, accusing Jay-Z and the company that owns the club, Twenty Ones Inc, of not paying staff the tips left for them by customers.

Sheryl Crow and her newly adopted son Wyatt Steven go public for the first time on the cover of the new issue of OK! magazine that hits newsstands Thursday May 24th.

In an interview with the publication, the singer spills the bean on her baby boy and on becoming a mother as well. Claimed she always wants to adopt, Crow started thinking about adopting at the end of her radiation treatment and had to go through an agency, filled out a lot of paperwork just like everybody else before finally got an okay for it.

Not only working on the script, Michael Patrick King turns out to also assume helming duties in "Sex and the City", the big screen version of the hugely popular series originally aired on HBO back in 1998-2004, MTV has reported.

Pic thereby will be King's directorial debut for a big screen feature as he previously only took helming duties on small screen productions, including ten episodes of "City" series. The guy recently was said by the show regular Mario Cantone to have already begun writing work on the movie's screenplay.

Singing and fronting Rocawear women's line, Ciara is now readying herself to invade film industry. The R&B sensation is about to make her feature film debut in the screen adaptation of gospel musical "Mama, I Want to Sing!"

The film, which will be produced by CodeBlack Entertainment, based loosely on the life of Doris Troy, follows the story of a preacher's daughter who hits the big time. Charles Randolph-Wright is lending hand to direct the project.

Talking about the future of "Shrek" franchise to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg has eagerly unveiled a layer on "Shrek 4" saying the project will have an "origin story", which could only mean that this fourth installment of the series is going to be a prequel.

Being so, pic then has a great probability to tell about where our beloved ogre came from or how he happened to live in a swamp on his own without any other family members. The prequel idea, in the meantime, matched a remark made by "Shrek the Third" producer Aron Warner at the L.A. press day suggesting the movie may not be set in Kingdom of Far Far Away.

Angelina Jolie reveals almost all in an interview with Ann Curry that aired Wednesday May 23rd on NBC's "Today" show. The movie star even began crying at one point she was asked about her late mother.

"You know, I want to be a great mom like my mom was and I want to also do the things that I love," the actress said on her beloved mom, Marcheline Bertrand, who passed away in January after a long battle with cancer. She, furthermore, went on saying, "I'm in a strange, I suppose, place in my life. I think that happens when you lose a parent, where you drop into a different kind of serious. And yet, at the same time, you want to laugh and enjoy as much as possible every day."

Being abandoned for months after getting ditched by Fox 2000 last year, finally there is a flicker of hope to see "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" really come to the big screen.

Variety has brought in great news reporting that the project will take shape under the care of renowned producer Joel Silver with Justin Marks penning the script for Warner Bros. Pictures. Name to play the lead role has not yet been cast.

It's official, Rose McGowan and Latino filmmaker Robert Rodriguez are dating.

The couple has finally made public their relationship after appearing hand-in-hand at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday May 22nd, during the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof."

Finally after a shocking departure of Melinda Doolittle, American Idol announced the contestant who is worthy taking the 'supposed' place of Doolitle. The often-lauded 17 years old Jordin Sparks has won over Blake Lewis and rightfully crowned the winner of this 6th season. Through this winning, Jordin therefore, is recorded as the youngest American Idol winner by far.

Three songs-finale, it was by all means an obvious choice since Jordin has displayed a blast of performance last night with Blake only preceding her by beat-boxing in the song "You Give Love a Bad Name". Jordin meanwhile put all her vocal skill in the rendition of "Broken Wing" and has the first two rounds under her belt. For this cycle's theme song "This is My Now", Jordin certainly had a better idea of the song rather than Blake who was slightly all over the place with his rendition.

It seems that Lindsay Lohan would never learn one or two things from her past. The previously rehabbed actress-singer and member of Alcohol Anonymous (AA) has partnered with a vodca company to sponsor her 21st birthday celebrations in Las Vegas July later this year.

One of Hollywood's starlets, Lindsay has numbers of companies lining up to sponsor her birthday bash, naming some are Pure nightclub, the Social House restaurant at Treasure Island and Caesars Palace. In fact, it is her channeling to Svedka Vodka that becomes the most-talked.

One is not enough for the couple and thus they are planning to have another one. Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes reportedly are planning to have another baby.

TomKat, who have already had a one year old daughter Suri Cruise, sparked such rumors by converting one of the seven bedrooms in their new $35 million Beverly Hills mansion into a nursery, thus prompted rumors that they are preparing for a new arrival.

It's been long time that we haven't seen her in public, Shania Twain is now back on the spotlight with her new perfume. The singer has developed her second scent, it has been reported.

Dubbed, "Shania Starlight," the scent is developed by Coty and described as an evening fragrance that captures Shania's glamorous and sensuous side, while is said to contain notes of freesia and mandarin with touches of jasmine.