July 30, 2007

The Coral's first single "Who's Gonna Find Me" from their new album has been released in U.K. today (July 30). Sporting their signature guitar-driven sound, the British band has even shot the video for the single.

The single is available in both usual CD format and 7 inch vinyl. For the CD version, track "Laughing Eyes" is put on the B-side and the music video is added as a bonus. There will be two versions of the 7" vinyl format, one contains track "The Voice" while the second one gets the radio session of "Ghostriders in the Sky".

Really establishing her name in period drama pieces, Keira Knightley is reportedly poised to topline "The Duchess", an adaptation of Amanda Foreman's bestselling biography of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, which Pathe and BBC Films are co-financing.

Here the beauty will play the titular character, described as the Princess Diana of the time, who lived in an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue. Becoming an important power-broker amidst Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts, the 18th century aristocrat was alternately feted and reviled, in the meantime being widely caricatured by the popular press.

Still determines to work her way in acting, Paris Hilton has surprisingly reached deals to take starring part in Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate Films' full-blown musical thriller "Repo! The Genetic Opera", thereby joining Paul Sorvino and Alexa Vega in the cast.

Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, pic is set in 2056 during which a plague nearly destroys the human race and survival is dependent upon being able to finance a pricey organ transplant. Hilton, who will also sing in the project, is billed to portray a daughter of the organ transplant magnate, played by Sorvino, who is the villain of the piece.

Christina Aguilera is too ill to proceed with her concerts in Australia. The Back to Basics tour had to scrap off its last two shows on Sunday (July 29) and Monday (July 30) because Christina's cold was getting worse.

"I want to personally apologize to all of my fans for having to cancel my last two shows here in Melbourne," Christina said in a statement. "Unfortunately, I have fallen ill with a bad flu virus. This is one of the best cities in the world to perform in and I am truly disappointed that I won't be able to share my show with you all. Thank you for all of the continued love and support and I hope to perform for you all again next time."

The list of movies featured at this year's Toronto International Film Festival keeps growing larger as organizers of the event have smoothly added eight more titles to the lineup, all being placed in the Special Presentation slot.

The first four of these latest additions are learned to be "Into the Wild", "Battle in Seattle", "Margot at the Wedding", and Tom Kalin-directed drama picture "The Savages." Among the group, "Wild" and "Seattle" are learned to about encounter their world premiere at the festival.

Preserving its tradition in encouraging and recognizing the positive portrayal of Latinos in all media as well as increasing Latino representation at all levels of the entertainment industry, the Imagen Foundation once again listed out the honorees of its Imagen Awards for this year's celebration held on Saturday, July 28 at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Coming out as the top scorer in film slot was surrealistic feature "Pan's Labyrinth" which triumphantly got deemed Best Picture, beating out strong competitors like "Babel" and "Apocalypto." Pic also led helmer Guillermo del Toro and star Ivana Baquero to receive Best Director and Actress honor, respectively.

Ozzy Osbourne is recuperating after having a blood clot surgery.

The rocker was in Colorado for Ozzfest 2007, which took place at Coors Amphitheatre on Saturday July 28th when he was complaining of leg pain for most of the day. Following the show's end, Osbourne was taken to Rose Medical Center where he later on underwent surgery on his leg for a blood clot.

Coming up with packs of information about its future slate at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Walt Disney Pictures has eagerly opened up details on the plot of "Wall-E", its next CGI animated feature of Pixar Animation Studios production.

Provided by helmer Andrew Stanton, the story explains that humans in the future have completely trashed Earth with rampant commercialism and then leave the planet on space liners, leaving behind a number of robots to clean up the planet, including the titular character.

"Ugly Betty" adding more awards into its collection as the TV dramedy won top honors at the 22nd annual Imagen Awards, held Saturday July 28th at the sold out Walt Disney Concert Hall.

A Golden Globe- and Peabody Award-winning series, ABC's "Ugly Betty" was named Best Prime-time Series while won its stars America Ferrera the Best Actress award; and Ana Ortiz the Best Supporting Actress award. Ferrera, moreover, also brought home the Creative Achievement award.

Kelly Clarkson released a special edition of her controversial third album "My December" that is only available in Japan. The specialty offered here is a bonus track "Fading" that continues the exploration of her 'darker' side.

Kelly once again, made this song another mark of her transition and filled it with gothic-themed lyrics: "Amongst these faithless savants/ Underneath the surface/ Everything so backwards/ It's all a lie". Although heavy with the beat on most of the sound, the song cools down in the chorus with free-flowing verses that remind fans of her first and second album.

From singer to one of the WAGs (Wives And Girlfriends of the England national football team) to writer to TV show, Victoria Adams is set to add talk-show host to her resume after she reportedly agreed to join ABC talk show "The View."

Posh Spice, who moved to LA earlier this month after soccer star hubby David Beckham signed with LA Galaxy, was picked by show creator Barbara Walters to replace Emmy Award-winning American talk show host Rosie O'Donnell who quit the ABC show in May.

Compiling a pile of comic-book adaptations at its pit, Benderspink is on the way to spark a new one titled "Drafted" based on the graphic novel from Devil's Due Publishing of the same name created by Mark Powers and Chris Lie, Variety has reported.

Project is said to focus on an alien race known as the Benefactors who land on Earth to help humanity defend itself from a massive invasion by another, more malevolent alien force. Putting aside social status, every man, woman, and child must unite to save the world from annihilation as they are conscripted in a draft to battle the aliens.

This time providing much opportunity for moviegoers to have deeper look on its anticipated "Resident Evil: Extinction", Sony's Screen Gems has willingly placed not only one but two trailers for the movie on the net, one of them being the clip recently shown at this year's San Diego Comic Con.

The first one has been put online at Yahoo! Movies and is best viewed in HD format of OuickTime version while the second, the one from Comic-Con, can be seen through the flick's official site as the Red Band trailer in the 'Trailers and Videos' section.

In a chart war that has been dominated by Rihanna, Timbaland and Kate Nash in the top three positions, uber-producer Timbaland has claimed the first place. U.K. Singles chart this week has knocked down Rihanna's "Umbrella" from its ten week-reign to not only the runner up position but straight to the third.

Interestingly enough, the top three seems to have battled among themselves since most of those under them staying intact in their position. Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry", Enrique Iglesias' "Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song)", The Hossiers' "Worried About Ray" and Avril Lavigne's "When You're Gone" retain their last week post at no 4 to 7 respectively.

Hollywood funnyman Eddie Murphy is engaged. The star proposed to girlfriend Tracey Edmonds on Wednesday July 25th, presenting her with a yellow diamond engagement ring.

"Tracey and Eddie were engaged last Wednesday," Edmonds's personal assistant confirms to People. "Tracey and Eddie are both very much in love and are excited about spending the rest of their lives together."

On the heels of "Operation: Mindcrime II", Queensryche may have the third edition of it in a half-done project that is due next summer or fall. The progressive metal band has begun the long hours of stay in the studio to work on a new as-yet-untitled album.

"We're just into the first couple months of writing for it, and it's a theme record. It's based on modern American life, sort of a social commentary," frontman Geoff Tate told Billboard.com. "Musically it's very adventurous for us. It's something we haven't done before. It's going to take a lot of people by surprise, and at the same time I think they're going to be very intrigued by the concept of it."

A loud "Woo Hoo!" sure can be heard from filmmakers of "The Simpsons Movie" by now as Homer and his lovable, if dysfunctional, family members effortlessly reach their goal in entertaining most moviegoers to bring their vehicle to the top spot of the weekend domestic box office ended July 29, 2007.

Forcing last week's champ "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" to go down one step below, the big screen version of the long-running popular animated TV show amazingly scores a fantastic $74 million, over three times larger than the $19.1 million the Universal Pictures comedy has collected in its second spin on the chart.

The wedding is off, in a sudden, and the woes continue. Usher and fiancee Tameka Foster called off their wedding, originally planned to take place Saturday afternoon July 28th at record executive L.A. Reid's home in New York's Hamptons.

Usher's publicist, Patti Webster, issued a statement only hours before the ceremony was to take place explaining the cancellation, saying "It was announced today that the wedding ceremony for Usher Raymond IV and Tameka Foster was canceled. No additional information will be given regarding the circumstances of the cancellation, but we hope the privacy of this matter will be respected."

On the weight of his last name, Kid Rock comes subtle on the rap side for his next release. The all-said new title "Rock & Roll Jesus" leans rather heavily on rock with gospel-like materials as side dish. The title track, first single "So Hot" and a song called "Roll On" are all but the two elements leaving "Sugar" as the lone rap song.

Kid stated that he initially might either call the album "Rock & Roll Jesus" or "Amen" because his "best writing ever" laid on the latter. Ironically, the wise producers landed their choice to the former to avoid giving any false impression. Standing side-by-side to "Amen" is "When You Love Someone", a self-proclaimed rootsy gospel hued affair.

Steve Martin surprisingly tied the knot for the second time. The actor-comedian weds his longtime girlfriend, Anne Stringfield, Saturday July 28th much to the surprise of the 75 guests invited to his home for a "party".

The surprise wedding, took place at his Los Angeles home, was presided over by Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska Senator and attempted 1992 Democratic presidential candidate, and a friend of Martin's. In hand to serve as his best man was Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live (SNL), for which Martin has been a frequent host over the past three decades.

Michael Vick hits another new low with his dog-fighting accusation. The football quarterback for the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons franchise has to unfortunately lose contracts with numbers of famous brands, including Nike and Reebok, who decided to suspend the sales of his signature apparel.

Nike Inc. and Reebok International Ltd. suspended their lucrative contract with Vick on Friday July 27th, just one day after he was pleaded not guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring to run an interstate dog-fighting operation.