August 10, 2007

What a week we are going through now. It was just yesterday (August 9) that rumors about "1-18-08" ending leak got surfaced and now, similar issue also hits another big title, none other than Warner Bros. Pictures "The Dark Knight."

The good people at /film revealed that they have received a message from a Chicago scooper claiming that he/she had obtained what seemed to be prominent plot points for the movie, which is still carrying out its principal photography under the direction of Christopher Nolan.

Providing another glimpses for all the fantasy fans to watch, Fox-Walden has delightfully released not only one but two international trailers for "The Dark Is Rising" on the net by now.

Placed on Foxfilm.at, there are two The Dark Is Rising trailers available both in Windows Media Player format.

As the release date of "Shoot 'Em Up" is drawing near, promotion for the thriller action is also being geared up now that a new clip on the movie has been surfaced on the net, only a few days after the release of the R-rated trailer.

Just like that posted on Yahoo! Movies, the clip is also available at Shoot 'Em Up Trailer section. Labeled "Stick to the Plan", it runs a little over one minute, showing Clive Owen's character, Mr.Smith, getting chased by gunmen in an SUV.

The big brother in the Jolie-Pitt clan, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, is celebrating as he turned 6th on Sunday August 5th. And the whole family celebrated the big day in a two-day, military-themed boys-only party, took place at the weekend in the garden of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's oceanfront home in Santa Barbara, California.

The preparation for the party, per Life & Style Weekly as quoted by JustJared, begun on Friday August 3rd when momma Jolie took Maddox with her to work at LA Studios. This was suggested as a distraction so that poppa Pitt could ready the house for the boy's 6th birthday party.

Finally, the robot is going to be assembled properly from now on, many many thanks to New Regency Pictures.

That's right, the 20th Century Fox-based production company has struck a pact with the Mark Gordon Company to develop "Voltron" based on the popular 1980s Japanese animated TV series, comic books and toy line.

Soulja Boy's 'Crank That Soulja Boy' music video has been premiered on Yahoo! today (August 10). Surprisingly the yahoo premiere turned out to be the second, after 106 & Park: BET's Top 10 Live held the right to first play on August 9.

With the video airing on the BET video countdown show, Soulja wrote a blog on his MySpace to encourage fans to keep voting for his debut video. Log on to bet.com to start voting and keep it at #1

Confirmation has been made by Variety just now that Matthew Vaughn is indeed set to take the director's chair in "Thor", Marvel Studios' big screen adaptation of Marvel Comics' superhero character.

Deal for Vaughn is said to close just as Paramount releases his latest directorial effort "Stardust" today, August 10, 2007. For the British filmmaker, the project will be his second effort at a superhero flick after previously got attached to direct "X-Men: The Last Stand" which he left due to personal reasons.

When it comes to term "cash in while you're hot", Amanda Bynes is at her best. The junior actress does learn from her seniors how to make use her popularity to enlarge her business empire. An actress and former show host, the starlet can now add fashion designer into her resume as she's designing a new line called "Dear" for Steve and Barry's.

Bynes was on hand on Wednesday night August 8th at a party took place at Sushi Samba 7 in New York City to launch her new collection, which debuts in Steve and Barry's stores on August 16th. The clothing line is said to feature everything from hoodies to handbags and skirts to shirts that will be suitable for young girls and their parents as well.

After releasing disco-fused 'Hold It, Don't Drop It' as first single in Europe, Jennifer Lopez is ready to release a different first single in North America. More subtle 'Do It Well' will be released to Urban radio stations on August 21.

'Do It Well', taken from Lopez's upcoming English album 'Brave', was written by Ryan Tedder and has the dance, electro-driven vibe that she had back in 1999's 'On the 6'. Lopez told MTV.com that she will shoot the music video for this song on August 16 and 17.

Those yearning for a better look on "Iron Man" should really cheer up by now as a high resolution of the hero's picture has been brought up into the surface.

Image shown actually has appeared before on the recent issue of Empire magazine, but by being put on the net, fans surely have chance now to download it as a collection or desktop background for their personal computer.

Drama follows Britney Spears everywhere. While the troubled singer is waiting in anticipation the release of her latest fragrance, "Believe," rumors are mounting in Hollywood that a body double was used for its ad photo shoot due to the fact that the ad shows a much better looking of Brit than the way she is today.

The ad for the fragrance, which Spears donned for Elizabeth Arden, was taken earlier this summer. Contrary to media reports, a representative for the perfume giant insisted rumors of body double are only partially true, claimed it is definitely Britney's body on the bottle.

U.S. act My Chemical Romance are leading the nominations of 2007 Kerrang! Awards with four nods. The band will go head to head with British metal group Enter Shikari at top nominations including Best Single and Best Album.

MCR's 'Welcome to the Black Parade' will battle in the Best Single category with Shikari's 'Sorry, You're Not a Winner'. Both are also tied against each other for Best Album for 'The Black Parade' and 'Take to the Skies' respectively.

One of the highly-anticipated superhero movies to come, "The Incredible Hulk" is now being shot under the direction of Louis Leterrier, and several pictures from the set have delightfully been taken to be put on the net for all fans to see.

Images taken were those of Edward Norton and Liv Tyler on the Toronto set of the flick. Norton, as widely reported, is cast as Bruce Banner, whose alter ego is the titular character while Tyler is portraying his love interest Betty Ross, also the sole daughter of renowned military general Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, played in the flick by William Hurt.

Barely a week after the premiere of his 'Ayo Technology' music video, 50 Cent had another music video plus audio of another song leaked online. This, apparently was not coming from 50's decision nor his management because the rapper went extremely mad at his G-Units office.

On Thursday morning, August 9 an audio version of 50's collaboration with Robin Thicke called 'Follow My Lead' had found its way online. Later on that day, the video also streamed on websharing sites. It was reported that 50 immediately took 'action' by storming to his label's office, smashed a plasma TV, threw his cell phone through a glass window and said that he's taking a vacation.

"Welcome to the adoption club dude." Shall we say so to Ricky Martin? As the Puerto Rican singer has revealed his intention to adopt, even "one from each continent" if it is possible.

"It's something we want to begin to create this year, a family of many colors," so Martin told reporters Wednesday August 9th in Puerto Rico, where he is scheduled to perform this weekend.

AT&T Inc. is not to take the blame of censorship on Eddie Vedder's critic regarding U.S. first man George Bush. The telephone company claimed that they hired an outside company to monitor profanity streaming through their 'BlueRoom'.

The Pearl Jam frontman shouted "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush find yourself another home" during a Chicago concert that was part of Lollapalooza Festival. The re-broadcast of the show on BlueRoom was later missing the two lines.

R&B singer Tamia, 31, and her basketball player husband Grant Hill, 34, happily welcomed the arrival of their second daughter earlier Thursday August 9th in Orlando, FL.

The newlyborn, named Lael Rose Hill was born at 2:45 pm, weighing in at 6 lbs, 8 oz. Representative for the couple confirmed the good news to People, saying mother and daughter are all doing fine.

Still with uncertain release date, The Cure's 13th studio album is being postponed again to next spring, announced the band's label Geffen. The album that is planned to be a double pack is reported unfinished.

"The album got pushed to 2008, more like an April/May release. Robert is still recording," a spokeswoman from Geffen said on Thursday (August 9) in reference to frontman Robert Smith. The follow up to 2004's self-titled album was initially slated for this May but was postponed to October, presumably because Robert had difficulty in writing the lyrics, as he stated last year.

While speculations on Tom Cruise being tipped to take cameo role of Captain Christopher Pike in "Star Trek" are still rolling, another has already come up to the surface, and yes, it also has a big Hollywood name attached.

IGN has claimed to be told that Paramount Pictures is trying to get none other than Oscar winner Russell Crowe on board as the villain for the highly-anticipated project. Though so, the site did admit that its source actually was in doubt that the studio and helmer J.J. Abrams could really signed the actor as he would be busy filming "Body of Lies" and "Nottingham" in the coming months.

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are best friends and they will always share the same feeling with each other. The laugh, the tears and everything. And days after Nicole came out with her public revelation on her being pregnant, Paris speaks out on her BFF's impending motherhood.

"She's really happy," the hotel heiress told People. "I just got off the phone with her. She's so excited. I know she's going to be the best mom ever."

Amy Winehouse who was admitted to London's University College Hospital on Tuesday (August 7) and discharged a few hours later is now in doubt to continue her V Festival gig in London that is scheduled on August 18-19. The problem is, she was not merely "exhausted".

It is suspected that Winehouse suffered from drug overdose. During the treatment, it was reported that the singer was given a shot of adrenaline and had her stomach pumped.

Nicole Richie, who's four months pregnant with boyfriend Joel Madden's child, was rushed to the hospital recently in fear of miscarriage after she began excessively bleeding.

The reality TV star is said to have sought medical advice when she began to bleed excessively. Doctors reportedly had reassured Richie that her baby was safe, but encouraged her to give the baby more nutrition.

Brad Pitt flew over from Chicago to Los Angeles to show up in a local courthouse to report for jury duty Thursday August 9th.

Showed up to serve his calling after postponed his service several times, the movie hunk was seen wearing a T-shirt, dark jeans and a black cap. Sources in the know said he even wore a juror badge, and then had Subway delivered for lunch.

A hip hop and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer, Akon is set to add television producer to his resume as he's about to launch a new reality TV show and is having his two brothers starring in.

The TV show, to be titled "My Brother's Keeper," will follow Akon's brothers as they parade around town posing as the singer and reaping the benefits that come with being a superstar. The "Smack That" singer claimed to get the idea for the show after seeing fans' reactions whenever they go out in their hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

Entertaining and funny, it's hard to not fall for "Hairspray" indeed and the charm apparently has also captured those in charge for this year's Hollywood Film Festival.

In celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the festival's Hollywood Awards, organizers of the event announced Wednesday, August 8 that cast of the musical flick will delightfully be bestowed Hollywood Ensemble Acting of the Year Award - Musical/Comedy. Kudos will be presented Monday evening, October 22 during the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California.

Nelly is branching out, sets fourth to launch a new addition to his Pimp Juice beverage brand while at the same time marking its debut with the 3rd annual Pimp Juice P.I.M.P "Upgrade Your Life" Scholarship Competition.

The new Pimp Juice beverage brand, dubbed "Pimp Juice; the Purple Label," is an anti-oxidant/ energy drink that blends acai, ascorbic acid, grape extract, green tea extract, pear extract, pomegranate juice and yerba mate.