August 23, 2007

Giving response to the words stating casting process has begun on "Jurassic Park IV", a personal representative to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment has posted a statement on SpielbergFilms.com denying such reports despite the recent publications over stars from the previous installments of the franchise like Sam Neill and Laura Dern concerning the project.

While assuring the story and screenplay to be still in development, the person insisted that the property is still not ready to move forward toward production and no casting is taking place for this time being. Amblin has been known to be the studio co-producing the "Jurassic Park" series, so the statement from its reps should end the confusion surrounding who's in and who's out of the flick, which has already got William Monahan and John Sayles on board to pen the script.

Vanessa Carlton's music video for her first single 'Nolita Fairytale' has hit the net. The video that was shot in New York City in late July, has her piano smashed by a car, which in many arguable ways could be a symbolism.

For a moment the video reminds fans of her clip in the claim to fame single 'A Thousand Miles'. The first scene brought her moving around the block while playing the piano. But it wasn't long that Carlton abandon the red piano in the middle of the street and let a taxi run it over.

Looks like filming process on Fox 2000's "27 Dresses" went pretty smoothly judging from the smile its female lead regularly displayed on the set of the romantic comedy.

Yes, ten on-set images of Katherine Heigl, looking fresh and beautiful in a flower-printed dress, have been brought up to the net for every fans of hers to no doubt feast their eyes upon. In the film, the actress portrays a young woman who has made a career out of being a bridesmaid but never a bride and faces her worst nightmare when her sister becomes engaged to the man of her dreams.

Contrary to media speculation that Jermaine Dupri and his longtime girlfriend Janet Jackson have secretly wed, the couple has yet made their romance official though. The music producer has shot down reports he and the songbird wed in a secret ceremony at an undisclosed location on Saturday afternoon August 18th.

Responding to the much-talked speculation, Dupri was quoted by Us Weekly as saying, "When Janet and I get married, everybody will know. It's not something I want to keep a secret. I'm going to promote it like a party."

Compiling the most Hollywood-friendly lineup in years, organizers of this year's Toronto International Film Festival have smoothly added handfuls of high-profile U.S. titles into the list in its announcement for the full slate of the event Wednesday, August 22, 2007.

Among them, five are submitted into Gala Programme section, which will open with Jeremy Podeswa's drama "Fugitive Pieces." All set to be presented at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, they include ensemble drama "The Jane Austen Book Club", thriller mystery "The Walker", Harold Pinter-scripted "Sleuth", cop-turned-street-cleaner thriller "Cleaner", and romantic drama "Closing the Ring."

There it is after weeks of chatter and speculation, Bow Wow finally comes out with official confirmation he's dating Angela Simmons, the daughter of the founding member of hip hop group Run DMC, Joseph Simmons.

Bow Wow was spotted accompanying Angela to the ESPN Madden 08 after-party last week, while they were also seen together at a host of celebrity events.

Low on personal life, Amy Winehouse has her career still going uphill proven by numbers of nominations she earns in this year's MOBO Awards. The singer, who is currently in rehab, is up for 4 categories- Best Video for 'Back to Black', Best Song for 'Rehab', Best R&B and Best U.K. Female.

Amy's number is then followed by Kanye West who got 3 nods for Best International Act, Best Video for 'Stronger' and Best Hip-Hop. In the latter nomination he will go head to head with rival 50 Cent who has been linked to him as heavy competitor.

Enhancing the promotion of its upcoming "Resident Evil: Extinction", Sony Pictures has fully launched the official site for the action sci-fi horror flick on the net in its preparation to release the movie in theaters next month.

Apart from the "Convoy Game" in which players kill attacking zombies in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, visitors of the site are also featured with videos from the film, downloads, and new photos as well as a widget that they can post to their social networking profiles, among others.

Much apart from heavy media coverage on their break up, Jessica Alba and Cash Warren were spotted pretty cozy while taking a sweet stroll on the beach in Pacific Palisades on Wednesday August 22nd.

The on-again off-again couple was seen held hands and put their arms around one another as they talked their way up and down the sandy beaches. Not sign of separation I guess.

Wardrobe malfunction and stage act error aside, Beyonce Knowles has confirmed herself a work of next album. The singer told USAToday.com that she will be back in the studio in December to work on the follow up of 'B'Day' (2006).

In the interview, she hopes that the album will be ready for a release in summer 2008. The information is limited to that since spotlights are directed to her stage acts lately.

It appears that Kate Moss and Pete Doherty are inseparable despite the many negative reports surrounding their 'unhealthy' relationship. The two addicts have reportedly rekindled their romance after she dumped him back in June over reports he had cheated on her with South African model Lindi Hingston.

While reports on their getting back together obviously become a big blow for the people close to her, Moss and Doherty are said to have been staying together at a £1,500 room in Claridge's hotel, London.

After Jessica Alba, here comes another massively popular name to highlight "The Love Guru." Paramount Pictures as the studio producing the flick has announced that pop star Justin Timberlake is joining the cast of the comedy which Mike Myers will topline as the titular character.

Here the multiple Grammy Awards winner will be a professional hockey player in L.A. Kings named Jacques Grande who dates the estranged wife of Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke, played by Romany Malco. It is the rift between Roanoke and his wife that Myers' character has to settle since the man is expected to get back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.

From big screen to the family home to New Orleans, Brad Pitt is making his way to small screen. The movie hunk is reported to executive produce FX drama "4 oz."

The drama, which is about a family man who decided to get a sex change after realizing that he is a transsexual, is co-created by Ryan Murphy alongside "Nip/Tuck" writer Brad Falchuk. Pitt will executive produce the project alongside Murphy and Dede Gardner, with 20th Century Fox Television is producing the pilot.

Two of today's biggest young stars have teamed up for a brand new song. Kat DeLuna who has gained reputation through single 'Whine Up' this time tied a collaboration with R&B heartthrob Omarion in a song called 'Cut Off Time'.

The song is produced by none other than Timbaland who brought a new kind of tempo to the song. Many sites has reported that the song will be made the soundtrack of movie 'Bring the Noise'.

Hayden Panettiere, who has just turned 18 on Tuesday August 21st, drinks milk. The actress, currently stars as Claire Bennet in the NBC series "Heroes," has scored herself a "Got Milk?" ad.

Becoming the latest celebrity to get teens to drink three glasses of low-fat or fat-free milk a day, the actress-singer said in the ads, "You don't have to be a hero to feel invincible. That's why I drink milk."

Hinder has prepared themselves to work on a new album that is hoped to hit the stores in early 2008. The Oklahoma rock outfit, famous for hit 'Lips of an Angel', has set a temporary studio for the band to rehearse in between live concerts within Bad Boys of Rock tour.

The band pulled producer Brian Howes again for the second album and hopes that their work will be done by fourth quarter of 2008 or in the summer. "We're anxious to get in and get started," vocalist Austin Winkler told Billboard.com. The progress they are in? Three to four songs ready to be played live, the rest are still raw.

Hot on the heels of Bridget Moynahan's delivery report, comes a new report that suggests newly poppa Tom Brady and her now girlfriend Gisele Bundchen are ready to tie the knot. What a big blow.

Bundchen is said set to wed her American football star boyfriend, with the couple reportedly planning to exchange vows in a small, private ceremony on the East coast of America this winter. "They'd like to keep it small and simple," an insider revealed.

With numerous superheroes' names involved, Warner Bros. Pictures really caused moviegoers go wide-eyed when it announced plan to bring "Justice League of America" to the big screen back in February. However, it seems that such grand idea is not that surprising by now if looking from words that are currently buzzing loudly on the project.

Speculations are high that Warner Bros. is aiming to fast-track the flick as a motion-capture CG-animation feature rather than a live-action one as it eyed before. IESB.net has received scoop from sources inside both ILM and Rhythm & Hues claiming the two are competing to create an all-cgi "photo-real" motion capture for the movie with early meetings being already taken place for certain key roles and to expect announcements very soon.

The long-awaited new Hip-Hop sound from Madonna has begun taking shape. A single called 'The Beat Goes On' leaked online on August 21 in a full high-quality version although it's still unknown whether it will make the cut for her new album.

The naturally upbeat song is produced by Pharrell Williams who also worked on three other tracks. "I'm tired of doing the same thing," Madonna tells Pharrell on the beginning of the track.

Bill Murray grabbing headlines with his being pulled over by police in Sweden while cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart, then refused to take breathalyzer test after police said they smelled alcohol.

The veteran funnyman was stopped by Stockholm police early Sunday August 19th after they spotted him driving a golf cart en route to his downtown hotel. He was then asked to take a breath test, which the actor-comedian refused, as officers noticed he smelled of alcohol.

No joke, Jenna Jameson quits porn. The porn queen turns holy, already had her breast implants removed and is keen to retire from adult film-making. The brand new JJ takes time to discuss the issues with Us Weekly magazine for its latest edition.

Jenna, who had Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Garth Fisher removed her breast implants earlier this month, said "When I had implants, I felt uncomfortable. I would be shy at the beach. I know it sounds funny, but I'd wear high-necked clothes, unless I was at an adult-film convention. So I thought, Why don't I be who I am and get my real ones back?"

In just couple of weeks ahead, things should get clearer for us in learning the truth about J.J. Abrams-produced secretive project "1-18-08", if the saying turns out to be true.

DreadCentral.com has received a scoop from one of its readers who claimed to hear from his relative working in the monster movie that a new trailer for the flick will debut in theaters in front of "Resident Evil: Extinction" as the Screen Gems release opens nationwide on September 21 this year.

While videos of her accidentally exposed her breasts during a performance on-stage are everywhere on the net and are much-talked among people, a representative for Beyonce Knowles comes clean with the so-called another Hollywood wardrobe malfunction, telling People the star came prepared for the unfortunate.

Explaining the booby incident, the singer's representative tells People, "She's wearing a flesh-tone bra! Do you really think Beyonce would go onstage like that?" The representative went on adding it is her mother, Tina Knowles, who's in-charge as "the quality-control officer" on the pop star's tour and she's made sure that no wardrobe malfunctions occur onstage.

Looks like the reunion we wait to happen between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in "The Winter of Frankie Machine" may be unable to get realized.

Collider.com recently come up with a surprising news indicating that Scorsese has decided to quit helming the project, which will supposedly mark the ninth collaboration he strikes with De Niro.

It wasn't Busta Rhymes, Fabolous or LL Cool J who made the cut for the remix of 50 Cent's 'I Get Money', it's Ludacris. The version sporting Ludacris as the featured artist has been made the official remix of the song.

'I Get Money' is actually the remix of 50's first single 'Straight to the Bank' that is taken from upcoming album 'Curtis', due September 11. It was released as promotional single to support the highly-anticipated album on June 30 and peaked at #12 in U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks, just two places behind 'Straight to the Bank'.

That Paris Hilton writing a new book, that's right but that the book will be about her time in prison, that's just not right. The hotel heiress is penning a new book which is a follow up to her previously best seller "Confessions Of An Heiress."

Speaking on her behalf concerning the persistent false rumors is Paris' literary agent, Dan Strone, who said "She is planning to do another book. She is thinking of doing a new book, and I don't believe at this time, it's contemplated to be a so-called prison diary. I don't think that's the direction she's heading."

Foxy Brown heading for jail. The three-month pregnant rapper was ordered to prison Wednesday morning August 22nd by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson for violating the terms of her probation agreement.

Brown, born Inga Marchand, will be held in jail until her next hearing on September 7th, during which it will be decided if she would be sentenced up to one year in prison.

The very pregnant momma pops out, finally. Bridget Moynahan, the former girlfriend of New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady, gave birth to their first child together, a baby boy. Congratulations!

The model-actress delivered the infant on Wednesday August 22nd in Los Angeles. Both "Mother and baby are doing well," her publicist, Christina Papadopoulos, tells People. No other details being released though, nor the baby's name.