September 15, 2007

Light your adventurous side up, folks, as the official website for "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" has been fully launched by now.

Feel free to check out the trailer and image gallery as well as download wallpapers, AIM icon, and screen-savers featuring the characters from the flick. One that should not be missed is surely the "Gates' Challenge" game, in which you can test out just how great your decoding skills are.

MTV has branded P. Diddy's commercial video for his latest fragrance, "Unforgivable," as too hot for its audience and thus won't airing the much-talked video promotion until it gets edited.

The video for the ads, categorized as R-Rated, is available exclusively for MySpaceTV.

After the much rumors on the street, Usmagazine.com is the latest to provide the wedding details of Hollywood couple Katherine Heigl and fiance Josh Kelly.

Quoted a friend of the couple, Usmagazine.com reported that the December 23rd wedding of Heigl and Kelly will be "very small and intimate." And contrary to earlier report, the wedding will not take place at the actress' property. Instead "it will be in the Park City-Deer Valley area," the pal revealed.

The North American premiere of "Reservation Road" probably became one of the memorable moments for moviegoers to remember from this year's Toronto International Film Festival. That's simply because all of four notable principal cast members delightfully managed to attend the occasion, held Thursday, September 13, 2007 at Roy Thomson Hall.

Yes, the likes of Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly, Mark Ruffalo, and Mira Sorvino all were snapped to walk down merrily on the red carpet, all dressed nicely for the screening. Sorvino's husband, actor Christopher Backus, was also present as well as her father, veteran thesp Paul Sorvino, who took time to pose together with his daughter.

Queen Latifah's new album 'Trav'lin' Light' is coming out around the corner. Two tracks have been available for listening, the first being 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die' which is available for purchase on iTunes and the latest one 'Poetry Man'.

The latter song is rumored to be the first single pulled from the album that will arrive September 25 via Verve. It is one of the many tracks in the album that sees Latifah once again employing blues, jazz and soul music for her album after 2004's 'The Dana Owens Album'.

Reba McEntire is the first entertainer ever to pick Billboard magazine's "Woman of the Year" award.

The singer and country music performer has been picked by the publication to be handed with their first "Woman of the Year" award in honor of her wide success in music, television, movies and publishing. "Reba is an inspiration to women everywhere and we are delighted to be presenting her with this award," Billboard Group editorial director Tamara Conniff said in a statement.

Backstreet Boys has completed the music video for their new single 'Inconsolable'. It was premiered on September 14 on Yahoo! Music.

The video was shot in Venice Beach, California last month and directed by Ray Kay (Nick Lachey, Snoop Dogg). This would be the first video of the band without member Kevin Richardson who left for personal reason in 2006.

From $1 million to $1.5 million. Yes the stakes is raising. Las Vegas entertainer Jeff Beacher is raising the amount of money he offered to Tommy Lee and Kid Rock to take their feud into the ring.

TMZ.com wrote that "Beacher has offered a purse of $1 million if Kid Rock and Tommy Lee take their VMA beef to his club's boxing ring" and now he's "raising the stakes by upping the prize to a cool $1.5 mil!"

More than 10,000 copies of their album have been sold in U.S. Straylight Run, an alternative rock band from Long Island, New York, have started gaining attention through their music since the first self-titled CD and even more with the second, 'The Needles the Space'.

The latest effort opened at #72 in Billboard Hot 200, selling 9,800 copies upon its release on June 19, 2007. The song 'Soon We'll be Living in the Future' has been lifted from the album as the first single. Check out the video stream below.

One could probably feel excited and depressed at the same time on the news informing Lionsgate Films has updated the official website for its forthcoming "Saw IV."

The good thing is that the site has interesting, new features to look up to, which include a run-through of past traps and victims and the new "Autopsy" clip. The bad one is, not all of you out there can enter the site easily as it now puts an age verification screen in the home page that visitors must fill in to pass through. Guess this will also bring disappointment to fans living outside the States.

Not yet issued any single statement confirming her pregnancy, Christina Aguilera showed off her baby bump as she was snapped while out for dinner with hubby Jordan Bratman on Thursday night September 13th.

The expecting couple was photographed holding hands as they made their way out of the Toscana Italian restaurant in Brentwood, Calif.

Emerging from Colleyville, Texas, indie rock band The Rocket Summer is picked as this month's User's Choice for Yahoo!, a title previously owned by Plain White T's, Klaxons and Cartel. The band was voted highest to be Yahoo! Music's 'Who's Next'.

The band is also featured on Yahoo! Music that displays a performance of the band's hit 'So Much Love' with Meg & Dia on backing vocals. Click here to see the performance and find out more about the band through the exclusive interview.

Hot on the heels of his divorce and custody battle with former wife Britney Spears, Kevin Federline took time to have some fun in the club. But what is interesting about his partying style is his being caught getting close with Colin Farrell's ex-girlfriend and former sex-tape partner Nicole Narain.

People reported K-Fed and Nicole were seen partying at Financially Hung's Black Card Party held at L.A. club Vice. "They were dancing, she had her arms on his shoulder, she was clearly making advances," a source in the know was quoted by People as saying.

Jamie Foxx is now immortal, literally. The actor-comedian had his name cemented on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" on Friday September 14th, thus becoming the 2,347th celebrity to have a star bearing his name laid on the sidewalk.

"This is one of the most amazing days of my life," Foxx said at the late-morning ceremony in front of the Kodak Theatre. "I want to thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for making my dream come true. This is beyond my wildest dreams."

It has been some time since the last talk about possible Bond girl for "Bond 22" surfaced, and now a new one has it that producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are in search for a Latina actress for the coveted role.

Report from FilmJerk, claimed to be based on the casting notices sent out yesterday morning (Sept 14), has stated that the wanted talent should be "in her late twenties, preferably with South American roots." What's more, she "must be quite beautiful, able to handle what promises to be a physically demanding role, fluent in English and, last but most certainly not least, a great actress."

Natasha Bedingfield has completed her new music video that was shot in Mexico City last month. Clip of 'Say It Again' is premiered along with the announcement of an anticipated collaboration with Sean Kingston.

Her latest album 'NB' will be released in U.S. on November 6 with alternate tracklisting. One new track called 'Love Like This' will be recorded with Jamaican singer Kingston and pulled as the lead single in U.S. It will be serviced to American pop radio to impact on October 2.

Celebrity couple Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are about to take the stage together. The husband-and-wife, as reported by The New York Post's Page Six column, have been offered starring roles in the musical "Chicago."

While they are said to be "in talks" with show producers, a representative for Tori confirmed to People there does an offer and the couple already went to see the show while they were in town, but not yet nod their head.

Equal acting partner for Al Pacino in biographical flick "Dali & I: The Surreal Story" is eventually found. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Golden Globes-nominee Cillian Murphy has already been signed to join the veteran actor in the cast.

Based on Stan Lauryssens’ autobiographical book of the same name, pic, which will span the 1960s-80s, follows the time in the life of famed painter Salvador Dali when most of his great work was behind him and he became more flamboyant. Murphy is billed to play Lauryssens, an art dealer whom Pacino’s Dali developed a mentor-protege relationship with.

Master P is taking break from his hectic schedules, spent time to go back to school Thursday September 13th. The veteran gangsta rapper spent about an hour talking to students at Monroe Middle School in Charlotte about the importance of education and good financial management upon received an email sent by Math teacher Bonnie Mwanda who asked him to stop by the school, after learning he would be in Charlotte to promote a book.

Master P grew up in public housing in New Orleans and later became a performer who sold millions of albums. Kicked off his career from nothing, he already started a record label and even played professional basketball. His son Lil' Romeo is a rap star as well.

Fresh from the 32nd edition of Toronto Film Festival, serious drama "In the Valley of Elah" landed its Los Angeles premiere Thursday, September 13, 2007 at Hollywood's ArcLight Cinema with most cast members attending.

Lead female Charlize Theron arrived at the scene accompanied by long-time boyfriend Stuart Townsend, looking classic in black Christian Dior top. Joined the actress were co-stars James Franco, Wes Chatham, Frances Fisher, Jake McLaughlin, Jonathan Tucker, and Josh Brolin who took wife Diane Lane along for the occasion.

Move over people, Cash Warren is taking his very big steps forward. The film producer threatened to sue The National Enquirer over report he has cheated on actress girlfriend Jessica Alba with Russian model Vera Mishina.

Entertainment Website Hollywood.com reported that Mishina already passed a "rigorous" lie detector test before then telling the National Enquirer her story of getting up close and personal with Warren.

It's time to pay. Fred Durst, the lead singer of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, has been pleaded no contest in assault charge.

The 37-year-old man was pleaded no contest to seven misdemeanors, including assault, battery and reckless driving, for intentionally hitting two people with his car. In the court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on August 16th obtained by CelebTV.com, it is stated that Durst hit two L.A. residents with his vehicle "on or about October 26, 2006."

German government has a change of mind on Bryan Singer-directed "Valkyrie", the WWII thriller based on the July Plot of German officials to assassinate Hitler. Delighting the filmmakers, the country’s finance ministry finally decided to let the project use the Bendlerblock, the original site where conspirators of the assassination plot were executed.

Spokesman for the ministry, Thorsten Albig, told Bild newspaper there had been a change of heart about allowing the film’s crew to shoot at the site, now a memorial and national German shrine. Known to be responsible for all property owned by the German federal government, the department initially denied the producers permission to take scenes there, explaining that it should be treated as a "place of remembrance and mourning" which would "lose dignity if we were to exploit it as a film set."

Ryan Phillippe is the other Hollywood actor besides Owen Wilson who contemplated suicide because of broken heart.

The father of two has openly admitted that the end of his marriage to actress wife Reese Witherspoon after nearly seven years together really brought him down. He was quoted by many media as saying, "After the divorce I was a physical wreck. I wanted to die. I was ready to kill myself. I was not taking care of myself at all. I would wake up and cry and vomit."

Jude Law is heading for West End. The British actor is set to play the title role in Shakespeare's greatest play "Hamlet" in West End.

The play, which will be staged by mid 2009 at London's Wyndham Theatre and at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in Covent Garden, will be directed by Kenneth Branagh.