September 19, 2007

Handfuls of Hollywood's notable figures from various generations gathered merrily yesterday, September 18, 2007 for one purpose only: attending the Los Angeles Premiere for "Into the Wild" at The Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, California.

Representing young generation were the likes of Alana Curry, Ben Foster, Christina Ricci, Lyndsy Fonseca, Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, and Kristen Stewart, the latter three being the cast members of the movie.

The empty seat left by Owen Wilson in "Tropic Thunder" is finally re-occupied. Variety has brought in report informing that Matthew McConaughey is taking over the role the "Wedding Crashers" star dropped after he was hospitalized for suicide attempt.

As Wilson's replacement, McConaughey thereby will only appear as an uncredited cameo in the project. While late notice, the hunk just needs to take a week out of his filming schedule to undergo his scenes there.

Seems to have every intention to return to the romantic comedy genre, Jennifer Garner reportedly is engaged in talks for a starring slot in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past", which Matthew McConaughey is set to topline.

A New Line Cinema production, the project focuses on a charming womanizer who gets visited by the apparitions of girlfriends past, present, and future while he is attending his younger brother's wedding. The guy eventually realizes that he is in love with his childhood sweetheart instead.

Fans of "Resident Evil" franchise apparently can encounter their first viewing on "Resident Evil: Extinction" a bit earlier than the scheduled showings for the sci-fi action horror.

Sony Pictures just came in with an announcement stating that midnight screenings will be held for the flick starting at 12:01 AM on Friday, September 21 on over 150 screens. Find out if cinema near you is among the pack for sure.

Mario's music video for new single 'Crying Out for Me' premiered on September 17 on BET's 'Access Granted'. The Polow Da Don-produced song is made the second single taken from his upcoming album 'GO', after chosen by fans through a vote on his MySpace.

The clip started out ordinary but comes with a storyline after a girl that Mario likes was abused by her boyfriend. The girl eventually chose Mario over her boyfriend and escaped with him but after a car chase took place first.

Could it be true that Courtney Love is dating Pete Doherty?

The troubled rockers have sparked romance rumors after they were reported swapping spit while she was visiting him at the Wiltshire clinic where he is currently battling his drug addiction. He was allowed to leave the rehab with Courtney and they then had lunch together in a Wiltshire, England, pub.

After beaten out at MTV VMAs, Kanye West can now at least smile for the victory over 50 Cent who put a high stake in their chart battle. 50's 'Curtis' was sold 691,000 copies in the first week of its release, 200,000 plus short of 'West's 'Graduation' that soared high up to 957,000 copies, according to SoundScan.

The numbers have somehow become predictable because since last week the number has been in 800,000 to 600,000 ratio with West on the lead. Still, both rappers' final numbers are noted as the biggest opening-week for an album since 50's 'The Massacre' that opened at 1.1 million copies in 2005.

Rumors are mounting that Christina Aguilera is expecting a baby girl, but quite the contrary is true. The singer and her husband Jordan Bratman reportedly expecting a baby boy.

Not without reason, but OK! Magazine comes to such conclusion upon learning that the singer's close friends have all shopped for boy-themed baby gifts. "They're all boy-themed, all blue," a source tells OK!

Nicole Scherzinger, who launches a solo career on top of her successful all-girl group The Pussycat Dolls, has confirmed that 'Baby Love' will be made her second single. The song is a track pulled from her debut solo album 'Her Name is Nicole' that is due November 6.

'Baby Love' is featuring and produced by Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am who also released a solo album recently. It turns out recently that the producer and Nicole have met long before the collaboration. "We had some radio shows together and he (will.i.am) actually met me and Fergie on the same night and he asked me to join the Black Eyed Peas... I wasn't able to," Nicole revealed.

Following the September 17 set report on "The Incredible Hulk", some new pics taken from the same location have been safely posted via Ain't It Cool News, capturing Harlem street on fire.

The sender of these photos informed that huge fire was seen at the end of the street while the entire area totally blocked off. Film crew basically had the smashed bus from the previous shot blown up every fifteen minutes with extras running out of the Apollo theater and around.

Here we go again with rumors on Jennifer Lopez's pregnancy which in all probabilities inspired by the fact that she was spotted sporting a baby bump at the New York Fashion Week on September 11th, during which she launched her new "Just Sweet" clothing line collection for Spring 2008.

Meanwhile, In Touch weekly is reporting that the songbird and her husband Marc Anthony are expecting their first child together. The entertainment media quoted an insider as saying, "She's about twelve weeks pregnant."

Bo Bice just strengthens the notion that it doesn't take the first position in American Idol to have one record after another. The rock singer will release his second album called 'See the Light', the follow up of 2005's 'The Real Thing' that debuted at #4 in Billboard Hot 200 chart.

"I enjoyed 'The Real Thing,' but (the new album) is more a labor of love," Bo told Billboard.com. "It's really me getting back to the roots of what Bo is, which is a Southern rock album and nothing more."

Desperate Housewife Teri Hatcher is desperate for a new love. The actress is said to have split from actor boyfriend Stephen Kaye.

"Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry revealed the news on Saturday night September 15th at the Beverly Wilshire hotel during the 50th anniversary gala for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Women's Guild.

Jamelia is single and active. The R&B sensation is invading the world of beauty products, launching her own line of hair-care.

Collaborating with hairdressers Toni & Guy, Jamelia is following in the footstep of fellow celebs Helena Christensen and Erin O'Connor to launch hair serums for the ModelMe range which are specially formulated to keep Afro hair looking its best.

Done tickling fans with the mystery of 'Delilah', Plain White T's is set to release the next single from 'Every Second Counts', their fourth studio album that already gone Gold. 'Our Time Now' will be pulled out as a single and showcased on Tonight Show with Jay Leno on October 10.

'Our Time Now' will be made ESPN's theme song for their college football coverage segment. The same song will also be utilized as the theme song of ABC Family's TV series 'Greek' in its second season that will air early 2008. The band will tape their part for the first episode on September 26 in Los Angeles.

The well-meaning, anthropomorphic bear is heading to the big screen. That's right, Warner Bros. Pictures has teamed up once more with "Harry Potter" producer David Heyman to develop "Paddington Bear" based on the Michael Bond famous children book series.

In working on the project, Warner is said to draw inspiration from the whole series instead of adapting it from any specific book with intention to make it as a live-action flick presenting a CGI bear in the manner of "Stuart Little" series. Hamish McColl has been hired to pen the script while Heyman is producing via his London-based Heyday Films.

A vegetarian herself, Alicia Silverstone has no single doubt to show her skin in a television ad promoting vegetarianism for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

The beautiful sexy actress appears nude in a 30-second PETA commercial, directed by music video auteur Dave Meyers, which will air about two dozen times on Wednesday September 19th in Houston, which according to E! ranked the nation's sixth-fattiest city by Men's Fitness this year, and Dallas on the Food Network, Lifetime and E!.

Nationwide Mercury Prize winner this year, Klaxons, will head to a worldwide tour starting September 23 in Boston, M.A. The jaunt will also take them to Australia in mid October and some European cities such as Paris, Munich and London in November throughout December.

In between the tour, the psychedelic pop band is expected to slip in a date to attend Q Awards which they are nominated in. The British award event put Klaxons alongside The Enemy, Cherry Ghost, The Pigeon Detectives and The View to compete against each other for Best New Act. Click here to vote for them and view other nominees. Q Awards will be held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on October 8.

Yes, Joel Madden is going to marry his baby's momma Nicole Richie and he discussed their future marriage on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show on Tuesday September 18th.

"Obviously, marriage is in our future," the rocker told Seacrest. "I don't know when or where or how, but right now our priority is our family and is the baby. That's all we've been thinking about. We are in love and are really happy."

Director Lexi Alexander has informed through her official site that three more actors have been picked up to join male lead Ray Stevenson in "Punisher: War Zone", which is slated to begin filming next month in Montreal, Canada.

Saying she has the best cast on the planet, the German filmmaker mentioned the names to be Dash Mihok, Colin Salmon, and Doug Hutchinson. Mihok is learned to play Detective Martin Soap while Salmon and Hutchinson are billed as Agent Paul Budiansky and Loony Bin Jim, respectively.

Patti LaBelle does love "Good Life." The international superstar is teaming up with Skeleton Key Entertainment, the mainstream entertainment division of Mega Media Group, Inc. to help launched her "Patti LaBelle - Good Life" brand and introduced a product line that includes premium pepper products, her third cookbook and an instructional cooking DVD.

The first food product to be released under the "Patti LaBelle - Good Life" brand is a custom blended line of hot sauces and relishes that will be introduced later this year throughout major retail food outlets nationwide. The line reportedly includes five major products; LaBelle No. 1 -- Diced Fine Jalapenos; LaBelle No. 2 -- Sweet Hot Jalapeno Relish; LaBelle No. 3 -- Rich Red Blended Cayenne & Habanero Pepper Sauce; LaBelle No. 4 -- Hot Flash Blended Habanero & Jalapeno Sauce; and LaBelle No. 5 -- Pepper Clear Mild Pepper Sauce.

Once more, the moviegoers' patience are being tested.

Walt Disney Pictures and Universal Pictures have both came to decisions to push back the release date of their anticipated features of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Wolfman", respectively.

P. Diddy acts smart this time by agreeing to the term suggested by advertising executives to have the video ads for his "Unforgivable" fragrance edited so that it can be viewed on TV.

The rap mogul has agreed to edit the 30- and 60-second versions of the ad, which MTV claimed as too hot for their viewers. A spokeswoman for MTV told E! Online, "He did make cuts to it, and he didn't have any issues with them." And hence the much-talked clips will begin running on the network Tuesday September 18th.

Amid the indication made earlier by her best friend, fellow actress Rose Byrne, Abbie Cornish has firmly debunked persistent speculations that she is up for a Bond girl role in the upcoming "Bond 22."

"I haven't had any meetings or any conversations about it, no," so the Australian beauty stated upon being asked about the rumors by MTV. "Sorry, mate."

It appears that the long-going custody battle of Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline over sons Sean Preston and Jayden James won't come to an end anytime soon. The judge in the legal battle has ordered the singer to undergo drug testing upon finding "a habitual, frequent, and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol" by the star.

Los Angeles Superior Court judge Scott Gordon has on Monday September 17th issued court documents ordered Spears "to undergo testing for the use of controlled substances and alcohol," which will be conducted twice a week on random dates and times.

Vanessa Hudgens is all over the news, again, for yet another scandal. The "High School Musical" star is being sued by her former lawyer for unpaid fees, said to reach a total amount of $150,000.

The lawsuit, filed by Brian L. Schall in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday September 17th, alleged a breach of contract and unjust enrichment by the 18-year-old actress. In the suit, Brain claimed he and Hudgens agreed into a written contract for legal services back in October 2005. Brian, furthermore, stated that he advanced costs and expenses on Hudgens' behalf for her songwriting and recording career.