October 06, 2007

While announcing that their fourth studio album has been on the making, Taking Back Sunday also reveal that member Fred Mascherino is quitting the band. The guitarist left the group in early September to concentrate on a side project namely The Color Fred.

Frontman Adam Lazzara expressed his thoughts on the departure, "We are sad to see Fred go and we wish him well with his new project." Although there's still no plan of replacement, Lazzara maintains the current members' composure in preparation of the next album. "We're alive and well," he said. "We've started working on the new album and it feels really good."

The 3-D massively multiplayer online role-playing fantasy game is getting on the way to the big screen. Report brought by IGN Movies has delightfully revealed that Sony Pictures is collaborating with producer Avi Arad to make "EverQuest", which will mark the latter's most ambitious film project since his departure from Marvel Studios.

Pic is said to be eyed as a tentpole release for either 2009 or 2010 though IGN has learned that the studio had not yet set any release date for it. No words about plot details for now, but the flick is informed to be based on an original pitch by "300" scribe Michael Gordon and will feature some seminal characters from the original version.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a million dollar lady now that she's been tapped as the new face of high-end jewelery range Di MODOLO.

The prestigious jewelry house announced the actress as their company's new face, representing the new TEMPIA Timepiece Collection and Di MODOLO Haute Couture among others. The campaign featuring her will debut in the November 2007 issues of such top fashion and lifestyle publications, as W, Vogue, and In Style just to name a few.

Keyshia Cole releases her new music video in the same week her album 'Just Like You' crashed Billboard Hot 200 chart at #2. The clip of 'Shoulda Let You Go', the second single from the album, is also premiered while the first single 'Let It Go' is still hot on the charts.

Keyshia who sports baby pink bikini in the clip is accompanied by Amina, the singer who is featured in the song. The video is mainly showing beach scene that is taken in Miami by director Erik White.

Now that "Terminator Salvation" has been confirmed to be geared up for 2009 release, early talks have begun on the possible key talents involved in the project. Coming out as the candidates turn out to be McG and Vin Diesel, who are being speculated to be up for directing and starring in the flick, respectively.

Scoop from Cinematic Happenings Under Development (CHUD) has brought in a tidbit saying the former is engaged in talks to assume the helming task as the flick is intended to be set up as a pre-striker. Story is said to pick up beyond where "Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines" ended and center on John Connor who is organizing the surviving humans to fight against Skynet's army of robots.

Missy Higgins has begun hosting her first Borders In-Store performances starting from yesterday (October 5) in New York City, N.Y. The Australian singer added this book store gigs after selling out her mini U.S. tour.

The singer who is a huge commodity in Australia, is set to conquer U.S. once again with her second album 'On a Clear Night' that was released in Australia on April 28 this year. In U.S., the album has been released digitally on October 2 while its physical CD will be distributed exclusively via Borders in January 2008.

Since "Halo" was announced to be suspended last year, many sure have been waiting for any good news about the big screen adaptation of the popular game to get launched back into production. However, chance looks little to see it happen if looking from the statement made by one-time director Neill Blomkamp.

Talking about the movie to Creativity Online, Blomkamp, who made three short films for the recently-released "Halo 3", shockingly stated that the "film is entirely dead" and "whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration."

Prodigy heading for the jail. Well possibly. The rapper is facing 15 years in prison for gun possession charges stemmed from an October 2006 arrest at time of which the police who stopped him for making an illegal u-turn found a .22-caliber handgun in his SUV.

Prodigy and hip hop music producer The Alchemist were stopped by two cops at around 2 a.m. back on October 26th after they were seen "make a U-turn and begin heading the wrong way on Ninth Avenue at West 31st Street ," the New York Post wrote. Both officers testified in a Manhattan court Thursday October 4th they witnessed Prodigy placed his hand near or on the open console, where they allegedly found the fully loaded and unlicensed gun.

On Friday (October 5), Geri Halliwell has confirmed on behalf of her reformed band, Spice Girls, that a new single called 'Headlines' will be released a week after their 'Greatest Hits' album hit the stores. Halliwell described the song to GMTV as "big love song" and a "Spice Girls' classic".

Halliwell said, "Emma and I initially worked on it with the original writers we used to collaborate with and then the other girls chipped in later on, adding lyrics. It's a Spice Girl classic. We are so proud it."

Beyonce Knowles is once again caught in copyright infringement case. This time it's her #1 single 'Baby Boy' song that is put at the stake for similarity in lyrics.

Jennifer Armour, a singer-songwriter from Minnesota who has has accused Beyonce of using the words from her song 'Got a Little Bit of Love for You' once again revives the case in Lubbock, Texas. Armour's lawyer, Dana Kirk, claimed that there was no jury present when the case was first brought to court in 2005.

Over one month has passed since we last spotted the first theatrical trailer for "Hitman" surfacing on the net. Need not worry, though, as now you can grab something new from the thriller action on the net that turns out to be a TV spot for the movie.

Posted on iKlipz, the clip can also be reached via Hitman Trailer page at AceShowbiz. Content is still full of explosive shots along with gun-banging sequence.

Up for sale soon, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's nude pics.

In another Hollywood scandal, it has been reported by the National Enquirer that the actor has accidentally left his cell phone, which contains more than 30 pictures of him and wife Moore naked, in a cab while on vacation back in April.

Janet Jackson has her nose on a new business. The not-again celebrated singer is writing a book that chronicling her weight struggle.

Revealing on her new project, Janet told People during the Hollywood premiere of her new movie, the comedy-drama "Why Did I Get Married?", "I'm writing a book on my journey of weight loss and weight gain."

The premiere for Wes Anderson-directed "The Darjeeling Limited" in Los Angeles on Thursday night (Oct 4) felt distinctively different than other premieres it encountered before: it had star Owen Wilson in.

The actor's presence subsequently surprised the crowds attending the event for this was his first big public outing since the suicide attempt he conducted in August. Skipping the red carpet and entered the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater, where the screening was held, through a private entrance, the bearded funnyman took the stage in an eruption of applause after Anderson introduced him.

It's done. Lindsay Lohan has completed her rehab stint and moving ahead with her now-sober life.

The troubled actress checked out of the exclusive Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah on Friday afternoon October 5th.

Despite repeatedly denial from her camp, rumors keep swirling that Jennifer Lopez is pregnant. And to everyone's surprise, the multi talented star is reported to be making an announcement confirming her impending motherhood following a "wardrobe malfunction" at her concert in Connecticut that accidentally revealed her baby bump.

"A fan blew the side of her top all the way up for a moment, and a definitive baby bump was there. She was very quick to push down her top. Then she talked about how this year is full of firsts for her . . . and every so often her dress would fly up and you would see her belly," a witness at Lopez's concert at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut on Wednesday night October 3rd told Page Six.