October 23, 2007

Movies of various genres and celebrated figures in Hollywood claimed their prizes yesterday, October 22, 2007 as Hollywood Film Festival organizers held the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Scoring the most was musical feature "Hairspray" for it saw star John Travolta take home the Hollywood Supporting Actor of the Year title with producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron accepting the Hollywood Producers of the Year Award. As part of the flick's cast, Travolta was also granted the Hollywood Ensemble Musical Comedy of the Year honor alongside other members like Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow, Amanda Bynes, and Nikki Blonsky.

The beautiful and positively radiant Jennifer Aniston takes over the cover of Harper's Bazaar November 2007 issue, celebrating the magazine's 140th year.

Opens up to the magazine about some of her personal issues, the actress among others talks about the possibility of singing and dancing in an upcoming project and what the public says about her to her advice to young starlets in the industry.

Arctic Monkeys' vocalist Alex Turner is going solo with the help from former Little Flames guitarist, Miles Kane. The unnamed project was taking place in Paris and is said to be complete.

James Ford, the producer, said, "It was amazing, really quick and we had fun, played ping-pong, ate cheese, and drank red wine."

Coming to its seventeenth anniversary in paying tribute to the innovative films and filmmakers, Independent Feature Project (IFP) came Monday morning (Oct 22) with the announcement of its 2007 Gotham Awards nominees, giving road movie "Into the Wild" and drama comedy "Margot at the Wedding" two nods each.

Both features delightfully land slot in Best Feature alongside the likes of Not "The Namesake", and "Great World of Sound", which leads the pack with three nominations, the other two being those of Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor for Kene Holliday. It is the latter category that "Wild" also scores in for Emile Hirsch, who will be up against Ellen Page of "Juno", Jess Weixler of "Teeth", and Luisa Williams of "Day Night Day Night" besides Holliday.

Petra Nemcova goes raunchy. The supermodel stripped down to just skimpy lingerie for a raunchy new ad campaign to promote lingerie company La Senza's new autumn/winter collection.

Enjoy some raunchy photos of her for the brand after the news.

Watch out Tyra Banks, two other supermodels are coming to your way, strutting their stuff on the supermodel's runway. Cable television network Bravo, owned by NBC Universal, announced Monday October 22nd the taping of Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford to host its upcoming new reality-competition series "Make Me a Supermodel."

Based on a British series of the same name and is produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, the series will see men and women compete for a chance to launch their modeling career and win $100,000. The 14 model wannabes will live in a New York City loft together and undergo challenges over a 12-week period in order to determine who gets to stay on the catwalk.

Chris Brown's new song has leaked. 'With You', which is expected to be the third single from 'Exclusive', was previously only in snippets but has now leaked in full version.

This could be the same song that has been made a video clip earlier this month. Brown was spotted taking shoots for the follow up of 'Kiss Kiss' with director Erik White in downtown L.A.

Better not missed this great chance, folks, especially those of you residing in Los Angeles and are craving to know more about "Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem." 20th Century Fox as the studio producing the flick will hold an exclusive presentation on the upcoming sci-fi thriller at this year's L.A. Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention!

Held on November 4, 2007 in Shrine Hall, the event will have directors Colin and Greg Strause appeared on stage at 1:00 P.M. to preview special clips as well as to discuss the making of the film and take questions from the audience. It is also expected that the brothers will afterwards stay to sign autographs with Fox providing special give-aways from the movie, so make sure you'll be there.

Good news comes in two for "The View" fans. The daytime talk show viewers are seeing two new faces joining in, they are Jessica Simpson and soap opera actress Kassie DePaiva.

Justjared.buzznet.com is reporting that Jess will be one of those guest hosts, tapped to co-host the morning talk show on dates 15th and 16th next month.

Despite the claims that she has pushed back the date of 'Growing Pains' to December, Mary J. Blige is keeping the album's original date. It will be dropped on November 27 as scheduled and preceded by the first single's music video premiere.

The video of 'Just Fine' that was directed by Chris Applebaum (Hanson, Britney Spears) will be released on Friday, October 26 via VH1. A sneak peek of the video has been put online and can be viewed below.

The time has finally come for political drama "Lions for Lambs" to be unveiled as it encountered its world premiere yesterday, Monday, October 22, 2007 as part of this year's London Film Festival, highlighted by the arrival of its star Tom Cruise on the red carpet.

The striking actor nicely spent over two hours prior to the screening to greet fans who had waited for him in the cold and wet weather, signing autographs and getting his pictures taken outside London's Odeon Leicester Square, where the premiere was held.

No words just yet that Mena Suvari has ended her romance with professional break-dancer boyfriend Mike "Murda" Carrasco, whom she began dating in 2005. But, the actress was spotted with a new man already.

Mena was snapped holding hands with Simone Sestito, an Italian-American dancer, while on vacation in Rome, Italy on Sunday October 21st. It appeared that the twosome quite enjoying each other companies.

Fans may have lost count at how many times Mya has pushed the release date of her album 'Liberation'. There's one more reason to wonder why she keeps delaying the album with the new date that is just announced in almost emergence.

'Liberation' that is slated to be dropped today (October 23) is put in the drawer again for a December 11 release. The album has actually been aimed for sale in 2005 with the start of production dating back in 2004. With the new schedule, she will go head to head with Ashanti's equally much-delayed album, 'The Declaration' and Bow Wow - Omarion joint project 'Face Off'.

Fresh claim has just emerged from entertainment Website mediatakeout.com that Vince Vaughn and Vanessa Williams are dating.

Citing one of its most trusted Hollywood snitches, the Web reported that the two stars have been spotted sneaking around Los Angeles together, "all in an attempt to avoid the paparazzi."

Menudo, the arguably most popular Puerto Rican boy band in the 70s and 80s, may not reuniting but a new generation is set up to take over the States or perhaps the world once again. Fresh batch of members are being searched through a reality show that will premiere on MTV.

'Making Menudo' will start the phenomenon once again when five boys are selected to be the new version of the band. 15 contestants will enter a bootcamp where they receive coaching from manager Johnny Wright (NSYNC, Janet Jackson) and David Coury (Backstreet Boys, Leona Lewis).

Early buzz on possible director for Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios' "Captain America" has begun to make sound on the net by now. A tidbit coming from CHUD.com is pointing out that "Alpha Dog" maker Nick Cassavetes may be up for the director's chair in the project.

The site appeared to have been sent an email from one of its readers saying that Cassavetes' mother Gena Rowland has indicated so on the ITV Network's show "This Morning." The actress was quoted to remark her son is "now instead thinking of doing CAPTAIN AMERICA."

Having a quite success singing career in the industry, Amy Winehouse has her nose on yet another business. The troubled singer is selling the so-called "Double Trouble Combo" product on her official merchandise store.

The product includes Amy's new live DVD, titled "I Told You I Was Trouble," 16 oz. pint glass and 3.5 inch ashtray, which both engraved with the songbird's name.

Just saw its star Emma Watson score a prize at the first UK Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" now is on the run to scoop up more trophies in. The fifth installment of the teen wizard film series has just been nominated for Best Feature Film at this year's BAFTA Children's Awards while also up for the Kids' Vote gong, the only public award in the ceremony.

For the event's top honor, the David Yates-directed fantasy is up against "Flushed Away", "Bridge to Terabithia", and "Happy Feet", which won Oscar's Best Animated Feature Film of the Year back in February. Challenge gets bigger in vying for most votes as it has to face a pack of other summer blockbusters like "Shrek the Third", "Transformers", and "Spider-Man 3", to name few.

With the first single and its accompanying video already set loose, Jay-Z is launching a tour to support 'American Gangster', his first concept album inspired by the a movie of the same title.

The schedule is currently set for 5 dates that will be held in Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia. The venues will be kept mid-size and intimate. The jaunt start November 6, the same day the album will be put in shelves.

Saw her second solo album "The Sweet Escape," which was released by Interscope Records in December 2006, gained a massive success, Gwen Stefani is now dividing her focus to her another business, the doll line.

The Multi-platinum recording artist and fashion icon is coming out with her "Sweet Escape" Fashion Doll line.

Marie Osmond fainted on-stage during ABC's live broadcast of "Dancing with the Stars" Monday October 22nd, but quickly recovered and apologized.

The actress and her dancing partner, dancer Jonathan Roberts, were the first performers of the evening. They had just finished a samba and were listening to comments from the show's judges when Osmond suddenly fell onto the floor, much to everyone's shock.

It's been quite sometime since their being on the same movie production, "Mr and Mrs Smith", that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie now eager to make their first joint producing effort, producing a new series for HBO.

The not-yet titled drama, according to hollywoodreporter.com, will explore the behind-the scenes politics of an international aid organization and chronicle the lives of humanitarian workers assigned to dangerous zones and the people in need they assist.

Estranged couple, Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson, is officially divorced.

The former husband-and-wife officially gained their single status again after they filed their signed divorce papers in a Los Angeles court on Monday October 22nd.