October 24, 2007

Imagine Mike Myers in long brown hair with curly mustache and long beard, and that's what you get in the very first picture from his upcoming vehicle "The Love Guru."

Brought by USA Today, the photo, as seen on the left, also captures Myers' beautiful co-star Jessica Alba in, who flashed her white teeth while looking lovely in yellow dress. In the comedy, the latter is portraying the owner of a hockey team and the love interest of Myers' Pitka.

Opted to ditch Wonder Woman role in "Justice League of America", Jessica Biel turned out to go for a more humane part in her next move. According to Variety, the actress is now poised to topline a crime thriller titled "Die a Little" which United Artists is developing.

Pic is an adaptation of Megan Abbott's novel of the same name that explores how the lives of a schoolteacher and her LAPD detective brother are turned upside down by a mysterious woman. Unlike the original material, however, it will be set in the present day instead of the 1954 Los Angeles set depicted in the book.

It surely is bizarre, and sad of course. While the other females are competing to be included on the list of such poll, as the most beautiful and sexiest among others, the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Winehouse, and Madonna have been chosen the World's Unsexiest Women.

The poll, which is conducted by men's magazine Maxim, has named Parker as the No. 1 Unsexiest Woman Alive, claiming her as the "least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women" that ironically starred in a show with the word "sex" in the title.

Once again celebrating the achievement in independently funded British movies, organizers of the British Independent Film Awards have smoothly rolled down the list of eligible titles and names to vie for the honors in the event's tenth anniversary.

Leading the pack is biographical feature "Control" as it remarkably took ten nods in total, most notably that of Best British Independent Film. To win the prize, pic, however, faces tough competition from the likes of "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", "Notes on a Scandal", "Hallam Foe", and "Eastern Promises."

50 Cent has begun his next move by pulling out 'I'll Still Kill' as the fifth single from his 'Curtis' album. The single has been made its music video and will be changed to 'I Still Will' for TV purposes although he was rather sensitive about changing the content of the song.

"The concept of the song was saying, 'I don't want to (kill), but I will if I have to,' That would be justifiable, wouldn't it?", 50 spoke to MTV on the most "ambitious" track in the album.

Imprisoned rapper T.I. graced the cover of Complex magazine for its November 2007 issue, inside of which he discusses such matters, as nowadays hip hop, Ludacris's manager Chaka Zulu with whom he had an altercation, and on how the street has changed.

Being asked on how can he say he doesn't fit in nowadays rap, T.I. explained "When I saw Tupac talking that "Thug Life" shit, getting locked up for shooting police, and getting shot and living, that's when I was like, Damn, them niggas is really about that shit. Now you're just let down. This ain't this guy that he was on this record. And nobody seems to have a problem with it. It's a lot of fake shit in it. I like to consider myself an intelligent person, and this shit is not something of intelligence anymore. It's getting real young and stupid, and that ain't me."

Beyonce Knowles has been forced to cancel her concert in Turkey, Istanbul due to a rebel attack in the country that resulted in 12 deaths. Turkey's Sukru Saracoglu Arena was supposed to be Beyonce's latest stop in the Middle-East region before beginning the Asia leg.

Fenerbahce, the soccer club representing the concert in line with their 100th anniversary, felt that it's inappropriate to conduct the performance while the nation was grieving. As many as 12 soldiers were killed in a Kurdish rebel attack on Sunday (October 21).

The writing trend goes stronger. Has already written several books, Steve Martin is now invading the child's world, writing his own children's book.

The actor and comedian has teamed up with cartoonist Roz Chast on the book, titled "The Alphabet From A To Y With Bonus Letter Z!" thus making him the next celebrity that becomes author of children's book.

Never miss to give an update to his official blog for his current project "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor", director Rob Cohen has delightfully posted another production still from the project, this time featuring the first look of martial arts expert Jet Li.

As seen on the above left, the photo shows the back image of Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell as he is about to take a kick from a gravity-defying Li, who plays a despotic Emperor in 50 B.C. whose evil is punished by a terrible curse. Li, according to Cohen, just shot his scene of riding a black stallion into battle in a jade armor on Monday, October 22, 2007.

Following the full album leak in recent week, Jive Records and MTV Networks' Music & Logo Group have decided to stream Britney Spears' 'Blackout' exclusively via The Leak on MTV.com, VH1.com and LOGOonline.com.

The streaming has begun since Tuesday, October 23, a week earlier than the album's release date. Many features of the album will then be promoted on MTV, MTV Hits, LOGO, VH1 and MTV Tr3s in the coming weeks.

Why many of our beloved celebrities do that? They first deny certain rumors only to, at the end of the day, confirm that the rumors are true. Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are one fine example. Despite their repeatedly denial, the pair has finally gone public with their much-talked romance.

And there are, according to Us Weekly, photos to prove it. The site is reporting that new photos have surfaced of Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal, dressed in matching black T-shirts and jeans, strolling hand-in-hand and kissing at Los Angeles International Airport Monday October 22nd.

Hard rock band Buckcherry wants their fans to create a video for their latest single 'Sorry'. At the end of the contest the first winner will earn as much as $4,000 for his or her winning video.

Unlike many complicated competitions, this one only requires the contestants to tape their video and wait how many people favor theirs. The video with the most hit by November 30 will be crowned the winner.

What a huge treat moviegoers are given this time. Not only they can catch an international trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming "I Am Legend", but also a second domestic trailer for the action horror as well by now.

The international version, previously leaked at Worstpreviews.com, is posted on HD format at Media.kino-govno.com while the domestic one is available on the flick Iamlegend.warnerbros.com/myspace. Both open with the Brooklyn Bridge evacuation scene, these two can also be accessed via I Am Legend Trailer section at AceShowbiz.

Not only will Justin Timberlake release the deluxe edition of his multi-selling album 'FutureSex/LoveSounds', he also offers a double DVD chronicling his Madison Square Garden concert that was held during and after August 2007. The bonus are, song by song commentary by Justin plus behind the scenes and a set of lengthy interviews.

This package will accompany the deluxe CD that contains 'Until the End of Time' duet with Beyonce Knowles. This song appeared on the standard version and bounced to Top 40 after the Beyonce-featuring version was launched on radio outlets. The single will be dropped on November 13.

Gretchen Mol has become a mother.

The actress, who's known for her role as Jo in "Rounders" (1998), and her film director husband Tod Williams are parents of a son, her representative confirmed to People.

Beside the already thrilling reunion announcement, Led Zeppelin is also conducting a contest/sweepstakes for fans who will stand a chance to win the band's complete catalog and a Gibson guitar.

The band's management tied a deal with YouTube that will provide contestants a media to deliver their submission. Those in favor of the grand prize can enter their video, telling what Led Zeppelin means to them. Creativity is left open to the contestants who must abide by the given rules that can be found here.

Just day after report on Bar Refaeli was spotted together with surfing world champion Kelly Slater made its way on the many gossip sites, now comes a confirmation that the supermodel and her actor boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio have split up.

A source close to the couple confirmed the persistent speculation on their break up, telling People that their "relationship ran its course." The source furthermore clarifying, "It's bad enough having a cross-country relationship, but it's obviously a lot more difficult trying to maintain a relationship across oceans, and across continents, when both of them are very busy. They ended on great terms. He's a great guy, and she's very sweet. These things happen. They had fun."

Lionsgate Films apparently is wasting no time in promoting the fourth installment of the iconic Vietnam War veteran series. Recently unleashed the first poster for the flick, now the studio already brings something new for fans to watch. Yes, it's the second trailer of "Rambo"!

Available now at YouTube as seen below, the trailer runs about two and a half minutes and still boasts some explosive scenes here and there though is less gory than the first one. Footage is presented in a time-line fashion, showing us the titular character's early refusal to help before finally going back in action to rescue the kidnapped missionaries.

The full version of Common's star-studded video clip has finally arrived. The rapper premiered the clip of his latest single 'I Want You' worldwide yesterday (October 23).

As previously reported, Common invited his fellow celebrity friends such as Kanye West, Alicia Keys and Serena Williams to be in the video that is set as a party scene in his house. As credited in the end of the video, this clip was directed by Kerry Washington, who also made a cameo in it, and Sanji Senaka.

Has been immortalized on songs and movies, the late Notorious B.I.G. is now immortalized in a wax sculpture which will be unveiled at Madame Tussauds New York this week.

The unveiling of the sculpture will take place at 11a.m. Thursday October 25th at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Manhattan. The slain rap icon's mother, Voletta Wallace, will be the one in hand to unveil the star's life like figure.

Seems the recent scoop saying "The Dark Knight" will have its prologue shown during the IMAX screenings of "I Am Legend" is legit. Only that the preview will run about five minutes rather than seven minutes as said before, German website Kino.de has revealed.

In its article translated by Batmovienews.com, Kino.de further informed that the footage would tell us how the Joker becomes the most-dreaded gangster in Gotham. Director Christopher Nolan was noted to remark that it is more like "The Rise of the Joker" than "Joker Begins" as he did not tell how the supervillain turns to be what he is.

It appears that war of words will soon begin between Jermaine Dupri and Justin Timberlake. The music producer and sometime solo artist has taken a shot at the pop singer in his new autobiography, entitled "Young, Rich and Dangerous," for not supporting Janet Jackson after her "wardrobe malfunction" during the 2004 Superbowl.

Goes off to blast JT for his lack of star power, Dupri writes "I think Justin Timberlake is a talented performer. But he's very ordinary-looking. He could be any skinny white kid from the suburbs of Orlando. You could go to the mall and find another Justin. He doesn't make his style interesting, even when he's on-stage. To me, he just doesn't look like a star."

Has been the media darling in the US, Joel Madden loves Australia anyway. The singer reportedly has been looking for an apartment on the Gold Coast so he and fiancee Nicole Richie could spend three months every year on the country.

Admits to have loved the lifestyle in the nation, the Good Charlotte frontmant told The Gold Coast Bulletin that he wanted to split his time between the US and Australia.

Nicole Kidman goes brunette for Interview. The Aussie actress goes brunette for the cover of the magazine's November 2007 issue, which sees her poses alongside lookalike sister, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.

In the interview session, Kidman reveals her feeling about her marriage to country singer Keith Urban, saying she never tells interviewers that she's happy, even when it comes to her marriage, because she never knows what tomorrow will bring.

The old-time rumors on Pink's marriage on rocks is all over the net again. According to the New York Daily News the singer and her motocross racer husband Carey Hart are heading for divorce.

Pink is reported to have initially agreed to an open marriage, but is now having second thoughts. Allegedly agreed that Carey could "play away from home" while she is on tour, the star has changed her mind as she wants to start a family now that her biological clock has started ticking.