December 03, 2007

Ron Perlman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone, Taryn Manning, Henry Rollins, and Valerie Cruz are about to star together in a new action thriller feature set to be produced by former Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg, "Untitled Gehenna Project."

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Gooding and Manning will join the likes of Jason London, Franky G, Zack Ward, Stephanie Jacobson, and Brandon Fobbs to play members of an elite group of soldiers who got sent on a covert mission to retrieve a missing scientist, portrayed by Perlman, from an underground lab.

Movies Rock, the harmonious clash of music and classic movies happened on Sunday, December 2. Carrie Underwood, highlighted the event by delivering a rendition of Julie Andrews' 'The Sound of Music', her mom's favorite.

The event held at Kodak Theater was a gathering of movie icons such as Alicia Silverstone, Eddie Murphy and Molly Sims with notable musicians like Tony Bennett, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce Knowles.

A producing name behind the recently-released "Halloween" is on the move to develop his next horror thriller feature. Report brought by Variety informs that Malek Akkad has optioned rights to make "Hurt" via his Trancas Intl. Films.

Story centers on a group of estranged best friends who are reunited after another commits suicide. The gathering unexpectedly ends up becoming a bloodbath because meeting was set up as retribution.

Noticed for his well-built physique, David Beckham is said to get touted for a cameo appearance in 20th Century Fox period epic "Australia."

The famous soccer athlete is reported by U.K.'s the Daily Star to catch the eye of star Nicole Kidman, who thinks he would be ideal to play to play a hunky builder. The actress has even recommended him to the project's director, Baz Luhrmann.

Has given birth to her first child ever early last month, it was not until Sunday December 2nd that Milla Jovovich made public the first official photo of her newborn baby girl. In a post on her official Website, she also explained on why she and her film director fiance Paul W. S. Anderson named her Ever Gabo Anderson.

"The name Ever is a Scottish boy's name, Paul has Scottish blood in him (not to mention two tartans in his family!) so we wanted to give her a name that reflected her "celtic" roots, while her middle name Gabo - pronounced "Gabeau" - is a mixture of my parents names! The first two letters are after my mom's first name, Galina and the last two letters are after my dad's first name Bogie!"

The spell Walt Disney Pictures' "Enchanted" has cast apparently still works great as it continues to draw most of moviegoers' attention in its second spin on the domestic box office.

On the weekend running November 30-December 2, 2007, the princess flick gloriously remained at the top spot of the chart after scoring a hefty $16.4 million in ticket sales. Total gross it has garnered now is reported to be $70 million.

'Girl Power' was omnipresent in the first concert of Spice Girls' reunion scheme. The band kicked off the world tour in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday, December 2, with 20,000 people in the audience seat.

The opening song was the upbeat and highly-energetic 'Spice Up Your Life' that was followed by a greeting from 'Sporty Spice' Melanie C. "How ya' doing?" she shouted to the audience who roared in return. Among the crowd were Victoria 'Posh Spice' Adams' husband David Beckham and Canadian singer Avril Lavigne.

A batch of promotional photos for "The Dark Knight" has appeared on the net, courtesy of a Spanish-language site named Uruloki.org.

Five of the pictures feature the images of the new Joker, played by Heath Ledger, while the other one presents that of the titular character himself, portrayed by Christian Bale, with white background. As explained by Uruloki, all images will be used on the future packages of merchandises from the film.

Whitney Houston made it through her comeback performance in Malaysia on Saturday, December 1. The diva who was deemed the highlight of the country's Live & Loud festival appeared after midnight singing her past hits and cheered by the crowds.

Shortly after midnight she appeared on-stage in white suit and sang the energetic 'If I Told You That' before going on with her popular hits like 'Saving All My Love' and 'I Will Always Love You'. Completing an hour of her set, reports said that she introduced her daughter and sang 'My Love is Your Love' with her.

While some other celebrities shot back at any reports that said they were gay or lesbian, Tila Tequila is an exception. The beauty, best known for her MTV show "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila," on the other hand feels annoyed that someone is calling her straight. She has, in response to Page Six's article that claims she is a "closet straight," written a blog on her Website, saying the accusations are absurd and made up.

A source close to "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" show told the New York Post's Page Six gossip column "Tila has and has had a boyfriend for over a year, and she's not really bi. She's made out with some girls in her past, as all girls have, but she is not bi at all" The insider claimed that MTV worked hard to pretend she's single and available because she refused to break up with her boyfriend "who's like five years older than her. This is a massive scam. That's why they are not continuing with the show, because she won't dump him."

Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, and KT Tunstall are on the bill to perform at Nobel Peace Prize concert next week. They will be joined by Earth, Wind & Fire, Melissa Etheridge, Juanes, Annie Lennox and many other musicians to highlight the December 11 event.

For the concert, the acts have to fly to Oslo, Norway where the prizes will be handed out to this year's winner. Awarded the prestigious Nobel prizes this year is former U.S. vice-president Al Gore who penned an Oscar-winning documentary titled 'An Inconvenient Truth' to increase awareness on global warming.

Within the next two months from now, moviegoers will probably have several big things coming on their way. According to ComingSoon.net, trailers for "The Dark Knight", "Star Trek", and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" are all about to grace the theaters around the States during the period.

Regarding "Knight", the site claims that Warner Bros. Pictures will also launch a teaser trailer for "Knight" in front of "I Am Legend" debut in standard theaters on December 14, 2007. A seven-minute preview for the superhero flick previously was reported to come up before the screenings of "Legend" in IMAX.

To some people, it's not a secret that Anthony Hopkins holds a secret passion to music, but it becomes new when he unveils a plan to embark on a major world tour to showcase his talent in piano playing.

The prominent actor is mapping out a plan to tour around the world in a series of concerts that will kick off in Melbourne, Australia. He will play his own compositions and accompanied by an orchestra with stories on his career anecdotes narrated over the music.

With all she's been doing plus her acting career flop, Lindsay Lohan has been considered dumb by The New York Daily News. Considering low IQ doesn't necessarily represent the word "dumb," the news media instead attaches poor life choices, style slip-ups and mishaps to the adjective. Taking into account Lindsay's poor movie choices, with her latest film "I Know Who Killed Me" as a reference, her delinquent behavior and bad taste in men, the star is the 1st among the "Top 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood."

Second on the list is Kim Kardashian. The socialite who's famous for nothing makes the list because she had a sex tape with former boyfriend Ray J leaked but still nobody cares about her. Next is Spencer Pratt, star of MTV's "The Hills" who, according to NY Daily News, thinks his life on the project is real.

Impressed the 1,800 members of the European Academy, Helen Mirren took another laurel in her acting career Saturday, December 1, 2007 as the organization deemed her the European Actress 2007 at the 20th annual European Film Awards held in Berlin, Germany.

The British thespian won for her lauded performance in last year's "The Queen" which has garnered her numerous acting prizes, particularly Oscar's best actress title back in February. The royal family drama, in the meantime, also won Alexandre Desplat the European Composer 2007 honor at the ceremony.

Garth Brooks' good favor was returned by fans who snapped his tickets in light speed, his official site revealed. The country singer is holding a charity concert for wildfires victims and when the tickets were sold on Saturday, December 1, it was sold out in an hour.

Revenues from the 85,677 sold tickets which cost $45 apiece will aid Californian wildfires relief campaign that includes funding fire departments in the state and future fire prevention programs. The concert will take place at Los Angeles' Staples Center on January 26, 2008.

When it comes to acting skills, needless to say that Hollywood has many experts in the one particular field. But when it comes to "power," who actually is in charge? Digging deep into the issue, Entertainment Weekly has conducted a search of the people who are rocking the industry's world this year, "the people with ideas - innovative, creative, dangerous, renegade ideas - who are changing the way movies are made." The data, which took three months of constant research, are concluded in its list of 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.

Rounding out the Top 10 of the list are people from different areas of business, ranging from director/writer/producer to actor. Seized the top spot is Judd Apatow, followed close behind by Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, who both ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.

According to Billboard chart beat column, Rihanna will release 'Breakin' Dishes' as the fifth single from her 'Good Girl Gone Bad' album. Other reports also said that music video shoot has even been prepared with Chris Applebaum on the director's seat.

Although the reported release date of its single is still on January 15, 2008, 'Breakin' Dishes' has gained privilege from digital download, gaining itself a peak at #40 on Billboard Hot Dance Club Play. Should the song goes to #1 then it would be Rihanna's eighth single to reach such point.

Heavy speculations on Christian Bale in line for leading role in "Terminator Salvation" turn out to indeed ring true. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the Batman actor is currently in negotiations to play John Connor, the leader of the human resistance against Skynet.

Should Bale lands the deal, he will portray Connor in his thirties, who is organizing the surviving humans to fight against Skynet's army of robots. The character previously was played by Edward Furlong in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and Nick Stahl in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."

The music video for John Mayer's first commercial single has been released. The blues singer puts up a single titled 'Say' that is not included in any of his three studio albums.

'Say' is a score that was written for Rob Reiner's adventure flick, 'The Bucket List', starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Mayer described the song as an "assignment" which made him "don't know how much harder it gets than to see a beautiful, bittersweet movie and then have to write a song that matches the tone."