December 07, 2007

A restricted trailer for New Line Cinema's upcoming "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" has made its way to circulate on the net by now, obviously presenting content that only those above 18 years old are allowed to see.

Not only shows profanity from all different directions, the trailer also relentlessly features everything from nudity to stereotypes on practically every single race and religion.

Updating the December 6, 2007 news on the Wachowskis' "Speed Racer", the first trailer for the movie has finally hit the net, just one day after its debut on "Entertainment Tonight."

Footage mostly presents racing shots which are depicted in colorful background, arguably revealing the green-screen works behind, something that other filmmakers rarely do. Moreover, the shots featured really point out the "retro future" look that producer Joel Silver previously discussed.

Although his album, 'Trilla' is bumped from December to February next year, Rick Ross premiered the music video of its first single on BET. The rapper, with Gil Green (DJ Khaled's 'We Takin' Over') as the director, shot the clip for 'Speedin'' that features vocal guest from R. Kelly.

'Trilla' is a reference to the album by Michael Jackson, 'Thriller' because Ross wants his album to be as "intense" as the 1982 album. Other collaborators in the album are Jay-Z, Trick Daddy, Akon, T-Pain and Lil Wayne. It will be dropped on February 19 via Slip-N-Slide Records.

It appears that Teri Hatcher's current court battle just got a little less complicated as an LA judge sided her on the not-so-famous lip-plumping case.

US cosmetics company Hydroderm sued the "Desperate Housewives" star for breach of contract, alleged that she has promoted a rival brand's lip gloss. In the lawsuit the company filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on December 4, it is mentioned that Hatcher signed a contract with Hydroderm back in November 2005 to promote their cosmetic and anti-aging products under certain conditions that she would not use "among other things, her name, voice, autograph, image or likeness to, among other things, promote, endorse, market or adverstise skin care products manufactured or marketed by Hydroderm's competitors."

Merging live-action shots with CGI animation, the 20th Century Fox's "Alvin and the Chipmunks" has to take its leave from the road to become final contenders of Oscar's 2008 Best Animated Feature.

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has come up to a conclusion to drop the movie from the lineup of animated titles considered to be the nominees in the category. Pic is said to not qualified for the rule which states "animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture's running time."

Words are circulating that Jay-Z is going to be dismissed from Def Jam before he walks away voluntarily. Bosses at the label reportedly are sick of the rapper's huge demands and are therefore glad to pull him from the position as the CEO.

Island Def Jam executives L.A. Reid and Doug Morris allegedly called Jay-Z's demand "excessive". A source told The Daily News, "He wanted big, big money that was way out of sync with the realities of today's record business. People have lost count of how many times he's come out of retirement. Everybody knows he's not around the office much. Everybody at Universal loves him, but they can't justify paying him the money he wants when so many people have been laid off."

Those who long to see Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte back together now are able to take a peek inside the anticipated "Sex and the City", the big screen version of the HBO popular series.

New Line Cinema and HBO Films have just released a teaser trailer for the project on the net, giving a brief glimpse on the flick for about thirty-five seconds. Check out the piece at AceShowbiz's Sex and the City Trailer page, or simply view it down below.

50 Cent is caught in the middle of cocaine scandal after he's been captured on Croatian national TV allegedly snorting cocaine backstage at a concert in Zagreb, Croatia.

Croatia Radio Television reporter Ante Batinovic was supposed to wait outside the rapper's dressing room for an interview, but it appeared that he misunderstood a request to stay where he was and walked into a backstage area during a local channel's live news show during which he accidentally found Fiddy and two members of his posse, as claimed by Croatian news, snorting lines of cocaine off a table.

Proving the directing knack actor Richard Roxburgh turns out to possess within, drama flick "Romulus, My Father" triumphantly landed the top prize of best picture at this year's Australian Film Institute Awards, the Australian equivalent to the American Academy Awards.

During the ceremony held Thursday, December 6 at Melbourne Exhibition Centre, the memoir-based feature also led its three stars Eric Bana, Marton Csokas, and Kodi Smit-McPhee to collect other prestigious honors. Bana, who also took home News Limited Readers' Choice Award, was bestowed that of Best Lead Actor while Csokas and Smit-McPhee nabbing Best Supporting Actor title and Young Actor Award, respectively.

Notwithstanding with her being labeled as skinny, Angelina Jolie has been chosen the 1st in a poll conducted by Empire Magazine on 100 Sexiest Movie Stars. Seizing the top spot on the list her sexiest moment, according to Empire, was "beating the hell out of Brad Pitt in 'Mr and Mrs Smith' and then banging the hell out of him by way of apology."

Jolie is said by Empire "to have been precision built to turn cinema audiences into drooling wrecks. The pneumatic figure, the feline eyes, the lips that could have been stung by several hives of bees. Simply unimprovable."

A nationwide comedy tour will be held as a part of "Semi-Pro" movie promotion. The tour, which is sponsored by FunnyorDie.com, will feature the rising stand-up comics, Zach Galifianakis, Demetri Martin, and Nick Swardson, alongside Will Ferrell, the star of the comedy movie.

The seven-college arena tour will be started on February 4, 2008 in Manhattan and closed on February 22, 2008 in North Carolina. Regarding the tour, Ferrell revealed that he believes that it will change lives. He stated, "Not only will this tour make people laugh, but it's going to change lives...I think."

Wyclef Jean has announced a tour schedule that will take him across the U.S. to support his latest release, 'The Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant' that was dropped on Tuesday, December 4.

The 20-dates tour will start January 14 in Providence, R.I., and runs through the mid February, including bills at House of Blues in San Diego, Anaheim and West Hollywood. Find out the complete tour dates on his MySpace page.

Just few weeks after releasing the video of 'What Hurts the Most', Cascada released a seasonal clip of track 'Last Christmas'. The Eurodance act has turned the popular holiday song to an upbeat piece.

The video was posted on their official YouTube account. The track meanwhile, will not appear on their new album 'Perfect Day' which was released in U.K. on Monday, December 3. The second studio album from the group features some cover songs such as Pink's 'Just Like a Pill' and Avril Lavigne's 'Sk8ter Boy'.

Having all from sky-rocketing career, wealth to good-looking boyfriend, Hilary Duff isn't ready to marry. Not for now at least. Graced the cover of Cosmopolitan's January 2008 issue, the actress-singer reveals on the reason why while at the same time also discusses her body image.

Has been dating hockey player Mike Comrie since splitting from former boyfriend Joel Madden, Duff tells Cosmo she's "definitely not ready to get married." "I think a reason that people in this business get married young is that they feel like everything comes to them sooner in life. It's normal to be like 'Okay, what's next?" she said.

Jamaican R'n'B singer Sean Kingston out of spite released a music video for 'Gotta Move Faster', a track that was exclusively showcased on his official site.

The scenes in the clip mostly portray the schedule of the singer in a day, including recording in the studio, record label meeting and video-shooting.

Lions Gate Film has release the first picture of their new action movie, "Punisher: War Zone". The picture given depicted the movie hero, Frank Castle, who is a former FBI agent that pursued the underworld criminal to avenge the death of his family.

The "Punisher: War Zone", as stated by the helmer, Lexi Alexander in the recently-held interview, is "a complete different re-boot" from the two previous Punisher's movies. It is portrayed from a different take and is concentrated to be pictured as close to the original Marvel comic book series.

It appears that Eva Mendes knows best how to make use her asset for good deed, that is by joining a list of celebrities, including Alicia Silverstone, Christina Applegate and Pamela Anderson, who have all gone nude for (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) PETA, baring her flesh for the new PETA's Anti-Fur ad.

Goes completely naked for the animal rights group, Eva is shown in the ad strategically covered her chest by her arms and hands, with her bare buttocks are shown in full view.

Madonna has opened her studio work mystery by unveiling the title of the album. The pop diva who has penned Pharrell Williams to be a major collaborator in the project is naming the 11th studio album 'Licorice'.

It is now scheduled to hit the shelves in April 2008 with two leaked songs 'Candy Shop' and 'The Beat Goes On' expected to be in the tracklist. Words are also high that there will be a new version of 'The Devil Wouldn't Recognize You', an unreleased song that was written with songwriter Patrick Leonard for a shelved musical plus a Kanye West -featuring version of 'The Beat Goes On'.

6th cycle American Idol runner up, Blake Lewis, has released the music video for 'Break Anotha', a track taken from his debut album 'Audio Day Dream'. The clip was directed by Sanji who penned Macy Gray's 'I Try' and The Roots' 'Star'.

'Break Anotha' is the official first single from the album, although he had scored a chart position with his rendition of Bon Jovi's 'You Give Love a Bad Name'. The song was produced by Ryan Tedder who is known to be the frontman of band OneRepublic.

Is reaching her 40s, Pamela Anderson might feel proud that she's still considered sexy. The former "Baywatch" hottie has been voted TV's Sexiest Woman Ever in a poll compiled by Internet service provider AOL.

Topped the list on the No. 1 spot, the website's editors praised Pammy as "A completely knock-out blonde who wears a bathing suit and bounces around as she saves lives - Pamela Anderson took bodacious to a new level."

Samuel Goldwyn Films as the company distributing Guy Ritchie-directed "Revolver" has delightfully brought online not only one but eight clips from the thriller drama in the anticipation for the flick to hit selected U.S. theaters this Friday, December 7, 2007.

The third full-length feature directorial work of Ritchie, the movie boasts starry cast consisting of Jason Statham as Jake Green, Ray Liotta as Dorothy Macha, and Andre Benjamin of OutKast as Avi. Story concerns a revenge-seeking confidence trickster whose weapon is a universal formula that guarantees victory to its user, when applied to any game or confidence trick.

While some other celebs stick to 'less is more,' Carrie Underwood prefers to go glam for Glamour Magazine. The "American Idol" title holder invades the magazine's December issue, talks about everything from career, fashion, diet to dating.

Kicked off the chat, talking about her second studio album "Carnival Ride," released in the United States on October 23, the country cutie told Glamour "It's part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago. [What's happened since then] has completely been blind luck, or fate, or whatever you want to call it."

Michelle Williams is an inch closer to join the cast of "Shutter Island". The "Dawson's Creek" star is said to be in final talk with Paramount Pictures to star as the haunting dead wife of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in the mystery drama movie. If she nails the deal, she will play alongside Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley and will be directed by Martin Scorsese.

The movie, which is scheduled to start production in March, tells a story about two U.S. marshals who come across a series of catastrophe as they investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. It is adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Dennis Lehane's novel and will be produced by Phoenix Pictures, Scorsese's Sikelia Prods. and DiCaprio's Appian Way. Additionally, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and Scorsese will be the producers, while Kalogridis, Lehane and Louis Phillips serve as the executive producers.

Highly awaited nominations of 50th Grammy Awards are unearthed with Kanye West leading the pack at eight nods followed by Amy Winehouse at a whooping six and Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Timbaland and T-Pain at five each.

The big nominee, West, is competing for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album for 'Graduation', Best Rap Solo Performance for 'Stronger', Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group both for his collaboration with Common in 'Southside' and his work with Nas and KRS-One in 'Better Than I've Ever Been', Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for 'Good Life' feat. T-Pain and Best Rap Song for both ' Can't Tell Me Nothing' and 'Good Life'.

Keira Knightley is just too hot to handle on the cover of Interview Magazine's December 2007/January 2008 issue. Has gone topless for the publication, the movie beauty offers a hard-to-miss interview as well.

Talking about how she ended up topless for Interview, Keira claimed she herself doesn't even know "How does that always happen?" adding "I don't know. Because I say yes, I suppose."