December 27, 2007

New details on R.E.M.'s highly-anticipated fourteenth studio album have surfaced, including a release date and song titles. The not-yet-titled album which will be their first in three years following 2004's 'Around the Sun', will be dropped on April 1 worldwide and March 31 in Europe.

Eleven titles of the song have even been spilled via U.K.'s Virgin Radio website. Fans can also get a preview of the album by heading over to NinetyNights.com that will be launched on January 1, 2008 to see special video clips.

The trailer of Keira Knightley's upcoming drama, "The Duchess", has been released by Paramount Vantage. It gives first look for the film that is based on Amanda Foreman's biography and also gives out hint of the release date as it is stated, "Next fall...The Duchess is coming."

The film chronicled the scandalous life of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. She was an ancestor of Princess Diana, and was alternately celebrated as well as reviled for her extravagant political and personal lives.

A 'flatline' has been put on the official website of My Chemical Romance's alter ego band, The Black Parade, indicating that MCR members have put the side project to an end.

The Black Parade was a fictional group that MCR created to support the album under the same name that was released in October 26. TheBlackParade.com now puts a flatline graphic that is commonly used as medical term to indicate death and the phrase BPM 00.

"No Country for Old Men" once again scored big as it took home three prizes from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. On OFCC second annual awards, the movie critics' favorite film was announced to be the Best Film 2007 and at the same event, its directors, Ethan and Joel Coen, and one of its stars, Javier Bardem, each garnered kudos for Best Director(s) and Best Supporting Actor.

Apart from the accomplishment of "No Country" getting multiple awards, the drama comedy "Juno" and the drama mystery "Gone Baby Gone" both snagged two awards. While "Juno" brought double prizes for Ellen Page for Best Actress and Breakout Performance, "Gone Baby Gone" earned Ben Affleck Best First Feature prize and Amy Ryan Best Supporting Actress award.

The latest twist in Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy is that she's lying about her baby's daddy. Star Magazine insisted in its latest issue, on newsstands now, that the father of the actress' baby is not boyfriend Casey Aldridge and that her friends and family think it is an older man at her children's TV show "Zoey 101" who impregnated her.

Since an older man could be charged with statutory rape if revealed to be the father of an under-aged girl's baby, Casey thus "is being paid off to be the family's fall guy" because in Jamie Lynn's home state of Louisiana he would escape charges because a 16-years-old can legally have sex with someone less than two years older than her.

The year's most controversially -released album, 'In Rainbows' will be performed by Radiohead on a TV special and webcast on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Current TV and Current.com holds the right to broadcast it starting from December 31 at 12 A.M. ET.

According to Billboard.com, the rock band will showcase the album in its entirety in an hour-long set that had been pre-taped. It will then be repeated three more times until the New Year's Day, the same date 'In Rainbows' is physically released in U.S. via TBD Recordings/ATO. See below for schedule.

Having released the teaser and the restricted trailer for the sequel of "Harold & Kumar", New Line Cinema has given out the official trailer of "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay". With the release of the trailer, Haroldandkumar2.net stated that the sequel seems to be better than the first one.

In the film sequel, Harold and Kumar are going on a cross-country, pot-smoking adventure. This time, they have to outrun police as they are suspected to be terrorists after they try to smuggle a bong on-board their flight to Amsterdam.

Paris Hilton's billionaire grandfather Barron Hilton announced Wednesday, December 26 that he's donating 97% of his $2.3 billion fortune to his father's charity foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

Barron Hilton, 80, has had an infusion of cash from two recent private equity deals; the sale of Hilton Hotels Corp. to Blackstone for $26 billion or $47.50 a share back in July and the pending sale of the world's biggest casino company, Harrah's Entertainment Inc., to Apollo and Texas Pacific Group for $15 billion.

It was reported that Columbia Pictures is in talk with the helmer of "The Kingdom", Peter Berg. According to Variety, the studio is discussing about the possibility of Berg directing Tom Cruise's spy thriller, "Edwin A. Salt".

The studio is persuading Berg to join the project, firstly because they were impressed with his work "Hancock". Further, according to Cinematical.com, Berg is also needed since the movie had lost its two potential directors, Michael Mann, who chose to do "Public Enemies" instead, and Terry George.

Refusing to go mild this time, Hip-Hop duo Mobb Deep's one half member, Prodigy, announced on Christmas day that he will release his second solo set, 'H.N.I.C. 2' in multiple languages, to be specific, 1,400 of them.

The album, which will hit stores worldwide in March 2008 through Voxonic Music and AAO Music/Reality, will have the rapper's voice converted to many foreign languages with translation technology that has 99 per cent accuracy.

The latest music video pulled from Bow Wow and Omarion's joint project has been premiered. The clip is for the Rick Rubin-produced song 'Hey Baby (Jump Off)', taken as the second single from 'Face Off'.

The song is based on LL Cool J's 'Going Back to Cali'. Omarion, who at one shot sports his now infamous not-dreadlocked hair, said in an interview with MTV that he "gets a chance to really let loose with his dancing" in the video.

Yung Joc, who's facing felony charges for carrying a concealed weapon to an airport, failed to show up at Cleveland Municipal Court for his arraignment Wednesday, December 26 and thus was awarded an arrest warrant by judge.

Joc failed to appear in court for a scheduled 8:30 A.M. hearing due to what his attorney cited as personal financial and family obligations. Was considered a fugitive, the rapper then got a warrant issued for his arrest. In addition to that, Municipal Judge Michael John Ryan also increased Joc's bond from $50,000 to $100,000.

Stacy Ferguson and longtime boyfriend Josh Duhamel are engaged already.

Josh's representative confirmed the engagement report, saying the actor proposed to the Black Eyed Peas singer recently and not on Christmas. So far, there's no word on a wedding date.