April 22, 2008

At the presentation of the highly anticipated Louis Leterrier-directed film "The Incredible Hulk" at the New York Comic Con on April 19, it was revealed that the green man will be sharing the big screen with another iconic superhero "Iron Man". The confirmation has been let out by Universal Pictures.

Allegedly, the studio has screened a clip that showcases a moment when Robert Downey Jr.'s character, Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man, walks into a "seedy bar". There, he meets General Thunderbolt Ross played by William Hurt to talk about his own problem. Aside from showing the special clip, Universal also brought up another clip exposing Emil Blonsky revealing to the General that he has been given a "super venom".

Not satisfied with her label's strictness, Joss Stone is set to leave them. The English singer is now preparing a legal battle against EMI Record. In the effort to get free from her contract, the soul singer has hired a legal team.

Joss herself who still has three-albums deal with EMI has confirmed her wishes to exit the label saying, "I'm not happy at all with EMI. I've spoken to my lawyers and am seeing what my options are. The industry is in a state and EMI are in a state, so I would rather work on other things." Reports claim that the singer's plan to leave her label was based on the company's persistence to take control of her future projects.

Sorry ladies, Don Omar is off the market. The reggaeton singer/rapper was reported to have wed television weatherperson and journalist Jackie Guerrido in their native Puerto Rico.

The duo, as claimed by People en Espanol, exchanged wedding vows on Saturday, April 19 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. Cited Puerto Rican newspaper Ultima hora, People wrote on its website that the lavish wedding began at about 6:50 P.M. The bride was claimed to wear "gorgeous Luis Antonio strapless gown adorned with French lace and pearls, and carrying lilac-colored orchids."

For those who cannot wait to see the upcoming comedy "Baby Mama", nine new clips of the Universal Pictures' film are available below. The series of clips takes various time to be viewed, the shortest runs exactly half a minute and the longest lasts up to nearly a minute. Most of them focus on the conflicting characters of the two leading ladies and the comical situations they resulted.

While the first and second clips give out the background story, clip #3 to the last one show the head-budding between Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's characters, Kate Holbrook and Angie Ostrowiski. Clip #1 screens the meeting between Hobrook and the head of the surrogate center played by Sigourney Weaver. Additionally, the second clip accentuates on the meeting of Holbrook with Ostrowiski's sluggish husband.

Quickly back into shape post giving birth to her son Max Liron Bratman on January 12, Christina Aguilera has been chosen as one of People en Espanol's 50 Most Beautiful 2008. That's the reason why the singing sensation becomes one of the cover girls for the publication's latest issue.

Graces the cover of People en Espanol's 50 Most Beautiful special, Christina is seen wearing a pink long-dress and donning her usual thick make-up with a dark-red lipstick. "I love Latin culture. It's fire and passion, and I definitely want to instill that in my son," so she told the publication.

Vanessa Hudgens is set to leave her Disney image on her new music album. The "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" star plans her upcoming album to be more adult than her current teen heartthrob image.

Vanessa herself confirmed that it will be a more grown-up album saying, "It's definitely more grown-up. But not to the point where I'm singing, 'I'm so hot! I'm so hot! Boys want me. I'm so hot!" Her upcoming album is to be titled "Identified" and planned for release on June 24, 2008.

Having the same release date with his group G-Unit's album, 50 Cent decides to push back the release for The Game's new album "L.A.X." Both albums were schedule to be released on June 24, but 50 decides to hold back Game's album rather than his group's "Terminate on Sight".

The rapper and producer confirmed his plan to push back the west coast rapper's new album to the press saying, "I'mma wait a little, then I'm just gonna push his album back." 50 also declined that the push back was because he fears that "L.A.X" will compete with the Unit's album. "I don't think there's anyone that would legitimately look at him like it's a competition, him versus G-Unit. It just doesn't make sense. I make money every time he releases an album. He signed a five-album deal. He's only on album three," said 50.

Is a macrobiotic enthusiast, Gwyneth Paltrow has made a big donation to the Food Bank for New York City. The actress and mother of two has donated $75,000 of her own money to the organization as she attended a benefit for it over the weekend.

Gwyneth was an honoree at a star-studded benefit for the organization held on Saturday, April 19. During the event she was quoted as telling guests, "I've been thinking about all the crap my children have and how much food we throw away. We have to do better."

A new teenage comedy film starring "Superhero Movie" star Drake Bell and former American Idol contestant Kevin Covais, "College", has revealed its first official trailer. The nearly two-and-a-half minutes video footage showcases glimpses of the college life experienced by the three high school seniors over the weekend.

Opened with a canteen talk between the three leading characters and one of their friends, the trailer then continues with the footage showing the campus life in Fieldmont University with the background explanation provided by the narrator. Further, the camera follows a white car which the three high school friends use to drive them to the place.

It appears that Daniel Radcliffe has found his new flame post his split from Laura O'Toole early this year. The British movie star has fallen for an Australian young lady, identified as Cassi McKay, during their brief meeting at last year AFI awards.

Radcliffe and McKay were introduced to one another by singer David Campbell, it's been claimed. They first met during the awards event where she happened to be among the musicians to perform at the event. They had a "two-minute chat" and even posed for photographs.

Though many claimed that "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" trailer as well as its soundtrack provided Indy's lovers with the action adventure movie's spoiler, a new report claims to have a more detailed information on the plot details. The MySpace's fansite dedicated to the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones adventure series has posted the so-called story line of the Paramount Picture's film.

Noting that the spoiler was leaked from The Raven's message board at The Raider.net, the Indy's fansite suggested that it came from the film's official press kit. On the story, it is said that this time Indiana Jones' adventure starts in the desert Southwest at the time of Cold War in 1957. Though barely managed to escape from Soviet agents' capture, Indy didn't got a warm welcome home as he finds out that he is in the brink of losing his job on Marshall College.

Rapper Bun B has just premiered his new music video for his single titled "That's Gangsta" on April 21, 2008. The video which was directed by Mr. Boomtown, also features reggae singer Sean Kingston who also worked with him on the single.

The single itself was the first single from his upcoming second solo album "II Trill". So far, "That's Gangsta" managed to peak at #92 on Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Having just released her second single "Bye Bye" through radio stations in the U.S. on April 7, Mariah Carey already plans to release her third single. Mariah has confirmed that the third single she has picked for a release will be "Love Story". She confirmed the news in an interview with New York Hot 97 radio station on Monday 21.

Moreover, the pop diva also revealed that just like her upcoming video "Bye Bye", which is yet to be premiered, the video for "Love Story" will also feature Nick Cannon. Both of the singles were taken from Mariah's latest album "E=MC²" which has just been released on April 15.

In response to the circulating rumors surrounding the development of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", director Michael Bay has posted a rather upsetting message to the action film's fans. The helmer of "Bad Boys" film series stated in his website forum "Shoot For the Edit" that all the things reported earlier regarding the Paramount Picture's film are false, except about the shooting location.

Though Bay didn't give detailed information on the fake news, he dished all the reports, including the appearing of Constructicons. On the matter, he simply noted, "Sorry everyone, everything you are reading (other then we are shooting in Philly) is false. We are going to give so much disinformation on this film to confuse everyone."

R&B Singer Amerie reportedly has split up with her label Columbia Records. The news surfaces after the singer's name has been removed from the label's artists roster.

The rumors of Amerie's break up with her label has been going since late 2007 and now after her name is out of Columbia's list, the news seems to be right. Moreover, reports claim that the R&B crooner's disputes with her label started because her third album "Because I Love It" was never officially released for the U.S. market, despite having been critically acclaimed and had a success in Europe.

Though the forthcoming film "Speed Racer" has yet to be opened for the public view, the Wachowski brothers has allegedly been prepared for the sequel. The speculation of the issue has been brought up by one of the car racing film's producers, Joel Silver, in an interview.

At the press junket for "Racer" on Saturday, April 19, Silver opened up to Collider.com that the filmmakers behind the Warner Bros. Pictures' tidbit have jotted down ideas for a movie follow-up if it is possible. "Look, they have a great story idea for a sequel to this movie (Speed Racer), we have a great idea for a sequel if it makes sense to make it," revealed the "Matrix" series producer.

Paris Hilton, apparently, can never have enough of the many publication she's received. Has just been praised by young actress Hayden Panettiere as "a marketing genius," Paris arguably is, indeed, when it comes to making publicity for the sake of money. The celebrity socialite who is currently on tour with her Good Charlotte rocker beau Benji Madden reportedly is planning a double wedding with her BFF Nicole Richie and her baby's daddy Joel Madden.

Not without reason, but Paris is said to have been wanting it in order to boost sales of pictures from the wedding as she's convinced she can bank millions off the photos. "She's doing it all for attention, as usual," said a friend of her. "It's a publicity stunt, just like everything else."

Picking up a story that many career women nowadays could relate to, "Baby Mama" is setting its pace to be one of the great comedy movies. Sadly, some critics believe that the Universal Pictures' film perhaps could never be compared to Judd Apatow's films in the same genre. Noting that though it has what it takes to force a laughter out of the audience's mouths, it still falls short of being considered a fabulous movie.

Despite its effort in pairing up the two brilliant "Saturday Night Live" stars, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and supported them with other caliber actors Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin, this comedy film is still contemplated by Reuters as a movie that "never fully delivers". Adding to the critics, The Money Times commented that though the film is "not a washout", it will still leave moviegoers "feeling 'that could have been a fabulous movie!'" since though there are many cracking moments, it is not lasting until the end.

Alicia Keys made an appearance on NBC's "Today Show" on April 21, performing two of her tracks from her 2007 album "As I Am" plus an old joint, "If I Ain't Got You". The singer who wore a gray top, white jacket and a scarf opened her outdoor set with "Teenage Love Affair" and added "No One" to her section.

"Teenage" is the third single pulled from "As I Am" and along with the performance, Keys previewed the music video of it which is scheduled to be premiered on MTV's TRL and BET's 106 & Park tomorrow April 23. Keys confirmed that she will appear on the BET show to deliver the debut herself.

Hip-hop group Pretty Ricky revealed a good news to their fans after they announced their new member. The group have selected a singer called Ambition/4Play to replace their former lead singer Pleasure who left them in 2007.

Pretty announced the recruitment of Ambition on their official MySpace page. Besides revealing their new member on the net, the R&B group have also performed with him on their recent gig.

Has previously denied speculation of a rekindled romance with ex-boyfriend Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson finds herself as the subject of extensive media attention yet again as photos apparently showing her engaged in some hot make out sessions with the actor have leaked to the net. The couple's make out sessions were captured while they were in Miami on Saturday, April 19 to celebrate Kate's 29th birthday.

Kate, who turned 29 on Saturday, joined Owen and his parents for a lunch at Lario's on South Beach on the afternoon. The foursome, according to People as being told by a source at the restaurant, "sat away from the crowds and had a blast. Kate and Owen looked very happy and were talking up a storm to Owen's parents." Still according to the source, the group then "asked for a tres leches butter cake soaked in milk with a candle in the middle".

Guns N' Roses have announced that their "Chinese Democracy" that has made history by being the most expensive recorded album, is currently "in negotiations" for a release. The album has been shelved for over a decade and lately the talks of actually putting it on the street have been making rounds with the latest challenge coming from Dr. Pepper the soda company.

In their official site, the band which is fronted by Axl Rose posted a message to their fans, confirming that negotiations are under way. They, however, do not elaborate further on what kind of deal is made for the album. The old plan was to release the album via Interscope in March 2007.

Bad news comes from Jordin Sparks as the singer has to cancel three scheduled concerts earlier this week due to throat injury. The singer is currently resting because of her throat problem which is also called an acute vocal cord hemorrhage.

One of the shows Jordin had to miss out was performing as the opener for Alicia Keys' tour in Hampton on Saturday, April 19. Beside that, she has also canceled her performance at the Earth Day concert which was held on Monday, April 21 and a show at Penn State University on Sunday, April 20.

Report on Kanye West and Alexis Phifer's broken engagement is true. The model-designer has confirmed to People that her engagement to the rap artist and hip hop producer is off.

"It's always sad when things like this end, and we remain friends," Phifer tells People. "I wish him the best in his future and all of his endeavors. He's one of the most talented people I've ever met."

In a bid to make the word 'Nigger' having a subtler meaning, Nas has leaked a new song that proudly bears the title. The rapper who made headlines in October last year for naming his new album "Nigger", has released the single "Be a Nigger Too" that contains the controversial word all over its lyrics.

In the song, Nas talks about sensitive issues such as Islam, the NAACP, the murder of South African reggae artist Lucky Dube and also young Eminem using the N-word for racial slur but didn't make him mad. He begins with: "You are now allowed to listen to the radio, real niggers are back" before going with "I'm a nigger, he's a nigger, she's nigger, we some niggers / wouldn't you like to be a nigger too / They like to strangle niggers, blame a nigger, shootin' niggers, hangin' niggers / still you wanna be a nigger too... true," on the chorus.

As "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay", the sequel of hit film "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle", is coming close to its theatrical release on April 25, one of its star duo, John Cho, sat down to talk about the highly anticipated stoners comedy. In a video interview with MovieWeb.com, the Korean-born actor revealed much about the forthcoming Warner Bros. Pictures' movie.

Talking about the funnier follow-up, Cho addressed many topics related to this second film. One of the topics brought up was the remark of being better than "Eurotrip". When asked whether the dishing of the Jeff Schaffer's 2004 comedy movie starring Michelle Trachtenberg has been planned, Cho confessed the otherwise explaining that it happened to come out without being scripted initially.

A group of Hollywood celebrities, including fashion model and television/film actress Angie Harmon and singer Jill Scott are taking their clothes off for next month issue of Allure magazine. Gabrielle Union, Zoe McLellan, and Ana Ortiz are the other celebs who appear naked in the publication's annual naked spread.

Claimed herself as very "modest," Harmon did admit she had more problems disrobing than her fellow celebrities. "The hardest part was when the robe came off and I was like, 'And now I'm ... naked.' You wonder if they can see your Caesarian scar," the actress revealed. She, however, felt comfortable at last, saying "I realized, I'm here to make a beautiful picture."