May 05, 2008

Fans of legendary band The Beatles are feeling the roller coaster ride by recent rumors saying a possible reunion between the band's remaining members, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The two members reportedly could be reunited to perform at the Sound City music festival in Liverpool.

On the festival which will be held from May 27-30, Paul who has already been confirmed as one of the performers is rumored to will take Ringo to perform with him together. The speculation comes from Beatles fans themselves, after receiving the news that the band's bassist preposition to stage the event under his production company was approved by the Liverpool City Council.

Walt Disney Pictures are about to bring another family comedy film to the big screen. In their effort to make "Hours of Fun", the mouse house and their producing partner, Scott Rudin Prods., have brought in the two "The $40,000 Man" scribblers, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, to develop the project's screenplay.

The two will be working to rewrite the screenplay originally written by Greg Pace to be used by "Bad Santa" helmer Terry Zwigoff. On the script itself, it reportedly tells about two childhood friends who as kids ordered a series of brand-new toys from the back of their 70's comic books. Years later when they have grown up, they are forced to save their town from the chaos caused by the toys which begin to live up to their wild advertising claims.

The track listing for Lil Wayne's highly anticipated new album "Tha Carter III" has been revealed. The new album will consist of 17 tracks and 9 of them will feature a collaboration between Wayne with other musicians, such as Robin Thicke, Jay-Z, T-Pain, Babyface and many more.

Beside collaborating with those artists, for the new album the rapper also worked with famous names to produce some of the songs, they are Kanye West, David Banner, Cool & Dre and Swizz Beatz. The new album itself is planned to be released on June 10.

Though Batman's fans have gotten their first share of seeing Harvey "Two Face" Dent through the new trailer of the forthcoming "The Dark Knight", they haven't really been able to see the bad side of this particular Batman's arch nemesis. To fill in the gap and also answer the curiosity on the character, its depicter Aaron Eckhart sat down with LA Times to give out hints on the iconic "Two Face".

Noting that his character has been put tightly under wraps, Eckhart excitedly exposed bits of what to expect from Batman's closest ally-turned-foe. "That's right, people don't really know yet," said the 40-year-old actor. "I can tell you that, basically, when you look at Two-Face, you should get sick to your stomach. Being the guy under all that, well, that was a lot of fun for me. It's like you would feel if you met someone whose face had pretty much been ripped off or burned off with acid. I can't talk about it beyond that because I don't want to give away too much of the plans by Chris (Nolan)."

The news about Amy Winehouse's involvements on the new James Bond movie "Quantum Of Solace" soundtrack takes another twist. After recent reports claim that she is working on a song for the new Bond movie, a new confirmation stated that she won't be doing the project after all.

Musician and producer Mark Ronson who previously revealed to the press about Amy's involvements in the movie's soundtrack has now said the opposite thing. Mark denied his previous statements by saying at the time Amy was still not ready to start any recording. "Unless by some miracle of science it gets recorded and someone sings a vocal," Mark said.

A new music video has been premiered by Soulja Boy on May 4. The new clip was made for his single "Donk" and directed by FLX.

The new single itself was taken from his latest album "SouljaBoytellem.com", released October 2, 2007. It also becomes the fifth single that has been released from the album.

As the production of the fourth "Terminator" movie, "Terminator Salvation", begins on May 5, it is now said that the latest robot assassin film is aiming to broaden its range of audience. The newest report on the action movie claims that the film's producers at the Halcyon Co. are eyeing to make the film to be a PG-13 movie.

Believing that it is the right time to introduce the highly successful film franchise to new audience, Halcyon co-founder and co-CEO Victor Kubicek stated, "The ratings have changed. The PG-13 has increased in intensity." Further, report on the matter suggested that the kid-friendly rating's plan is taken following the success of the latest installment of "Die Hard" series, "Live Free or Die Hard", becoming the highest grossing movie of the series with $382.1 million worldwide after getting the PG-13 rating.

Avril Lavigne has made an important but disappointing decision for the rock singer's fans by deciding to cancel her scheduled tour dates. Avril was made to cancel her six upcoming shows in North America because of having an acute laryngitis.

Because of her illness she was forced to cancel of her shows in Anaheim, Universal City, Santa Barbara, San Jose, Spokane and Eureka. Her throat problem has actually occurred since late April where she previously canceled her concerts in San Diego and Phoenix to rest her voice.

Coming into theaters a week after the blockbuster film made its smashing debut, "What Happens in Vegas..." will be faced with a great challenge to win moviegoers' hearts, especially since it will be released into the theaters on the exact same date as the forthcoming family movie "Speed Racer" on May 9. Still, some movie critics believe that the 20th Century Fox's romantic comedy offers more than what meets the eye and will appeal to young people.

Pairing up two comedic and lovable theps, Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz, "What Happens" perhaps gives out a predictable and no-brainer story as what is claimed by Louise Keller via UrbanCineFile, but it still offers a comedy movie that "never pretends to be anything other than what it is". Supporting Keller's comment, Andrew L. Urban of UrbanCineFile added that the movie is more likely to be "a good date movie" as it delivers what it has promised. Joe Leydon of Variety moreover emphasized that the Tom Vaughan-directed film won't be like other comedy movies as it maintains its indulges from the beginning until the end.

New development comes from Kanye West regarding the rapper's rage over recent review of his concert. After showing his anger to Entertainment Weekly's review, Kanye now published a new blog entry stating his apology for the concert and also to EW.

On his blog, Kanye wrote that there were actually some troubles during his concert at Houston, Texas on Friday, May 2 and for it he said sorry to the fans. "When I started the show the other night we were having a lot of technical issues due 2 the heat. The 2 huge screens on both sides of the stage were glaring bright blue like when your DVD player acts up at home. I asked for them 2 turn the screens off 3 times because it was distracting 2 the show. The fans were not getting what they paid for," Kanye said.

Lindsay Lohan gets her 'ugly' on. The actress-singer's guest appearance on the ABC's "Ugly Betty" has been confirmed and she already begun shooting her scenes for the hit TV series Saturday, May 3. A representative for her confirmed to US Weekly the 21-year-old star was so excited about shooting her spot on the show.

Lindsay is playing a former high school classmate of America Ferrera's Betty Suarez. In addition to her first episode airs on the May 22 season finale, Lindsay will also appear in multiple episodes of the ABC hit, her representative has confirmed.

Beyonce Knowles showed her love and support to her husband Jay-Z, by performing as supporting act for his tour. Beyonce made a surprised appearance on the rapper's 'Heart Of The City' tour on Friday, May 2 at the Madison Square Garden, N.Y.

On the concert Beyonce appeared for only 15 seconds doing her "Crazy In Love" booty shake that successfully excited the crowd. The concert itself is actually one of the shows for Jay-Z's tour with Mary J Blige.

Following the outing of its bootleg version and its debut on the theaters with "Iron Man" earlier, the second trailer exposing the much awaited "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has been let out online through its official page. The nearly two-minutes long video footage comes out bringing a more exciting view of the upcoming Indy's latest adventure as well as his new foe.

Unlike the first trailer which gives out only a glimpse of Cate Blanchett's character Irina Spalko, this new compilation of clips, which can be seen below or via AceShowbiz, can be considered to be working as the introduction of the particular Soviet agents' chief who tries to get the Crystal Skull for the benefit of her country. The trailer that reveals lots of the film's blasting action scenes also let out better looks of Mutt and Marion Ravenwood.

Shortly after premiering his music video for "Love In This Club" on April 7, Usher has already set to launch his next music video. This time the R 'n' B singer is preparing the music video for the single "Moving Mountains", which reportedly will be the continuation from the previous video.

The photos of Usher's at the set of the new video shoot are available at Usher-Pictures.com. From the photos it can be seen that for the upcoming video Keri Hilson, who was featured in the previous video, has been replaced by another model.

Is so heavily into issues about music apparently couldn't keep 50 Cent from expanding his business empire. He reportedly has inked a multi-year deal with Steiner Sports to sell his memorabilia.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Though so, The New York Post claimed Fiddy's deal with Steiner will offer fans autographed photos, movie-related products, concert-worn apparel, and other Fiddy branded products.

For those who have patiently waited for the official second trailer of the highly anticipated Batman latest installment, "The Dark Knight", to come out on the net, Warner Bros. Pictures have finally let out the much wanted footage on its website. Taking longer time to view than the first trailer, the second one offers much revealing look into the superhero flick as it exposes Harvey Dent's character for the first time.

Opened with a helicopter shot of Batman posing as stone-gargoyle on top of a building high above Gotham City, the footage continues showing the dark superhero as he leaps from the place he stands. As the trailer goes on, the haunting voice of Joker saying, "Where do we begin?", can be heard on the background and then images of Lieutenant Gordon and lawyer Harvey Dent flash on-screen. Though this trailer still generally focuses on Joker and his mischievous plans, it also give up glimpses of Dent and his important part in the movie.

The Memphis based rap group "Three 6 Mafia" have premiered their new music video for the single "Lolli-Lolli(Pop That Body)". The new video was launched to public on May 3 and on the video the group were seen dancing with lots of sexy female backup dancers. It was directed by Dale "Rage" Resteghini.

For the single the group also collaborate with other musicians, such as Project Pat, Young Dro and Superpower. The song itself will be included on the Three 6's upcoming album "Last 2 Walk", which will be released on June 24.

Made her first return to the stage for a concert in Orlando, Fla, after her provocative pictures for Vanity Fair magazine were leaked to the net on April 27, Miley Cyrus expressed her gratitude to the support her fans have given her post the scandal. Performed several songs at the Disney Channel Games concert Saturday night, May 3, she was quoted as saying "I can't be more appreciative of that."

"I hope you had an awesome time," so she said. "I saw a sign back there that said, 'Miley, I'm praying for you.' I could not be more appreciative. Thank you guys for all your support. Without you, none of this would be possible. I love every one of you and I could not be more appreciative. God bless you."

For some people the word Madonna is no longer a medieval Italian term for My Lady, but it's closely associated to a successful singer who has spawned 11 studio albums and raked in success with each of them. Over a period of more than two decades, Madonna has managed to embed her name in the music history as the legend itself, and for this impressive journey, AceShowbiz.com has selected her to be featured in Artist of the Week for the week 19 of year 2008.

The uber singer is particularly consistent in making her works 'current'. She has dropped pop albums, dance pieces and this year she moves to R 'n' B-oriented record that brings her to the mainstream. Her latest project "Hard Candy" was released on April 29 and for the fourth time in her career, she topped the British singles and album charts at the same time. The album soared through #1 and so does its first single "4 Minutes" that features Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

Presenting moviegoers with the first highly anticipated film in the year of 2008, "Iron Man" proved to earn its rights of being the one which is suitable to mark the coming in of the summer blockbuster movies. By the end of the first May weekend on May 4, the Paramount Pictures' superhero flick has made its smashing debut claiming the top slot at the North American box office and exceeding critics expectation by hauling in an amazing $98.6 million for the three-day weekend tally and about $102.1 million in total since its early viewing on May 1.

Screened in over 4,000 theaters across the U.S., the Jon Favreau-directed action movie scribbled down its name in the box office history by being the second non-sequel movie with the highest grossing opening weekend coming in shortly behind another superhero tidbit "Spider-Man". It also scored in to be among the top ten movies to have its best three-day opening as well as the tenth feature film to debut with more than $100 million revenue. If being considered only from its superhero genre, "Iron Man" comes in fourth on the highest opening list after "Spider-Man 3" with $151.1 million, "Spider-Man" with $114.8 million and "X-Men: The Last Stand" with $102.8 million.

Is a catwalk queen and bride-wanna-be, Kate Moss arguably is the prefect choice for Agent Provocateur to model their new range of bridal lingerie. With her wedding to boyfriend Jamie Hince of The Kills is just around the corner, Moss has already started practicing for the big day, posing in a series of white-hot underwear outfits for the fashionable lingerie company.

Admitted that she loves wearing Agent Provocateur's sexy lingerie every day, Moss finds the collection she's modeled as "the most sexy lingerie to wear. I love their attention to detail and I'm a particular fan of a knicker bum detail." Agent Provocateur's new bridal lingerie line includes such themes, as "The Happiest Day of Her Life," "The Garden of Eden," "Bad News," "Frenzy," "Revenge," and "Let Them Eat Kate."