May 08, 2008

The popular singing competition American Idol that has entered its seventh season has got into its dying stages as now there are only three contestants left to battle for the title. At the result show on May 7 the competition has shown the exit door for another contestant Jason Castro, leaving the likes of David Archuleta, David Cook and Sayesha Mercado on the top three.

Jason received the lowest vote following his poor performance at the Idols night on Tuesday, May 6. On that day he sang two songs, Bob Marley's "I Shoot the Sherrif" and Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man". It was in the second song when he really messed it up as he forgot the lyrics of it.

If one still want to know more about the live action movie "Speed Racer" before heading up to the theater this weekend, a video interview with the film's four leading actors has been posted on the net. In the special footage which runs for nearly 9 minutes, it can be seen Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox and Susan Sarandon sitting down to discuss the Wachowski brothers' film.

The interview provided by IGN exposes what the four thesps had in mind about the movie, which is safe to say that except from Hirsch, the others had no clue about it. Still, all of them seem to agree on one thing, that is the alluring offers to work with Larry and Andy Wachowski. Aside from that, they also discuss about the challenges working on the set which mostly consist of green screen, the need to use their imagination throughout the whole filming process and their impression on their own characters. Additionally, the video which can be watched below also shows many action footages from the film, including the high speed race.

Singer Beck is preparing to make his comeback to the music scene by releasing a new album. The alternative rock singer who hasn't released a new album since "The Information" in 2006, plans to drop the new album this summer.

Billboard said that the album will consist of 10 songs with Danger Mouse as the producer, but unfortunately the upcoming set is still untitled. Beside that, titles for the new songs on the album haven't been revealed either. Although rumor says that one of the singles will be featuring folk singer Cat Power.

The songs from the soundtrack album of the new Indiana Jones movie "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are being made available for previewing on Amazon.com. Beside able to see the track titles, people can hear a preview of the songs before it is officially released on May 20.

The soundtrack album will consist of 19 songs and the music is scored by famous music composer John Williams. The titles from the songs resembles the scenes from the upcoming movie.

Though Ashton Kutcher has put his MTV prank show "Punk'd" on the shelf last Summer, it doesn't mean that he has enough with it. In fact, in a recent interview, the actor who will be appearing on the silver screen with his latest comedy film "What Happens in Vegas..." on May 9 revealed that he may bring the series to the big screen.

On Wednesday, May 7, the husband of actress Demi Moore told Ryan Seacrest in his radio show "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" on KIIS-FM that there is a possibility that he will take the hidden camera practical joke series to the next level meaning he will be making a feature film out of it. "I was actually walking down the street in New York yesterday and thought 'What if I did 'Punk'd: The Movie'? Like a full on feature film of 'Punk'd'," explained the 30-year-old actor and producer.

Pregnant and rushing down the aisle, that's Ashlee Simpson. Despite her silence, denial, playing it coy and so on, a source close to the singer has confirmed to Hollyscoop that she's 100% pregnant and planning to wed fiance Pete Wentz next week.

Ashlee, as claimed by Hollyscoop, "is set to have a shotgun wedding next weekend in California to her rocker beau Pete Wentz" of band Fall Out Boy. The couple are said to have sent out invitations to friends and family members, urging them to save the date for May 16, 2008.

A good news was revealed by rocker Kid Rock stating that he will be back on tour soon. The singer also said that he wont be touring alone as he will team up with legendary rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd for their upcoming "Rock and Rebels" tour.

Both artists are scheduled to kick off their Rebels tour on August 8 in Oklahoma City. After that the tour will also stop by in Houston, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Camden, N.J., Mansfield, Mass., Toronto, Holmdel, N.J. before closing in Hartford, Conn on August 31.

"The Mummy" fans have gotten the chance to get a better look into the characters to be featured in the forthcoming "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" as a batch of new stills from the action horror film has reached the virtual world. The brand new photos allegedly have been outed by Universal Pictures.

The first three stills expose three stars from the movie posing as their characters. The first one shows Jet Li being Emperor Han. He can be seen saddled up on a horse and suited in a full battle armor. The second pictured Michelle Yeoh as sorceress Zi Yuan wearing colorful Chinese one-piece dress, cheongsam, and the third let out Maria Bello's character Evelyn O'Connell. The fourth still gives a glimpse into the terra cotta army.

New details have been added for Rihanna's upcoming repackaged album of her "Good Girl Gone Bad". The upcoming album, that has already been set to June 17 as its release date, will be titled "Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded".

The upcoming album will consist of 12 original tracks from the previous album plus another four new tracks. Those four new songs, are "Take A Bow", the Maroon 5's collaboration track "If I Never See Your Face Again", "Hatin' On The Club" and "Disturbia".

In coincidence with her album being placed #1 on Billboard Hot 200 chart, Madonna and her team announced that she will head for a summer tour starting August 23 in Cardiff, Wales. Via Billboard.com, the singer reportedly will visit as many as 50 to 60 venues that will be produced by Live Nation, concert promoter that late last year earned a multi million dollar deal to back up her career.

Madonna will visit mostly stadiums and arenas during the tour that is dubbed "Sticky and Sweet". She will be in European venues until the end of September before heading to North America in October through November. She will give a fair share of her concerts in Mexico and South America in between November to December. Details for the tour will be announced by Live Nation later today (April 8).

Days away from its theatrical debut on May 16, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" has unleashed its magic as the adaptation fantasy film rolled down its carpet in New York on Wednesday, May 7, night. Though it didn't offer uniqueness like the "Cloverfield" premiere, the special previewing event of the much anticipated "Narnia" sequel is still worth noted.

Strolling down at the Ziegfeld Theatre's red carpet were most of its major cast ensemble Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Anna Popplewell, Ben Barnes, William Moseley, Liam Neeson, Warwick Davis, Tilda Swinton and Peter Dinklage as well as its director/co-producer/co-scripter Andrew Adamson and co-producer Mark Johnson. Aside from walking on the red carpet some of the stars give special interview with Entertainment Tonight, which can be seen below. The video exposes their thoughts about the new movie.

A new music video for English singer Adele has got its official premiere on May 7, 2008. The video sees the soul singer singing in a dark room with lots of ice statues around her.

The new clip which was shot in February 2008 in London, is made to accompany Adele's third single "Cold Shoulder". The single, that has been released on April 21, was derived from her debut album "19" released on January 28.

Amy Winehouse was in but quickly out of the prison. The troubled singer has on Wednesday, May 7 checked herself in to police custody in connection with her being taped in a January video doing drugs at a party at her north London home.

Amy was secretly filmed smoking crack at her East London home on January 18. Britain's The Sun claimed to have obtained the pictures of her smoking crack and snorting other narcotic substances at around 5 A.M. that day. The Sun, moreover, also posted a footage on its website that captured the British star smoking crack from a glass pipe, and then snorting powdered ecstasy and cocaine.

Not a stranger in making an appearance on screen, Snoop Dogg is set for another one. This time the controversial rapper will be guest staring on two episodes of the ABC's soap opera "One Life to Live". The two episodes which will feature Snoop are set to air on Thursday, May 8 and on Friday, May 9.

The promo video for the episodes featuring Snoop has been leaking on the net. Meanwhile, ABC has also given more sneak peaks of the rapper's footage on the set through their website.

Though many have determined to finish their filming before July or even decided to postpone the productions due to the fear of the upcoming actors strike, those behind the "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" seems to be undeterred by the situation. On Monday, May 12, the action movie about the fight for human race survival against killing machines will fall into production.

The particular starting date has been thought of by many Hollywood watchers to be a late start for filming since the Screen Actors Guild contract will reach its expire date on June 30 which is a bit more than a month away. By starting late, "Teminator Salvation" is said to be risking much since it won't get special "strike expense" insurance coverage as a compensation of delaying production and the fact that it is extremely difficult to halt production midway through. Still, an inside source have noted that filmmakers behind the fourth installment of the franchise have taken legal precautions on the matter and stated that the filming will be put on hold in case the strike does go on.

Was one of the many celebrity attendees at the star-studded New York's Costume Institute Gala on Monday night, May 5, Liv Tyler was seen without her wedding ring as she posed for the photographers. She thus fueled speculation that her marriage to husband Royston Langdon of the rock band Spacehog is in trouble.

Liv and Royston have been married since March 25, 2003. They are parents to one son, Milo William Langdon, who was born on December 14, 2004.

Multi talented pop diva "Madonna"once again proves her existence in the music scene after taking her new album "Hard Candy" to top the Billboard Hot 200 chart this week. The success was due to the album's sale that increases to 280,000 copies. This result puts last week's champion Mariah Carey's "E=MC²" to drop its reign on the chart after selling only 95,000 copies.

Outside from her success with the album, things doesn't always come right for the singer as recently she has just disappointed her fans at her concert in France. Madonna left the crowd devastated by showing up two hours late and performing only for 40 minutes.

What happen when you put a big fat lazy panda voiced by the comical Jack Black in an animated Kung Fu movie? You'll get a hilarious DreamWorks' latest film with the name of "Kung Fu Panda" and that is exactly what the second trailer wants to put across. Though relatively short with less than two minutes of running time, the trailer still manages to bring chuckles, if better laughters in.

Introducing the kung fu masters made legend by their ancient style of kung fu, the trailer kicks off with a subtle description made by narrator for typical classic martial art movies. However, the collected voice of the narrator quickly turns temperamental when the last character he is preluding doesn't strike a glorious pose like the others, even worse he even has yet to show his face on screen. The slacker turns up to be Panda, the last creature others think of being the "Chosen One".

The meltdown continues. DMX goes from one low to another as he was arrested at his Arizona home Tuesday, May 6 after being caught on camera racing down in his bright yellow 1966 Chevrolet in a Phoenix-area freeway at upwards of 114 miles per hour (183 kph) way back in January.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed Wednesday, May 7 the rapper-actor was taken into custody without incident Tuesday afternoon at his Cave Creek, Arizona, residence. He was booked into jail and released on bond the following day. He was charged with racing on a highway, reckless driving, two counts of endangerment and three counts of criminal speed and driving on a suspended license.

Chris Brown will on June 3 re-release his sophomore effort "Exclusive" that was originally dropped in stores last year. The repackaged version which will be titled "Exclusive: The Forever Edition" has used similar cover art to the old version, only with a little use of photoshop to make the colors different.

Beside containing all the original 14 tracks, the Forever edition will include the title track, "Forever" as well as two new tracks "Super Human" that features Keri Hilson and "Heart Ain't a Brain". It will also include a remixed version of "Picture Perfect" that is revamped with the addition of Bow Wow and Hurricane Chris' voices plus two international-only tracks. Brown's label is yet to issue the official track listing of the set.

Lil Wayne has a unique way of making a not guilty plea for his drug possession and weapons charges, which is by rapping it at a concert. The rapper's freestyle, addressing the charges on him and his diss for the Arizona police, can be seen in a recent video that has been leaking on the net.

About the case itself, on January 22 the rapper was arrested by the state border patrol 75 miles outside Yuma, Arizona. Wayne's bus was stopped on Interstate 8, and was searched by the police. During the search, allegedly the police found drugs, cash money worth $22,000 and three guns.

In September, a new lovable animated character to be known simply as "Igor" is going to work his way through moviegoers' hearts. However, before the hunchbacked lab assistant of a mad scientist grazes the big screen, the Weinstein Company gives out sneak peek of the comedy film through its teaser trailer's online premiere.

Showing that this movie isn't an ordinary fairy tale story by burning up the fame classic term "Once upon a time" when the clips kick off, the teaser starts with an annual Evil Science Fair in which the great minds gather up to compete for the best scientist title. The footage then continues on explaining that behind every great scientist there is an Igor who assists the scientists in making the best invention.

Hollywood's most kept secret is no longer an unconfirmed speculation, thanks to People which has made public the photos of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's wedding in its latest issue. In addition to the pics, the magazine also published quotes from the newlyweds themselves.

One of Carey and Cannon's wedding pics graces the cover of this week issue of People with the headline that reads "EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS! MARIAH'S SECRET WEDDING!" In the photo, Carey is shown wearing a white dress, and is all smiles while locked in an embrace with Cannon, who as well rocked an all-white suite. Just below the headline, People wrote "The singer and new husband Nick Cannon share the details of their six-week romance and surprise wedding."