May 14, 2008

In the celebration of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" upcoming release, Lucasfilm Animation have let out announcement that the studio will preview sneak peeks of the "Star Wars" animation movie during "Star Wars Weekends". The various inside look into the epic saga will be shown every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from June 6 to June 29, 2008 at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort.

One of the sneak peeks previewed will be entitled "Behind the Force - Experience THE CLONE WARS" which will bring fans closer to the creation behind the animation movie. It is further explained that during the presentation of "Behind the Force", an exclusive clip from the movie will be screened. On the special weekends itself, it is said that a unique line-up of Star Wars celebrities, including director Dave Filoni, actor Matthew Wood and many other character depicters will be making special appearances over the weekends.

Fans of the hit game series "Guitar Hero" can now erase a little bit of their curiosity regarding the bands that will be involved on the game's upcoming series. New reports have confirmed that the next installment of the game "Guitar Hero IV" will still be headlined by famous names, such as Van Halen, Eagles, Linkin Park and Sublime.

For Van Halen it won't be the first time that their song will be used on the game as they have previously featured their single "You Really Got Me" on "Guitar Hero II". The legendary rock band themselves recently have just finished their April tour that was just ended on April 28 in Milwaukee.

It seems that a series of bad lucks happened on the set of "Quantum of Solace" back in April has sparked interest of a top psychic, Dean 'Midas' Maynard. The man who has helped British sports teams and celebrities using his supernatural power has offered to shake off the future accidents from happening with one condition, it should change its release date.

Claiming that the on-set accidents are parts of the curse lingering on the superspy agent movie, Maynard stated that he believes that the film's Halloween release date has something to do with it. Hence, he presses on the producers to give the 22nd installment of the James Bond movie a new schedule to avoid further damages. "People may scoff at the talk of a curse, but it seems strange that all these bad things have happened in such a short space of time, and perhaps it's something to do with the Hallowe'en release date of the film," so claimed the psychic.

Speculation of a love relationship between P. Diddy and Cassie was soon to spark as the two music stars have been photographed snuggling up. Diddy was caught on camera snuggling up to Cassie as they enjoyed Mother's Day, May 11 in New York City's Central Park, watching street dancers entertain a crowd of onlookers.

GStyle Magazine was the first to cover the dating speculation. It, moreover, also obtains the photos of the twosome snuggling up. One of the two photos the publication has, shows Diddy's face clearly as he hugged Cassie from behind her back. The other shot, meanwhile, exposes the supposed lovers from different angle that that gives people a closer look at Cassie's face.

After two years since her last album "Ciara: The Evolution" was released, Ciara is set to make a special treat for her fans on the singer's new set. The R 'n' B singer's third studio album will be packaged in an extraordinary fashion.

Unlike the normal CD releases which only drop one disc, Ciara will set her upcoming set into a three packaged CD's bundled as one. The CD's will have different themes on each of them and consist of five to six songs.

For the fifth time in a row, the psychological horror thriller movie about serial killer known as Jigsaw is coming into the theaters and though news are constantly pouring in, none offers any detail on the storyline. However, recent report gives out a tinge of the said-to-be official synopsis from the Lions Gate Films' tidbit, "Saw V".

Claiming that they attained the official plot, Bloody-disgusting imprinted that detective D. Hoffman who has been set to be Jigsaw's accomplice in "Saw IV" will come out in the fifth film as the one who carries on the serial killer's deathly traps. The site wrote, "In the fifth installment of the SAW franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends."

Has been living a low profile life ever since her Vanity Fair provocative pictures caused a stir, Miley Cyrus is back on the spotlight. The actress-singer dons the so-called milk mustache for the latest ad of "Got Milk?" campaign.

Helps to spread the words of the importance of drinking low fat milk, Miley is pictured in the ad sitting on a chair in a dressing room. Dons a white shirt, dark-colored tight jeans, and a pair of brown boots, Miley is photographed lifting her right leg up with both her hands lying on the arms of the chair.

It seems that Lil Wayne is really enjoying the success of his hit single "Lollipop" and decided to make another version of the song. Now, the official remix which features Kanye West has been leaked on the net.

Unfortunately that remix song would not be included on Wayne's upcoming album "Tha Carter III", which will be dropped on June 10. Meanwhile, just before the Lollipop remix leaked on the net earlier this week another song from the rapper "Got Money" featuring T-Pain has also been featured on the Internet.

It's tragic. Carmen Electra and her rocker fiance Rob Patterson reportedly are on the rocks already, less than a month after they made public their engagement. The actress, who rose to fame as a Playboy model and "Baywatch" star, is upset over the engagement ring, which is not so expensive, it has been claimed.

Rob proposed to Carmen last month when they were celebrating her 36th birthday. The Korn guitarist gave her a huge black diamond ring which she was seen wearing on her engagement ring days later after the engagement report first surfaced on the net.

When the first Narnia's movie adaptation was first introduced to the public through "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", it got a great welcome from moviegoers everywhere around the world. Opening atop at the Box Office on its first weekend screening with $65.6 million, the fantasy film went on to haul the total of $291.7 million domestically and an impressive $744.8 million from the international sales. Now, a second Narnia film is about to make another attempt in enchanting audience and thus, an important question arises, that is can it surpass the success of the first movie.

If observed merely through the singing praises given by the movie critics so far, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" would not have any problem in acquiring the same success the first film got back in 2005. Noting that this film can hardly be considered as a sequel, many commented that it is ready to present the moviegoers with a better looking movie if compared to the first film. Christy Lemire of Associated Press wrote on her review, "It's simultaneously darker and funnier, more substantive and more engaging, more violent and more technically accomplished." Additionally, Todd McCarthy of Variety also thinks that "Caspian" is "more crisply made than its 2005 predecessor", whereas Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter noted that the film is worthy to be watched film, especially for the "gorgeous special effects and grand-scale battle sequences".

Good Charlotte are set to meet up with their die hard fans on the road again as they have announced their upcoming tour dates. The punk rock band will headline the Soundtrack of Your Summer tour alongside Boys Like Girls. Their full tour dates schedule are being revealed by Billboard.com.

The punk rockers will start their tour on July 8 at the Congress Theater in Chicago and end it on August 21 at North Star Arena in Jackson, N.J. In total the band will stop by at a little more than 30 cities for the concerts.

Former American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken has moved on with his sophomore effort, "On My Way Here" and has premiered the video of its first single. The pop singer chose to lift the title track that was written by Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic as the lead single.

The video that was premiered on Yahoo! shows a brand new look of the singer who while a contestant was deemed a 'geek' with great talent. Aiken now sports a longer hair and fuller figure.

Rumors are abuzz that Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo have split. Representative for the actress-singer has slammed the break up rumors though, insisted there is "no truth" to them. Celebrity gossip site TMZ, in fact, "has learned that the romance between Jessica Simpson and hotshot QB Tony Romo is as dead as the Cowboys' 2007 playoff run," while furthermore claimed their sources know better than the couple's representatives.

Star magazine first broke the report on the couple's split on Monday, May 12, cited a source close to the pair as saying they have broken up. "They're broken up," a friend of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback claimed. "He told us they broke up and that was that. We're guys so we didn't talk about it much."

It seems that in order to compress the sixth book into a feature film, Harry Potter's filmmakers have decided to leave Moaning Myrtle out of the latest wizardry film. In the forthcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", Potter's fans won't get the chance to see the girl's bathroom haunting witch ghost who have helped the wizard hero in one of his "Goblet of Fire" tasks.

The cutting off of Myrtle's part in the sixth film has been confirmed by the representative of Shirley Henderson, the actress who depicted the spirit character in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Providing verification to the news, the spokesperson at HamiltonHodell told Snitch Seeker, "I'm sorry to report that Moaning Myrtle has not made it into the latest film."

The party is still on. Secretly tied the knot in a small ceremony in the Bahamas on April 30, Mariah Carey and her husband Nick Cannon are planning a big blowout. The newlyweds, as reported by Hollyscoop, have rented out Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, C.A. for a "celebratory post-wedding event."

The park will be closed for the public Tuesday, May 13 for Carey and Cannon to hold their private party. No words on the people who are invited to the bash. Further details, as well, remain undisclosed.

If some musicians recently have decided to push back the release date of their albums, Weezer do just the opposite thing. The band have announced that they will push up their upcoming album "Weezer (Red Album)" three weeks earlier from its previous schedule.

The new set which was actually planned to due on June 24, will now has June 3 as its release date. This decision reportedly was ignited by the success of the first single "Pork and Beans" from the upcoming LP. The song became the #1 song on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock chart.

More and more sequel films are apparently coming out. Following report on the second sequel to "The Pink Panther" on May 13, it is now said that the successful 1991 action movie starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, "Point Break", will have its sequel to be made. The follow-up movie will be called "Point Break: Indo".

Set in Southeast Asia twenty years after the disappearance of Swayze's character, it has touted Jan de Bont, the cinematographer of "Die Hard" and director of "Speed", as the helmer. Though there are no words yet concerning the casting, it is believed that RGM Entertainment have approached both Reeves and Swayze to reprise their roles. Additionally, the film's principal photography will take place in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

A new music video from The Game has just been premiered on May 13. The clip was made for his new single titled "911 Is A Joke" which features Clyde Carson and The CMC.

The single reportedly will be included as one of the tracks on Game's upcoming LP "L.A.X." set to due on July 8. Although the song has already got a video premiere, the song is not the first single from the new set.

Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday, May 13 for shooting a female acquaintance outside an N.Y.C. nightclub. The sentence stemmed from a July 14, 2007 incident during which Ma fired a shot toward a childhood acquaintance, identified as Makeda Barnes Joseph, outside of a nightclub in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood upon suspected that she had stolen $3,000 from her purse.

Was convicted of assault, illegal weapon possession and attempted coercion, Ma initially faced a maximum 25 years in prison. Being sentenced to eight years behind bars, she begged the judge for leniency for the sake of "my little boy," blamed her difficult childhood which forced her to grow up "surrounded by failure, violence and poverty," but "made something out of nothing" from her life, for the shooting.

It seems that troubles never stop to come for teen pop star Miley Cyrus. After the blow up of her nude photos in Vanity Fair, the singer is being alleged of stealing a song. Miley has been accused of copying an L.A. band Lustra's song titled "Scotty Doesn't Know", which was one of the songs on the movie Eurotrip's soundtrack.

The band claim that their song has been imitated for Miley's hit single "Rockstar". In order to prove their claim, the band are inviting all of the teen sensation's fans to check out Lustra's song on their MySpace page.

Before the latest Woody Allen's feature film project, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", grazes the 61st Cannes Film Festival's screens, a promotional trailer of the movie starring Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz has made its way through the virtual world. Timed at nearly two minutes, the video footage gives out promises of giving a romantic entanglement story like never before.

Telling the story of two young American tourists, Vicky and Cristina, the trailer follows the two as they embark on a steamy, romantic and dramatic affair with a flamboyant painter Juan Antonio during their vacation in Spain. The compilation of clips expose many of the film's lustful scenes to describe what the two friends experience in the luscious Barcelona. It also gives out a brief moment when Johansson's character, Cristina, shares a passionate kiss with Antonio's former wife played by Cruz. The trailer can be enjoyed below or through its trailer page at AceShowbiz.

Is no stranger to minor car crash, Britney Spears got into another fender-bender yet again. The pop singer, who's working her comeback into the music industry, rear-ended a red Ford Explorer while at a stop light on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills on Tuesday afternoon, May 13, TMZ reported.

Britney was leaving her Studio City home for an afternoon drive on her white Mercedes SL just after 2 P.M. local time and stopped at the red light, when for an unknown reason, she accelerated, smacking into a maroon Ford Explorer in front of her, which was driven by another woman. Thankfully, neither party was hurt in the crash and there were only minor damages to both cars.

Getting closer to the release date of his new album, which will be hitting the stores on May 27, the full track listing of Usher's "Here I Stand" has been revealed. The new album will consist in total of 17 songs, including his hit single "Love in This Club". On the new album the R 'n' B singer worked with some famous names such as Young Jeezy, Beyonce Knowles, Lil Wayne, will.i.am, Jay-Z and many more. The new album will be Usher's fifth after his first debut in 1994 with a self-titled album.

The first single that has been released from the upcoming LP was "Love In This Club", which features Jeezy. The song, that was dropped on February 26, became a hit as it peaked at #1 at the Billboard 100 chart.

Drew Barrymore was left unhurt in hit and run crash in West Hollywood on Monday, May 12. The actress was driving near Gardner Street and Santa Monica Boulevard just before noon that day when her car was hit from behind.

The offending vehicle, according to the explanation given by Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Kristin Aloma, sped off but was pursued by Barrymore, who managed to note the license plate before she lost the car in traffic. She then handed the number to the authorities who are still trying to track down the driver.

Plenty of unconfirmed updates and the dishing out of several previous rumors do not seems to stop media from uncovering reports on the forthcoming sequel of the hit 2007 "Transformers". Recent news coming from "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" suggests that the Michael Bay-directed film has become the latest addition in the list of upcoming 3-D movies.

This 3-D report appears to be holding some truth. It was revealed in page 14 of Dolby's promotional PDF for "2008 ShoWest Edition" as the newsletter exposes the list of slated 3-D movies in 2008 and 2009. Still, some argued that the 3-D release of this action film is yet a done deal. ComingSoon noted that the final decision on the third dimension format will depend on the availability of the Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D screens. Meanwhile, Bay hasn't come out with any comment regarding the matter.

"If I Never See Your Face Again", the collaborative song between Rihanna and Maroon 5 has got its video premiered. It was directed by Anthony Mandler who also directed Rihanna's "Unfaithful" and was shot in Los Angeles earlier this month.

"If I Never" is a song that originally appeared on the band's 2007 album "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" and its remix will be included in both acts' re-release album. Rihanna will drop the exclusive edition of her "Good Girl Gone Bad" album on June 17 while Maroon are yet to reveal the date of their album's re-release.