May 26, 2008

All they want is a weekend of romantic getaway, but what they get is far from what they have bargained for. In the upcoming suspense thriller "The Strangers", Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman portray a couple stuck in a horrifying situation when they stay in a secluded vacation home. Before the Rogue Pictures' film hits the theaters, both of them come out to talk about their forthcoming movie.

In the sit down interview with Movie Web, the two actors depicting Kristen McKay and James Hoyt the couple who are being hunted by three masked strangers speak out about how it feels to work with first-time filmmaker Bryan Bertino. They also discuss their experience shooting in South Carolina.

After "A Hero's Journey" featurette exposing the story behind the lonely garbage robot has been posted online, another "Wall-E" featurette is making its way to the net. The new behind the scene video of Pixar's latest animation is entitled "The Man and the Machine" and through which movie lovers can see how the newest Disney's character came to life.

Presented by director/scribbler Andrew Stanton, the compilation of clips that runs nearly two and a half minutes focuses on the development of the lovable robot from the sketch to the actual animated version. In the video, Stanton explained that he has been thinking of making "Wall-E" since 15 years ago back to the time he was writing "Finding Nemo" as well as the difficulties of bringing the animation film to fruition. It also shows the comment from the producers about Stanton's work in the film.

Country music artist Toby Keith has been named the Highest-Earning Country Star in a new Forbes magazine study. According to the publication, the singer is raking in an estimated $48 million over the last year, thanks to his major endorsement deal with Ford trucks, involvement in his I Love This Bar & Grill chain of restaurants, and ownership of his record label, Show Dog Nashville.

Country trio Rascal Flatts comes in second on the list, with $40 million in earnings. The music group's inclusion in the list is because of their Top 10 2007 tour that proved to help them earning such amount of earnings.

Bad news for Scarlett Johansson fans who wish to check out her singing quality live on stage, as reports claim that she has no plan to do a tour. Scarlett who has recently entered the music scene by releasing a solo album "Anywhere I Lay My Head", reportedly won't take the album's promotion further by ruling out any upcoming gigs for it.

Moreover, a source from Scarlett's label, Warner Music, stated that singing is only a hobby for her and now that she is engaged to Ryan Reynolds a tour would be unlikely to happen. "It's purely a hobby for her. Now that she's engaged as well the opportunities seem to have become even more limited," the source said.

Is reported to have a baby daughter, Jamie Lynn Spears reportedly has picked up a name for her forthcoming infant. The young-actress singer and her fiance Casey Aldridge are said to have been planning to name their baby Emma Jean.

On the choosing, In Touch Weekly cited an insider as saying the name is on top of the couple's list of baby names. The name is meant as a tribute to Jamie's paternal grandmother.

The big green and raging superhero is getting closer and closer to its theatrical release date and thus more and more things related to the upcoming action movie are brought forward. The latest news coming from "The Incredible Hulk" states that the original soundtrack of the Universal Pictures' action fantasy can be pre-ordered before its release on June 10.

The soundtrack is highlighted with the score from Craig Armstrong, the critically acclaimed composer for "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet", "Moulin Rouge" and "Ray" among others. It will contain two discs, each will have respectively 22 tracks and 23 tracks within. From the looks of the song titles listed, the soundtrack may work as a spoiler to the Louis Leterrier's movie.

Having famous name such as, Tim McGraw on its performers list doesn't guarantee that a music festival would sell out. That's what happens to the Country Thunder USA music festival in Dallas which has to be canceled out because of poor ticket selling, despite the fact that Tim is scheduled to perform at the event.

Although the scheduled Dallas gig, which was planned to be held on May 29-June 1, has been scrapped, the Country Thunder general manager Glenn Starnes assured that the same thing won't happen on the festival's second installment. Glenn stated that the second part of the event which will be staged on July 16-19 in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin will go according to plan.

The released stills have given fans the chance to look closer on "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" characters. The teaser trailer has let out bits of the story and adventures to be expected from the action adventure movie. But, for those who still haven't gotten enough of the forthcoming movie, director Rob Cohen is bringing a great news by revealing the release of the second trailer.

Updating his official blog, the filmmaker shares that fans could expect the second trailer to be screened in about a month from the news date opening the theatrical debut of Angelina Jolie-starrer "Wanted (2008)". "There will be another trailer out with Universal's file "Wanted" starring Angelina Jolie on June 27th. Of course, I will have it here on my blog for all of you," so claimed Cohen. Additionally, on the message posted, the helmer of "Stealth" also explained how far the finalizing of the movie have come.

New rumor surfaced by the hour that Lindsay Lohan is engaged to alleged lesbian lover, Samantha Ronson. The engagement rumors sparked hot on the heels of her being photographed hugging and kissing the DJ at a party, thus added fuel to the speculation that she indeed is lesbian.

Lindsay was caught on camera getting up close and personal with Ronson at a party on P. Diddy's yacht in Cannes, Thursday, May 22. The actress-singer was photographed hugging the out-lesbian DJ in an intimate way, putting her arms around her waist. To make it far more interesting, Lindsay was even snapped sharing what appeared to be lesbian kiss with Ronson. Photos of the pair during the party have been all over the net.

Making a leap from music to small screen, Tommy Lee is about to produce and lend his voice to Fox's new animated TV series. The Motley Crue drummer is reported to have signed on to join the cast of "The Life and Times of Jimmy Jaxx," which will be produced by the team behind the 2007 film "Blades of Glory."

The Fox TV show, which is currently under development by Smart Entertainment to be screened on the Fox Network, is based on Lee's life story. It follows an out-of-control rock star on the road who tries to balance his experiences in a band with his calmer home life, but is constantly distracted by his tattoos which come to life and attempt to lead him astray.

No Israel drug treatment for Amy Winehouse. A representative for the troubled singer has dismissed the reports that Amy is heading for Israel within the next few weeks to undergo treatment at the Barzilai Medical Centre.

The Jewish Chronicle reported Friday, May 23 that the Barzilai Medical Centre has agreed to treat Amy to get sober following a request from her management. The Jewish Chronicle, additionally, also quoted Eliezer Cohen, chairman of the Israel Anti-Drug Authority, as saying "They spoke to a renowned Israeli institution and an Israeli professor who conducts a very special and effective method. She has requested to come to him to do this method, since it's a method that is suitable for her."

The news about Amy Winehouse's involvements on the new James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" takes another twist on its turn. After recent reports claim that Amy won't be taking part on the film's soundtrack, the singer has confirmed that she is writing a song for it.

The British singer confirms the news to the Mirror newspaper, while attending the Ivor Novello Awards on May 22. To the newspaper, Amy stated that she has finished the song and is still waiting for the movie's producer approval. "I've written the song. If they like it they like it, if they don't they don't," she said.

Having renowned director Clint Eastwood as its helmer and garnering rave reviews from movie critics for Angelina Jolie's performance, "The Exchange" came to the 61st Cannes Film Festival Competition with a head start. However, it seems that the film used to be known as "Changeling" didn't deliver that well. At Cannes' coveted awards ceremony on Sunday, May 25, the thriller tidbit was left without any awards.

For the coveted Palme d'Or award, the Universal Pictures' movie about a mother fighting to find her missing son has to admit defeat from the French movie "The Class (Entre les Murs)" by director Laurent Cantet. Aside from losing Palme d'Or, both Eastwood and Jolie are also singled out by Turkish helmer Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Brazilian actress Sandra Corveloni who got Best Director prize for and Best Actress kudo for "Linha de Passe" in respective order. Commenting on the lost, Jolie said, "If that happens and it goes to somebody that it boosts their career, that's great. Winning is not the important thing. It's fun to be here with something we are actually very proud of."

When it comes to donation, George Clooney is a total giver. The movie hunk initially was asked by a Kentucky museum to donate his helmet from the movie "Leatherheads." Allegedly was in his best giving mood ever, Clooney got the museum even more, the leather headgear and the rest of the football uniforms.

Clooney is a Kentucky native. He stars in comedy-romance "Leatherheads" alongside the likes of Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski. The film, which already hit the theaters last month, was set in the world of 1920s professional football.

Having yet releases his new album "Here I Stand", Usher already thought of a repackaged album. He revealed the idea in an interview with The Daily Mail Newspaper. On the interview the R 'n' B singer added that he plans to collaborate with Justin Timberlake on the re-released version saying, "We're talking about doing something together for the repackaging of my album. If we ever worked together, though, it would be the biggest record ever."

Speaking his plan to The Daily Mail, Usher also explained that despite he and Justin has had some problems in the past but they are good friends now. "I regret it, because he's a great friend of mine now. I was young and didn't know better. We were both being kids and he turned out to be a really cool guy," Usher said.

Nineteen years after he dominates the 1989's weekend box office with his adventure to find the Holy Grail in "The Last Crusade", Indiana Jones comes back digging more gold at the revenue tracker chart with the release of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". The fourth movie about the whip-cracking archaeologist opened strong on Thursday, May 22 and continued to excavate treasure over the three-days weekend making it the best selling movie this weekend that ended on May 25.

Debuting firm with an estimated $126 million after four days of screening in 4,260 North American theaters, "Crystal Skull" collected a respective $25 million from its Thursday opening and approximately $101 million over the three-days weekend making it the best grossing film of the year 2008 so far. The action adventure movie from Paramount Pictures is further expected to rake in another $25 million on Monday, May 26 to complete its Memorial Day weekend box office counting with a total of about $151 million.

The meltdown continues. Fresh break up rumors have hit Madonna and her filmmaker hubby Guy Ritchie yet again. Talk is heating up that they are heading for a trial separation this summer, with the singer is set to relocate to New York in between times.

"Madonna is miserable and has lost her desire to live full-time in the U.K." a source told the Daily Mail. "She leaves for N.Y. at the start of June and won't be back until October. She has talked about the children going with her but she hasn't mentioned Guy once."

A new music video from Kanye West has just been premiered, although it is still not confirmed as an official one. The clip is the second part of Kanye's single "Flashing Lights". The first part of the video itself has been outed on February 10.

The single for the clip was taken from the rapper's third studio album "Graduation" and it is the fourth single from that set. The song was serviced through radio airplay on November 22, 2007.

Nothing may taste better than when you have a legion of people celebrating your achievement in something that you really like. David Cook has just experienced such occurrence after he stole the crown on American Idol's seventh cycle. Not only did the Missouri native take the joy alone, the rocker already has a large base of fans even before he releases an album.

On Wednesday, May 21, 2008, Cook was declared a winner of popular singing competition, American Idol, that absorbed as many as 97.5 million votes from phone lines and text. His win over other contestant David Archuleta was particularly almost a knock out for the percentage was between 56 to 44 with 12 million being the difference. Cook who wept after announced as the winner, then resumed his victory by singing the winner number "The Time of My Life" that quickly proved his fans' existence.

Keeping their alleged romance away from spot light, Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong have added fuel to the persistent dating rumors. The supposed lovers reportedly were spotted kissing and dancing at the Dolce & Gabbana's annual party at the Baoli Club in Cannes on Friday, May 23.

Kate and Lance, as reported by People, kissed and danced to old Madonna's songs and other '80s favorites. "They were beaming at each other," a source told People, adding that they were "So cute." After that, the pair were seen chatting up briefly to Cannes juror Natalie Portman, who was holding hands with her folk-rocker boyfriend Devendra Banhart in a VIP room.