June 07, 2008

Through a soccer drama "Bend it Like Beckham", Keira Knightley makes her name noted in the movie biz and since playing the role of Governor daughter turned pirate Elizabeth Swann in the blockbuster Disney trilogy "Pirates of the Caribbean", she has morphed her characters into subtler ladies. Following her acclaimed performance in "Atonement", she has appeared in various movies that require her to go above and beyond. Now, the 23-year-old actress is about to tackle another challenging role requiring her to show more of her feminine side.

In the latest news about "The Duchess" star, it is reported that Knightley is in negotiations to land a role of Eliza Doolittle, once made famous by the one and only Audrey Hepburn, in the newest version of "My Fair Lady". As Doolitle, the Academy Award-nominated actress is expected to present a Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady under the guidance of arrogant Professor Henry Higgins, who later falls in love with her. Since the talks are still in process, confirmation words on whether or not Knightley nails the part won't be outed for awhile.

Fans of Janet Jackson have just received a disappointing news regarding her new album's promo. Latest report suggested that the promotion for Janet's latest LP "Discipline" could be halted after her label reportedly has decided not to release any more singles from the set.

Janet herself stated that news in a recent interview, saying, "It's pretty difficult to say what is the next single, only because of the record label at this point." She then added, "We started off with 'Feedback' and the label and myself haven't quite seen eye to eye since the 'Feedback' single so they've kind of basically stopped all promotion."

In support of Yari Film Group's upcoming romantic comedy "The Accidental Husband", a special blog site called 'Real Love' has been established since May 25. Designed to be the site for the go-to relationship expert Dr. Emma Lloyd, it offers variety of free consultation and quiz about romantic relationships as well as details about the love doctor herself.

Those who are in dire need of advise concerning their love life can submit their troubling problems on Real Love and Dr. Emma will give out advice through the site. In it, one can read numerous suggestions from the love doctor in different categories, including bad choices, dating, getting real and marriage. Aside from that, the site also serves to be the promotional site for Dr. Emma's best selling book which name is used as the site's title.

Hayden Panettiere is set to combine music and fashion as the singer prepares to release a new single that will be promoted by a fashion line Candie's. Hayden who has a contract deal with the clothing line will have her upcoming track titled "Wake Up Call" getting a huge finance from Candie's.

Hayden's label, Hollywood Records, said that the clothing line will pay most of the cost for the song's production which will include "a multimillion-dollar ad buy on cable and network TV, a print campaign and a music video." Reports also stated that the song will be officially released via digital formats on August 5, while the ad campaign is set to begin in July.

Songs from Lil Wayne's upcoming LP "Tha Carter III", to be outed on June 10, seem to bring lots of good fortune for the rapper. After his first single "Lollipop" has become the number one single on the Billboard chart, now another song from the upcoming record "Tie My Hands" is set to give him more royalty fortunes.

This fact occurs after the latest report stated that "Tie My Hands", which also features a collaboration with Robin Thicke, will be used as a soundtrack for an upcoming movie titled "Hurricane Season". Not only having his song as a theme song for the film, but Wayne himself will also play a role on that movie which tells about basketball and the Hurricane Katrina's after effect in New Orleans.

With the talks about "Spider-Man 4" continue to intensify by minutes, the biggest debate outpouring is whether or not Sam Raimi, the director of "Spider-Man" first three movies, will return to do the fourth. Recently, the filmmaker comes out to confront the speculation stating that he hasn't made any decision about it.

To the reporters in Century City, California, on June 5, the 48-year-old admitted that he is still waiting to read the James Vanderbilt's script for "Spider-Man 4" insisting that though he is excited with the new superhero project, he won't quickly decide on returning to helm the fourth flick before he gets to see what to offer. "Right now James Vanderbilt is writing the script, and he's working on it, and I'm excited to read it," he explained. "I think it's going to be done in a few months. I'm hoping it's as great as our discussions were about it and hoping it feels right for me, because I love Spider-Man, and I'm hoping I'm well-enough rested to, like, really embrace it and hoping that Sony wants me at that time to direct it. So if all those things come together, I would love, love to do it. But this is a lot of unknowns about the future."

Having yet release a new studio LP this year, Enrique Iglesias surprised his fans by premiering a music video for a new single titled "Can You Hear Me" on June 6. The new clip, which was directed by Paul Minor, sees Enrique singing at a club lookalike set and also in front of a full pack crowd with most of them being girls.

Not only having lots of women, but the new video also features some cool freestyle soccer actions. The short soccer features were installed on the clip because the song itself is being set as one of the official songs for the prestigious soccer tournament UEFA Euro 2008, that will kick off today (June 7) in Switzerland.

New report has just surfaced that Jennifer Love Hewitt is bringing her wedding to Scottish actor fiance Ross McCall forward in a bid to save him from being deported from the U.S. The couple reportedly are feeling afraid that a planned actors' strike over the summer will force Ross out of work and invalidate his visa.

Jennifer was reported to have initially planned to walk down the aisle after her and Ross' respective work schedules quietened down. She, however, was forced to hold her wedding sooner upon fear that Ross' work visa would probably be invalidated should he is forced out of work by the proposed actors' strike.

While waiting for the official trailer of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic books adaptation movie to be released, the fans of "Watchmen" have been given the opportunity to get a behind-the-scene look into the production of the action fantasy tidbit with the posting of "Watchmen" video production journal. The video comes from the film's stunt coordinator and thus, it focuses the stunt works.

The outing of this journal follows the release of previous production journal which explains about the costumes used in the flick. Timed at 2:25, it showcases several awesome stunts, including a man being thrown out from the second floor and another man being set on fire. The video journal also features the preparation of Douglas Chapman, the stuntman, before he is set on fire as well as the explanation from Damon Caro, the movie's fight choreographer and stunt coordinator.

A major collaboration is set to happen as according to latest report Foo Fighters could be joining forces with rock legend Led Zeppelin at a concert in England. It is said that the remaining members of Zeppelin might be tapped by the Foo to play some songs together at the "Learn to Fly" hit maker's final weekend show at Wembley.

The possibilities about the collaboration, surfaced after the Daily Star reported that Foo's frontman Dave Grohl is very keen to jam on stage with the Zeppelin. "He had the night of his life seeing Zep performing together after all these years and was really keen to be involved with them somehow," so said a source to the Daily Star.

A reconciliation probably is on the works for Liv Tyler and her estranged husband Royston Langdon. Just a month after announcing her separation from the musician, Tyler reportedly wants to save her marriage.

Tyler and musician Langdon of the band Spacehog tied the knot on March 25, 2003. They are parents to one son, named Milo William Langdon. Early last month a representative for Tyler confirmed that the actress and Langdon decided to go separate ways.

So far, everybody involved in the production of the "Transformers" sequel has kept a tight wrap over any possible detail on the movie. But, like any other well-guarded movie in the making, such as "The X-Files: I Want to Believe", the outing of crucial information is bound to happen. On Thursday, June 5, a scan of the call sheet for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" shooting on June 4 leaked out and it revealed major spoiler.

Posted by Transformers Live blog, the call sheet [ Sorry, Call Sheets link removed as the request of Paramount Pictures ] exposed some of the new transformers robots. Transformers Live noted the newest additions listing them with bits of detailed information. "Additional NEW Transformers from what I can tell is Arcee (the motorcycles), The Twins (the Ice Cream Truck), Stinger (a Porsche I think), unknown Decepticon (Audi R8), Wheels or Wheelbot (the Go-Kart?), Jetfire (the Blackbird) and a 'Constructicon Earth Mover'," the blog read. The sheet also showed that Ironhide was set for the filming at the Bethlehem set, while Bumblebee is prepared for shooting at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

"No Substitute Love", the latest single from British singer Estelle has had its music video premiered. The video not only features a cameo by Kelly Rowland but also Project Runaway winner Christian Siriano.

The video is opened with a jukebox scene where the single is selected from the collection and played. Siriano and Rowland are among Estelle's friends who spot that Estelle's boyfriend has cheated on her. As friends, they decide to tell Estelle by giving photo proofs taken from the mobile phones.

The new music video from former American Idol's sixth season champion, Jordin Sparks has just streamed on June 6. The new clip was shot to accompany her third single "One Step at a Time" and just like its title the video's sees lots of people walking on the streets.

The song itself was taken from the pop singer's self-titled debut album that was released on November 20, 2007. From that debut set she has previously outed two other singles, "Tattoo" and "No Air" featuring Chris Brown.

Previously denied rumors of a romance, Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish quietly confirmed their alleged love relationship, making their first ever outing as a couple at the 2008 Australian in Film Breakthrough Awards, held Thursday, June 5 at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills. The celebrity couple were seen holding hands during the fest.

"They were adorable," a guest at the awards event testified. "He had his arm around her and they were cozy and comfortable." Later in the party, Ryan rubbed her back while she leaned against his shoulder before she was being honored with a Breakthrough Award. The pair kept holding hands throughout the evening, People claimed.

Back in March, a teaser trailer of "Madagascar" sequel has leaked out. At the time, the follow-up movie was promoted as "Madagascar: The Crate Escape" contradicting report suggesting that the animation tidbit underwent title change and bringing up question whether the title will be altered or not. But, with the release of the second teaser by DreamWorks Pictures, it is clear that the sequel will be called "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa".

If the first teaser was attached to the DVD release of "Bee Movie" and accompanied with introduction from its voice star Ben Stiller, this one clearly made to introduce the movie itself. It focuses on the four main characters, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria as they board the old plane with The Penguins to go back to New York. Though the compilation of clips contains similar footages with the first teaser, it is presented in a more orderly fashion and thus, gives out idea about the movie.