June 09, 2008

Among the A-list Hollywood actresses, Reese Witherspoon can be said to be the one who has experienced working with different kinds of movie genres and is successful tackling them. She has been praised by movie critics for portraying an ambitious student in satirical drama comedy "Election", delivered a blockbuster hit with "Legally Blonde" and won an Oscar for her portrayal of notable country singer June Carter in biopic "Walk the Line". For her upcoming feature film project, the 32-year-old actress is going to undertake another genre, a romantic comedy.

The former wife of actor Ryan Phillippe has been reported to be signed to star in the newest but yet to be titled movie project from the acclaimed filmmaker of "Almost Famous", Cameron Crowe, the "Untitled Cameron Crowe Project". Together with renowned comedian Ben Stiller, she will star the film for Columbia Pictures, which will be shot in January 2009. Nevertheless, up to this point, what kind of character she will be playing is yet to be unearthed.

The new music video from Prima J has just premiered at Yahoo! Music. The clip was made to accompany the duo's latest single "Corazon (You're Not Alone)" and directed by Ethan Lader.

The video sees the girls dancing and singing in some different backgrounds, such as in front of a pool and in a club. The clip starts with the duo entering and discussing something in a restaurant before riding their jeep and went to party at the club.

One of the 'babes' is single no more and coming close to embrace her marital status. Keisha Buchanan of the all-girl group Sugababes is engaged to her boyfriend Dean Thomas.

Keisha and Dean, according to reports, have been dating for 18 months. British newspaper The People broke the news of the couple's engagement yet didn't provide the exact date on when he proposed to her. It is reported though that the couple are planning to wed next summer.

Back in May after "Iron Man" secured its position as one of the summer blockbuster movies with the massive debut of $102.1 million over its first week of screening, Marvel Entertainment announced that the action film will get its sequel in 2010. Since then, many reports speculated around the sequel, including about the signing back of director Jon Favreau. Amidst the rumors, it is now suggested that "Iron Man 2" is eyeing an early 2009 production.

Reportedly, the follow-up to the superhero tidbit will be kicking off its filming in March 2009 for 2010 release. This report has firstly been brought to the surface by Military.com. In their article focusing on the interview with Colonel James 'Rhodey' Rhodes' depicter Terrence Howard, the site noted that the actor allegedly revealed about the schedule date for the shooting.

New reports has just surfaced regarding Mariah Carey's upcoming third single "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time," saying that the pop diva will be adding something special for the song and its music video. According to Mariah official website, the pop singer will tap T.I. to be featured on the new single's music video and also a remix of that song.

Moreover, the website also claimed that T.I. has already flown to the set where the video is being shot which is in Hawaii. Previously, Mariah has also confirmed that the clip for her third single will be directed by renown director Chris Applebaum.

Before moviegoers are rushing to the theaters on June 27 to watch the newest Disney animated feature film "Wall-E", Walt Disney Pictures have brought forwards a series of never before seen footages from the movie. The brand new released footages have been compiled in both TV spot and clip.

The television promo of "Wall-E" was aired during the NBA game between Boston Celtics and L.A. Lakers on Thursday, June 5. It opens with a scene in which Wall-E is playing with a basket ball which is then followed with compilation of clips focusing on the adventure of the little garbage robot away from Earth.

It seems that Paul McCartney is about to announce a shocking and disappointing news as latest reports claim that the legendary musician might not go on tour again. It is said that Paul is preparing to do one last mega tour before he will stop and spend more of his time with his daughter Beatrice.

That news comes from a source close to Paul who told Mirorr.co.uk, "Paul explained that this tour will be the last big one. He wants to settle down and enjoy Beatrice's childhood." The source also added, "The tour will be the last time he performs in many parts of the world. Beatrice and his family life are going to come first. He does not want to be away for months at a time."

New couple alert: Gemma Arterton and Toby Kebbell. Both are co-stars in the upcoming action-thriller flick "RocknRolla" and become close to each other during the filming of the movie.

According to report, Gemma fell for Toby's charms while working together for the movie. Britain's Mail On Sunday was informed by a source as saying, "Romance is on the cards. They hit it off when they were making RocknRolla and fell for each other on set."

Another unpleasant news regarding The Game's new album surfaces again, stating that the release date for his "L.A.X." is being pushed back again. After having been re-scheduled to July 8, now the upcoming LP is having a new release date, which is on July 15.

It is for the second time that the rapper's new record has its date being pushed back after it was previously scheduled to hit the stores on June 24 before being re-scheduled to July 8. Having the same release date with G-Unit's "Terminate On Sight" was the reason behind the first pushed back, while for the second delay there is no explanation yet by either Game or his label.

Arguably provokes jealousy among women as she quickly gains back her svelte figure soon after giving birth to her twins, Jennifer Lopez is keen enough to share the secret that does her body good. The actress-singer reportedly is working on a range of exercise clothes, which is meant to inspire her own battle to regain her pre-pregnancy figure.

She is said to have been wanting the exercise clothing line to go on sale alongside her current J.Lo, SweetFace and JustSweet lines. "She has some street gear already in her lines, but she wants something exclusively for sneakers, yoga pants and dance gear. She wants it to look great in the gym and in the street, and to be affordable and functional," a source told OK! magazine.

Months earlier at the New York Comic Con, it has been unraveled that Tony Stark, the genius billionaire whose alter ego is known as "Iron Man", will be making a cameo appearance in "The Incredible Hulk". However, any previous video related to the superhero flick has yet to give evidence to the appearance of the fellow Marvel superhero. Now, a brand new television promo of the film unearthed Stark's part in the movie.

The new video footage promoting "Incredible Hulk", posted as TV spot #9 below, exposes Stark right from the start. Following the fading away of Marvel Studios logo, one particular scene takes over. The scene opens with a shot of a bar focusing on the door from where the sun shines through. Then, it continues by showing Robert Downey Jr.'s Stark stands in front of General Thunderbolt Ross about the unusual problem they both faced. Aside from this spots, Universal Pictures have also released several other TV spots that can also be watched below.

With six studio albums and numerous monster hits behind her resume, Alanis Morissette is not a singer to be taken lightly. The multiple Grammy Awards winner, steps up with a seventh album, "Flavors of Entanglement" on June 10, marking her way to be one of Canada-borns who makes it big worldwide.

The record has generally received favorable reviews from music critics, including The Sun's Darryl Sterdan who gave the set 3 out of 5 for being "more mature. More grounded. More forgiving." Although some still deem her songs in the "Entanglement" as "angry", Alanis assured the public that the expression was not an angst towards her ex, Ryan Reynolds', engagement to Scarlett Johansson. "I'm really happy for him," she clarified.

New report of a romance rocks the music industry. It is reported that hip-hop artist Rick Ross is dating troubled female rapper Foxy Brown.

MediaTakeOut broke the rumors of a romance between the two recording artists last week. The site claimed the two of them were spotted getting cozy at his video shoot over the weekend.

In about a month, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe", the so-called sequel to 1998's sci-fi movie "The X-Files" will be screened in the theaters ten years after the first film has been released. However, before the stand alone flick is even available in the big screen, words are out that more "X-Files" sequels may be developed.

The rumor was sparked by David Duchovny, the depicter of FBI agent Fox Mulder. In an interview with Wizard Magazine published on the magazine issue number 201, the 47-year-old actor hinted on the possibility of working on another "X-Files" movies. "I know it took me about a year to feel whole after the show was over. After that point I was ready, and it was always my intention, my desire, that the show would continue on in movie form," confessed the two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor.

After going to Italy to shoot the music video for their first single "Violet Hill", Coldplay reportedly are set to fly to another major European country for their second clip. The English rockers plan to shoot their new video at a beach in Holland and it will be directed by famous director Anton Corbijn.

The band tapped Anton because they want their next video to be a special and the best video ever. Explaining about their upcoming work with Anton, the band's vocalist Chris Martin said to the press, "We're trying an experiment with him. It could be a disaster, but it could be OK."

Sunday, June 8, night passed by with a considerably eventful evening. The day was highlighted with the rolling out of green carpet and the erecting of a big green raging hero's statue at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California for the world premiere of the highly anticipated action movie "The Incredible Hulk".

Though the first screening was not flooded with numerous Hollywood stars like the premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Sex and the City", it still saw many notable people grazing its out-of-ordinary green carpet. Among the attendees were the cast, including Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt, and celebrity guests, such as Alison Sweeney, filmmaker Jon Favreau, Julie Benz, Kevin Sorbo and comic legend Stan Lee. Adding to the report, Entertainment Tonight has posted video interview with Norton and Tyler at the green carpet which can be seen below.

Previous news about Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin's collaboration in Foo's final gig at Wembley on June 7, was not just rumors as the two bands did team up that day. Those bands took the stage and performed two songs from the Zeppelin, which was "Rock and Roll" and "Ramble On".

Unfortunately, the Zeppelin did not arrived with all of their full members as their lead vocalist Robert Plant was still busy with his music project in U.S. The legendary rockers were only being represented with two original members, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist, John Paul Jones.

Amy Winehouse keeps going from one low to another. The troubled singer was caught in yet another shameful video which shows her surrounded by evidence of drugs and sang a racist song. The video, which was taken from the early days of her marriage to husband Blake Fielder-Civil last year, was reportedly handed to the News of the World by a friend.

It was reported that the home video footage was taken by Blake, who is currently in prison facing trial for GBH and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, in May 2007 after their top secret wedding in Miami. The clip shows Amy and a female friend singing racist football chants to the tune of children's song "Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes."

In 2006, most moviegoers were tickled out by the performance of Steve Martin as the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau in "The Pink Panther". Now, the comedian is attempting to force laughters out from the moviegoers once again through the upcoming "Pink Panther" sequel. But, since the comedy film is still months away from its trailer release, Sony Pictures have brought out first the teaser trailer of "The Pink Panther 2".

This teaser surely won't give out any details to the follow-up movie since it isn't compiled from the footages from the new film. Instead, the less than two minutes video footage seems to be especially made to remind people of the comical French detective. By that, it means that the teaser focuses at Clouseau and his inept behavior as he tries to see a matinee by any means necessary. The video is arguably very funny and Martin's fans who expect him reprising his role as Clouseau can once again hear his laughable French accent.

Finally the highly awaited new music video from reunited boy band New Kids On The Block for their new single "Summertime" has premiered on June 8. The clip which was directed by Thomas Kloss is the group's first in 14 years.

The music video is being set to go along with the tittle as it sees the New Kids leaving for a tropical island to enjoy there summertime. The clip features the band enjoying their time accompanied by lots of sexy girls and some shots of their trademark dance stuffs. The boy band also look a little bit younger on the new video.

Coming out in theaters on the same weekend on June 6, the two potentially high-grossing summer movies, "Kung Fu Panda" and "You Don't Mess With the Zohan", seek to beat the other at the weekend box office and like in every other competition, there will always be a winner. In this case, the big lazy panda aspiring to be kung fu legend outgunned the Mossad agent turned hairstylist by landing atop box office chart and proved critics wrong securing a strong lead against "Zohan".

Though most box office watchers predicted that "Panda" and "Zohan" will have a tight race on the ticket sales, the animation comedy offered a big surprise when it debuted with $60.2 million, over $20 million more than the "Zohan" opening of $38.5 million. The DreamWorks Animation's tidbit featuring the voices of Jack Black and Angelina Jolie has shown its solid run since Friday, June 6, by grossing $20.3 million, while "Zohan" earned nearly $15 million.

Just before its scheduled premiere date at Yahoo! Music on June 12, Ray J's new clip for the single "Gifts" has streamed on YouTube. The new clip was directed by two renown directors, Dale "Rage" Resteghini & John Franck. The scenes starts with Ray rapping and dancing with a female model.

Beside the the dance scenes with the model, the video also sees some cool and funny dance moves that Ray did with his dancers. Not only that, just like the title of the song, there are some scenes that show the rapper receiving some gifts from his girlfriend on the clip.

Has been waiting in anticipation for the arrival of her first child ever, Jessica Alba is now officially a mother. She gave birth to a baby girl this weekend at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Details of the newborn baby, the exact date when she was born and her name have not been disclosed.

US Weekly which broke the news quoted Alba's father Mark Alba as saying, his granddaughter is "beautiful." Warren, meanwhile, was seen carrying food into the maternity ward Sunday, June 8. A representative for Alba declined to comment on that matter though.