June 18, 2008

Has been keeping her personal life, especially her love life, away from media spotlight, it was not until recently that Sophia Bush publicly revealed she's back on the single market following a break up with actor boyfriend Jon Foster. To US Weekly, the actress spoke out about her split from the hunk, saying she and Foster "broke up, like, a year ago."

Speaking about her relationship with Foster post the break up, Bush revealed to the publication at the Switch Boutique Summer BBQ in L.A. Monday, June 16, "We are really good friends. We keep in touch, and we love each other to death." She continued saying, "You can love somebody, and not be in love with them, and I think that was a really valuable lesson. We weren't ready to get married, but it definitely doesn't mean we don't care about each other."

In early June, a big fat panda has reached out to his dream of becoming a kung fu master and dominated the box office chart with the release of "Kung Fu Panda" in the theaters across the country. This coming Friday on June 20, a compulsively efficient analyst, Maxwell Smart, will also be living on his dream of being a secret agent for the spy company he works for in Warner Bros. Pictures' newest comedy movie "Get Smart". But, with another comedy film "The Love Guru" in hot pursuit to pose a tough challenge, can "Smart" rise to the occasion and win the box office battle like when Po beat Zohan from "You Don't Mess With the Zohan"?

Apparently, many of the movie critics believe so as they praise the Peter Segal-directed movie to be an entertaining comedy flick. Commenting on the movie adaptation to the hit 1960s spy parody television series of the same name, Village Voice's J. Hoberman simply called this movie as a pleasant surprise given that it is "more an all-purpose (and often quite funny) goofball action comedy". In similar tone, Jeff Otto of ReelzChannel.com saw it to be "breezy summer fun". In a more critical approval, Emanuel Levy from EmanuelLevy.Com lauded Steve Carell for his successful attempt in delivering the spy nerd and providing the goofy moments.

Robyn has been tapped to become the opening act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour. The Swedish singer reportedly will join the pop diva on stage through out her August and September date which all of them are being staged in Europe.

The "With Every Heart Beat" singer will start her road trip with Madonna on August 26 at Nice Stade Charles Ehrmann, Nice, France. After that, according to the current schedule, she will join the multi talented singer at about 8 more venues, with the tour being set to end on September 27 at Athens Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece.

The fourth installment of successful reality TV series created by the collaborative work between P. Diddy and MTV, Making the Band is about to premiere its third season in August. The new series reportedly will still follow the journey of Donnie Klang, DAY26 and Danity Kane.

For the third season, the show will take the viewers to an inside look on Donnie and DAY26 at their first promo tour. It will show the audience how they would cope with the condition of leaving their home and friends and being on the road with new people.

Has pushed back the release date of his third studio album, "L.A.X.", from July 8 to July 22, The Game already planned a celebration to mark the release of the LP, getting a new tattoo. Instead of designing himself or asking the tattooist do design one for him, the hip hop artist is asking fans to design him one.

The tattoo should be inspired by the album's title, it's been claimed. Some tattoo image ideas have been posted on The Game's page on imeem.com.

"X-Men Origins: Wolverine", the spin-off movie from the hugely popular "X-Men" series, is currently filming in locations across Australia and New Zealand. And, with the crew being busy shooting for the action fantasy, a bunch of on-set photos has leaked out. The pictures expose the activities done while filming on Blacksmiths beach.

Outed by local publication The Lake Macquarie News earlier, the images display bits from what scenes are being shot on the particular day. Reportedly, the principal photography taken on the day of the photos highlighted on Wolverine landing on a beach with a band of World War II soldier. One of the pictures shows Hugh Jackman, the Wolverine depicter, wearing a soldier uniform. All of the images can be seen via Lake Macquarie News' photo gallery.

Having yet to release an album since "Hotel Paper" in 2003, Michelle Branch is set to mark her come back with a different vibe from her previous pop-rock sound. For her new LP Michelle will go back to her earlier roots and give a country feel on the upcoming set.

Speaking to Billboard.com, Michelle reveals some details stating that the new record is almost done saying that she's already "in that last stage of tweaking stuff ... where you can really go crazy trying to fix all the little things." The singer also said that her new album will very much be a progression from her band, The Wreckers' music.

With a list of action movies, such as "Gone in Sixty Seconds", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" and "Mr and Mrs Smith", on her resume, Angelina Jolie can be credited as one of the top Hollywood actresses who kick butt. Hence, it seems reasonable why in early 2006, she has been hit with speculation over her possible involvement in "Sin City 2". Two years have passed, but the rumor has yet being thrown out of the picture or being confirmed. Now, the actress has come forward addressing the matter.

In an interview with MTV for her latest action movie co-starring James McAvoy, "Wanted (2008)", the life partner of Brad Pitt opened up about the rumor stating that filmmaker Frank Miller wanted her to play the role of Dwight McCarthy's former lover, Ava Lord. On the occasion, when asked whether she is up for the role, the 33-year-old confessed that she still hasn't made any decision on it. "I don't know," the star of "Beowulf" stated. "I found the first "Sin City" impressive, but I don't know what they're going to do with the next one to make [it] as original as the first one. I'd be curious. I think he's a genius."

It looks like Young Buck feud with his former group G-Unit is about to end and there is even possibilities that Buck could reunite with 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo on the rap group. That news surfaced after two audio clips of Buck's apologizing to 50 by the phone streamed on June 17.

On the first audio clip, that was posted by Hot 97 personality, Miss Info, Buck was heard pleading to 50 and stating that he never considered himself leaving the group. "I done said things and I'm aware of some of the things that I have said but I don't want you to feel like I'm a Game or Smurf or none of them niggas man. Even if you did the worst to me there is nothing I could ever say to you. But I've never dismembered myself from the family or nothing because I always felt like at the end of the day, 50 is gonna love me for what I'm creating as far as me creating my own. I' m just trying to make you happy as far as dealing with my own label," Buck said.

Anne Hathaway has split from her long-term boyfriend Raffaello Follieri, the Mail Online reports. It's been claimed that the movie beauty has dumped the real estate developer after he was involved in a series of scandals.

Anne called an end to her years long relationship with Raffaello over the weekend. Word on the block is that she made the decision to split up with him after the businessman's charity Follieri Foundation, of which she used to be a director, was revealed to be under investigation by the New York State Attorney General's Office.

Previous rumors stating that Michael Jackson will be back to go on tour again turns out to be true following the latest statement from Swizz Beatz, who said that he will produce the king of pop's road-trip. Swizz stated the news during an interview with MTV saying, "I'm working on this new Michael Jackson s**t. I'm probably gonna be producing his tour and everything."

The rumors about Michael planning to stage a come back gig, have been surfacing in the media lately. The press claimed that the mega pop star is set to make his return by performing in Las Vegas, but it was said that the scheduled gig has been scrapped because the singer's unfit condition.

Adding to the many collection of "Wall-E" released videos, Walt Disney Pictures have released yet another featurette to the upcoming animation comedy about the waste compacting robot. The new video footage runs for about two and a half minutes and it discusses about the robots featured in the movie from director Andrew Stanton's point of view.

Revealing several unseen footages cut from the Pixar's flick, the featurette focuses merely on the robots that viewers will meet when they go to see "Wall-E" in the theaters. In it, Stanton and Bill Wise, the film's character supervisor, explained about the design of the robots and what is the ground of drawing the robots the way they are presented in the film. It also introduces for the first time the reject bots, the broken, faulty robots.

Has made her union with fiance Jay Barker official with a private wedding ceremony held last weekend, Sara Evans shared her joy, gave People magazine a first look at her wedding photo album. In one of the pics, available for view at the latests issue of People, Sara and hubby Jay Barker were snapped all smile, flaunting their wedding rings.

The bride was photographed holding a bright yellow hand bouquet, whereas the groom also sported the same bright yellow flower on the top-right of his coat. Recalling her nuptials, which was held at a Franklin, Tenn., farm near her home on Saturday, June 14, Evans told People "It was a fairy-tale wedding."

In 2003, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has received immense success as well as down-pouring lawsuits for his extremely controversial comedy movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". Now, the 36-year-old is gearing up to introduce another potentially controversial movie, "Bruno", and for it, Universal Pictures have picked up a suitable summer release date.

The comedy movie that is developed from one of Cohen's noted characters in comedy television series "Da Ali G Show" is now set to be debuted on the big screen nationwide on May 15, 2009. It means that the movie about the eccentric gay Austrian fashion reporter will be up against "Angels & Demons", the prequel of "The Da Vinci Code" which stars Tom Hanks. The release of "Bruno" on that particular day will also mark the starter kick of the summer movie season since the date chosen has often been identified with the beginning of the summer movie season.

The 2008 Teen Choice Awards, which will be held on Monday, August 4 and aired on FOX starting from 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. ET/PT, has announced its nominees on June 17. Among the famous musicians that were listed, Chris Brown has the chance to walk home with the most awards for the music category as he received 7 nominations.

The awards Chris is being nominated for includes, Choice Music: Single, Choice Music: Hook Up, Male Artist, R 'n' B Artist, Love Song, R 'n' B Track, Rap/Hip-Hop Track. Some of the nominations he receives is for his collaborations. In the categories Hook Up and Love Song, he is nominated for his duet with Jordin Sparks in "No Air".

Is a famous supermodel and with the title of the World's Top-Earning Model she has just earned from Forbes magazine, Gisele Bundchen sure has the things every other women in the world arguably would like to possess. Has almost everything, the Brazilian beauty once more provokes envy from many other females as she bares her curvy figure for the July 2008 issue of men's magazine GQ.

The catwalk queen is featured on the cover of the publication, wearing nothing other than black-colored bra and a pair of white shocks. She's photographed in a sultry pose, covering her modesty with a yellow polka dot blanket.

For the 10th time in a row, teenagers across the country are given the power to choose their favorites in the entertainment industry for the 2008 Teen Choice Awards. On Tuesday, June 17, the annual award show whose winners are voted by teens aged 12 to 19 has announced its long list of this year's nominees and the movie category has been dominated by romantic comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and drama comedy "Juno".

Both Universal Pictures' flick featuring Hollywood hotties, Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis, and Fox Searchlight Pictures' film starring rising star Ellen Page earned themselves five gongs each. "Forgetting" gathered nod for Best Romantic Comedy Movie, brought double nominations for Bell in the category of Comedy Actress and Breakout Female, and helped Kunis and Jason Segel to get gong for Breakout Female and Breakout Male respectively. Meanwhile, "Juno" nailed a count for Best Comedy Movie and put its two stars, Page and Michael Cera, for double nods. Page is up for Comedy Actress and Breakout Female, and Cera is in run for Comedy Actor and Breakout Male.

Nominations for the 2008 Teen Choice Awards, an awards show presented annually by FOX (United States) and Global TV (Canada), have been unveiled. The program, which honors the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, and television, as voted on by teens aged 12-19, will see teen sensation Miley Cyrus serves as the host.

As for the television category, the CW's teen drama "Gossip Girl", based on the popular novel series of the same name, is the biggest nominee, grabbing a total of 14 nods. It among others is nominated for the categories of Choice TV Show: Drama, Choice TV Actor: Drama, Choice TV Actress: Drama, Choice TV: Breakout Show, and Choice TV: Breakout Star Female.

Just as it was predicted, Lil Wayne's highly anticipated album has managed to break the 1 million mark for its first week sale. According to Nielsen SoundScan "Tha Carter III", dropped on June 10, has been sold over 1 million copies.

This achievement is not only setting Wayne's new set to become the biggest selling record this year, but also beating Kanye West's "Graduation", outed in 2007, that only reached 957, 000 sale on its first week. The last record that managed to hit the milestone on its early release is 50 Cent's 2005 set, "The Massacre".

Plies has just premiered another new music video from his latest album "Definition of Real" on June 17. The clip, which was made for the rapper's third single "Worth Goin FED Fo", is dedicated to the people who waste their life because dealing with drugs.

The clip starts with the graphic warning of the song's explicit lyrics and also the dedication letter. Just like its theme, the video sees Plies as a major and successful drug dealer who finally ends up being arrested by the police.

While the celeb-gosip blogosphere is already afire with rumors of a possible hush hush nuptials that 50 Cent and his rumored lover Ciara might have, a representative for the hip hop mogul was quick to issue a denial. Slammed Internet rumors suggesting the recording artists have secretly tied the knot, the representative insisted 50 Cent "is not engaged or married".

Set the record straight on that matter, the representative explained the ring 50 Cent was spotted sporting on his wedding finger which then prompted wedding speculation has something to do with his role in an upcoming film. The representative said, 50 Cent has been billed to play a married man character for the 2009 drama "Streets of Blood" a.k.a. "Microwave Park".

"Vicky Cristina Barcelona", Woody Allen's latest feature film project has become one of the official selection movies in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. It has been hailed to be a funny movie and the sexiest of all Allen's works. Now, one can judge by oneself whether the claims hold some truth with the release of the movie's official trailer.

Outed by The Weinstein Company earlier, the video footage promoting the tidbit provides viewers with a deeper look into the storyline than the previously released promo trailer. Though it shows lesser raunchy scenes than the promo video, this new trailer exposes how Juan Antonio played by Javier Bardem seduces Vicky and Cristina depicted by Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson respectively and be successful in it. It also displays the intricate relationship between Juan and his former wife Maria Elena portrayed by Penelope Cruz, who still has deep feeling toward her ex, as well as the complication coming along with the four characters' entangled relationship.