June 20, 2008

As "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is nearing its theatrical release, some of the cast ensemble sat down to talk about the family drama movie. The taped interview which is made in a sort of featurette shows discussions with Kit's depicter Abigail Breslin, on-screen parents and best friends, Chris O'Donnell, Julie Ormond, Zach Mills and Madison Davenport, and Mr. Gibson's Wallace Shawn.

Provided by MovieWeb, the interview goes over many topics. In it, O'Donnell confesses that he is indeed familiar with the American Book series and goes on telling his experiences over the matter, while Shawn speaks about how he feels working with the young cast. Moreover, Breslin, Mills and Davenport share their experience working with monkey and the rules they have to follow while filming a scene with it. Additionally, Breslin also revealed how she should fake the script she wrote using the typewriter.

Is reported to have been replaced by not so-famous younger model Alice Dellal as the celebrity endorser of lingerie giant Agent Provocateur, Kate Moss proves she still can give younger models a run for their money as she stripped off for W magazine's Summer Camp feature. The supermodel and mother of one has done some raunchy photo shoots for the publication, alongside fellow models Daria Werbowy and Lara Stone, both are ten years her junior.

The magazine's Summer Camp feature is shot by notable photographer Bruce Weber. The edition includes a cover shot of the threesome snuggled up in bed. Moss, who did the shoot during her brief Californian holiday earlier this year, is also photographed inside the issue, posing partially nude in a number of pictures.

Having just finished performing at the Bonnaroo Festival on Sunday, June 15, Kanye West is set to perform at another major concert. The rapper has been tapped to perform at the post race concert of the biggest one-day running event, Nike+Human Race.

The concert is being held in a unique way as in each city where the running is being held the participants will be treated with a special music show which features famous musicians. The event itself, taking place on August. 31, will be held in 25 cities in all around the world, and it will start in Taipei and end in L.A.

Right on the heel of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" release in June 2007, it was reported that J. Michael Straczynski, the "Babylon 5" creator, had finished the scribbling for the action fantasy movie spin-off. But, about a year after the announcement was made, words about the stand alone "Silver Surfer" movie has gone astray. That is until Straczynski opens up about it recently.

Talking to AMCtv.com, the screenwriter for Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" admitted that there is hesitation to move on with the project given that "Rise of The Silver Surfer" has been considered to be a disappointment. "It was one of those weird synchronicities. Whether or not it ever gets made I don't know because they were kind of disappointed in how Fantastic Four 2 did," said the 53-year-old. "And given how this will be a subset of FF2 in terms of the marketing strategy, I think there is hesitation there about putting it forward. The script is pretty good, I like it, but whether or not it goes into production, I have no idea."

The new music video from teen pop-rockers the Jonas Brothers for their single "Burnin' Up" has just been premiered on iTunes today (June 20). The new clip features a fun storyline and cameos from Selena Gomez, Danny Trejo and David Carradine.

The video starts with a scene where the brothers are sitting in beach chairs discussing about a girl, shortly after that they receive a paper from their bodyguard that shows them the activities they will be doing on the clip. The band mainly perform in a pool, which can be seen in most of the scenes from the clip, while each members of the band have their own mission. Nick Jonas plays in James Bond kind of story, Joe Jonas partnering with his bodyguard play a role as a detective with a mustache that is chasing over a bad guy and Kevin Jonas is being shown learning karate lessons from Carradine.

The sci-fi flick by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, "Wanted (2008)", has been given with the honor to open the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival and what better way to celebrate it than rolling down the red carpet to mark its first special screening. On Thursday, June 19, it officially kicked off the festival with its world premiere event at Mann's Village Theater in Westwood, California.

Whilst some of its stars, especially Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman were nowhere to be seen, the premiere was still worth to be noted with the attendance of the film's leading man James McAvoy and director Bekmambetov as well as the comic book's creator Mark Millar. The special event also saw Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Anne-Marie Duff, Lori Petty and many others.

Oasis are getting ready to release a new album and already set to expand its worldwide marketing further by signing a three albums deal with Sony BMG. The new contract will be a profit-sharing deal as the band will still create music under their own label Big Brother Records, while Sony only handles the global distribution of the rockers next three records.

Explaining about the deal Sony BMG U.K. CEO, Ged Doherty said, "Oasis are in complete control of their destiny and could have chosen to sign with anyone, or even go it alone, so I am delighted that they have chosen to continue to work with us." Adding to the statement above Oasis management principal Alex McKinlay stated, "This allows the band to take advantage of all the opportunities presented by the new business models available today as well as remaining totally in control of their own destiny."

Famed to be the founding member and frontman of hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am is about to break out from his musician image to be a mutant in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" the spin-off to the "X-Men" movie series. And, it seems that he is not shy in sharing his experiences in working for the film and discussing bits of details from "Wolverine".

Confirming that he will be portraying John Wraith a.k.a Kestrel who is one of the 'Team X' members along with Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, Mastodon, and Silver Fox, the hip hop star shared interesting facts about his character to MTV. "I'm a teleporter...I'm here, I'm there, I'm everywhere. Boom, boom, boom!" explained the band mate of Stacy Ferguson who is famously known as Fergie. "My character's name is John Wraith. He's a black Texan. He's not a cowboy, but his gear suggests that he is. He's just a badass who'll whoop your ass."

After having some of their tracks from the highly awaited album "Chinese Democracy" being leaked by Antiquiet.com on June 18, Guns N' Roses are making a haste response to handle the problem. After calling the website to remove all of the leaked tracks not long after it was streamed, the band reportedly are threatening to sue the site for all the mess it has created.

Previously, Antiquiet.com has boldly revealed to public that they have acquired some "mastered and finished" tracks that will be on GNR's long awaited LP and also posted those songs on their site. "I'd like to share with you 9 tracks from the new Guns N' Roses album, "Chinese Democracy". These are mastered, finished versions that you probably haven't heard," the website previously stated.

Brand new video footages from the upcoming animation movie "Wall-E" keep on coming out. After the release of "Lots of Bots" featurette few days back, another trailer has been unearthed. The fresh compilation of clips is entitled "Cities Trailer" and as the name given, it helps viewers to see bits of the ruined cities on Earth and the advanced city in space.

The considerably short trailer brings out more actions and adventures of which the moviegoers will be presented when they watch the film in theaters starting on next Friday, June 27. Displaying the detrimental condition of the Earth in 2800, it exposes a rather serious look of the movie suggesting that "the fate of mankind rests on one highly advanced machine" which is Wall-E. The mood shortly shifts to a lesser demure tone when Wall-E, the supposedly savior of Earth, is shown playing with a bra. The trailer further continues with snippets of Wall-E's adventure in space as well as on Earth.

In late May at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, notable filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has surprised many and generated much question on the truth of his words when he announced that his next feature film will be a World War II period movie with a title of "Inglourious Basterds". But, apparently, the man behind the success of "Kill Bill" is serious with what he has said and he is now planning to make the movie into two-part films like with "Kill Bill".

In the latest report from AICN, the site noted that Tarantino has done a nearly 40-minute interview with Enzo Castellari, the helmer of the 1977's "Inglourious Bastards", and through which it has been revealed that the 45-year-old is going to separate his version into two flicks. The reason for the splitting of the action drama is said to be stemming from the story that kept growing and growing when he did the writing and researching and eventually it became too big for only one film.

Following the success of his new LP "Tha Carter III", Lil Wayne is set to further promote the record by preparing to launch a new music video for his latest song. Wayne reportedly will shoot the clip for his latest single "Got Money" in Los Angeles starting from Monday, June 23.

Just like its single the rapper will also tap T-Pain to feature on the music video. Not only that Wayne will also reunite with the director of his latest clip for "Lollipop", Gil Green, who has also been picked to direct the upcoming video.

So far, clues to the sequel of hit blockbuster actioneer "Transformers", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", are mostly coming from the filmmakers behind the movie about the alien robots' war on Earth and the buzzes circulating are chiefly focused on the robots. But, what about Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes? What should be expected from the relationship of the two? Banes' depicter, Megan Fox, has the answer to that as well as many other things about the script.

Sharing her insight on the new installment of "Transformers" movie, the 22-year-old let out that amongst the epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, fans will also be presented with the blossoming romance between the two leading human characters. "Shia and I make out a little bit; I don't know if anyone wants to see that," confessed the rising starlet to MTV. The good news to her fans is that they will see more of her being simply hot as requested by director Michael Bay. "His main note to me is just to look hot; so I try my best," so claimed the actress.

Pop diva Janet Jackson can finally leave her disappointment over her label's decision on not doing more promotion for her latest LP "Discipline" as she reportedly has inked a new deal with MTV. Latest report said that Janet has been tapped by the music channel to work on a new reality music project.

The upcoming project's goal is to find new singers that can also dance, just like Janet, Justin Timberlake and Usher. Revealing the details of the upcoming project, the show's executive producer David Broome, told the press, "It's really about finding who's the next Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake or Usher.

It's not until September later this year that the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be held, but an announcement has been made that Neil Patrick Harris and actress Kristin Chenoweth have been tapped to unveil the awards nominees. Both stars thus will be on hand announcing the nominees for the awards festive, along with John Shaffner, the chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The announcement is scheduled to take place on Thursday, July 17 at 5:40 A.M. PDT at the TV Academy in North Hollywood, Calif. The actual awards ceremony itself is set to take place on September 21 and will be broadcast on ABC.

Just as it was predicted, English rockers Coldplay are set to start their domination on the U.S. charts as it has officially been announced that the band managed to score their first no 1 single in the U.S. chart. The rock act take their second single and album title track "Viva la Vida" to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this week replacing the reigning chart topper Lil Wayne's "Lollipop".

The rockers' success in topping the Billboard singles chart this week, make them the first British musician to do it since the Spice Girls with their song "Wannabe" in 1997. Beside having their single topping the U.S. chart, the band's latest LP has also been predicted to top next week's albums chart as its sale has already reached the 300,000 mark on its first day.

After releasing "Burn After Reading" red band trailer in late May, Focus Features follow it up with an international teaser trailer. Unlike the red band trailer, the new sneak peek into the newest Coen brothers' dramedy doesn't provide viewers with any background story to the film, but it surely displays much more funny stuffs to be expected from it.

Almost one minute shorter than the restricted trailer, the video footage displays fast cuts of the dark comedy movie exposing its five main characters in tickling situations. Opened up with George Clooney as he is suggested to be doing some welding work, the compilation of clips quickly cuts off to the scene where Clooney rolls down on the floor to reach for a gun and shoots down a guy, the action that comes as a surprise to himself. Then, it moves on with footages of Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. Many of the clips shown in the teaser have never seen before and it may force grins out from viewers.

Another Spears successor is born. Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger sister of pop star Britney Spears, has given birth to a baby daughter on Thursday, June 19. The newborn baby, named Maddie Briann, is her first child with fiance Casey Aldridge.

Maddie was born Thursday at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi. She weighed 7 lbs., 11 ounces.