June 26, 2008

Waiting for the premiere of her music video for "7 Things" on June 28, teen idol Miley Cyrus told to the public that she hopes the clip could send a vivid message to her ex about the song's meaning. Speaking with Ryan Seacrest in an interview, Miley said that she expects that the man who broke her heart will call her after seeing the clip.

Revealing her intention to the American Idol host, Miley was quoted as saying, "I wanted them (sic) to be upset. That was my point. Maybe after my video we'll hear from somebody, because it's pretty honest." Commenting about the writing process of the song the pop star said that it was "a good little therapy moment The word hate could describe how angry I was. That's Miley going through, like, 900 emotions while I'm trying to write a song."

Back in late May, Sarah Jessica Parker has stunned box office watchers when her highly anticipated movie "Sex and the City" exceeded everyone's expectation and pulled in an amazing $56.8 million over its first weekend screening. Less than a month following that, the 43-year-old actress apparently is ready to move on with another movie role.

In recent report, the wife of actor Matthew Broderick is said to be involved in a negotiation with Warner Bros. Pictures for a titular role in "The Ivy Chronicles". If the talks go through, the co-star of Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page in "Smart People" is more likely to play Ivy Ames, an Upper East Side woman who has to start all over again in a downtown apartment after she loses her high-powered job and goes through a divorce.

American Idol 6th season runner-up, Blake Lewis is facing a big problem regarding his music career as latest report stated that the he has been dropped by his current label Arista Records. The media claim that the poor sales of his latest album "Audio Day Dream", which has reached 300,000 copies until this date, was the main reason behind the drop.

Confirming the news, a representative from Sony BMG, Arista Records partner company, said in a statement "Arista Records will not be picking up Blake's option and we wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors." Although having been ditched by his company, Blake is still under a full management of 19 Recordings, the company owned by the Idol's producer Simon Fuller.

The lesbian rumors that hit Kristanna Loken finally come to an end as it's been reported that the actress has tied the knot, with a man. Loken, who rose to stardom with her starring role as T-X in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," has married her actor fiance Noah Danby.

Loken and Noah, the son of the late Canadian artist Ken Danby, wed at her family's Love Apple Farm in upstate New York on May 10. The star made public the wedding news on her official website.

Throughout the years, Pixar Animation Studios have delivered one great CGI-animated feature film after another. With heart warming movies, like "Toy Story", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille", the studio have dug up massive heaps of golds at the box office as well as collected various coveted awards along the way. Now, as their latest hoped-to-be-great film, "Wall-E", is nearing its theatrical release, the animation production house are crossing their fingers hoping it to be their best work yet. And, it seems that movie critics have believed it to be so.

Gathering a huge pile of positive reviews, "Wall-E" has been mostly praised to be a stunning animation movie with a great big heart. San Francisco Examiner's Rossiter Drake complimented it to be "a wondrous work of the imagination and, to date, the year's best film". In the similar mood of throwing laudation to Pixar for their work with this film, Adam Fendelman of HollywoodChicago.com noted that "Wall-E" is "2008's first perfect film and one of the best Pixar projects of all time".

Daddy Yankee's new music video for his latest single in the promo for the reggae singer's upcoming LP "Talento de Barrio" has just been premiered on June 25. The new clip was made to accompany Daddy's third single "Pose" from his upcoming LP.

The clip sees Daddy partying at club, singing and dancing with lots of sexy girls in a very dark background. Beside the female models, the video also feature a special cameo appearance from a famous dance crew JabbaWockeeZ, that was seen doing some of their cool dance moves in some parts in the video.

Brooke Hogan is hot and sexy for men's magazine Maxim. The barely 20-year-old daughter of semi-retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan shows much skin for the publication's July 2008 issue.

Despite her young age, the singer and TV personality strikes some sexy poses on beachside rocks, dons only a bikini top and tight jeans which is undone on purpose. The other pics, meanwhile, show her poses in two-piece bikini, flaunting her breasts which partly covered with a wet white transparent shirt.

A while back, Summit Entertainment and Imagi Studios have unveiled the list of the voice cast signed to fill the voices of "Astro Boy" characters. What they didn't mention at that time is that sexy Hollywood starlet, Scarlett Johansson, is also going to be among the voice talents.

Though it is still unclear to what character she will be lending her voice, one thing for sure the 23-year-old will be joining Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy and Freddie Highmore for the part. Besides her part in this adaptation movie, the BAFTA recipient for her performance in "Lost in Translation" has several project under her sleeves awaiting for release, such as "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", "He's Just Not That Into You" and "The Spirit".

Tim McGraw was caught in rage over an audience behavior at his recent gig in Washington on June 4. In the accident that was also caught on video, Tim was spotted personally removing one of his fans from his concert and even threatening the man with his fist.

Just before grabbing the intruder by himself, Tim has actually asked his concert's security guards to send the fan out from the stands, saying "Get rid of this guy, security". But because the security guards did not react as swift as he would've wanted, Tim decided to handle the troubled fan himself by removing him from the crowd with the help of some of his crew.

Delivering a kung fu movie like none before, DreamWorks' latest animation "Kung Fu Panda" has wowed moviegoers as well as box office watchers with its major success of raking in $161.7 million from the U.S. market only. It is no wonder that early talks about the sequel have surfaced. But, is it true that "Kung Fu Panda, the Sequel" is on the way?

It seems that the news may hold some truth. In its latest post, TAG Blog has pointed out that the work on the sequel of the big fat kung fu enthusiast chosen to be the one to save his village from evil kung fu master has begun. "A story crew has started early work in Kung Fu Panda, the Sequel," the blog entry read, "even while animators are hand-drawing new material for the DVD of Kung Fu Panda, the original."

Following recent reports about his troubled gig at the Bonnaroo Festival on June 15 , Kanye West has finally shouted out his feeling about the booing and reasons for the late appearance. Writing on his official blog page, the rapper said that what happened at the Bonnaroo gig was the biggest insult for him. "This Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I've ever had in my life. This is the most offended I've ever been... this is the maddest I ever will be," Kanye wrote.

As previously reported, Kanye got booed by the crowd and also having his stage filled with thrown objects just before he started his concert. The incident happened because the rapper was appearing two hours late from his scheduled time. Shortly after the incident, the organizers told the press that the "Gold Digger" rapper's late arrival was caused by his over elaborated stage set that took too long to load in.

Bill Murray and his estranged wife, Jennifer Butler, are officially back on the single market. The couple officially divorced, according to court documents dated June 13 obtained by TMZ.

Butler filed for separation from the actor in a Charleston, S.C. family court on May 12, alleged he physically abused her and is addicted to marijuana and alcohol. She also accused him of abandoning and cheating on her.

Though previously "The Bourne Ultimatum" has been suggested to be the last of the action drama series to be produced, in early 2008, words are buzzing around the possibility of Universal Pictures making another "Bourne" movie. With a revealing interview with "Bourne" producers recently, it was unveiled that the speculation is true after all.

On the red carpet at the 34th Annual Saturn Awards on Tuesday, June 24, producers Frank Marshall and Tom Crowley confirmed to IESB.net that the fourth film "Untitled Bourne 4 Project" is indeed on the way. In fact, the producers already have one particular release year in mind. Unearthing their plan on the fourth movie, Marshall enthusiastically said, "Hopefully we will be shooting next summer for release in 2010."

Is busy juggling her motherhood duty with the lengthy alcohol education program she has to attend as a result of her DUI arrest, Nicole Richie is adding one more job into her pipeline, about to guest star on NBC's "Chuck." The TV network confirmed her starring role on the series to People.

Nicole, according to NBC, will guest star in an episode which sees her playing the role of a "snarky and spiteful girl who tortured" actress Yvonne Strahovski's character Sarah. She, however, regrets being mean to her after learning the fact that Sarah can split hairs with a Ninja knife.

Beside his recent feud with Ice-T, Soulja Boy has other stories that he reveals to his fans. Speaking to MTV, Soulja tells about new details for his upcoming album and also another music project he has been working.

Revealing about his upcoming album, Soulja has announced that he will change its title from "Back to School" to "iSouljaBoy", saying "It's called 'iSouljaBoy'. He also states that the album is almost done and also reveals some of the artist he is working with. "The album is gonna be crazy. I got more features on there. The first album, I produced the whole album; second album I'm looking to work with different producers such as Polow Da Don. I might collab with artists such as Bow Wow and Sean Kingston."

"Watchmen" has been scheduled to be released in theaters across the U.S. on March 6, 2009 and Warner Bros. Pictures have teased fans with the character stills from the movie, a peek into the Minutemen as well as production works done for the movie. The remaining question now is when the movie's enthusiasts can get a real glimpse into the movie.

While attending ceremony of the 34th Annual Saturn Awards on Tuesday, June 24, director Zack Snyder came out with a great news for those who have waited to see the trailer for the upcoming D.C. Comic's adaptation. In an interview, the man behind the lens of "300" and "Dawn of the Dead" gave out confirmation that the teaser trailer of his latest action fantasy film will be premiered during the theatrical screening of "The Dark Knight" starting on July 18. Adding to the exciting news, he also hinted that Nite-Owl's ship may be brought to the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con.

Kylie Minogue and her then lover Olivier Martinez have repeatedly been reported to have rekindled their romance. And despite their persistent and many denials, new report surfaced by the hour that they are back together as they've been photographed having a romantic lunch together at Vietnamese restaurant Ginger in Paris on Tuesday, June 24, only to spark other rumors of a possible romantic reunion.

Kylie and Martinez were seen having lunch with the pop singer's parents and stylist William Baker during a break from her KylieX2008 tour. It was during that time that the couple were caught on camera laughed and joked together. They apparently looked cozy and happy.

Previously, movie lovers have been presented with a series of trailers and a couple of featurettes from "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D", the upcoming 3-D adventure fantasy movie starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. But, New Line Cinema apparently have more things to be offered as they put out a bunch of new clips cut out from the film.

The seven clips released are each given the title of "Magnetic Rocks", "Nobody Moves", "Tracks Ahead", "Called It", "Some Sort of Fish", "Bottom's Right Here" and "Dinosaur" in respective order. Some of the clips are merely an extended footage from the snippet shown in either the trailers or featurettes, while some others display scenes that have never been shown before.

New music video from hip-hop artist Talib Kweli for his latest single has just been premiered on June 25. The new clip, directed by ICU and Paul Biedrzycki, was being made to accompany Talib's new single "Eat to Live", taken from his latest LP "Eardrum".

Just like the song title the video tells about people's attempt to find food, example of nutritious food and starvation problem. The scenes start with the story of a little boy who is searching to find something to eat, then in the midway of the clip, Talib inserted short clips about kids who have starvation problem and also him advising about the right food for kids.

The latest Hollywood celeb whose sex tape hits the Internet is Verne Troyer. And the footage the actor and stunt man, who's probably most noted for playing the character of Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, stars in already hit the Internet.

Verne's sex tape was shown in a snippet on the TMZ website which first broke the report. The video, despite being branded "sex tape", simply shows him and his former live-in girlfriend at their apartment, kissing.

Seeing the quality of the two bootleg clips outed earlier, one has to admit that fans and movie lovers alike will yearn for a much better look into the extended snippets from the upcoming "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" and they don't have to wait any longer for that. Now, the 20th Century Fox have released the official version of the clips.

Each of the two clips takes more than a minute to be viewed. Unlike the bootleg versions, the first clip is longer than the one outed earlier with an additional scene of a car is being driven through the icy road to a cabin in the middle of the woods, while the second provides a clearer idea into what Mulder and Scully are arguing about. Unfortunately, though fans could get a better look into the clips from these official versions, the clips still do not help to give out hints about the movie's storyline.

Is an actress and former fashion model, Ali Larter bravely bares her body in the July 2008 issue of Allure magazine. Not only the "Heroes" hottie is featured on the cover of the publication, but also is pictured in some raunchy poses inside the magazine.

"Ali Larter, From Jersey Girl to 'It' Girl to Hot Girl," so read the tagline that accompanies her smiling cover picture. The photos inside the magazine, which were taken by famed photographer Michael Thompson, see her dons polysamide spandex white bathing suit by Osklen which reveals her breasts.

Coldplay's new LP "Viva la Vida" has finally confirmed its top spot on the Billboard chart this week after managing to sell in total of 721,000 copies on its first week. This past weekend, the rockers' new LP has been tapped by many to overthrow previous chart topper, Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III", who dropped one place to #2.

This achievement matches the success of their previous record "X&Y", which was released in 2005, that also debuted at #1 on the U.S. albums chart. Although "Viva la Vida" managed to reprise "X&Y" chart topping success, the latest LP's sale is still behind the previous one as the 2005 set was sold about 737,000 on its first week.

Guy Richie is back and this time he brings in another movie with his signature complex and inventive storyline. At least, that's what is implied through the international trailer of his latest British gangster movie, "RocknRolla". The awesome looking trailer has been outed courtesy of Empire Online.

Giving a great introduction to the action thriller film, the video footage focuses on a troubled rock star presumed dead, a rare and expensive painting, American thugs, Russian mafia, British gangsters, and one Russian deal that ties them all together. In the trailer that is filled with men being slapped off, viewers are also presented with shirtless Gerard Butler and witty remarks that provide a bit of a comedy side of the movie.