July 04, 2008

Reunited Boston rockers Extreme are giving a special treat for their European fans by giving one exclusive song titled "Americocaine" for their upcoming record "Saudades de Rock"'s European edition. Not only that, their devotees in the continent will also have the chance to purchase the new record earlier than their fans in the U.S. The LP's European edition is set to be outed on August 1 while the U.S. release is on August 12.

Prior to the new record's release the band's frontman and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, reveal some details about it at a recent interview with S&M Morning Show. Beside speaking about the new record, in the interview Nuno also explained about the cause of Extreme's breakup stating that he was the one to be blamed for it.

It seems that on-screen couple Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey could not get enough of each other. After co-starring in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" and "Fool's Gold", words are the two are going to once again play in another opposite attraction-type of movie.

This time, the pair is said to be sharing the spotlight in a remake of "Foul Play", a Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase-starrer 1978 comedy thriller about a shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling detective who get entangled in a crime case and with each other. On the movie project, Hudson has confirmed that talks about modernizing the film have been started, but no writer has yet been signed.

Beyonce Knowles reportedly is set to add 500,000 pound sterling on her pocket if she decided to play at the upcoming Bermuda Music Festival. Reports stated that Beyonce will actually received 250,000 for her appearance while the other half is being intended to cover all of her expenses.

The plan to tap the R 'n' B singer to perform at the festival comes directly from the event's organizer Rock Newman who stated that her appearance could make the festival gets merrier. "This event will garner more worldwide attention for Bermuda than anything that has ever happened here. Folks around the world are going to say 'Bermuda has got it going on!'" Newman said.

Have officially tied the knot in a quickie ceremony in April, Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen are planning a second wedding. The husband-and-wife tell In Touch Weekly that they're planning a proper ceremony in Napa Valley, California next month.

"We're doing everything all screwy. We got married, just the two of us, and then decided to do a second ceremony," so Jason told In Touch at the Verizon Palm Centro launch party in L.A. last Thursday, June 26. The wedding is planned to be equally nontraditional.

New rumors spark in the press regarding Lily Allen's upcoming album, claiming that one of the songs on the LP will feature a collaboration between her and Lindsay Lohan. It was said that the pair will team up in a song titled "Wherever You Go".

The news sparks after Lily and Lindsay were spotted having dinner together sometime along with the Hollywood babe's rumored girlfriend Samantha Ronson. Unfortunately there are no confirmations yet from both singers stating whether the news is true or not.

In March, "G.I. Joe" fans were given the chance to see the Hasbro's action figures in real life when Paramount Pictures revealed characters stills of "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra" and through them, it is confirmed that Cobra leader, Destro, is being depicted by Christopher Eccleston. Yet, recently some publication have posted an interesting news regarding the particular character.

Broken out by HissTank.com, report coming from their source at the European Cinema Expo on the casting for Destro suggested that the bad guy has two actors filling in, Eccleston and David Murray. "It would seem that David Murray the original actor picked to play James McCullen AKA Destro is still indeed set to play Destro in the G.I. Joe Movie 'Rise Of Cobra'," Hiss Tank wrote.

Uma Thurman is wasting no time celebrating her engagement to financier boyfriend Arpad "Arki" Busson. Their engagement was confirmed by her representative last week and the couple were quick to invite their A-list friends to a lavish engagement party held at his London home Tuesday, July 1.

Held in a white marquee at Arki's Kensington home, the garden party attracted a host of celebrity guests, including Claudia Schiffer, Elizabeth Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar, socialite Jemima Khan, Elton John and partner David Furnish, Sting and wife Trudie Styler. Other famous guests at the bash included Topshop owner Philip Green and artist Damien Hirst.

Kicking off the Fourth of July holiday weekend, "Hancock" has been screened on the theaters starting on Tuesday, July 1. Putting up movie star Will Smith as the titular role, the action movie is expected to deliver some impressive opening, but it seems that it embraced only a mild welcome.

From its one and a half day of screening from more than 3,000 theaters across the country, the film about the slacker superhero has collected as much as $24.2 million. The number is the accumulation of its Tuesday's night previews which generated $6.8 million and its first full day screening on Wednesday, July 2 through which it pulled in $17.4 million.

Closing in to the release date of his new record "Lesson in Love", set to out on August 5, a new song from Lloyd's upcoming LP has streamed. The new track which is titled "Lose Control" features the R 'n' B singer's collaboration with rapper Nelly.

Unfortunately, there is no official confirmation whether this new song is the third official single from the new album or not. Previously, promoting "Lesson in Love" Lloyd has already spawned two tracks, "How We Do It (Around My Way)" featuring Ludacris, on March 4 and "Girls Around the World" featuring Lil Wayne, on March 12.

Having a number of future projects in the pipeline, including two Disney Channel Original Series, a 3D concert movie, a behind-the-scenes book, and a sequel to their hit Disney Channel Original Movie, Jonas Brothers will soon add fashion designer into their career resume. The siblings are planning to launch their own line of fashion.

Kevin Jonas told Entertainmentwise about the prospect of launching a future clothing range. When he was asked if he and his brothers are thinking about an invasion into the fashion world, he answered "Definitely, we'd love to do that."

Horror thriller "Drag Me to Hell" will mark the return of "Spider-Man" series director, Sam Raimi, to his movie genre roots and for quite some time, this project doesn't have exact date for its theatrical release. But, Universal Pictures have brought a great news with the announcement of the movie release date.

On Thursday, July 3, the studio let out that they have set "Drag" to be outed next summer on May 29, 2009 in theaters across the country. Occupying the last weekend in the month of May, the PG-13 horror movie has been given the same time frame as Bryan Bertino's successful suspense thriller "The Strangers" which shows Universal's confidence in it.

Prior to the release of his upcoming record "Paper Trail" another new track from T.I.'s new LP has leaked. The new song that has been streaming is titled "Swing Your Rag" which is being dedicated to Louis Vuitton and Gucci rags.

On the track T.I. is collaborating with Swizz Beatz, who also acts as the song's producer. "Swing Your Rag" is not the only track from his new record that has streamed, previously in June another song titled "Another Day" has also leaked.

Following report that the latest "Harry Potter" drama will be opened with a big attack, a bunch of new photos from the highly anticipated "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has been unveiled. Two of them are coming out courtesy of MSN, two others from Mofiefone, and the rest from USA Today.

Most of the pictures posted below shows the stills from the movie, while one of them displays director David Yates giving instruction to Daniel Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright as Ginny Weasley on the set of the upcoming film. Besides providing fans with more images of the three main characters, Harry, Ron and Hermione, the photos also give a closer look into some of the other characters, Luna Lovegood played by Evanna Lynch, Draco Malvoy portrayed by Tom Felton and Professor Albus Dumbledore depicted by Michael Gambon.

Kenny Chesney's fans are set to enjoy more special stuff from the country star with the upcoming launch of his own radio program. The country singer has been given his own channel by XM Satellite Radio called the "No Shoes Radio", which will start airing from July 26 to October 25 on XM's channel 18.

The new program will not only give all the songs from Kenny's albums, but also some rare and never been heard tracks, exclusive broadcast from the country singer's concerts and special visits from friends and fans. Revealing about the features on his upcoming radio program the singer said, "There's a lot of hits, but there are also a lot of album tracks, songs from the early part of my career, stuff from our Keg in the Closet shows and obscurities that you had to be there to hear."

He's not at it for the time being. Mario Lopez has turned down an offer to strip naked for Playgirl magazine, which worth $200,000.

Bosses for the publication approached the movie hunk, who recently was named People's No. 1 Hottest Summer Bachelor, with the cash deal after they saw a series of photographs of him half naked doing their rounds in magazines. Lopez, however, turned down the offer, insisted "It's not something for me at the moment." No words if he would accept the offer in the near future.

Buzzes are hyphening around "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" since the spin-off to successful "X-Men" movie series has kicked off its production for its May 2009 release. Nonetheless, "Wolverine" isn't the only "X-Men" spin-off coming out in 2009. Marvel Enterprises have one other "X-Men" project on their hands, "Magneto", and the possible script of it has leaked out through Coventry Telegraph.net.

Whilst it has been noted earlier that the action fantasy movie will focus on young Magneto and follow him as he ventures to avenge the death of his family by Nazi and befriends Charles Xavier, the alleged script provides more detailed information on the story. The screenplay will be opened and closed with a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation. On the special occasion, Erik Lehnsherr whose alter ego in known as Magneto stands among leaders and survivors gathering in Krakow, Poland, to remember the atrocities committed by Nazi.

They have been dating for sometimes and it appears that they're taking their relationship into the next level. Paul Sculfor, the model boyfriend of Cameron Diaz, reportedly has moved into the actress' Hollywood Hills home.

A source told In Touch Weekly, Cammy and Paul "have been spending every night together. He doesn't have a house in LA and Cameron doesn't mind him staying with her. When he dated Jen Aniston he used to stay at hotels, but Cameron likes him a lot and always wants to be around him." Cammy herself according to the publication paid $1.5 million for the home, which she purchased and renovated in 2001.

After giving a standout performance at Glastonbury Festival on June 28, not to mention opening his set with Oasis' song "Wonderwall" now it seems that Jay-Z and the English band's Noel Gallagher are set to put down all their differences. The news comes from the rapper himself who said that after his performance Noel has been trying to reach him. Jay-Z said, "I haven't spoken to him. I heard he was reaching out, but I haven't spoken to him."

Not only that, speaking to MTV, Jay himself also stated that he is very welcoming to do any music collaboration with Oasis or maybe Noel himself if everything is possible. "Oasis as well - it doesn't matter to me, I don't bear any grudge, it's all good. I just believe in good music and bad music, I've always said that. You look at any interview from the beginning of time, I've always stated that I don't believe in the lines and classifications that people put music in so they can easily define it," Jay said.

Happy birthday Lindsay Lohan. The actress-singer turned 22 years old on Wednesday, July 2 and she marked the day in style.

The birthday girl celebrated her big day, holding a 1980s-themed prom night party at Teddy's at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Celeb guests, according to E! News, included Joel Madden, Benji Madden, David Spade, Audrina Patridge, Sean Stewart and Evan Ross. Lindsay's mother Dina Lohan and sister Ali Lohan were also there as well as brother Michael Jr. and his girlfriend.

Summit Entertainment have presented movie lovers with a look into their latest drama thriller "Knowing" by releasing its first trailer. Giving clues to the newest work of acclaimed director Alex Proyas, the trailer exposes how John Koestler played by Nicolas Cage comes across his chilling discovery of the incoming disasters.

Opened with a scene from 50 years ago when a classroom teacher tells her students to draw what they think will happen in the future for a time capsule, the video footage fast forwards to the year the time capsule is being retrieved. While other kids each get the drawing sketched by the past students, one in particular, Caleb Koestler, receives a piece of paper with rows of random numbers.

The face of the Earth is about to be changed forever and human beings are Earth's only hope of survival. In the freshly released teaser of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", that is exactly what director Scott Derrickson intended to deliver. Displaying a stunning special effects, the teaser views glimpses focusing on the destruction of the Earth.

Giving a real look into the re-imagining of Robert Wise's classic 1951 black-and-white sci-fi- film, the compilation of clips begins with a group of people gathered in a government building being briefed of what they should do. Before the briefing ends, a man calls on one particular woman among the people, Helen Benson, and tells her that he is recruiting her. Then, the mystery starts to unveil slowly but surely.

Lee Grivas, the former boyfriend of actress Christina Applegate, was found dead in the living room of his Hollywood apartment Tuesday, July 1. His body was discovered by a neighbor and he was pronounced dead at 5:25 P.M.

An investigation is under way to find the cause of Grivas' death. And while the autopsy has not been completed, authorities said that Grivas had a history of drug abuse and that an officer found a syringe at the scene. "Grivas did have a history of drug abuse, and our investigator found a syringe at the scene," Lt. Fred Corral of the L.A. Department of Coroner said in a statement. Though so, authorities are "not making any preliminary conclusions until a toxicology report is completed."

The highly anticipated new music video from pop diva Mariah Carey for her latest single "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" has just been premiered on July 3 via Yahoo! Music. Just like it was previously reported the new clip features the appearance of T.I., shot in Hawaii and was directed by Chris Applebaum.

On the new video, it can be seen that the pop diva really uses the beauty of Hawaii by putting some cool sceneries of the island especially the sunset footage. Not only that, the singer still keeps her sexy images for the new clip as in most of the scenes she was seen singing with just a bikini.