July 17, 2008

Mourning time is over now for Tickle Me Pink as after losing their bassist Johnny Schou on July 1 the band have decided to move on and hit the road for a tour this year. Confirming their plan to get their act back after Johnny's tragic death, the band's frontman Sean Kennedy said, "We not only have lost a band member, but our best friend. The process is just beginning. We will never be able to replace Johnny, but through this tragedy we have all grown even closer together and are going to make him proud."

The band plan to start their tour on July 18 in San Diego, C.A. and set to close it on September 20 in Austin Texas. The full list for their upcoming tour can be checked out at the rocker's official MySpace page or at their official website. For the tour, to replace Johnny, the rock act have added a new face Joey Barba, who is also an old friend of the band.

Reports about "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" seem to keep pouring down. With the latest news from co-writer Roberto Orci insisting that the shooting was never really halted, actress Megan Fox revealed that the second movie adapted from the popular Hasbro toy line is indeed having lots of action sequences than "Transformers".

Sharing her experiences while reprising her Mikaela Banes role in the sequel, she confessed that the movie is having "like a hundred" action sequences. In an interview in Santa Monica, California, on July 14, the actress also discussed about the new Bumblebee. "There's a different Bumblebee, the yellow one that you see in the movie, that we drive. I don't drive it, but it drives at like 120 miles an hour, and we're in it with no seat belts or harnesses or anything. It's, if we die, we die, all in the name of Transformers," she explained.

British girl band Girls Aloud is invading the small screen. The music act is heading for TV, set to star in a new-developed drama series titled "The Secret World Of Sam King."

The series, created by record label Universal Records, will be shown exclusively to users of teen social networking site Bebo and will base its main character on American Idol judge Simon Cowell. The story of the series will be focused on the early days of the main character, a young boy, in the music business, showing his brilliance at spotting new talents just like Simon did during his youth.

The month of August will be made merrier with the theatrical release of Seth Rogen's newest comedy movie "Pineapple Express". As a part of the promotional effort for the promising-to-be-outrageous movie, Rogen and his co-star Danny McBride sat down with Trailer Addict to discuss the Judd Apatow-produced tidbit.

In the interview, Rogen who played Dale Denton and McBride who portrayed Red talk about various topics related to the movie from Rogen's favorite pineapple recipe to the disasters on the set as well as the concept of the film to the cross joints. The interesting discussion can be seen through six short videos posted below. Each of the videos displays the two answering one particular question.

New rumors arrives from Madonna regarding her upcoming Sticky & Sweet tour stating that she plans to put Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake performing on stage with her. The news was sparked by a source who told Thesun.co.uk, "Madonna is always trying to raise the bar and Britney and Timberlake on the same stage would be perfect."

Moreover, the source also claimed that the legendary diva has already asked the two singers saying, "They have both been asked but I think both are a bit reluctant. Britney would find it all a bit emotional and JT might not fancy it. More likely is that they both appear on different dates." The source then also added, "But if anyone can make this happen it's Madonna."

Is a world's famous supermodel, it is understandable that Heidi Klum considers her legs as her precious assets. Realizing that fact, she reportedly has insured the body parts for a total amount of 1.1 million pound sterling.

The Victoria's Secret angel has openly revealed that she insured her right limb for 600,000 pounds. As for her left knee, it's worth 100,000 pounds less, 500,000 pounds, since it has a scar on the knee.

After dropping their sophomore effort "Favourite Worst Nightmare", British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys have now geared up to put out the follow up for the latest LP. To help them finish their upcoming set, the band have asked the assistant of James Ford, who also worked with the band on their second LP, to produce their new record.

Confirming about the news, James explained to the press about the new album plans and also suggested that the work is still at an infant stage saying, "It's too early to say what sort of direction they'll go in next." But the producer also confirmed that the band have already gotten one song finished. "But they've got at least one tune up their sleeves that sounds massive already," he said.

Though his latest epic movie "Red Cliff" still is still awaiting for its official release date in the U.S., John Woo seems to be going ahead with another feature film project. The internationally acclaimed director has been reported to be talked into taking a director position for a comic book adaptation movie entitled "Caliber".

Apart from the report of him being signed for the role, no further details about his involvement have been shared out. The 62-year-old director known for his work in "Mission: Impossible II" is currently editing part two of his "Red Cliff" for January release in Asia. The part one has been screened starting July 10 in six Asian territories.

It seems that Natasha Bedingfield is very keen to do some collaboration lately, after confirming that she will be joining reunited boyband New Kids On The Block on their upcoming reunion tour. The singer reportedly is eying to work together with rocker John Mayer.

According to Rollingstone.com the two musicians recently have been discussing about the possibility of a collaboration. Stating the reason she wanted to work with John, Natasha told Rollingstone, "I love the way he writes, He's one of the coolest people in the mainstream. He's doing real music and not selling out. He's someone who doesn't get enough credit."

The awards event was held already and the winners were in. This year annual ESPY, stands for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly, Awards took place at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and was hosted by pop singer and actor Justin Timberlake. The 16th annual event will be televised Sunday, July 20 at 9 P.M. ET on ESPN, but here's a peek of the winners.

Professional golfer Tiger Woods was quite a big winner at the event, winning his fifth Best Male Athlete ESPY. He, additionally, also won two other awards, namely his fourth straight Best Golfer award and the Best Championship Performance award for winning the U.S. Open.

Columbia Pictures have given movie lovers another chance to catch a glimpse of their forthcoming comedy movie "The House Bunny". Releasing the movie's international trailer through its official site, the studio bring forwards more outrageous never-before-seen clips to be enjoyed.

Providing an in-depth look into the Anna Faris-starring movie, this international trailer is relatively shorter than the domestic trailer. However, unlike the latter which focused mostly on the satirical conversations, this compilation of clips displays more of the slapstick jokes as well as the comedic situations the main character is undergoing.

In Touch Weekly is reporting that Miranda Kerr and actor Orlando Bloom have split up. Rumor has it that the Australian model has cheated on the movie star with oil heir Brandon Davis.

Kerr and Davis used to be a couple before she embarked on a love relationship with Bloom. Now that reports have surfaced that the socialite has split from his model girlfriend Cheyenne Tozzi, new claim emerged that he has rekindled his romance with Kerr.

Rap music fans are about to listen to a masterpiece album from Jay-Z which will be entirely produced by Timbaland. At least that's what the famous producer promised as he was interviewed by MTV earlier this week saying, "I'mma make it a classic too. You better believe it. It'll be a monster!"

Confirming about his involvement in Jay-Z's upcoming LP, Timbaland said "He wants me to do the whole thing this time around." The producer then also added his belief that the rapper's new record will a big hit saying, "The Jay-Z album is gonna be phenomenal. You know why? We don't care. We're doing great music just to do it. We doing it for our fans who love us to say we ain't quit. I'm doing it 'cause that's my homeboy."

The teaser trailer of the upcoming comic books adaptation "Watchmen" is going to be attached to the highly anticipated summer superhero flick "The Dark Knight" which will hit the conventional theaters as well as the IMAX theaters on July 18. The fact apparently sparked a new speculation on the Zack Snyder-directed film.

Just recently, Cinematical reported that the Warner Bros. Pictures' adventure fantasy movie will not only have its teaser viewed in IMAX, but also have its full film version screened in those special theaters. Quoting their scooper, the site wrote, "Watchmen WILL be an IMAX movie in '09." Nevertheless, the truth about this rumor has yet to be proved since both the studio and filmmakers behind the film haven't come out with any confirmation regarding the matter.

The Inspirational Country Music Awards is about to have its 14th annual held on October 16 at 7:00 P.M. and before that the awards organizer has announced the top ten nominees on July 15. Among the nominees announced, are some famous names on the music industry such as, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and many more.

Carrie herself received two nominees for Video of the Year for her clip "So Small" and Mainstream Country Artist of the Year. That amount is the same as Kenny's, who was also nominated for Video of the Year for "Don't Blink" and Mainstream Inspirational Song of the Year for his song "Never Wanted Nothing More".

Words are the four pizza-loving ninja-fighting turtles are going to make another appearance on the big screen. And this time, they will go all the way meaning that unlike the 2007 CGI animated "TMNT", the new yet untitled movie project, "Untitled New TMNT Project" will be made into a live action one.

Announced through Playmates Toys website, it is said that Mirage Licensing and Imagi Studios have started to develop the new feature film and eyed it to be released in 2010. Furthermore, the making of this latest "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" feature film is claimed to be inspired by the success of "TMNT" which has collected $54 million domestically.

Is having the season five of her hit TV show "Project Runway" debuted on Bravo on July 16, Heidi Klum who serves as its host and co-creator sure has a very full plate on her agenda nowadays. In between her hectic schedule she, who's a supermodel, actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer, and also mother of three children, arguably is considered success in juggling her career with her personal life.

Her success in balancing her career and family life is apparent in the recent interview she had with gossip columnist Liz Smith. Telling Liz she's the kind of person who "always think about the next thing", Heidi admitted that she's "eager to do certain things" besides her current projects "because I still have ideas, and I want to make certain dreams come true and work on things ... and I'm very passionate about creating things and making things."

Could it be true that Justin Long has found new love in actress Kirsten Dunst? Both stars were seen hanging out together, walking hand in hand, only a week after he broke up with Drew Barrymore.

Long was seen visibly upset over his split from Drew, claimed as someone he loved very much, while he was out at Westside Tavern on July 12. Much contrary to the fact, he was spotted to really enjoy his time together with Dunst during an outing in SoHo on Wednesday morning, July 16.

Promised to be debuted attached to the theatrical screening of "The Dark Knight" on Friday, July 18, teaser trailer of "Terminator Salvation" has made its way to satisfy curious fans even sooner than planned. Posted via Yahoo!, the video footage doesn't really give out much of the plot but it surely helps the excitement to be built up once again.

Providing the first real look into the movie, the teaser focuses on the John Connor character. It opens with a footage taped from a camera in a moving car. Then, it cuts off to display a skull being crushed by a wheel accompanied with a voiceover from Christian Bale as Connor explaining what he feels about the future.

It was about a month ago that Mario Lopez, through his representative, confirmed his split from dancer girlfriend Karina Smirnoff. A new report has just surfaced though that he has found a new love in a blonde beauty, simply identified as Natalie.

Mario and Natalie were spotted together and very close to one another Monday, July 14, only to provoke speculation of a romance. They apparently stopped by ESPN The Magazine's ESPY Style Studio at the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles where he was in hand to help picking out some "sexy attire" for her.

Hayden Panettiere has taken the first step of promoting her music career by releasing the music video for "Wake Up Call". Not only the song would be the first single lifted from her upcoming album, but it will also be used as the jingle of clothing line Candie's.

The video basically shows Panettiere coming to a club and meeting a guy who becomes the target of her seduction from afar. She would frequently change her looks from the sexy blonde, to the classic brunette to a sporty girl with funky attitude. Explaining on the concept, the starlet said, "The concept of my video is to give a guy who doesn't treat his girlfriend well a wake up call and show him all the different aspects of a woman's personality. Candie's is the perfect fit because their styles are diverse and benefit the video, as they show off all the different sides of my character."

Just before its scheduled premiere date on July 17, Ashanti's new music video for her latest single "Good Good" has streamed on July 16. The clip was directed by renown director Melina and also features a cameo appearance by Nelly.

The clip starts with some footages of delicious food and beverages, such as pie, pizza, soda and ice cream. On the video Ashanti plays the role of Nelly's wife where she was working all of the household duties like mopping and shopping for grocery.

This coming Friday, July 18, the upcoming drama musical "Mamma Mia!" will be screened in various theaters across the country simultaneously for the first time. And, in the spirit of celebration for this opening day, Universal Pictures are going to conduct a "Mamma Mia!" Singing Contest on the exact date the movie is being released nationwide.

Open for general public, the contest claiming that everyone is a winner will be located at The Americana at Brand in Glendale, California and will take place exactly at The Green starting from 12 P.M. to 2 P.M. This special event will require the participants to sing one of the many beloved ABBA songs featured in the film.

Mena Suvari is officially off the market. The movie actress, best known for her portrayal as Heather in the 1999 film "American Pie," is engaged to her boyfriend Simone Sestito, whom she's been dating for less than a year.

Suvari, according to reports, met Sestito last year at the Toronto International Film Festival while she was promoting her big screen movie "Stuck". The pair were seen making the first outing as a couple October last year.