July 18, 2008

Lionsgate Films apparently still are not settled in with their last rescheduling of their forthcoming horror thriller "My Bloody Valentine". Having moved the 3-D film's release date forward previously, the studio once again made an adjustment of its theatrical release pushing it a week ahead.

With the new schedule on January 16, 2009, the flick won't have to battle against another horror flick, "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" set to be screened on January 23, 2009. Still, the updated agenda puts it to be up against the Wachowski brothers' action film "Ninja Assassin". Originally, "Bloody Valentine" was slated to hit the big screen on February 13, 2009.

After delivering the likes of U2 and The Corrs, Ireland is about to introduce another act that is set to make a mark on the music scene. The new singer that will follow the footsteps of those well-known musicians is a 21-year-old female rock singer called Lesley Roy.

Marking her debut on the music scene, the singer is set to drop her first record "Unbeautiful" via Jive Records in the third quarter of this year. Promoting the new record, Lesley has spawned her first single "I'm Gone I'm Going", which can be heard on her official MySpace page and her official website.

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix's music are finally being made available on famous music game "Guitar Hero". This happened after the company that owned the rights for all of Hendrix's music Experience Hendrix has agreed to release the legend's music for the new installment of the famous game "Guitar Hero: World Tour", which will be dropped on October 27.

Both representatives from Hendrix and the game producers have confirmed the news to the press. "Guitar Hero really was on the ball and and they were biting at the bit to get this out this year, so, we just accommodated them, " Janie Hendrix representing Experince Hendrix explained. "Jimi was a kid at heart - he definitely would have played these games." Meanwhile, a spokesperson from the game's publiser, Aaron Grant told AP, "It's the first time Hendrix's likeness will be showcased in the game."

Known for his work in "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream" trilogy, the famed horror film creator Wes Craven has one new feature film under his sleeves, "25/8". Last April, the movie has fallen into production shooting in various locations in Connecticut. Now, though the project is currently still undergoing filming, an official synopsis has been shared out.

Basically giving the similar idea as the previous outed plot, the storyline description tells more of the leading character Adam 'Bug' Heller and brings up more question to who the killer is. "In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died," the synopsis begins.

Has been a model for decades, Kate Moss is rumored to have been planning to quit modeling, much to everyone's surprise. On her alleged decision, it's said that she made it after realizing the fact that modeling "is a bit brain-damaging."

Moss, who was catapulted into the limelight after she was discovered by a modeling scout in the U.K. at the age of 14, said she now wants to spend her time designing, planning to expand her line at British high street chain Top Shop. Beyond her modeling career, she in fact has gotten into business and designing in recent years. In addition to the fashion line, she's having a perfume to be launched in America this month and a hair-care line that has been a huge success in Europe.

Matthew McConaughey is expanding his career on the entertainment scene by entering the music world. Matthew reportedly has built his own record label and has already had an artist set to be promoted.

According to a source the actor is currently seeking for distributional support from major labels to help his new record company. "He's looking for a distribution deal with all the major labels for his own label," the source said.

Just hours earlier, fans have been presented with a real look into the forthcoming comic book adaptation "Watchmen" through the release of its first teaser trailer. To make sure that the excitement does not rub off quickly, director Zack Snyder unveiled that if viewers watch the teaser closely, they will see the secret hidden.

Discussing further on the subject, Snyder revealed that he has done something to the teaser like what he has done with the "300" trailer in which he snuck in Rorschach test footage. The particular part where he hid the easter egg would be seen when the player hit the 1:30 mark in which it displays the clip where Ozymandias avoids an assassination attempt.

Amanda Bynes is hit with dating rumors. The young actress-singer is rumored to be dating "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane. Not without reason, but the dating rumors sparked after both of them were spotted enjoying a night out together in Los Angeles.

MacFarlane, who split from his actress girlfriend Eliza Dushku earlier this year, reportedly was seen embracing the 22-year-old star at an L.A. party recently. They were later on spotted leaving the scene together.

With the twins of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were already born, people arguably would like to know his then wife Jennifer Aniston's comment. Apparently is over from their failed marriage as she's found new love in singer boyfriend John Mayer, the "Friends" star is said to be feeling happy for the power couple.

A friend for Aniston told US Weekly that the actress is happy for Pitt and Jolie. The magazine cited the friend as saying, Aniston hopes the twins; Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline "are beautiful." The friend continued saying, "She'd never want anyone to be unhappy with their kids."

The awards-winning British actress Emma Thompson is going to add another feature film to her writing resume. The "Nanny McPhee" star has been touted to write the script of a drama musical remake "My Fair Lady".

Having won an Academy Award for her screenplay in 1995 Jane Austen's novel adaptation "Sense and Sensibility", this job of scripting the George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion musical should not be a hard work for the depicter of Professor Sybill Trelawney in "Harry Potter" franchise. But, she admits to Parade magazine recently that the script won't be finished soon.

Prior to the official premiere of his new video clip on FNMTV today (July 18), a 30 second preview for Nelly's "Body On Me" has streamed. The sneak peak clip showed a glimpse of what the full music video will offer to fans.

On the preview video, Nelly was seen sitting on a pool side chair rapping and checking out a girl played by Ashanti. Not only that, the short clip also showed Akon's appearance, who was accompanied by a model girl at a party.

Metallica's preparation to drop their new record "Death Magnetic" is getting to its final stage with the official release of their new album's cover. The cover art for the upcoming album was revealed by the rockers on July 17.

The image of the cover seems set to support the album's title as it shows the picture of a coffin surrounded by what looks to be a magnetic fields. The picture is placed on a white background with the Metallica logo alongside the LP's title being put right under the coffin.

Hollywood's speculation on Jennifer Garner's second pregnancy can finally come to an end, now that a confirmation is obtained by US Weekly from the actress' celebrity friend Victor Garber. The Emmy-award nominated actor confirmed Tuesday, July 15 that his "Alias" co-star indeed is pregnant with her second child.

When he was asked if the persistent speculation on Garner's second pregnancy was true, Garber said "Yes, she is." To make the confirmation much more interesting, US Weekly also quoted a source as saying the actress is five months pregnant and that she and her actor husband Ben Affleck "are very happy" with the not-yet-born baby.

The buzz around the possible development of another "RoboCop" movie is clearly hyped up. Following speculation that "The Fountain" filmmaker Darren Aronofsky is the front runner to direct the movie project, recent words circulating around sparked an opposing statement to the suggested remake idea.

The latest report from Bloody-disgusting provided hint that this "RoboCop" feature film project is more likely to be a sequel rather than a reboot like what has been put out before. The new speculation was sparked by the film's logline which read, "Present day Los Angeles, 20 years after the termination of the RoboCop program, the city decides to reinstate the program."

Bad news comes from Nelly Furtado after her latest gig in Russia, held on July 13 has turned into a massive riot. The accident happened after the event's official rejected a local rapper Timati who was trying to get on the stage to perform with the singer.

The rapper's duet with Furtado was actually planned to happen but for some reasons the official refuses to let the rapper joins the pop star on stage. Somehow the incident then got worse and turned into a big brawl that involved about 20 people including Timati and the "Like a Bird" singer's bodyguards.

For those who is yearning to know more about the upcoming action flick "Terminator Salvation", there is an interesting news coming out recently. The latest report concerning the movie suggested that the artificially intelligent cyborg portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first three "Terminator" films will be making an appearance in this fourth movie.

Unlike in the first three films though, the T-800 series robot won't be starred by its original depicter but instead opts to go with another former bodybuilder Roland Kickinger. Reported by The Clinton News-Record, it is noted that in the forthcoming movie, there will be a scene showing the first meeting between John Connor and the Terminator.

Going against Internet reports that Miranda Kerr has ditched Orlando Bloom for ex-boyfriend, oil heir Brandon Davis, her family said the supermodel and the actor "have never been closer." A story on the website of U.S. tabloid magazine In Touch Weekly quoted an 'insider' as saying the couple have split and "that she has rebounded into the arms of her former flame, oil heir Brandon Davis."

The article furthermore claimed that Kerr and Davis were first spotted together, shopping on L.A.'s Robertson Boulevard last November. Despite their denial of speculation of a romance, they were said to have been spotted "canoodling at two clubs in N.Y.C." on July 12 and were "full on making out" that "they didn't seem to care who saw."

Jane's Addiction reportedly will follow the footsteps of Extreme and Van Halen by planning to reunite again to record new material. The comeback plan for the rock act was hinted by the band's vocalist Perry Farrel in an interview with NME.com.

Shouting out about the reunion plan, Perry said, "I sure would be open for it now, It sounds exciting to me as a listener. I just like to go out with people I think make beautiful music. As I say, we're not making war, we're making music, so how bad could it be?" However, the singer also added that to get the band working together again won't be an easy job saying, "We've got to figure out a common ground, Jane's Addiction is a very inflammable group -- there's a lot of very strong personalities."

Singer turned fashion designer Gwen Stefani has been selected as one among the 19 top shoe designers to use her expertise to redesign Dorothy's infamous ruby red shoes from the timeless classic film "The Wizard of Oz". Supported by Swarovski, Gwen, under her L.A.M.B label, will create her own version of the ruby slippers to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the family film epic next year.

Other prestigious shoe designers who are taking part in the project include; Alberta Ferretti, Christian Louboutin, Diane von Furstenberg, Giuseppe Zanotti, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, Moschino, Oscar de la Renta and Roger Vivier. All the shoe style gurus will display their designs at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store on September 4 later this year.

On the same day Warner Bros. Pictures released the first teaser trailer of "Watchmen", the studio also deliver an international trailer of their forthcoming spy thriller "Body of Lies". Providing first glimpses into the action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, the video footage is relatively short for a trailer, but it is enough to show interesting parts of the movie.

Giving a background to the film's story, the compilation of clips is focused on the two main characters, a former journalist turned CIA operative Roger Ferris and manipulative CIA veteran Ed Hoffman. Throughout the whole video, viewers are displayed the relationship between the two characters, Ferris' dangerous mission as well as the deceiving tricks.

The new music video from Robin Thicke for his latest single "Magic" has finally been premiered on July 17 via BET's 106 & Park. The new video, which was co-directed by Robin himself and renown director Robert Hales, was supposed to be premiered on July 11 on FNMTV but it got canceled because the clip hasn't finished yet at the time.

The new video features a unique and futuristic features as it sees Robin arrives to earth from a space ship. Beside that, the clip also shows some cool dance moves from the R 'n' B singer who was accompanied by male back up dancers which happened to be himself. Not only featuring himself, the video also featured another female dancer, who also shows cool and sexy dancing.

After an on-off relationship, new speculation emerges that Kelly Brook will finally wed her actor fiance Billy Zane after she was spotted sporting a ring on her engagement finger. The fact indicated that not only she has rekindled her broken relationship with him, but also her broken engagement, only to fuel further rumors that she will wed him.

In April it was reported that Brook called off her engagement to Zane after re-evaluating her life following her father's death November last year after battling cancer. She was said to have finally decided that he isn't the man she wants to marry.

In the eve of "The Dark Knight" theatrical release, an impressive first teaser trailer of "Watchmen" has been making its way for fans' and movie lovers' viewing. Coming out even before its scheduled debut with the latest Batman movie, the video footage helps viewers to get a closer look into each major character.

Though it doesn't exactly give out the background story to the movie, the compilation of clips really gives out a real look into all the major characters from Rorschach to Silk Spectre and Dr. Manhattan. The trailer opens with Dr. Jon Osterman shown stuck in a room filled with lightning bolts. Electrified, Osterman soon is displayed transforming to be a blue figure known as Dr. Manhattan. Lack in conversation, the compilation of clips let out sequences of memorable moments from the comic book.

The complete list of nominees for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards was announced Thursday morning, July 17. The 60th annual awards event, which is set to be aired live on ABC from NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles on September 21 later this year, witnessed HBO's miniseries "John Adams" nabbed a leading 23 nominations, namely Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for its star Paul Giamatti and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Laura Linney just to name a few.

Comedy series "30 Rock" followed close behind with 17 nominations and the drama series "Mad Men" was the other big nominee with 16 nods in total. Below is the list of some of the awards nominees. The complete list, meanwhile, can be viewed at Emmy's official site.

As it was promised, after dropping the first part of their behind the scene's footage for "Summertime" video earlier this month, New Kids On The Block have now dropped the second part via the group's Imeem page. The second part of the new music video's making showed the boyband's scenes at Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA , Topanga Canyon and Topanga Beach.

At Topanga Canyon, fans will see New Kids' Jonathan Knight's driving scene, where he was running his car and went to meet up with his band mates at Topanga Beach. At the beach the band gather up and started their journey to the tropical island as it can be seen on the full video that has been premiered on June 8. The group have also confirmed that the third part of the behind the scenes will be dropped soon.