August 04, 2008

English piano rock band Keane give away their new track "Spiralling" from their upcoming album "Perfect Symmetry". The free download will be given on Monday, August 4 starting from 11 A.M.

The track will be available for free download for a week on their official website. Then, it will be sold on the usual digital platforms. Singer Tom Chaplin has described it as a train of thought about human endeavor to build on an outrageous groove.

After months of going in and out of shelves, "Justice League Mortal" has been reported to be put on the back burner last April. Contrary to that, however, a new report concerning the movie about a group of superheroes from the DC Comics' universe suggested that the comic book adaptation maybe back on.

On the speculation, Moviehole.net noted that in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, director George Miller unveiled the movie was only stalled but it is still very much alive. Hinting further on the project, the helmer insisted that the film just won't be shot in Australia like what has been planned previously due to the tax revenue's problem. Nevertheless, there are no confirmation on the truth of this report yet.

Are they or aren't they? Never admitting that they indeed are dating despite the many persistent rumors, it seems that Rihanna and Chris Brown just let their public display of affection (PDA) do the talking. Much contrary to their denial of romance rumors, both recording artists were seen getting very close to one another during an outing in Ocean City, Maryland this weekend.

Adding evidence to their love relationship, Rihanna and Chris were snapped enjoying each other's companion while they were down in a hot tub. The Barbadian singer at one point was even photographed popping his pimple.

Some of Radiohead's fans chose to download their latest album "In Rainbow" from illegal sources rather than from their official website. Commenting on the news, a researcher from P2P monitor Big Champagne and U.K.'s MCPS-PRS royalty collector said, "[The number] far exceeds what outsiders have reported as the estimated download total from the bands official website, regardless of whether those downloaders paid or not."

The band have actually released a policy called as honesty box which allows their fans to pay the album as much as they thought the album was worth. However, the staggering number of illegal download with a total of 2.3 million copies since it has been released in October 2007, has proven that the scheme set by the band failed to stop people from continuing their pirate act.

Those who have long been wondering about what would be of the "Green Lantern" project should not question it anymore. The latest report coming from the DC Comics adaptation movie let out that the plan on bringing the superhero to the big screen is being moved forward with the project now being in development.

The breaking down of "Green Lantern" status came out from Production Weekly's issue #621. There, it is revealed that the action adventure flick has been in active development. In addition, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Michael J. Green have been listed as the writers to pen the script. Still, PW does not mention Greg Berlanti as the helmer opposed to the previous report that he has been attached to direct the film.

No stranger to media spotlight, Lauren Conrad plays it coy when she is asked about her alleged romance with actor Kyle Howard. She deliberately avoided discussing that matter during the Do Something Awards Pre-Party for the Teen Choice Awards Saturday, August 2.

To People magazine she simply said, "I'm just dating." Refusing to discuss about the dating reports, which were outed by many of her friends, she insisted "I'm single and having fun."

Beside showing footages from highly anticipated movies like "Watchmen", "The Wolfman" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", the 2008 San Diego Comic Con also previewed the trailer of a '50s monster movie remake, "Monsters vs. Aliens". A week after it is being screened to the convention's attendees, the bootlegged version of the footage can be enjoyed.

Telling the story of alien invasion on Earth, "Monsters vs. Alien" follows Susan Murphy, a girl whose life is changed forever after she is being hit by a meteor. Growing to be 49-feet-11-inches tall and deemed as monster, she is captured and being confined with other monsters. But when a mysterious alien robot storms the Earth, Susan and the others become the government's last result on saving the world.

Jermaine Dupri's annual So So Def Summerfest Weekend held Friday night, August 1 at an Atlanta nightclub was interrupted by a gunfire which turned its many attendees into fright. Sponsoring the festive, the music mogul said he's saddened by the incident yet feeling happy at the same time as none of his entourage got hurt.

Being held at Club Dreams at 3595 Clairmont Road, Dupri's third annual So So Def Summerfest Weekend was attended by a number of music figures, like Usher, Nelly, Regina King, Gabrielle Union, Larenz Tate, and P. Diddy among others. There were reportedly 3,000 other people attending the Friday night fun. It was sad to say though that the festivities turned ugly at around 3:30 A.M. Saturday, August 2 when gunshots rang out.

Setting the record straight about his future "Iron Man 2" project, acclaimed actor Robert Downey Jr. addressed earlier rumor circulating around the possible cameo of one particular superhero in the movie. Specifically, the "Zodiac" star slammed speculation that Hulk may make special appearance in the sequel.

Talking to journalists during "Tropic Thunder" press junket on August 3, the 43-year-old simply stated "no" to a journalist's question whether Hulk will be included, without offering any explanation on why the green raging beast won't appear in the story. When being dug up further on other cameos' possibility, the Academy Award-nominated actor noted that he cannot comment on it stating, "I can neither confirm nor deny that. Honestly, nothing's set in stone right now".

Swedish pop group ABBA have made chart history as their 1992 album compilation "Gold: Greatest Hits" lands at number one in U.K. Albums chart. The Official Chart Company said that being the fourth biggest-selling album and one of the top 40 worldwide with sales scanning 26 million copies since it has been released, the album becomes the oldest ever to reach number one.

The album becomes hit again after being used as soundtracks of successful musical film "Mamma Mia!" which is starring Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, and Pierce Brosnan. The film includes such hits as "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Thank You for the Music", "Money, Money, Money", "The Winner Takes It All", and "I Have a Dream".

Sad story of Christina Applegate's life drama keeps going on. Losing her ex-boyfriend who died from an apparent drug overdose early last month, the actress is confirmed to have been diagnosed with breast cancer. A representative for her issued an official confirmation about that matter Saturday, August 2.

"Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening," the representative said. "Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery. No further statement will be issued at this time."

Teenagers across the country have chosen their favorite celebrities in TV, film, music, sports and fashion and on Sunday, August 3, Hollywood celebrities gathered at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Studios for the special event honoring the teens' favorites, the 10th annual Teen Choice Awards. While "Gossip Girls" and Jonas Brothers dominate the TV and music category respectively, winners on the movie category apparently varied.

The 2008 choice movie winners came from the last year's critically acclaimed movies, such as "Juno" for choice comedy and "27 Dresses" for choice chick flick, to the recently released films, including "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" which is named Choice Movie Action Adventure and "Get Smart" Choice Summer Movie Comedy. Among all the victors, three in particular, "Juno", "What Happens in Vegas..." and "I Am Legend", brought home more than the others as they got double awards.

Grabbing six ceremonial surfboards in their hands, Jonas Brothers won almost all music categories in 2008 Teen Choice Awards. In the 10th annual ceremony taking place at Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre on Monday (August 4), the band won Choice Music Single for "When You Look Me In the Eyes" and Choice Music as Breakout Group. In addition, the teen group have been crowned Choice Music Love Song for "When You Look Me", and Choice Music Summer Song for "Burnin' Up".

Meanwhile, the best collaboration of the year was won by Jordin Sparks featuring Chris Brown for the former's single "No Air". Other collaboration has been voted by teens as Choice Music Rap/Hip Hop Track. Beating other contenders is "Shawty Get Loose" which is Lil Mama's song done with Chris Brown and T-Pain.

Predicted to be the one summer movie that could end "The Dark Knight"'s reign at the box office, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" fell short on the materialization of the forecast. Screened in 3,760 theaters across the country, the Rob Cohen-directed movie debuted a spot behind the reigning champion "Batman Begins" sequel.

Despite losing the coveted #1 place on the three-days weekend box office, this Brendan Fraser-starring action fantasy shows its competitive side raking in an impressive $40.5 million, roughly around two millions less than "Dark Knight" which earned $42.7 million on its third weekend. Still, if compared to the last two "Mummy" movies, the new installment can be considered to be less successful, especially both of the first two secured the #1 spot and collected more on their opening debuts, "The Mummy" with $43.4 million and "The Mummy Returns" with $68.1 million.

The full winners from all categories, including TV, movie, and music, of the 2008 Teen Choice Awards have been unveiled Sunday, August 3. Dominating the TV nominations with a total of 14 nods, CW's teen drama "Gossip Girl" leads the pack, winning 6 awards all at once. In addition to winning the Choice TV Show Drama award, the series also seizes the Choice TV Breakout Show award.

Its cast, meanwhile, also bring home several awards. Blake Lively is a double winner, taking home the awards for both Choice TV Actress Drama and Choice TV Breakout Star Female categories. The Choice TV Breakout Star Male is given to Chace Crawford. Ed Westwick wins the Choice TV Villain award, thanks to his role of Chuck Bass.

Hawthorne Heights are in full scale launching the promotion of their upcoming album "Fragile Future". The album is the first that the band do without guitarist Casey Calvert who died several months ago towards the end of 2007. The tragic death indeed put some marks in the band but went on becoming their motivation to step deeper on the music ground. "It was especially weird for us at our first show back," said drummer Eron Bucciarelli. "We have had to come to grips with all this, but Casey will always be in our hearts forever."

"Fragile Future" will be released on August 5 and is dedicated in loving memory of Calvert. The track "Five Becomes Four" is especially made in tribute to Casey. "We spent two long years, in which we endured more than I ever thought was possible, lost our best friend and poured everything we had left into the making of this," the band announced on their MySpace. "We're more proud of this than anything we've ever done."

The photos are in. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie debut their twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline on the new issue of People magazine, on newsstands Monday, August 4.

The proud parents and the babies are all pictured wearing matching white outfits, smiling on the cover of the publication which is accompanied with the tagline that reads "FIRST PHOTOS & INTERVIEW. Brad and Angelina Introduce The Twins! 19-PAGE FAMILY ALBUM". Pitt is seen on the cover hugging Jolie who's carrying the babies on both of her hands.