October 07, 2008

A sneak peek into the next episode of "Heroes" has been released by NBC. Focusing on the dilemma faced by many of the heroes, the footage teases the moment Angela reveals from whom Nathan obtains his ability, while Claire is once again put on the position where she questions whom to trust. There is one interesting tidbit at the end of the video that terrified Angela.

Titled "Angels and Monsters", the 3.05 episode tells the story when Claire tries to take down her first target armed with H.R.G.'s old files and a taser, while Peter who runs from all the death and destruction in the future discovers that he has been changed by the experience. On the other story, Hiro befriends Daphne and new associate Knox. Suresh's attempts to correct research errors, on the other hand, put Maya and several others in a sticky situation.

The Pussycat Dolls have premiered their video for "Whatcha Think About That" that presents them as burlesque performers. The video starts with Missy Elliott, the song's collaborator, rapping verses to the camera and continues with the girls dressing up for their show.

The video was shot on September 9 and 10 with director Diane Martel and fans could watch the live shooting through webcast. "Whatcha" is the lead single of the recently-released album "Doll Domination". Speaking of the song, doll Ashley Roberts says, "It's very editorial in my mind. Lots of beauty, lighting, and mysterious set-ups."

Despite rumors to the contrary, Nicky Hilton and her boyfriend David Katzenberg aren't getting married anytime soon. The hotel heiress and entrepreneur told People magazine in Las Vegas Saturday night, October 4 while celebrating her birthday at Pure Nightclub, "there are no wedding plans. There are lots and lots of rumors but I will put them to rest."

Late last month Star magazine ran a report that claimed Nicky and David are planning a winter wedding. The longtime couple were claimed to have been overheard discussing their marriage plans earlier in the month at a Los Angeles restaurant, saying they're hoping to hold their wedding "after the Christian and Jewish holidays" and so "thinking about a December or January wedding."

"Get Smart" is most likely to get a sequel treatment. In a recent report made by Variety about the three-year first-look deal between Steve Carell and Warner Bros. Pictures, it is unraveled that the studio are planning to move forward with a follow-up movie to the Peter Segal's spy parody flick.

Words are Steve Carell will be reprising his role as the compulsively efficient analyst-turned-CONTROL spy agent, Maxwell Smart in "Get Smart 2". It should be noticed though Carell has signed a three-year deal with the production company, the sequel is not a part of the overall agreement. Moreover, no word on the possible return of Anne Hathaway as Agent 99.

Six months after Hugh Hefner's 82nd birthday celebration back in early April this year, footage that shows Pamela Anderson stripping down for the Playboy's boss and performing a lap dance for him is finally aired on U.S. reality show "The Girls Next Door" Sunday night, October 5. Giving him a birthday treat, she is seen in the footage presenting him with birthday cake in nothing but a pair of high heels.

Joining Hugh's girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson for an early birthday bash for him at Moon Nightclub inside the Palms Casino & Resort on April 5, Pammy set tongue wagging when she emerged from behind the curtains to surprise the 82-year-old Playboy editor with a candlelit chocolate birthday cake completely naked. Urging him to blow the candles, she got his admiration for "looking good". After that Pamela gave him a kiss on the cheek before then performing a racy lap dance.

The forthcoming "Tr2n" sequel will be brought into stereoscopic 3D. The news about formatted 3-D "Tr2n" has been strengthened by the director of the sequel, Joseph Kosinski, who told Ain't It Cool News in a brief conversation about it. He said that the external riders seen in the project's preview shown at 2008 San Diego Comic Con looks more challenging after being added with 3-D effects.

He also stated that formatted 3D "Tr2n" could be released by late 2010. Michael Wilkinson who is credited for "Watchmen" has been chosen to handle the costume design. He has officially joined the production sometime this week.

A video with futuristic theme has been premiered as Common's "Universal Mind Control" music video. Shot back in September and directed by Hype Williams, Common is seen interacting with a red-eyed robot that also raps with him at one point.

"Universal Mind of Control" is the lead single of his album this year which bears the same title. "I like that for an album title. It kind of describes the music too. (The song) sounds futuristic, but it has an Afrika Bambaataa feel to it. I love what Hype (Williams) did with the video," Common told MTV.

The journey of the A-list movie star, Vincent Chase and his pals on Hollywood will continue. "Entourage" is picked up for its sixth season as HBO has confirmed. HBO's order for the sixth will make the show episodes count to 79.

The production of the new season will begin early 2009 for a summer debut. Doug Ellin, the creator and the producer of the series, praised HBO for "allowing the show to grow and mature." He said, "I never imagined when we started that we would make it to six seasons." Michael Lombardo, the HBO's West Coast head added, " 'Entourage' is that rare phenomenon in TV: a smart, sharp comedy series that continues to evolve".

FOX network have let out a preview to the next episode of "Prison Break". It displays Gretchen making a pact with Michael, and Sarah discovering that Gretchen is pretty much alive. It also previews bits from the meeting between Gretchen and Sarah.

In the episode called "The Price", fans will be presented with the time Lincoln and Sucre targeting Pad Man to get their hands on the sixth and final card key. It will also tell the story when Michael and Roland are making deals with different devils. In the meantime, the team is going to lose one of its members, while Gretchen and Sarah meet to settle the score.

Maria Sharapova reportedly has found herself a new man as rumor has it, she is dating Charlie Ebersol, the son of the chairman of TV network NBC Sports. The Russian tennis beauty is said to have casually confirmed to be in a relationship with the 25-year-old guy at the All-Star Tennis Smash charity event in New York recently.

Putting herself on bid during the event, she jokingly told the attendees, "My boyfriend will outbid this price." Despite her joke, one lucky guy won a date with her for $10,000 at the charity auction. There was no sign of Charlie's attendance. Adding fuel to the rumors of her dating Charlie, a source told The Sun that during her break from tennis due to shoulder injury "Sharapova got a new boyfriend."

While three other contestants were voted out of "Dancing with the Stars" during the first couple of weeks, Misty May-Treanor has chosen to leave the dancing competition. The shocking announcement was made at the conclusion of the live show on Monday, October 6, night when the two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist appeared on crutches and a cast on her left leg.

Further, it was revealed that the 31-year-old has been forced to walk out of the competition after sustaining an injury during dance rehearsal with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy on Friday, October 3. "I heard a pop," she recalled the time she was practicing the jive on the show's ballroom set. "I was doing the Lindy Hop. I thought I flew out of control and hit the judges' stairs, or it felt like I got hit in the back with a baseball bat. Then, I just couldn't put weight on it."

A string of hits that have supported James Bond films in the past years will be compiled in a single CD collection entitled "The Best of Bond...James Bond". Included in the October 28 set are songs by Madonna, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Chris Cornell, Garbage and others.

As many as 23 songs, five music videos, and a live concert footage are molded in a single CD/DVD package. There will also be an unreleased version of Bond theme by composer John Arnold.

Apparently, Paris Hilton has just embraced her motherly instinct that she wants to have babies soon, telling People magazine in Las Vegas Saturday night, October 4 while partying at Pure Nightclub for her sister Nicky Hilton's birthday, "I definitely want three or four [children]." She went on adding, she would like to have them "Soon. Maybe a year or two."

In between times she prefers to just enjoy her love relationship with rocker boyfriend Benji Madden. The celebrity couple had just celebrated their 7 months anniversary and "are just so happy." Though so, Paris has not yet talked about wedding plans.

Playing down rumors of her undergoing plastic surgery to have the figure she's having, Kim Kardashian posted a denial on her personal website which is accompanied by a voluptuous photo of herself in a bikini at age 14. "I have decided to post this picture to finally put all of the plastic surgery rumors to rest!" the celebrity-socialite wrote. "I hope after seeing this you guys will never ask me a plastic surgery question again!"

A fan of Kim, goes by the name "Curious Cat," posted a question on her web, asking what kind of cosmetic surgeries she has done that she has curvy figure. In addition to "breast implants and lip injections", the fan even assumed she has more than both.

A promotional video for episode 1.06 of "True Blood" has arrived. Providing a sneak peek into what will happen next in Bon Temps, the footage shows glimpses of the finding of a dead body by Sookie, Andy regretting Jason's release from prison, Sam and Tara's romance and Jason choking Sookie on her bed.

To be aired on HBO next Sunday, October 12, "Cold Ground" episode tells the story when Sookie takes a refuge from the inner voices of her friends and neighbor while dealing with a tragedy. Blaming Sookie for the tragedy, Jason attacks her in his rage. In the episode, he will also be seen fighting the withdrawal symptoms from his V juice habit.

Weezer have premiered the music video of their latest single "Troublemaker" on Yahoo! Music for the exclusive 24 hours of run. Not only new in its entirety, the video also sets some new records on the Guinness Book of World Records.

If the last time they presented YouTube sensations for "Pork and Beans" music video, they are now recruiting lots of people to add up the value for a record. The shooting that was conducted in August at Los Angeles' The Forum was witnessed by Guinness official Stuart Claxton who was to certify the accomplishments.

David Duchovny has completed his rehab stint for sex addiction, his legal attorney confirmed Monday, October 6. Getting his life back on the right track, he will soon make a return to acting. "David has successfully completed his rehabilitation," the lawyer said in a statement. "He is out of rehab and will be starting a movie soon."

However, the lawyer declined to mention on where the actor had been treated and when exactly he left the treatment center. Duchovny himself has yet issued a single statement about his treatment. He was seen attending the Czech Festival in New York City Sunday, October 5 with his actress wife Tea Leoni. They arrived hand-in-hand but didn't offer words for the press.

Dance choreographer-turned-actor Columbus Short is most likely to trade off his dancing shoes with guns in "Lethal Weapon 5". In a recent interview with IGN Movies, the 26-year-old revealed that he is in talks to star in the fifth film for the cop-action franchise stating, "We've been talking about it. Joel Silver talked to me about it, and it was like 'Um, yeah! I'll do Lethal Weapon with Danny [Glover] and Mel [Gibson]."

For the possible role he is going to tackle in the new project, he fessed up that he may end up playing the son of Danny Glover's character, LAPD Detective Sergeant Roger Murtaugh. "Joel says it'd be a great role," commented the actor who will soon be seen in "Quarantine" as Wilensky. On the movie itself, he noted that the people behind the project is currently trying to "fast track" it. The full interview with Short can be seen at IGN Movies.

There may well be a revenge on the line for Tina Fey who has impersonated Republican Vice President candidate, Sarah Palin. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that there's a chance Palin will make an appearance on "Saturday Night Live", spoofing Fey's American Express commercial ad.

It's said that there has been a debate on how to respond to the three sketches that had been done by Fey on Palin and it came to conclusion that a revenge on the NBC show would just be appropriate. If indeed Palin is plotting a sketch, her section is expected to air on Thursday, October 9 on the first of NBC's "Weekend Update" specials in prime time or on October 18 when "SNL" will not be a re-run.

After on-set photos exposing a first look into Big Daddy, Nicolas Cage's character, have been leaked earlier, a series of on-the-set videos from "Kick-Ass" has also come out. The first four of the videos present a brief look into the night filming where character Dave Lizewski and The Red Mist ride what seems to be Mist's custom red sports car.

The night footages were said to be taken through Downtown Toronto near the Toronto Eaton Centre. The first video posted below reveal actors, Aaron Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, dressed in their characters' costume while driving the red car. The last video display a helicopter with a camera taking shots for the live-action adaptation film.

Living a low profile life since giving birth to son Henry Story Driver on September 5, 2008, Minnie Driver introduces the world to the newborn baby, posting several pictures of him on her MySpace page. The actress-mother posted several first images of her one-month-old son on her MySpace social networking web page Monday, October 6.

One picture, which has made its round on the Internet, shows her sitting on a chair wearing a blue-colored clothes that looked like a hospital outfit. She is seen holding Henry, who's sleeping peacefully, on her chest. The mother and son look relaxed and happy as she smiles down at the tiny bundle in her arms.

The exclusive right to premiere Britney Spears' "Womanizer" music video has been given to ABC. The network will play for the first time, the highly-anticipated video for worldwide view on Friday, October 11 during their show "20/20" that airs at 10 P.M. ET

Directed by Joseph Kahn, the video is said to contain erotic scenes involving Britney in sexy outfits. The video that was shot in Los Angeles late last month, reportedly will have Britney dressing as a waitress, a secretary and simply in a bathrobe. Some of the pictures from the video in the kind of scenes are revealed by X17Online.

Warner Bros. Pictures have brought forward a fresh video journal from their forthcoming superheroes movie "Watchmen". Exclusively posted by Sci Fi Wire, the behind-the-scenes video let out how the filming crew create Dr. Manhattan from displaying the white costume wired with panels for the blue lights to capturing the 34 facial motions done by actor Billy Crudup.

The journal which can be seen via Sci Fi Wire is also completed with detailed description given by most of the crew involved in the making of the indestructible hero, such as visual effect supervisor John 'D.J.' Des Jardin, suit technician Chris Gilman as well as the actor who played the unique character himself, Crudup. Entitled "Blue Monday", it also shares some of the test footage for the characters as well as several scenes from the flick.

Breaking her silence about the mounting rumors of her dating Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez tells TV Guide in an interview for its upcoming issue that she and the singer are "getting to know each other." However, she has yet confirmed or denied that they're dating.

"I've gotten really close to the entire Jonas family this past year," she told the magazine when addressing the extent of her relationship with the singing sensation. "Nick and I are getting to know each other, but we're not confirming anything."

Coldplay are newly crowned double winners at the 2008 Q Awards. The rock band were hailed Best Act in the World Today and their latest album "Viva la Vida" was given the honor as Best Album. "I don't think we're the best act in the room, let alone the world," Chris Martin, the band's frontman said.

The British event also saw winnings from Duffy, The Last Shadow Puppets, Keane, and Kaiser Chiefs. Duffy beat Adele and Santogold but she could not attend the event to receive the award. Puppets, which is a side project by Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, picked up Best New Act. Turner appearing solo said, "Thank you very much. I understand it's voted by the readers so this means a lot of course. Unfortunately my partner couldn't be here because he had some trouble with the trains."

Celebrating her 16th birthday a few weeks early, Miley Cyrus claimed to really enjoy her "Sweet 16 - Share the Celebration", held Sunday, October 5 at California's Disneyland. Scoring an one-on-one interview with the teen sensation at the Anaheim theme park, "Good Morning America" has an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of the special bash.

The evening started with Cyrus and fellow celebrity friends, like Tyra Banks, David Archuleta and Demi Lovato strolling down a large purple carpet, greeting a throng of screaming fans. The birthday girl was joined by more than 5,000 guests for the party.

The official track listing for "Twilight" soundtrack has been unearthed. On Monday, October 6, Chop Shop Records has announced all of the artists taking part to create the signature tunes for the vampire romance flick as well as the title of the songs. Musicians from Muse and Linkin Park to Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell and composer Carter Burwell are several of the talented people behind the tracks.

The unveiling of the list has also answered speculations that Muse will contribute a track for the soundtrack. In it, they will present "Supermassive Black Hole", their first single from their fourth album, "Black Holes & Revelations". The official list has also let out that aside from the previously streamed "Decode", Paramore have also included their track "I Caught Myself" in the motion picture album. Additionally, Collective Soul will deliver one of their "Dosage" singles, "Tremble for My Beloved", while Iron & Wine shares "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" from his third studio LP "The Shepherd's Dog".