October 18, 2008

"Sherlock Holmes", a drama thriller movie, is going to hit the big screen on November 20, 2009. This movie was initially aimed for a 2010 release. However, Warner Bros. have confirmed that the audiences will not have to wait that long. With the set date, "Holmes" will be released on the big screen on the same date of Jessica Biel and Justin Long-starring animated movie, "Planet 51".

Taking London as the setting, "Holmes" is starred by Robert Downey Jr. as the titular character and Jude Law as Watson, Holmes' colleague who is a doctor and a war veteran. There is also Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, the only woman who becomes Holmes' best friend and remains a tempestuous relationship with detective.

Debuting her much anticipated 2009 spring collection this past week during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in L.A., Lauren Conrad has revealed her passion to do a lingerie line. She shared her desire to Entertainment Tonight, admitting, "I've always wanted to do lingerie."

In an interview with the media, Lauren said, "I would do a sleepwear line. I love going sleep in something pretty. I like clothes even when I am sleeping!" Nevertheless, she didn't disclose further on the planned lingerie collection.

Bruce Springsteen joined forces with Billy Joel in a live concert to support Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Taking place at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on October 16, the gig was aimed to raise funds for the Democratic presidential candidate of November-4 U.S. general election.

The show was opened with India.Arie and John Legend singing "Ordinary People" and U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)" during a brief acoustic set. It then continued with Joel taking the stage and picking up his guitar for "Glory Days". Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa, and E Street Band's keyboardist Roy Bittan joined Joel and his band for "10th Avenue Freeze-Out".

American actress and singer, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, reportedly will join CBS sitcom series, "How I Met Your Mother". She will be cast in a one-off role named Jillian, Ted's future lover and Lily's old friend. The "The Sopranos" veteran actress' appearance will be featured on episode 9.

In the series, Jillian will be considered as a 'bad' girl who is very fond of going to parties. She is a sweet looking young woman in her mid 20s who works as a teacher with Lily. She works well at her job but goes wild at night in a party.

In less than a week, "Saw V" will let out its scare in the big screen and in anticipation of that, another fresh clip from the horror thriller has been uncovered. Presenting the time Hoffman is held hostage by Jigsaw, the clip is said to be the flashback scene where Jigsaw shares the efficient way to decrease crime rates.

Going over some numbers and pointing out crime facts to Hoffman, Jigsaw explains to him that everybody deserves a second chance. In the meantime, strapped to a chair with what appears to be a shotgun taking aim under his chin, terrified Hoffman challenges Jigsaw to understand what the serial killer wants from him, which is simply answered by the serial killer that he wants to see whether the detective has what it takes to survive.

Turning 21 years old Saturday, October 18, Zac Efron told Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" in L.A. Thursday, October 16, he's playing it low key. "I'm not going Vegas or anything like that," he was quoted as saying, adding, "I'm sure I'll have fun, but we're not going to go big."

Zac, however, didn't give details on how he'll mark the day. Rumors has it, he will host a low-key dinner at an undisclosed spot in Los Angeles for family and a few friends to attend.

Several new clips from the Monday, October 20 episode of "Gossip Girl" called "Chuck in Real Life", have been released through E! Online. The clips among others show the pact made between Blair and Chuck and how Chuck conducts the evil scheme to the clueless Vanessa.

After Vanessa blackmails Blair using a picture of Catherine and Marcus, Blair feels the need to get a revenge. She asks the favor of Chuck to "seduce and destroy" Vanessa but Chuck wants to "raise the stake" at one point. Meanwhile, Lily and Bart throw a housewarming party, but Serena is feeling rebellious. Dan and Jenny, meanwhile, discover a secret that Nate has been keeping from his friends.

After previously posting a short one-minute snippet of "Lovebug" music video, Jonas Brothers give out a longer preview of their music video. Starting with a display of the boys donning white shirts and bow ties, the video presents one scene where the band land the part as dock workers.

The sneak peek also previews another scene where Camilla Belle and Joshua Boswell say their goodbye to each other before Josh is shipped off abroad to a war. Speaking of the concept of the video, Kevin Jonas explains, "This is a period piece. You get thrown into this world, this love story." In line with Kevin's statement, Nick Jonas adds, "This video is all about trying new things and really trying to take the audience somewhere."

As "The Elephant King" is making its way to theaters in New York on Friday, October 17, Unison Films bring forward two brand new clips promoting the romantic drama. The two clips each present a brothel scene where Jake is persuading Oliver to choose one of the girls he likes and a car scene in which Oliver's mother explains to him why she needs him to bring Jake home.

Telling a provocative and stirring story of two American brothers, "Elephant King" follows Oliver and Jake Hunt as they fall into an exotic world they don't fully understand. Sent by his mother to Thailand, Oliver has one mission in mind, luring his reckless, older brother to go back to the U.S. to face the fraud charges held against him. But, when he arrives in the intoxicating Thailand, he soon discovers that he falls deeply in love for the first time.

Paramount Pictures' "The Soloist", a drama musical that centers on a homeless violin player, has been bumped to 2009. Paramount have decided to push back the Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.-starring movie from November 21, 2008 to March 13, 2009. The news was broken out firstly by Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily and later was confirmed by Paramount.

Though it is said that the studio toppers are disappointed by the delay due to the losing possibility of it competing for 2008 Academy Awards slot, they are hoping that this film gains commercial success in the new date. Paramount vice chairman, Rob Moore, has come up with a reason saying, "We decided it's a commercial movie that will play well in the spring, and we'll give it an aggressive wide release then."

Having been portraying James Bond in the last two installments of the iconic spy agent, Daniel Craig may not come back as the 007 agent for the third time. Noting the fact that he has signed contract for four Bond films, the 40-year-old actor hints that his return still depends on the outcome of "Quantum of Solace".

Sharing the matter to Playboy magazine, he explained, "I did sign on for four so a piece of paper says there are two more to do. But let's see how this one goes. In the film business, everything doesn't always go according to plan." The star of upcoming war drama "Defiance" further added, "We'll wait and see. If it goes wrong, we'll have to rethink things."

Intending to make a fun stunt during her on-stage performance at MTV's Latin America Awards in Guadalajara, Mexico on Thursday night, October 16, Katy Perry experienced an embarrassing moment when she took a hilarious tumble, slipping her icing-covered feet on the stage. And instead of getting bothered by the tumble, she tend to laugh it off.

Katy had just finished performing her hit single "I Kissed A Girl" when she put her microphone on the floor and jumped on a giant orange-colored cake standing near her. Diving into the cake, she ruined the planned stunt as she took a tumble right after. She actually attempted to grab one of her bandmates, but it appeared that her slippery ballet shoes made her losing her balance.

An artist is held captive as the prime suspect after the CSI team discovers that he has his models posing as dead bodies for his pictures, on "Art Imitates Life". The October 23 episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" will also see the new addition to the team, Riley Adams, in replacement of Warrick who died at last season's finale.

The team investigates the murder of a woman found in the park posed. It is found out that he hires models to pose as corpses for his paintings. Seen on the preview, the artist also uses a lot of life-size dummies for his piece of art. Meanwhile Sara visits an old friend who finally pulled the plug on his wife who was raped and shot in the head.

At the grand ceremony of this year's Inspirational Country Music Awards, Tracy Lawrence won "Inspirational Video of the Year" for his "Till I Was a Daddy Too" off his 2007 "For the Love" LP. Joining Lawrence as the awards' winner was George Strait, who took home a prize after winning "Mainstream Inspirational Song of the Year" for his current single "I Saw God Today" taken from the singer's "Troubadour" effort.

Other big winners announced on October-16 ceremony were Del Way who won "Male Vocalist" and Sonya Isaacs who took home "Female Vocalist" for the second straight year. Meanwhile, Ricky Skaggs was announced as "Musician of the Year" and along with his wife's vocal group The Whites, Skaggs won "Mainstream Country Artist of the Year" and "Inspirational Bluegrass Artist".

Slovenia born American actor, Zeljko Ivanek, will make his debut appearance on NBC hit series, "Heroes", playing as The Hunter for 10 episodes. The Hunter character will appear on "Heroes" third season's "Volume Four: Fugitives".

There is a hint that the Emmy Award winning actor will have such an important role in the third season because his debut will be on episode 14 when the "Fugitives" begins. "Fugitives" which is also written by "Heroes" creator, Tim Kring, will be aired in late January or early February 2009. The volume premiere will build up the last 12 episodes of "Heroes" season 3.

An on-set picture from "Inglourious Basterds" has come out. The image presents for the first time Brad Pitt as the head honcho Basterd, Lieutenant Aldo Raine. Wearing a full resistance fighter gear, Pitt whose character is said to be a Tennessee mountain hillbilly, can be seen having a large scar on his neck.

Earlier this week, The Weinstein Co. and Universal Pictures have come out with confirmation that the misspelling of "Basterds" in the title is indeed intentionally made. Hence, instead of "Bastards", from now on the Quentin Tarantino's film will be known as "Basterds". However, there is no further explanation on the reason for the using of the misspell.

A catwalk queen and mother of three children, Heidi Klum shows some support for healthy life style, reminding people about the importance of good nutrition by starring in a new "Got Milk?" ad campaign. The German-born supermodel has her hair pigtailed and dons full costume as a milk maid for the promo.

Wearing a red high heels, Heidi poses with what looks like a prize-winning milking cow in the ad. The scene apparently is set in a farm. Near them, there is a pail full of milk. Heidi and the cow are joined by a goat and two cats. The ad is set to be debuted this Halloween.

The long circulating rumor is no longer an unconfirmed speculation as Nelly Furtado has broken her silence, confirming to Entertainment Tonight Canada that she has married her sound engineer boyfriend Demacio Castellon over the summer. In an interview with the media, aired Friday, October 17, she stated, "We got married July 19th. I love it."

Nelly and Demacio's first meeting occurred while they were working on her 2006 album, "Loose." They then got engaged in 2007, reportedly in July after she was spotted sporting a huge diamond ring on her engagement finger while she was out and about in London, England.

The steamy scene where Thirteen gets lucky with a girl she meets at a bar has been given as a preview by FOX. The clip is taken from "House M.D." episode 5.05 called "Lucky Thirteen" that will air on Tuesday, October 21 at 8/7c.

A girl followed Thirteen out of a bar to talk about House but the meeting turns out to be more than expected. While having the one-night stand, the girl collapses and Thirteen is forced to take her to Princeton-Plainsboro, only discovering from House that the girl has been using her to get into him.

The Offspring bring out a new music video to promote their new single "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid". Assisted by Chris Hopewell, the same director who helped making the music video of Radiohead's "Take There", the video mostly narrates mankind as a creature having a never-satisfied basic character.

The music video starts with a capture of a peasant working in a garden. Suddenly, a plant goddess appears and gives the peasant a magical, golden acoustic guitar and he begins strumming to the song. Entering town and playing for the locals with his magical abilities of the guitar, the peasant becomes famous and that earns him much money.

Another new "Quantum of Solace" clip has been unraveled. The fresh snippet titled "Find a Better Place to Meet" is put out by The Telegraph as a world-exclusive clip. Unlike the two previous clips which center on James Bond's broken heart, this clip focuses on the time the super spy is stalking mysterious organization Quantum's leader Dominic Greene.

In the clip, it can be seen that the members of Quantum have chosen to use an outdoor production of Tosca for a secret meeting. From a distance, Bond is taking the position of a bird watch and manages to steal one of the earpieces the group are using to communicate to one another. After quite some time listening to the conversation, Bond steps out and says, "I really think you people should find a better place to meet."

Fear will become a disease that plague several men to death, in the new episode of "Supernatural". Entitled "Yellow Fever", the episode will see Sam and Dean investigating on the mysterious deaths of men who dropped dead of fright.

They visit one of the victims in the morgue, and Dean becomes infected with the illness which starts as a general anxiety, then moves on to full-blown terror that eventually stops the heart. Sam and Bobby must find the root of the disease before Dean dies and is sent back to Hell.

"Push", the sci-fi thriller movie in which Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle star as people gifted with an extraordinary power has got its trailer released. Taking viewers to the world of psychic espionage, the video footage provides an introduction into what should be expected from the Summit Entertainment flick.

Guided by the voiceover of the central character, Nick Gant, who explains the difference of the people like him and others, the trailer unveils many of the movie's action sequences. In the footage, Nick reveals that he can move object with his mind, while some others can control other people's mind or see the future. He then points out that there is a secret government organization, Division, which is chasing after these psychics to turn them into weapon.

It has been confirmed that Sarah Palin will make an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" following Tina Fey's three times parodies of her in the same show. Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman from the campaign team of John McCain confirmed on Friday, October 17 that Palin will appear on the October 18 episode.

Later that day after the confirmation, Palin said on an interview with nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz, "I just want to be there to show Americans that we will rise above the political shots that we take," when asked on the idea of her playing Fey. No other details have been shared out whether Palin will appear as herself or impersonate Fey.

A new cover art for Britney Spears' new song "Womanizer" has arrived. Presenting the blond singer with her fresh stunning look, the new photo still features the same letter arts put on the previously released cover art.

In related news, Spears' "Womanizer" has jumped to the top spot of Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart after debuting at number 96 since it was released on October 7. The song scored the biggest opening week sales by a female artist since the tracking of digital downloads began in 2003, with the first week downloads of the track exceeding 286,000 copies, according to Billboard.

A representative for Travis Barker confirmed to Access Hollywood Friday, October 17 that the celebrity drummer has been discharged from Sherman Oaks' Grossman Burn Center, the Los Angeles-area facility where he has been receiving treatment since September 29 after being involved in tragic plane crash. As of press time, he reportedly will continue his recovery at home and has requested privacy while he continues to recover from the second- and third-degree burns he sustained as a result of the incident.

It remains unclear on what treatment Travis got during his hospital stay. His ex-wife, Shanna Moakler, has said in an interview with US Weekly that his rocker husband has received several skin grafts and gone through multiple surgeries. "He just had his seventh surgery where they checked on his grafts," the actress-model told the magazine. "That's when they shave the skin off and then staple cadaver and pig skin right on so the skin underneath can heal to see if they had to graft more, but they don't. He might be out in the next two weeks. The doctors foresee a full recovery."