December 13, 2008

There was not a time when a punk rock act had not had its affair on the music industry and one to regard for the existence in the 2000s era would be The All-American Rejects. Emerging from Oklahoma, the band blew to the scene with their "Swing, Swing". Two studio albums and several awards trophies after, now they have come to their new effort, "When the World Comes Down".

To AceShowbiz, the band's guitarist Mike Kennerty shares about the new album, how thicker in sound this one to the previous two and what their takes are to promote the album. Beside that, Mike also dishes out on what he does when not making music, his new label that he creates with bandmate Tyson Ritter as well as how the band views the Presidential Election in relation to their new record.

Nicole Richie will reportedly get help from fellow stars Rihanna and Kelly Osbourne in her way to record a debut solo studio album. "Rihanna and Kelly are coaching Nicole and giving her tips on how to perform," a source told The New York Daily News.

Furthermore, rumors circulating in the media claim that Nicole has covered a Prince's ballad song called "Do Me, Baby" from his 1981 LP "Controversy". The Paris Hilton's co-star in reality TV show "The Simple Life" has also been reported to record a track titled "Me and You", which mainly talks about boyfriend Joel Madden.

Though the remake project of "The Karate Kid", "Untitled Karate Kid Remake", has signed Jaden Smith as the new Daniel LaRusso, the proposed movie is yet to find its own Mr. Miyagi. Actor/producer Will Smith shared the fact with MTV News saying, "We don't have a Mr. Miyagi yet."

Noting that the studio has yet to find the perfect man for the job, Smith continues, explaining that it doesn't mean that they are in the dark with the casting since they already have several names for consideration. "There's a couple of people that we're really intrigued by, but I don't want to say any names because I'll be in trouble," so the "Seven Pounds" actor claimed.

Another preview to "Smallville" 8.11 which is titled "Legion" has been made available by The CW. A considerably longer in length, the preview shows more on the new heroes that will take the series to the next level. "Legion" is the reference to the name of the superheroes from the 31st century.

Three superheroes from the future travel to the past and join Clark in hopes that together they can defeat Brainiac, who has taken over Chloe's body. More about Clark finding his fate to be a hero, and him meeting Lana once again are exposed in this episode which will hit the screen on January 15.

Though updated reports earlier claimed that "Magneto" is still in the work, director David S. Goyer revealed the contrary. Talking to Superhero Hype! on Thursday, December 11, the filmmaker fessed up that the spin-off of the "X-Men" series has been put on hold as for the moment since the studio want to firstly see how "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" does.

Hinting that the script has been finished, the co-writer of "Batman Begins" said of the matter, "I think they like the script and they're just waiting to see what happens with 'Wolverine'." He further explained, "I don't think they would consider moving forward until the movie comes out."

Taboo and will.i.am, Stacy Ferguson's bandmates of the Black Eyed Peas, give some wedding tips for the female singer who reportedly is going to marry her actor boyfriend Josh Duhamel in the near future. Both music moguls, however, insist they know nothing about details of the couple's wedding as they've been keeping them top secret.

"I told her to embrace the day of [the wedding]," Taboo exclusively told Hollyscoop at the Conga Room reopening party in Los Angeles when asked what tip he had for bride-wannabe Fergie. "Don't let it pass. Embrace the day, enjoy the day, and take it as it comes, appreciate it as it comes."

Once famed for her role as Amanda Woodward in '90s soap opera "Melrose Place", Heather Locklear has been rumored to be trying to make her way back to the small screen with "Brothers & Sisters". Star Magazine exclusively reported that the 47-year-old actress has been lobbying the producers of ABC's popular drama series to have a recurring guest role on the show.

Beside pitching herself to the producers, the former "Spin City" actress has allegedly come to the series' star, Sally Field, to make it happens. On Locklear's determination to get the part, a source told Star, "Heather is a huge fan of the show but also believes that getting back to work will keep her clean and give her a new lease on life. She's on her best behavior when she's on a show."

A rather short preview of the new episode of "Supernatural" has been released. Going slightly more than 10 seconds, the footage gives a horrific look on how Dean is strangled with a hanging noose and displays the caption of "We're Sorry, to leave you".

The show will return next year on January 15 with the episode titled "Family Remains". In the episode, Sam and Dean investigate a farm house that seems to be haunted by a woman in the walls. Two guest starring characters are going to be introduced, one is a clean-cut FBI agent that will help the boys in investigating the murders in the small town but turns sinister later on and the other is an attractive woman named Cara Roberts who is functioning both as a doctor on duty and a wild woman who loves sex and booze.

Katy Perry has confirmed that she will be spending new year's eve at Hollywood's Paramount Lot for a live concert with Gridlock. "Fans camping with me on New Years Eve. Its put on by this group called Gridlock," she said.

"It's a New Years Eve Hosted Party at the Paramount Lot in Hollywood," Katy, who was nominated Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, shared her excitement. "Its gonna be really fun cause I love to party it up on New Years Eve."

Rihanna has revealed to the media that she would love to duet with Lily Allen. Beside that, she also names Duffy and Leona Lewis as other British female singers she looks forward to team up with.

"Lily Allen is bad ass - I love her. I also really like Duffy and Leona Lewis, who is so beautiful, with an amazing voice," the 20-year-old Barbadian singer said in a statement. "I would love to do a collaboration with those girls."

The ongoing recession has forced "Idol Gives Back", a charity program conducted regularly by talent show "American Idol", to be canceled this season. The reason is clear, the producers feel that asking people to donate money for the good cause when the economical state is unstable and unemployment rises, is simply not working.

"Idol Gives Back" which had been conducted two years in a row, involved celebrities including singers like Mariah Carey, the show's alumni like Kelly Clarkson, actors like Brad Pitt to prominent figures such as Barack Obama. It had raised over 130 million dollars on the show's sixth and seventh season, with the money going to various charity organizations. No announcement yet on how long the charity program will take a hiatus, but rumor has it, it will return in the ninth season with the program set bi-annually.

Contrary to the mounting speculation, claiming Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson couldn't find any magazines that want to buy the rights to publish the first pics of their son Bronx Mowgli Wentz, the new parents claim they have no intention to sell the pics of their infant, suggesting privacy as the reason. In a post on his official blog, Pete defends his and Ashlee's decision to do so.

Under the heading of "ring, ring, its the truth calling ...", Pete wrote Thursday, December 11 he and Ashlee won't sell Bronx's pics for "mounds and mounds of money." Of that he explained, "We understand that like other celebrities have said, 'there is a bounty on our heads' for these pictures. There is a danger when there are cameras being held over walls and into our backyard. We are followed day and night and that was fine when it was us but we are going to do our best to shelter Bronx from that as much as possible."

With "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" completed, talks on the next installment of the "Harry Potter" series have been hypened up. Sharing her excitement to work on the two-parts of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" with MTV News, Emma Watson discusses on the romance scene she has to film as well as what part she can't wait to shoot.

Asked whether she has talked about the romance and kissing scene with co-star Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, the 18-year-old is quick to deny, exclaiming, "God no! We haven't discussed it. I think we'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it." Yet, she mentions that she is happy with the fact that her Hermione Granger finally hooks up with Ron. "I was thrilled really," she said. "Ron was the right person for her to be with. I think it was amazing that they had kids. It was perfect."

Apart from his recording project for next album, Chris Brown has written new songs for Jonas Brothers. To Billboard, he revealed that he "did a couple of songs for the Jonas Brothers, but don't know if they took any of them."

Beside crafting songs for the Jonas boys, Chris also says that he is writing several singles for Rihanna. "I actually have a couple of songs written already that would be dope collaborations between me and her," he stated. "And I'm writing for her new album now."

"True Blood" has been somewhat a successful story for HBO with it winning on weekly viewers ratings and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. The first season has been wrapped up and creator Alan Ball was present to dish out on how the second season will sink its teeth.

Warning, the following sentences will contain spoilers to those who have not watched the first season. Dropping a few hints, Ball said as quoted by James Hibberd of The Live Feed, "Jason goes into the Fellowship of the Sun church in a big way and is surprised by what he finds there. There's a new creature in town that is unlike any other. Nobody knows what this creature is, I'm not sure if it will be entirely explained in the show - it's not a werewolf."

"High School Musical" sweethearts Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens have been photographed paying a visit to an undisclosed sex store recently. They even took time to pose for pictures with a female fan, who then posted the snaps on the net.

The female fan, identified as Tanya, sent two pics of her with the on-and-off screen lovers to OceanUp.com hoping to win the site's "Best Fan Meeting Picture" contest. She is seen in one snap standing next to Vanessa, who wears sunglasses, and the other snap shows her posing next to Zac who is holding a yellow plastic bag.

It is official, Hugh Jackman has been named 81st Annual Academy Awards' host by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The announcement has been made on Friday, December 12 by producer Laurence Mark and executive producer Bill Condon in a joint statement, "Hugh Jackman is a consummate entertainer and an internationally renowned movie star."

"He also has style, elegance and a sense of occasion," the pair further commented on the positive side of the man who has just been dubbed People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, stressing, "Hugh is the ideal choice to host a celebration of the year's movies - and to have fun doing it." Of the breaking out from the typical Oscar host with Jackman, Mark reasoned, "We are trying to get away from this late-night talk show rut. It seemed to us that we needed to turn a corner and get somebody who is, imagine that, a movie star."

"Gossip Girl" writer Stephanie Savage sat down to answer some questions from the fans of the show, including spilling a little detail on how they will wrap up the second season. When asked whether there will be another story between Blair and Nate, Stephanie answered with a definite "yes".

In the video interview that is posted below, Stephanie dished out that the old romance history of Blair and Nate kind of brings a special relationship to them this season. And with Nate getting over the problem with his dad, there's a chance that Nate will be back to Blair.

Rapper Flo Rida begins to cook up new materials for his sophomore studio album "R.O.O.T.S.". Eying to release the record in spring 2009, he is working with superhouse producers J Rock, Doctor Luke and DJ Montay to get it done.

First single off the upcoming album, which stands for "Routes of Overcoming the Struggle", is expected to come out in January 2009, according to Billboard. Unfortunately, the song's title still remains secret.

The first full trailer of "Madea Goes to Jail" is making its round. Unlike its teaser which highlights on Madea's arrest by a band of police, this video footage reveals more on the movie itself, focusing more on the other characters, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway and young prostitute and former drug addict Candace Washington, and how the two grow closer together.

Starting the preview with a scene where Joshua's future best man states that Joshua has set a date for his wedding with fellow ADA Linda Holmes, the trailer quickly moves to Madea arguing with Cora. Then, the scene changes to a courtroom in which Joshua is dealing with a case that brings him face to face with Candace, a troubled lady he calls a friend, while somewhere else Madea is involved in a series of troubles, leading her to meet Candace.

Best female friends Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato share in an interview with MSN on what they are going to do this Christmas. Both stars go into detail on their families' holiday tradition, from setting up Christmas tree to receiving gifts for the yearly celebration.

As for Selena, she shares plenty of her family's Christmas tradition, telling MSN she's heading back to her hometown Texas and will be spending the holidays with her family "for a good two weeks and doing nothing, which is very refreshing." There she will split her holidays up, having celebration with her mother and her family on Christmas day and then celebrating the Christmas Eve with her father and his family.

A video footage providing a look into the set of N.E.R.D's music video for their new song "Sooner or Later" has arrived. From the footage, it is revealed that the music video is directed by The Malloys, the same man who helped Foo Fighters making "Breakout" music video. It is also unveiled that professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek will be making a cameo appearance on the video.

Starting with a capture of the band's member Chad Hugo talking to the camera, the behind-the-scenes video continues to roll on with scenes showing Chad, Pharrell Williams and Shay Haley playing janitors in a stock market. Shay will be seen cleaning windows while Pharrell will be dealing with dirty floors.

Summit Entertainment has debuted a new trailer for supernatural thriller "Knowing" exclusively through Apple. Longer than the first one, this freshly-released promotional video focuses more on Nicolas Cage's John Koestler trying to stop the inexplicable and figuring out that the disasters happening are more than a mere coincidence.

The trailer opens with a scene where John tells his son Caleb that they will always be together forever. The scene then shifts to show that John is actually a professor teaching about the theory of randomness. But when his son gets his hands on a piece of paper with cryptic message, he soon discovers that there is a pattern to predicting the future and something unimaginable is lurking in the corner, waiting for its time to go out with a bang.

Tara Reid has checked herself into rehab, her representative exclusively tells People. Reason for her rehab treatment isn't disclosed though.

"Tara Reid has checked herself into Promises Treatment Center," Reid's representative Jack Ketsoyan confirms in a statement. "We appreciate your respect to her and her family's privacy at this time."