December 16, 2008

"Bedtime Stories" theatrical release is fast approaching and in support of the family comedy's debut, five clips from the movie have been laid out. Compiled into one player, the snippets serve up to be the extended version from some of the scenes in the trailer, like the one entitled "I am a Nerd".

Other clips present more sneak peeks into the movie. "You Did Not Just Do That", for example, displays the time Skeeter slams the door while Jill is still talking to him. Another one, "Incinerated", previews how the kids twist the story's ending planned by Skeeter, causing Skeeter to be in fear of his life.

In an interview, T.I. revealed that he will not debut "Swing Ya Rag" music video after Gucci and Louis Vuitton, two companies mentioned in the song's lyrics, are not happy that they may be full-on visuals for the record. According to MTV, the "Live Your Live" singer also said that he has no intention to film another video to replace the pulled-out one.

"We spoke to them. The video, it's done. But I guess it's one of those corporate things where they don't wanna be associated or affiliated with a certain type of brand," T.I. said in a statement. "A T.I. video ain't the best look in their eyes right now. No harsh feelings."

Three "Valkyrie" fresh clips have been put forward by IESB. Entitled "Plenty of Time", "Not All Like Him" and "North Africa", each of the clips presents a scene with main character, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg played by Tom Cruise, as the center of attention.

While the "Plenty of Time" clip focuses on the time von Stauffenberg and his fellow resistance member assemble two bombs in his office, the "Not All Like Him" clip shows him demanding a certainty that the dangerous operation has the chance of success. The last one, "North Africa", follows von Stauffenberg in North Africa where his troops is being attack from the air.

As soon as Summit Entertainment came out with the official release date of "New Moon", casting reports for the first "Twilight" sequel rushes in. In the latest update of the sequel, MTV News has confirmed that both "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" star Ben Barnes and "The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior" actor Michael Copon are on the run to star in the movie.

27-year-old Barnes reportedly is eyeing to join the vampire drama series as a mind-reading vampire named Aro whose encounter with Edward and Bella in the movie helps to shape their destiny together. Meanwhile, 26-year-old Copon is campaigning to play the new Jacob Black the studio are looking for in replacement of Taylor Lautner.

The third volume of "Heroes" has just ended and the show will return with the fourth one on February 2. A promo introducing the new volume which is titled "Fugitives" has been released along with a preview of the first episode of the new chapter. The "Fugitives" sneak peek was played during the final minutes of episode 3.13 that wrapped up the third volume on Monday, December 15.

No title has been suggested for the first episode of "Fugitives" but from the clip, it looks like there would be a large scheme to have all the superheroes gathered in a sanctuary where they are considered harmless to the public. In the "Fugitives" clip, it is shown that Nathan is in a secret meeting with the president of United States, to seek his help in having all the heroes including Claire, Hiro and Matt, captured.

A music video in support of "Twilight" soundtrack "Go All The Way (Into The Twilight)", which is performed by Perry Farrell, has been outed. The video is reportedly directed by Andrew Bennett, who also helped Nickelback shooting "Rockstar" music video.

Beside featuring Perry Farrell's "Go All The Way (Into The Twilight)", "Twilight" theme song LP also includes Paramore's "Decode" and "I Caught Myself", Muse's "Supermassive Black Hole" as well as Linkin Park's "Leave Out All the Rest" among others.

Rumor has it, the third "Transformers" movie has been given its release schedule. Unveiling several film release schedules, Dark Horizons reported that an upcoming release schedule for Germany has uncovered that a second "Transformers" sequel has been set to be debuted in theaters on June 29, 2011.

The news came before words on a follow-up movie for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" even make their rounds, in fact "Revenge of the Fallen" itself won't be available on the U.S. big screen until June 26, 2009. DreamWorks have yet to issue any confirmation nor denial on the proposed release date of "Transformers 3".

There will be another film about The Phantom, a superhero in skin-tight purple suit who fights the evil off his African jungle. An Australian production company called Sherlock Symington Productions has secured the rights to have "The Phantom Legacy" filmed in the country within the next six to nine months with a budget of 130 million Australian dollars aka USD87 million.

Scriptwriter Tim Boyle, however, explained to The Associated Press on Tuesday, December 16 that it is not a sequel to the 1996 adaptation movie "The Phantom" that starred Billy Zane as the titular character, but rather, "a fresh look at the origins of the Phantom set in the present". In the phone interview Boyle said, "One of the things that I always questioned about the Phantom is why the Phantom legacy keeps passing down from generation to generation. To me, what would be interesting is seeing the son that didn't want to be the Phantom."

Before the full-length trailer of "I Love You, Man" comes out, a brief preview to the promotional video has been unveiled by Access Hollywood. Starting with a scene where Greg Moton proposes to his future wife, the sneak peek follows him as he hunts for a perfect best man for his wedding.

Paul Rudd stars as Greg Moton, a newly engaged guy in desperate need for a male friend in this upcoming comedy movie for DreamWorks Pictures. After proposing to his fiancee, Moton realizes that most of his friends are women and he has no male friend to get the honor of being his best man. Looking for the perfect best man, he finds him in Dave Negal, or so he thinks.

In Fuse's event dubbed "The Top 40 of 2008: The Good, The Bad & The Britney", Britney Spears' music video for single "Womanizer" has been announced as "Best Music Video of the Year". The Joseph Kahn-directed music video receives the top honor after facing off several music videos, one of which is coming from Chris Brown for his song "With You".

Previously, in the final eight, the "Womanizer" video competed such music videos as Linkin Park's "Given Up", Chris Brown's "With You", M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes", Secondhand Serenade's "Fall for You", Disturbed's "Inside the Fire", Slipknot's "Psychosocial" and Paramore's "That's What You Get". Out of the seven contenders, Britney's music video went head to head with Paramore's video in the final round.

With Christmas is just around the corner, Nick Jonas takes to his blog on Nick's Simple Wins to write about embracing the spirit of the celebration and eating her mother's Christmas dinner. Also blogging about controlling the food that he consumes during the holidays, he wishes everyone "nothing but health and happiness ... throughout this Holiday Season and the New Year."

"December is a wonderful time in the Jonas Family. I personally love the holidays," Nick begins his post. "Every year my dad takes out the big box of ornaments and makes the family talk about the tradition behind each one."

A music video for Lady Sovereign's song "I Got You Dancing" has been released for fans' enjoyment. Some scenes on the video feature the singer sporting tribal costume and make-up and dancing with several backing dancers in a seemingly-to-be rehearsal room, while the others present a look at her also dancing around in the same room with different costumes.

"I Got You Dancing" is an up-beat jam listed on Lady Sovereign's upcoming second major studio effort "Jigsaw". The new song has been available for stream since early December as "an early Christmas gift" for her fans.

Former child actress Hilary Duff is featured on the cover of Maxim magazine's January 2009 issue, baring her cleavage for the camera. Her cover shoot for the men's magazine is meant to mark her new predicate as one of its Sexiest Stars of 2009.

"Hilary Duff, All Grown Up," so read the tagline that accompanies the actress-singer's Maxim cover shoot. On it, she is seen donning thin make up and letting loose her long blonde hair. She wears black outfit that exposes her cleavage and stares seductively to the lens.

"New Moon" is coming out in less than a year after "Twilight" opened big at U.S. theaters. Following report that the first sequel to the vampire drama has been tentatively set for late November 2009 release, Summit Entertainment have come out with an announcement that "New Moon" will indeed be debuted in theaters on November 20, 2009, as reported by Variety.

Of the schedule, Summit distribution topper Richie Fay commented, "Same time, same place. If it's also the same gross, we'll be very pleased. Hopefully, we'll have even better results." However, unlike "Twilight" which has to face competition from another newcomer "Bolt", "New Moon" will have to be up against serious contenders since "Sherlock Holmes", "The Three Stooges" and "Planet 51" are all slated for the particular date.

Changes have been made to the new season of "American Idol", introducing a new format of the singing talent show and also the return of "Wild Card". Also released is the schedule of the episodes that will start on January 13 when the show returns with the first part of a four-hour season premiere.

As usual, the show visits some cities including Kansas City, M.O., Phoenix, A.Z. and San Juan, Puerto Rico to search for the new American Idol. The audition episodes will be aired in three weeks starting January 20 before proceeding with the Hollywood week on February 3. FOX have announced that this season, they will focus more on the talented and aspiring singers rather than the jokes and odd auditions.

Lionsgate Films have presented a series of clips from their upcoming action adventure movie, "The Spirit". While four of them focus on the main character, The Spirit, one of them, the "Eye Candy" clip, displays interactions between the ladies. In it, Sand Saref and Silken Floss meet each other for an exchange. There, Saref warns Floss about Octopus after Floss explains why she joins him in the first place.

The other four clips are called "Common Criminal", "The Spirit vs. Octopus", "Hospital" and "The Alley Fight". The Spirit goes into Saref's room to arrest her in "Common Criminal". The next clip shows him facing Octopus' smoking guns, while another one presents Spirit romancing Ellen Dolan in an examination room. The last one displays the time he saves a lady from a group of thugs.

As his forthcoming studio LP "Before I Self Destruct" gets close to its release date in early February 2009, 50 Cent comes out with a statement claiming that he will be working on a renegotiation with Aftermath/Interscope Records. "My album requirements will actually be done, and it'll be time to renegotiate," he told MTV during an interview.

"So if things work out, I'll end up staying with Em [Eminem] and Aftermath/Interscope. If the negotiation doesn't go right, then I'll go elsewhere," 50 Cent said further. "It won't change our relationship, because Em's so rich it doesn't matter. That's why he'll just take off for two or three years, and you don't hear nothing or see nothing from him and then he comes back, because he can afford to do that."

Pouring cold water to the mounting reports that Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan are engaged and about to make public their engagement soon, a representative for the actor confirms to Access Hollywood that the stories are false. "He is not engaged," the representative says in a statement.

Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan first met on the set of The CW's teen dramedy "Gossip Girl" when he played a recurring role, called Carter Baizen, alongside her character Blair Waldorf. New York gossip column PageSix previously reported the twosome were engaged and already made it public on their "secret" Facebook pages. They, moreover, were also claimed to have been planning to marry.

A brand new sneak peek to the new season of "Lost" has just been released by ABC. More than a minute, the clip shows Jack and Ben in a motel, trying to accumulate plan to come back to the island to rescue the others.

The plan is to get all the Oceanic Six - Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Kate, Ben and Jack, on board the rescue mission. It is also revealed how Ben met Locke for the last time in the island plus what Locke said to Jack that made him wanted to come back for the remaining people on the island.

Speculations around which actress will don the skin tight leather suit as Catwoman in "Batman 3" keep on growing. E! Online's columnist Ted Casablanca recently threw out Rachel Weisz's name among those considered for the female villain part, writing, "Warners sources are leaking to us that Rachel Weisz is being considered for the Catwoman role, too fab."

The gossip blogger then continued, explaining, "But Warners officially isn't saying bubkes. But other insiders working on the next installment, to follow up where The Dark Knight left off, say it's all so a go." In addition, he mentioned that at the moment the casting of Catwoman is leaning more toward the "The Constant Gardener" actress, instead of Angelina Jolie.

A music video in support of Soulja Boy's new song "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" has been premiered. It captures the rapper playing cards with his friends. It also shows him calling her girlfriend and rapping, "Baby, I've been thinkin lately/So much about you/Everything about you."

"Kiss Me Thru the Phone" is a Sammie-featuring song which is produced by Jim Jonsin, the same guy who helped Lil Wayne making single "Lollipop". The track appears on Soulja's forthcoming sophomore major studio album "iSouljaBoyTellem".

Granted a preliminary "quickie divorce" on November 21 in the High Court of London, Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reached financial settlement in their divorce, with the pop superstar is set to pay the film director between $76 million and $92 million as part of their divorce agreement. The singer's longtime spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg confirms that matter to the Associated Press.

Liz explains the figure includes the value of the estranged couple's home Ashcombe, in western England, as well as their London pub, the Punchbowl, both of which will be kept by Guy. Meanwhile, no agreement has been reached over the custody of their two children together, 8-year-old Rocco and 3-year-old David. A representative for Guy declines to comment on the report.

Nicole Richie has stepped out blasting off rumor saying that she will get help from Rihanna and Kelly Osbourne for solo debut album. "That's not true. Although I think that Rihanna and Kelly Osbourne are very talented, that's completely false," the 27-year-old songstress told People.

In line with Nicole's statement, her spokesperson also emphasizes that though "Nicole respects Rihanna and thinks she is immensely talented", the Lionel Richie's daughter is not working with the "Umbrella" singer. "She is not currently working on an album and hence, not currently working with Rihanna as has been recently reported," the spokesperson told OK! Magazine.

"The Office" has just upped the ante with the addition of Jack Black as a guest star. The "Kung Fu Panda" voice actor, is confirmed for an hour-long episode of the show that will air immediately after Super Bowl on February 1, 2009.

The episode in which he will appear is called "Stress Relief" and he will play as himself. The announcement released by NBC stated, "In one plot of the special post-Super Bowl episode of The Office, some of the office workers try to secretly watch a bootlegged Hollywood movie during the workday. The movie stars Jack Black and other notable Hollywood actors."

A new short clip from upcoming Pixar's animated picture, "Up", has made its way out via Disney. Picking up the interaction between grumpy old Carl Fredricksen and young adventurer Russell, the less-than-a-minute clip focuses on the time Fredricksen discovers that Russell is accidentally aboard his flying house.

Though part of this clip has been previewed on the teaser, the snippet provides more of the scene with Russell explaining how he gets on the front porch right before the house takes off. Though shocked with the situation and terrified Russell has begged him to let him in, Fredricksen is quick to reject the plea and slams shut his front door.

Taylor Swift held a low-key party at her home in Hendersonville, Tenn. on Saturday, December 13 to celebrate her 19th birthday. She was joined by her family, friends and bandmates for the homemade festivity.

The birthday girl treated her guests with lavish buffet that included sushi, mini beef Wellingtons and bacon-wrapped scallops, People quoted her representative as informing. Besides, she also had two ice cream cakes - chocolate peppermint and cookie dough - which came from Cold Stone Creamery. Taylor, additionally, had S'mores cooked up over an outdoor fire pit.

David Archuleta has debuted a music video for his brand new single "A Little Too Not Over You". On the Scott Speer-directed video, he is seen sitting in a dimmed room watching his pictures with ex-girlfriend through a digital camera.

"This video was so much fun! It took a lot longer, but I really had a great time. The director was really creative and fun to work with, and the people who were in the video were hilarious!" David wrote on his MySpace page. "They're working on editing it and getting everything together ..."

More details have been revealed on the newborn son of actress Naomi Watts. The baby, who was born on Saturday, December 13 in New York, is named Samuel Kai Schreiber.

A representative for the actress confirms Samuel weighed 7 lbs., 13 oz, at time of birth. He and his celebrity mother "are doing great", the representative adds.

The 20th Century Fox have officially unveiled the first trailer of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". The video footage was debuted at "Wolverine" MySpace page on Monday, December 15, following the outing of the bootleg version taped from the film's theatrical trailer attached to "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Presenting a much better take on the action as well as the drama surrounding Logan, the trailer hints that Logan discovers his claws at a young age and the tragedy following the discovery of his uniqueness. It also shares a glimpse of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, and shows Taylor Kitsch as Gambit, making use of his kinetically-charged playing cards.