January 24, 2009

Speculations that Sienna Miller has been forced to wear fake breasts for her role as The Baroness in "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra" have been put off by director Stephen Sommers. Responding to the circulating rumors, the man behind "Van Helsing" told Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider that the story holds no truth.

"Everybody here laughed because they know I would NEVER say that to an actress," the "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" director/writer insisted. "I guess the costume department gave her a tight fitting bra, but no one gave her rubber breasts or whatever. It is 100 percent Sienna Miller."

Returning from its sleep during the transition between fall to midseason, "Life on Mars" give a sneak peek of its January 28 episode. In "Take a Look at the Lawmen", Lieutenant Hunt faces off with his arch rival from another precinct while investigating a bank robbery with international connections.

A longstanding competition between Lt. Hunt and the detectives of the 1-2-5 and Lt. Anthony Nunzio and his men of the 1-4-4 heats up when the Russian mafia appears to be linked to a bank robbery. The investigation becomes a furious contest of one-upmanship between the two squads.

Talking about man of her dream, Demi Lovato mentions humor as one of the qualities that she is looking for in a guy. "I think the main thing is intelligence ... actually, no. I take that back. Humor because humor is key to friendship with me and you fall in love with somebody you're friends with and your friendship will last throughout your life," so she explains.

Demi Lovato, who is famous for starring as Mitchie Torres in Disney Channel TV movie "Camp Rock", recently revealed she not yet has a boyfriend. And so, when asked about her favorite Valentine's Day memories, she said spending the day with family and friends was the best celebration that she has ever had.

A day following the announcement of the 81st Academy Awards' nominees, the French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have uncovered their official selections for the 34th Cesar Awards. On Friday, January 23, gangster movie "Mesrine" has been given ten nominations for the France's top awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Jean-Francois Richet.

Apart from the two mentioned gongs, "Mesrine", which is the third highest grossing French film in 2008, also garnered a Best Actor nod for leading actor Vincent Cassel. It also collected two more counts in the category of Adapted Screenplay for Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-Francois Richet, and of Cinematography for Robert Gantz.

Lil Wayne's venture to rock music is imminent. The rapper who announced back in 2008 that he is shifting gear from Hip-Hop to be a rock star will release his rock-themed album "Rebirth" on April 7, his publicist confirmed to MTV. The first single is "Prom Queen" which will be streamed on MySpace on Tuesday, January 27 right after his concert at San Diego's Cox Arena.

Earlier this month, Canadian actor/rapper Aubrey Drake Graham a.k.a Drake said that he contributes a song to Lil Wayne's rock album. He said, "Wayne's coming out with a new album, it's a rock album. A complete rock album. I have a song on there. It's something different in just that whole [Kanye West] '808's & Heartbreak', just throwing individuals off."

The January 29 episode of "Private Practice" has been given a sneak peek. The clip taken from "Second Chance", is on Addison's conversation to her younger brother who decides to move to L.A. and work at Pacific Wellcare.

Addison expresses her objection of having Archer entering her life, working in her place and sleeping with her best friends. In fact, his presence causes a problem between Addison and Naomi. She is asking Archer to leave although his intention is to get closer to her.

Sarah Jessica Parker told reporters that she and husband Matthew Broderick do not bother to address the mounting rumors claiming they are divorcing. Declining to talk further about the issue, she insisted as for her the best part of being married is "being married."

Parker and Broderick, whose marriage has been put under the media microscope following rumors of him cheating on her, put on a united front on Thursday night, January 22, hitting the opening of Broadway play "The American Plan" at N.Y.C.'s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Downplaying rumors that their marriage is on the rocks, the pair was seen holding hand.

Through MySpace, The Killers premiere the music video for "Spaceman" which serves as the second "Day & Age" single after "Human". The video presents a clean-cut Brandon Flowers in a red costume, attending a Cirque du Soleil-theme of party on a circle platform.

The video was shot back in the first week of this month with director Ray Tintori who also directed music videos for MGMT. The single itself was released in November 2008 and peaked at number 67 on Billboard Hot 100. It is also available as a downloadable track for the music video game series "Rock Band".

A sweet and charming New York City girl, Rebecca Bloomwood has a tiny, little problem in her life. She is addicted to shopping. When her addiction puts her into major debts, she is determined to change her life around and lands a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the top fashion magazine she's dreaming of working with. But, changing her lifestyle is not as easy as she thinks it will be.

In the second trailer of "Confessions of a Shopaholic", several never-before-seen footage of Bloomwood's effort to get out of her financial problems can be seen. Courtesy of Yahoo!, the new trailer runs about two and a half minutes long. While most of the scenes previewed are similar to the ones before, several freshly-outed footage, including Bloomwood's job interview are available starting from the 1:00 mark.

51st Grammy Awards nominees will sit in with CBS' Katie Couric for a special interview on "All Access Grammy Special". The likes of Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and big nominee Lil Wayne will participate on the one-on-one that airs February 4 at 9/8c on CBS News.

Timberlake shows up as a previous Grammy winner who had pocketed 6 nods in the past years. He is however, in possibility to be seven-time Grammy winner should his collaboration with Madonna in "4 Minutes" win the Best pop Collaboration with Vocals this year. Lil Wayne meanwhile, leads the nominations list this year with 8 counts. He is also one of the performers when the show goes live on February 8 at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

7th season "American Idol" champion David Cook has just announced the full dates of his spring tour, which will take him to colleges around the nation. Scheduled to kick off the tour on February 13 with a performance at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, the singer promises fans a show inspired by stadium-rock gods, U2. Speaking to AOL's PopEater.com about what he looks up to from the music act, David says, "Seeing U2 at the Super Bowl a few year back. It was just very poignant. Not overdone, but definitely powerful."

The singer-songwriter continues to dish on the reason that prompted him to embark on the college tour, stating, "There's something inherently nostalgic about playing college shows. So many amazing acts used to do it, so it's nice to be able to bring that ideal back, in some small way." He adds, "Besides, touring on a bus beats what we used to do, which was cram five guys into a 7 passenger van for one show, 13 hours away."

Nicole Richie is not shopping around for a new reality show. Slamming down the circulating rumors about Richie's plan to return to the small screen was the representative for Paris Hilton's co-star in "The Simple Life".

To OK! Magazine, the rep claimed that the reports suggesting the 27-year-old will once again step in front of the cameras "couldn't be further from the truth". The rep also stated that the speculations are "unsubstantiated", adding further "This is false reporting."

George Clooney's return as Dr. Doug Ross is confirmed, not through a statement but via on-set pictures. The actor has been pictured smiling while donning his surgeon suit back to reprise his role in "ER" on Thursday, January 22. The exclusive photos were acquired by gossip site Starzlife that also claims Clooney's character appears to wear a wedding band.

E! reports that the crew are shooting for a documentary-type of episode called "What We Do". It is penned by the show's long-time scribe David Zabel who will sit in as the director. Another episode would be called "In Times of Old" which has John Wells both writing and directing. This would be the one adding up to the two hours finale on April 2.

Having been to the White House for a couple of times, Kevin Jonas has admitted he's been to the Oval Office and would like to have it as his own. "I'd want it for my office," he told Channel 955 in Detroit during an interview on Friday morning, January 23. He, moreover, also claimed that though visiting the White House isn't something new for him and his brothers; Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas, it is still "a whole other level of excitement" when they were asked to serve as the scavenger hunt prize for Malia and Sasha Obama earlier this week.

"We were there waiting for them as the prize at the end of the hunt," he recalled. "So when they came to their final room and opened up the door, we were there, waiting to play a couple of songs specifically for them. And we got to hang out with them."

"Charlie's Angels 3" is in the list of Drew Barrymore's future feature film project. Revealing to E! Online's Marc Malkin on the possibility of the next "Charlie's Angel" film being made, the 33-year-old actress/producer stated during the promotion of "He's Just Not That Into You", "I'm so into it. I'm so into it - Charlie's Angels III!"

On what possibly prompting her to eye on another "Charlie's Angels" movie, Barrymore pointed out on the previous two movies, "Charlie's Angels" and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle", she starred and produced, saying "They're hard movies to make, but they're fun." Adding to her comment that she is into the third film, her Flower Films producing partner, Nancy Juvonen, said of the possible project, "It's percolating up. It's rising to the surface."

A featurette has been released in anticipation of "Lost" 5.03 titled "Jughead". It is a video interview with some of the cast of the show, including Naveen Andrews aka Sayid, Elizabeth Mitchell aka Juliet and Michael Emerson aka Ben, talking about the idea behind the new season.

All three of them hint on what viewers can expect from the fifth season, including whether the Oceanic 6 will return to the island or not, and what happen to the island that the survivors get attacked. Elizabeth in particular said that a lot of the flashback scenes on the island will unravel the people they love but cannot see, thus it will be rather heartbreaking.

Actress Molly Ringwald has exclusively confirmed to People that she is pregnant with twins, a baby boy and a baby girl. The baby boy will be her first son with husband Panio Gianopoulos, whereas the baby girl will be their second daughter.

Molly is due to give birth to the twins in August. No other details have been disclosed though.

Pink has released a music video that has the rather hilarious tone to it. In "Please Don't Leave Me" clip, Pink has a boyfriend who gets into an unfortunate 'accident' every time he tries to leave her, pretty much an ironic meaning to the song's lyrics which is "How did I become so obnoxious?/What is it with you that makes me act like this?/I've never been this nasty".

The scenes include the boyfriend get attacked by the dog, stumbling down the stairs, slammed with a golf club and chased by the axe-welding Pink, all because he said it is time for them to part ways. It also has the carnival theme of Pink's "Funhouse" when she puts make up on the boyfriend to perform in front of dolls audience on a theatrical stage.

Sharing a lot in common with Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox has been hit with rumors that she will be the next Lara Croft in the next "Tomb Raider" installment. In a report by PSX Extreme, European site MeriStation has claimed that the "Transformers" actress has been favored to take on the heroine role first brought to the big screen by Jolie in 2001.

If the 22-year-old indeed replaces the "Wanted (2008)" actress, she will most likely appear in "Tomb Raider 3". While the rumbling is yet to be proven true or false, Fox's camp has not come out with any denial or confirmation and the next "Tomb Raider" movie is still seeking for a director to work on the project.

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady are not engaged, the supermodel insists, putting to rest the never ending false engagement reports addressed to her and the NFL's New England Patriots quarterback over the past few months. "I will realize the dream of marriage, to have children and a family, of course. I'm sorry (to) disappoint you, there is no date set yet," The Boston Herald quotes her as telling Brazilian magazine Caras.

Addressing those engagement rumors which have been gracing all over the web, Gisele says, "I don't know how people are so creative. First they said he proposed to me in a plane. Imagine, it was Dec. 24, Christmas, we were flying to Boston, then there was some champagne and we celebrated the date." She, moreover, reveals, "Ready? Someone deduced I was getting engaged! I received more than 100 e-mails from friends commenting about the proposal."

Leona Lewis is still spawning singles from the huge-selling debut album "Spirit" and the latest one she pulls is "I Will Be" which music video has just received a world premiere. This would be the music video where "Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford makes a cameo as her lover.

Chace who has several speaking lines in the video, agreed to appear in the music video after meeting the singer in a London party. They claimed to become "fast friends" and Leona personally invited him to be in the video. It was shot back in mid December 2008 in NYC with director Melina Matsoukas, who also directed the international version of "Bleeding Love". Leona plays a criminal who gets arrested by an NYPD officer, played by Cedric Darius.

People close to Jennifer Love Hewitt, including her ex-boyfriend and the costume supervisor on her TV show "Ghost Whisperer", break their silence to US Weekly, revealing some details they know about what might prompt the actress to call off her engagement to actor fiance Ross McCall. Based on their revelation, it is assumed that it's Love's personal issues that lead to their abrupt separation.

Hewitt "was so needy and immature," Claudia Wick, who used to work as costume supervisor on "Ghost Whisperer", tells the publication. "She would call McCall up and go, 'Can you come and sit with me? I'm cold. She would drag him on the set and then pout and they'd fight. Mainly, it was her needing something from him: 'Can you say you love me?'"

The Japanese trailer of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has finally made its way out. Originally aired on Fuji TV on January 17, the newly-found promotional video opens up with an introduction from the actor who portrays the boy wizard himself, Daniel Radcliffe. While most of the narration are in Japanese, the trailer still displays lots of never-before-seen footage from the adventure fantasy movie.

On another trailer news for "Half-Blood Prince", it was reported earlier that the film's final full-length trailer could be making its debut on January 23 in the U.S. theaters attached to "Inkheart". Some reports claimed that this final trailer may contain similar footage to the Japanese version, but with an English narration.

Dominican singer Kat DeLuna promised a smashing 2009 and she begins with the music video premiere of "Unstoppable" on January 23. The 21-year-old nabbed the favor of Lil Wayne to be the collaborator of the song and to appear in the video which was shot in Brooklyn.

"Unstoppable" is the first single from DeLuna's sophomore album "Inside Out" which is planned to be released later this summer. The single itself is planned to be spun in radio outlets in March and released as a physical CD on February 24. Speaking about the single DeLuna gushed, "The song is a smash," adding that it is "a little bit different...but crazy."