May 26, 2009

After sending home 10 guys on the premiere of "The Bachelorette" season 5, Jillian Harris eliminated further 4 men. Those getting axed from the dating reality show are IT consultant Brian, restauranteur Julien, personal trainer Mathue, and soccer coach Simon. With the departure of the four men, Jillian is left with 16 others to choose from.

The Monday, May 25 episode was highlighted with a date to one of Martina McBride's concerts as well as the race to find Jillian who disappeared in the middle of L.A. In the race where the men are paired in twos, Wes and Brad won the challenge but Jillian picked only the former to have dinner with her. Brad was pissed off by the decision and hoped that Jillian will see through Wes.

As a promotional project to support his single titled "Rich Off Cocaine", Rick Ross brings out a music video for it. In the just-debuted video, he is captured rapping alongside his collaborator Avery Storm.

"Rich Off Cocaine" video is filmed in Medellin, Colombia. It is shot back to back with "All I Really Want" and "Cigar Music" videos, both of which have been outed earlier this month. While "All I Really Want" video is directed by Gil Green, "Cigar Music" video and this new one are worked on by Spiff TV.

A short teaser trailer for "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" has come out. While it doesn't really tease what to expect from the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" sequel, the footage does bring back the singing chipmunks to the big screen with them harmonizing the anthem of the studio producing the movie, the 20th Century Fox.

The teaser came out along with the launching of an official website for the sequel film. The website will soon feature the "Munk Yourself" game, which is a play on the popular OfficeMax promo Elf Yourself.

Paris Hilton has crossed out the rumor of her getting kicked off a yacht for engaging in serious PDA with boyfriend Doug Reinhardt. Through her MySpace, the socialite bashed on the media that spread the news, saying that the writers "have no credibility".

"That story some tabloid ran about my boyfriend and I on a yacht is such a lie that it's a joke!" Paris wrote. "That was my good friends boat and first of all she would never ask me to leave and second of all I would never do that. It's so lame that people will just create these crazy stories. I can't believe the stories people will make up, so gross! I'm so sick of all these false rumors, it's not fair that writers can get away it. They have no credibility."

A forthcoming music video for Linkin Park has been made available to peek through a bunch of pictures taken from its shooting location. Through the snaps, it is revealed that the video will exhibit the band rocking out in an indoor place with smokes flooding the venue.

"New Divide" music video is directed by Linkin Park's member DJ Joe Hahn. It is filmed at Paramount Studios and expected to be premiered sometime soon.

Long having been rumored to be brought to the big screen, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" the movie is indeed happening. Still, this feature version won't be developed as a sequel or prequel. Instead, it will be done more as a remake or relaunch with a possibility that creator Joss Whedon won't be involved in the project.

This new incarnation would have no connection to the popular '90s television series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. It won't be having any of the series' famed supporting characters, such as Angel, Willow, Xander or Spike, as well since the underlying idea for the new film is that "each generation has its own vampire slayer to protect it".

An official cover art for Brooke Hogan's upcoming second studio album titled "The Redemption" has been uncovered. Revealed through her newly-launched official website Brookesworld.com, it captures her with white wings stretched on her back.

A follow up to Brooke's 2006 record "Undiscovered", "The Redemption" itself is planned to be released sometime in July under SoBe Entertainment. It features the likes of Stack$, Colby O'Donis, Flo Rida, T-Pain, Fabolous and Trina as her collaborators.

It was another year for "Jon & Kate Plus 8" as the fifth season began Monday, May 25 for an extra long premiere. However, things are not as sweet as the last season after all the drama surrounding Jon's cheating scandal that has been going on off-screen while the reality show was having a break. For the first time in the show's history, there are times the parents of two older twin girls and a sixtuplet, Jon and Kate, did not sit together on the interview chair.

Kate, sitting solo, mentioned, "This could be our last family picture," when asked whether the fifth birthday of the sixtuplet was bittersweet. Kate revealed that the rumor of Jon cheating on her last month "kills" her, saying further "I have a lot of anger." On a separate interview, Jon said "I'd like to apologize to my family for my actions," adding "Everybody knows what I'm talking about."

Through his representative, Billy Joel clarifies rumor suggesting that he had pulled off "American Idol" performance on May 20. Contrary to the Idol outcast Scott MacIntyre's claim that Billy had been invited to the show but couldn't make it, Billy's rep tells Entertainment Weekly that the singer "was never invited on 'American Idol' to perform with Scott. He did not pull out. He's currently on tour."

Scott MacIntyre recently posted a message on his MySpace, sharing his disappointment about not taking the stage during the Idol finale. He claimed to be originally scheduled to sing with Billy Joel but since Billy "was unable to make it in the end," the duet project was said to be cut from the show.

A new TV talent search will be conducted by VH1, in order to find the right girls to reprise the glory and success of Spice Girls. The music network is brewing a project that will put together a girl-band act which possibly consists of different personalities.

And to judge who are capable of filling such position is Melanie Brown who is also known as Scary Spice in the disbanded British girl-group. "It's going to be a real chance to find some edgy raw talents and watch it unfold as part of the show," Mel B explained. No date or other details have been released.

Words are, the added scene for "Inglourious Basterds" will come from a scene director Quentin Tarantino shot but did not assemble for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival's version. Having reported earlier that the helmer is returning to the editing room, Anne Thompson of Variety gave more details on the particular scene.

In her recent report, the blogger claimed that the scene will be added in front of the La Louisiane sequence. She wrote, "...it comes right before the La Louisiane sequence featuring Michael Fassbender and Diane Kruger as a British soldier under cover and a German movie star who wants to help him bring down the Third Reich."

A report has just emerged that Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter, Exodus, is on life support at St. Joseph's Hospital on Monday, May 25 morning. Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill who is in charge of the case, informed FOX News that her condition is "extremely critical".

Exodus, according to The Associated Press, was in an accident involving a home exercise equipment in their Phoenix home. "Somehow she was playing on this treadmill," Hill explained, "and there's a cord that hangs under the console - it's kind of a loop. Either she slipped or put her head in the loop, but it acted like a noose, and she was obviously unable to get herself off of it."

Rapper Soulja Boy has stopped by ABC's popular talk show "The View" on May 25 and entertained its viewers. He delivered his hit single "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" with his collaborator Sammie.

Aside from making a performance, Soulja Boy also sat down with its hosts Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. One of the topics he discussed with the ladies was his journey from being nobody to becoming a superstar who sold million copies of record.

"Ghostbusters" original cast, Dan Aykroyd, has teased out more on what to expect from the third movie. Slash Film reported that the Academy Award-nominated actor has given an update to "Ghostbusters 3", talking about a new leader as well as the ghostbusting team's new equipment to the Guardian Guide.

In the pull out supplement of The Guardian's Saturday issue, the "Christmas with the Kranks" actor shared, "There'll be a whole new generation that has to be trained and a leader that you'll all love when you meet her." He then added, "There'll be lots of cadets, boys and girls who'll be learning how to use the neuron splitter and the inter-planet interceptor - new tools to enable them to slip from dimension to dimension."

In a shocking statement, Brooke Shields let it slip that she lost her virginity only at the ripe age of 22, but she wished it could have happened "earlier". The actress who shot nude scenes at the age of 12, revealed that she used to be insecure with how she looked and that contributes to the fact that she waited until 22 to have sex.

"I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22," Brooke stated to Health magazine. "I had the public and all this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it over with in the beginning when it was sort of OK. I think I would have been much more in touch with myself."

First look at "Get Him to the Greek", a spin-off to hit comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", has been shared by MTV through an on-set footage. The video is hosted by the movie's star Russell Brand himself. He gives a tour inside the Las Vegas set of the movie, showing off people involved in the shooting as well behind-the-scenes footage.

The set visit footage displays a short capture of P. Diddy and Jonah Hill shooting one of the movie's scenes. Through the video, Hill who portrays a fresh-out-of-college record company intern is spotted sitting side by side inside a night club with Diddy, who plays his angry record company boss Sergio.

Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez will, on June 26, team up for a new Disney Channel original TV movie "Princess Protection Program". A couple of sneak peeks are released along with two short behind-the-scenes.

The first sneak peek is on a bowling game where Rosie (Demi) catches the attention of Donnie (Robert Adamson). Carter (Selena), who has a crush on him, is feeling a little jealousy and she withdraws from the game when Rosie impresses the others with her lucky strikes.

It's official that Mel Gibson's Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva is currently pregnant. The 53-year-old actor spoke up about the matter during "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", which was aired on Monday, May 25.

"I guess I'm 'Octo-Mel,'" he said. Asked about his plan to marry Oksana, the father of seven children simply answered, "Why would you get married twice?"

Video performances during PBS' National Memorial Day Concert on Sunday, May 24 have hit the web, some of which featured "American Idol" alum Katharine McPhee. They showed the 25-year-old singer making a duet with pianist Lang Lang in a song titled "America the Beautiful" and performing solo in another track called "Somewhere".

Another musical guest hitting the annual event at the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol was Trace Adkins. He performed solo in "Til the Last Shot's Fired", one of the songs from his 2008 album "X". He also collaborated with Katharine, Denyce Graves and Colm Wilkinson in "This Is My Country".

"Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian" has indeed claimed a North American box office victory over "Terminator Salvation". Outperforming the fourth "Terminator" series during the three days weekend, the sequel to 2006's "Night at the Museum" continued its reign by drawing in approximately $70 million over the Memorial Day weekend.

"Night at the Museum 2" marked its leading actor Ben Stiller's biggest live-action bow. It bested over his $46.1 million opening of 2004's "Meet the Fockers" and outnumbered the first four days earning of the original "Night at the Museum" which was $42.2 million. This Memorial Day bow was on par with Stiller's 2005 animated "Madagascar" if adjusted for ticket price inflation.