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Veteran singer Rod Stewart leads the pack in the US pop album chart Wednesday Oct 18th, with his latest effort "Still the Same...Great Rock Classics of Our Time" sold 184,304 copies in the week ended October 15. The set, which is Stewart's first rock release in eight years, is the star's fourth No. 1 album in his entire music career.

With Stewart taking the very top position on the album chart, last week's champ goth-pop band Evanescence's "The Open Door" slips to 2nd position with another 164,000 copies. Rapper Lloyd Banks' second set, "Rotten Apple," bows at No. 3 taking in 143,000 units. Jimmy Buffett's "Take the Weather With You" is No. 4 on the Top 200 and No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with 121,000 units.

Releasing a new solo album and embark on a tour apparently could not keep Justin Timberlake away from his liking, fashion. Isn't a fashion designer himself, the pop singer once did it on Tuesday night Oct 17th at the runway debut of his William Rast clothing line at Los Angeles Fashion Week.

As of the collection, simply called "Street Sexy", it consists of range jeans, T-shirts and jackets all of which available in Bloomingdale's and online. Price range $48 to $220.

After 14-years of marriage and a month of legal separation, Whitney Houston has filed for divorce from Bobby Brown. The pop singer filed divorce papers in Orange County Superior Court this week, her publicist Nancy Seltzer said Tuesday Oct 17th.

Houston had asked in her divorce papers that she be granted the custody of her and Brown's 13-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina, and that he be allowed visitation rights. Brown's attorney, Phaedra Parks, declined to comment on the divorce filing.

Presenting good story and cast, it's no surprise that "Akeelah and the Bee" turned out to be the big winner at this year's Black Movie Awards held Sunday, October 15 at Shrine Wiltern Theater.

The movie, a production of Lions Gate Films and 2929 Productions, successfully made its way to take home four major awards, being named Outstanding Motion Picture while nabbing acting honors for lead actress Keke Palmer as well as for supporting actors Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett.

Progress on "Atlas Shrugged" keeps going smooth indeed. After successfully bringing Angelina Jolie into its cast list, the project now has "Pearl Harbor" writer Randall Wallace onboard to pen the script, Variety has learned.

Following this, Wallace will start writing immediately with an aim to finish the stint before he begins production next year on "The Mercenary", a Catherine the Great epic previously titled "Love and Honor" which also features Jolie as the female lead.

That Jennifer Aniston will produce the comedy-drama "Counter Clockwise" is true, but that she will star in it has yet been officially confirmed.

Aniston will produce the movie, written by scripter Paul Bernbaum, alongside her partner Kristin Hahn, Grant Scharbo and Gina Matthews.

Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou is attached to star in the drama "The Trunk." In companion with him, there are also the likes of Brian White, Boris Kodjoe and Thomas Krestchmann, all of whom attached as his co-stars.

Wrote the script for the film is Joseph A. Elmore Jr. with Sylvain White will direct. In hand producing are Scott Aronson and Melina Kevorkian along with Kodjoe and Brian White. Shooting reportedly will begin later this year in San Fransisco.

Went success with their latest film project "The Break-Up", screenwriters Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick have both been tapped to direct the forthcoming comedy "The Golden Tux", a flick which will become a directorial debut for either persons.

Not only directing, but also they will executive produce the movie, with Todd Phillips is producing.

Continuing his effort in making game-to-film adaptations, German director Uwe Boll is set to develop a new one entitled "Far Cry" based on Ubisoft's videogame of the same name.

Scheduled to start filming in May 2007, the project is expected to mirror the plot of the original version which concerns a man who sets out to escape his captors after being freed by an unseen stranger. Wayne Beach is re-writing the script originally penned by duo Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer.

Tim Burton has booked Helena Bonham Carter to co-star with Johnny Depp in his upcoming direction "Sweeney Todd".

In the DreamWorks Studios and Warner Bros. co-production of the Stephen Sondheim musical, the actress will play the diabolical meat pie-maker Mrs. Lovett.

Famous US rapper Fabolous was shot early Tuesday Oct 17th as he waited for his entourage outside a restaurant in New York. The 28-year-old star had just left Justin's, a restaurant owned by P. Diddy, with three friends when a gunman approached and opened fire.

Police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wysokowski said Fabolous was hit in the thigh. He and his entourage jumped into a 2005 Dodge Magnum and fled, attracting the attention of police when they ran a red light. And when officers stopped them, they discovered two unlicensed loaded guns in the vehicle.

Keeps paying attention to produce book-based film projects as many as possible, New Line Cinema has safely secured the film rights to an upcoming Eileen Cook's novel, Variety has reported.

Entitled "In the Stars" just like the novel's title, the movie will likely to stay close on the basic premise of the book which follows a woman pretending to be a psychic with an aim to retrieve her boyfriend by misleading his new girlfriend. So far, no further details yet on cast and film crew, let alone its production schedule.

The bride stated earlier this month that she's had a wedding gown. So it means she's ready to walk down the aisle. What's left is the wedding date. Concerning this it is widely believed that there will be an Italian wedding for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

The latest TomKat wedding rumor is that the celebrity couple is planning a Thanksgiving wedding at pal George Clooney's home on Lake Como.

Making a good move as it keeps progressing smoothly, Warner Independent Pictures has satisfyingly obtained distribution rights to thriller drama "Funny Games", a Halcyon Pictures production directed by Michael Haneke.

A remake of Haneke's 1997 Austrian film of the same title, the picture revolves around two psychotic young men who take a family hostage in a vacation home invasion. Filming is currently under way in New York with Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, and Devon Gearhart starring.

Panic! At the Disco can never have too many events to celebrate. What is coming for the music act is Christmas and to mark the day the band has announced they will release a special "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" gift box.

The limited-edition CD/DVD boxed set includes the band's platinum-plus debut album itself; a documentary about the band and a live performance, both filmed during Panic!'s July 22 show at the Fillmore Theatre in Denver; and a treasure trove of other "stuff" that includes a cabaret mask, a blank diary, a poster, and a phenakistoscope, a hand-held animation device that was popular in the 1800's.