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"Disturbia," the drama thriller flick of DreamWorks and Paramount project will have D.J. Caruso as its director. Written by Christopher Landon, the film will be executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

"Disturbia" follows the story of a troubled high school senior, still grieving over his father's death, who is sentenced to house arrest after an outburst of anger at school. Production is slated to begin in April later this year.

Rock star Bono of music group U2 teamed up with three leading fashion groups, Gap, Giorgio Armani and Converse, and American Express Thursday Jan 26th to launch Product Red, an ambitious branding and fund-raising scheme which is aimed at beating AIDS.

Bring the idea into life, one percent of money that customers spend on the card will go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which supports nearly half a million people on AIDS treatment and a similar number of children orphaned by the disease.

The Billboard's Hot 100 chart-toper for the week ended Thursday Jan 26th is Beyonce Knowles. This is the seventh time the singer's "Check on It" dominating the U.S. singles chart. Right behind at the runner-up position is Nelly's "Grillz" followed behind at No. 3 by Chris Brown's "Run It!".

No. 4 to No. 6 in succession are Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You", The Pussycat Dolls' "Stickwitu" and Juelz Santana's "There It Go! (The Whistle Song)." Mariah Carey's "Don't Forget About Us" falls three places to No. 7, while James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" rocketing seven places to No. 8.

Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has a new role. This time not in movie project but in real life indeed. The U.N. has on Tuesday Jan 24th named the movie star a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), for which she will work to fight against domestic violence, human trafficking and AIDS.

"I am honored that UNIFEM has asked me to serve as goodwill ambassador and I look forward to a close, long-term relationship," Kidman said in a statement. In related news, Kidman also has on the same day been named a Companion in the Order of Australia in her native country on its national day. Lucky Kidman seemingly picks double happiness.

Actress Evangeline Lilly and beau Dominic Monaghan reportedly are planning to start a family soon as the hit TV show "Lost" in which they star in comes to its end.

"We'll see where I'm at, at the end of Lost. Maybe one or two children of my own, and then what I really hope to do is adopt - perhaps a bunch of them." So said Monaghan, prompting the existed rumors.

A line of cast for the upcoming drama "Starting out in the Evening" has been revealed. Among the names mentioned, Frank Langella and Lauren Ambrose are the two names slated to topline the film. Also there is Adrian Lester who's about to star in as well.

Based on the novel by Brian Morton, the film was adapted by Andrew Wagner with Fred Parnes and will have Gary Winick, Jake Abraham, and Nancy Israel to produce. Gives hand at executive producing is Cinetic Media head John Sloss, while Wagner will direct.

Soon as Phoenix Pictures acquired the rights to "Colter's Run," they immediately tapped Carroll Ballard to direct the action drama flick.

From a script written by Mark St. Germain, the film concerns John Colter, a guide with Lewis and Clark's Corps. Of Discovery expedition in 1803. Colter left that expedition to make his fortune trapping beavers, but he and other trappers were ambushed by the Blackfeet Indian tribe.

With Disney's acquisition of Pixar, the studio will hand the "Toy Story 3" to Pixar as part of its deal to acquire Pixar. Apparently, it has yet clear how the change would affect the production schedule of the flick at the latter studio.

To your notice, the production of "Toy Story 3" actually has been started at Disney's new animation unit, Circle 7, in Glendale, California. The unit reportedly will not immediately closed, yet its future is yet to be determined. That being so, the future of "Toy Story 3" remains uncertain as well.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are expecting twins. Are they? Well at least that's according to London's The Sun report. Moreover, an undisclosed source claimed that the action beauty even has undergone fertility treatments.

"Angelina is overjoyed. Getting pregnant with one of Brad's children would have been God's precious gift to her. Now we believe she is carrying twins, Angie is in seventh heaven." The source said.

After weeks of counting down the votes, the nominations for the ShockWaves NME Awards 2006 can finally be announced. Leading the way on the shortlist is music group Kaiser Chiefs, which vie for six nominations, including that of Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album for "Employment", Best Track and Best Video for "I Predict A Riot", Best Music DVD for "Enjoyment", and Best Website.

Among the many nominees there you can find Arctic Monkeys, which ups for four nominations; Best British Band, Best New Band, Best Live Band, and Best Track for "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor." Some other nominees are Oasis, Block Party, Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, Green Day, The Killers, The Strokes, Foo Fighters and many more. Get the full list of nominations at http://www.nme.com/news/nme-awards/22040.

Producer Gil Cates has on Wednesday Jan 25th announced a new name tapped as one of the 78th Oscars presenters. It's Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston.

To note, Aniston could in the near future be seen in "Friends with Money" and "The Break-Up." Her film resumes among others include "Rumor Has It", "Derailed", "Along Came Polly", "Bruce Almighty" and "The Good Girl."

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of "Hairspray" and the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning Best Picture "Chicago," announced Wednesday Jan 25th that New Line Cinema has launched a nationwide casting search to fill three roles in its upcoming feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical "Hairspray."

The casting search will be opened beginning from Feb 4th with an open call audition held in Atlanta on the campus of Georgia State University. Casting agents will on Feb. 11th hold an open call in New York at the Hilton Theatre Rehearsal Studios and the search will come to Chicago on Feb. 18th at the Chicago Academy of Arts.

Girls are everywhere when the bad boys of '80s heavy metal band Motley Crue received the 2,301st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday January 25th, 2006.

Expressing his joy bassist Nikki Sixx told an estimated 600 screaming fans "We're across the street from the Erotica Museum and Frederick's of Hollywood. This is a perfect place for us to be."

Denzel Washington and Jim Caviezel are joined by Adam Goldberg for their next film project "Deja Vu," which Tony Scott will direct.

It is an action adventure drama centers on an FBI agent (Washington) who travels back in time to save a woman from a murder and falls in love with her in the process.

Done with his late project "The Amityville Horror," Andrew Douglas has next been slated to direct the upcoming Screen Gems' horror film "Priest." With Mike De Luca, Sam Raimi, Josh Donen, and Mitchell Peck on board to produce, production of the film is scheduled to start this summer.

"Priest" actually is based on Tokyopop's graphic novel created by Min-Woo Hyung with its script written by Cory Goodman. The story is a vampire Western that concerns a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece.