Superiorpics.com: Entertainment News Saturday, January 26, 2008

BEYONCE TO PLAY ETTA JAMES

R+B star BEYONCE KNOWLES is set to play famed blues singer ETTA JAMES in new movie CADILLAC RECORDS.

BEYONCE KNOWLES and ETTA JAMES

The Dreamgirls actress will join Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright and Cedric the Entertainer in the 1950s-set film, reports AOL.com.

Actor Matt Dillon has been replaced by Oscar-winning Brody in the role of Leonard Chess, the founder of legendary blues label Chess Records, after scheduling conflicts forced him to pull out of the project.

Filming is due to take place later this year (08) in New Jersey and Mississippi.

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

CROW SLAMS INVASIVE MEDIA

Singer SHERYL CROW has slammed the media for prying into one of the most devastating periods of her life - and the people who bought the tabloid reports for entertainment.

Sheryl Crow leaving after having lunch at the Ivy restaurant in West Hollywood. Los Angeles, California - 13.12.07

The 45-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2006 just days after ending her three-year relationship with fellow cancer sufferer and cyclist Lance Armstrong.

And the star believes the events sparked an ever-present paparazzi frenzy that put a strain on her recovery.

She says, "Having 100 paparazzi outside my gate at all times because of the terrible things that were happening, it really spoke to me about who we are.

"If this is what makes people want to buy magazines - someone at their absolute lowest - that is a very sad message. I found the whole experience was very difficult. I went from being linked with one of the most famous cancer survivors to then begin diagnosed with cancer."

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

BECKHAM DENIES SNOOP COLLABORATION

Soccer star DAVID BECKHAM has denied reports he will collaborate with rapper SNOOP DOGG on a new song.

SNOOP DOGG and DAVID BECKHAM

The L.A. Galaxy star was rumoured to be recording a song with the hip-hop star after Beckham appeared on Snoop Dogg's reality TV show Father Hood.

But the British sportsman has denied he will be stepping into the studio with the Beautiful hitmaker.

A spokeman for Beckham tells gossip blog The Celebrity Truth, "No truth in that one."

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

SANZ + EX-ASSISTANT CONFIRM THEY'RE DATING

Spanish pop star ALEJANDRO SANZ has confirmed he's romancing his former assistant two years after the pair started dating.

Alejandro Sanz performing live in concert at Madison Square Garden. New York City, USA - 25.01.08

The couple was spotted at a string of events late last year (07) leading to speculation they were an item.

Neither commented about a romance, but now Sanz has confirmed "Everything's going amazingly," while his ex-assistant Raquel Pereda revealed, "I'm his girlfriend," to pushy journalists who quizzed the couple during a date at the Smithsonian Latino Center in New York on Thursday (24Jan08).

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

PUBLIC MEMORIAL SERVICE TO BE HELD FOR LEDGER

U.S. fans will pay tribute to late actor HEATH LEDGER next week at a public memorial service in Los Angeles.

Fans continue to leave artwork and letters in honour of Heath Ledger's life and career in film. New York City, USA - 26.01.08

Australia's foreign minister Stephen Smith gave no details of the remembrance ceremony in California but confirmed a private service had been held in New York on Saturday (26Jan08), where members of Ledger's family joined the actor's ex-fiancee Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda to pay their respects.

The casket then began its two-day journey to the actor's hometown of Perth, Australia, where Ledger will be laid to rest at a family funeral next week.

The 28-year-old was found dead in his New York apartment on Tuesday (22Jan08). An autopsy carried out on Wednesday (23Jan08) failed to reveal how the actor died, although police believe his death is drug-related as sleeping pills were found by his bed.

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

WINFREY AND WALTERS IN BIDDING WAR OVER MCCANN EXCLUSIVE

U.S. TV hosts OPRAH WINFREY and BARBARA WALTERS are embroiled in a multi-million-dollar bidding war for an exclusive interview with the parents of British missing child MADELEINE McCANN.

OPRAH WINFREY and BARBARA WALTERS

The talk show rivals have each offered Gerry and Kate McCann $2 million (GBP1 million) to open up about their four-year-old daughter's disappearance while on a family holiday at a resort in Portugal last May (07).

The McCanns - who are still suspects in the case - insist the cash from the lucrative TV appearance would be put toward The Find Madeleine Appeal, which is said to have dwindled to $800,000 (GBP400,000) from the $2.4 million (GBP1.2 million) it had raised with donations from the public.

Clarence Mitchell, the couple's spokesman, says, "We've been approached by representatives for both Oprah and Barbara. They want an exclusive interview with Kate and Gerry. We are discussing it but nothing has been agreed."

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

JOHANSSON SHOWERED WITH GIFTS

SCARLETT JOHANSSON was flattered when troops stationed in the Persian Gulf offered her their clothes as a gift during a visit to their camp last week (17-18Jan08).

Scarlett Johansson at the 'Women in Hollywood' 14th annual event. Los Angeles, California - 15.10.07

The 23-year-old actress met over 3,500 men and women serving overseas during her stops at American bases in Kuwait as part of the United Service Organizations tour.

Servicemen gifted the Lost In Translation star with patches torn off their jackets and challenge coins from their military units - with one Marine even offering up a medal adorned with the image of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers.

She says, "Everybody that I met there was so incredibly friendly and polite and genuine and generous. They were so, so sweet. I mean, I was just amazed."

One star-struck soldier gushed, "You've made my whole deployment!"

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

TITANIC HUG VOTED MOVIE FAVOURITE

Actors KATE WINSLET and LEONARDO DiCAPRIO's embrace as the ill-fated TITANIC struck an iceberg has been voted the Best Movie Hug Ever.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in 'Titanic'

The desperate clinch shared by the doomed lovers in the 1997 blockbuster narrowly beat the final hug shared by Baby and Johnny in 1987's Dirty Dancing as well as Elliot's tight grasp on the incubator holding his extra-terrestrial friend in the 1982 movie E.T.

Bridget Jones' Diary was voted fourth place for Bridget and Mark Darcy's squeeze in the snow, with ex-convicts Andy and Red's hug in the final scene of The Shawshank Redemption rounding out the top five.

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

ROCHON TO GIVE HER BRAIN TO FANS

Veteran horror film actress DEBBIE ROCHON has agreed to give loyal fans a piece of herself - by offering them part of her brain.

The Chainsaw Cheerleaders star recently announced she was undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour - and was shocked after fans asked to keep the cancerous growth.

She says, "At first, I thought it was a joke. But after dozens of requests, I decided to give them what they want.

"I've gotten a lot of weird requests over the years, but this is by far the freakiest and darkest of them all."

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

88 MINUTES TRAILER

In Theaters April 18, 2008

Al Pacino and Alicia Witt

Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, Leelee Sobieski
Synopsis: In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster (Neal McDonough), influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same 'modus-operandi' and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support the FBI agent and his friend Frank Parks (William Forsythe) and his assistant Kim Cummings (Alicia Witt), Jack investigate some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand.

Watch The Trailer

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

GET SMART INTERNATIONAL TRAILER

In Theaters June 20, 2008

STEVE CARELL stars as Maxwell Smart

Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, The Rock, Terence Stamp
Synopsis: In the all-new action comedy 'Get Smart,' Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS.

When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS' master plan—and each other—they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried (Terence Stamp) and his sidekick Shtarker (Kenneth Davitian) are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart—armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm—must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.

Trailer:

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

THE WACKNESS SECOND POSTER

In Theaters TBA 2008

Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck, Mary-Kate Olsen, Olivia Thirlby, Method Man
Synopsis: Story, set in 1994, centers on a troubled teenage drug dealer and a drug-addled psychiatrist -- after the former trades pot for therapy sessions, then falls for the doctor's daughter.

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008

PREMIERE: OLA PODRIDA: 'ATMOSPHERE' (JOY DIVISION COVER)

Before forming Ola Podrida, David Wingo scored scores of movies, including last year's too-little-seen Great World of Sound.

He returns to that day job with this acoustic, reverby cover of Joy Division's "Atmosphere", which will figure prominently in the upcoming technohorror gorefest The Signal. In the flick, which was made by a collective of Atlanta-based directors and is told Rashomon-style from three different viewpoints, haunted transmissions turn people into homicidal lunatics via their televisions and cell phones. Then some of those homicidal lunatics turn into zombies. There will be blood.

For a song on a character's mix CD, Ola Podrida take Joy Division's looking-into-the-abyss anthem "Atmosphere" and slow it down only slightly, retaining all the darkness of the original but creating a new atmosphere that offsets the violence promised in the movie's trailer. Wingo delivers the lyrics in a whisper, quieting some of Ian Curtis's concerns but making that central line-- "Don't walk away in silence" -- sound like a gentle lover's plea instead of an expression of existential disappointment. Ultimately, this measured, subdued cover takes just the right liberties: Forgoing those thundering drums of the original and Martin Hannett's vast, empty sound, Ola Podrida create a subtly murky background ambience behind the Manchester tambourine, menacing bassline, and heraldic guitars, as if that haunted signal were seeping into your brain via your earbuds.

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| Saturday, January 26, 2008