Director: Michael Bay Cast:Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Jake Gyllenhaal Synopsis: Based on the video game, which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
LATEST: HEROES star HAYDEN PANETTIERE's father ALAN has been released on $50,000 (GBP25,000) bail after being arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife.
Hayden Panettiere at The Whaleman Foundation benefit held at Beso restaurant, Los Angeles, California - 10.08.08
Alan Panettiere was arrested after the alleged incident in West Hollywood, California on Monday (11Aug08) morning and was released from custody the same afternoon.
He was held for 10 hours in Los Angeles County sheriff's custody and was charged with felony domestic violence following the fight with wife Lesley.
A witness tells People.com, "When they were both about to leave, they had a heated argument outside the restaurant. They were doing a good amount of yelling."
But Panettiere has played down the incident, telling website TMZ.com that it "was blown out of proportion."
THE STREETS star MIKE SKINNER ditched an entire album's worth of new material while recording his latest LP.
Mike Skinner of The Streets performing at Wakestock Festival 2008 - Day Three, held at at Blenheim Palace, Oxford, England - 29.06.08
The British rapper was so tormented by making his fourth album, Everything Is Borrowed, that he scrapped more than a dozen songs.
And he even wrote a track about a donkey before finally going back to basics to complete the disc.
The Fit But You Know It hitmaker tells music magazine NME, "I probably threw away more music than is on the album now.
"But the album is a product of all the stuff I threw away, it was important to the album.
"There was a song about a donkey that got eradicated!"
Skinner, whose new album is released next month (Sept08), plans to abandon sampling on his next record and use only real musicians.
He adds, "It's no different to what I normally do, really, it just costs a bit more, but I can't delegate anything - I'm a control freak, but in a nice way."
The rapper also promises to stick to his pledge to retire from music after his fifth record, adding: "Maybe when I'm 40 and broke I might come back, but that all feels a bit pants."
British soul singer JOSS STONE is writing a campaign song for U.S. presidential hopeful BARACK OBAMA, according to reports.
Joss Stone at BAFTA/LA's British Comedy Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel - Arrivals. Los Angeles, California - 01.05.08
The star was approached by Obama personally to record a one-off track that will feature as the theme to his election campaign.
A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "Joss is a big supporter of Barack Obama and was very excited to be asked to do this for him.
"He sent a personal message asking her to get on board. He has always admired her music and thinks she is the perfect choice because of her unique appeal to black and white voters.
"She believes he is going to be the first black American president and she is honoured to be a part of that."
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL star VANESSA HUDGENS is being sued for $5 million (GBP2.5 million) by the man who helped to launch her singing career.
Vanessa Hudgens at Teen Choice Awards 2008 at the Universal Ampitheater at Universal Studios- Arrivals. Los Angeles, California - 03.08.08
Johnny Vieira filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Monday (11Aug08), alleging that he and Hudgens entered into a production agreement to launch the teenager's career.
He claims they had a deal to "share equally" in her potential success. Vieira says the agreement was approved by the court because she was a minor.
Vieira goes on to say that she dumped him when the Disney film became a success and they entered into a settlement agreement.
He claims Hudgens owes him more than $2 million (GBP1 million) and is suing for a total of $5 million (GBP2.5 million).
AMY WINEHOUSE has vowed to take revenge on JAMES BOND bosses - by releasing the track she and MARK RONSON worked on for the latest movie, QUANTUM OF SOLACE.
Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse at The Brit Awards 2008 held at Earls Court - Show. London, England - 20.02.08
The Rehab hitmaker plans to release the as-yet-unnamed song to coincide with the global release of Alicia Keys and Jack White's track, who are recording the official theme song for the 007 film.
Winehouse admits she wants to "prove that they have made a big mistake".
She tells Britain's New Magazine, "I do think they could have waited a bit. If they want a worldwide hit I have them all up here (pointing to her beehive).
"I guess they are going for clean-cut and boring. When I do release mine - and I am tempted to do it on the same day - this would be the bigger hit. If they change their minds I'm waiting!"
LATEST: Singers DIONNE WARWICK and GLORIA GAYNOR are the latest stars to pay tribute to ISAAC HAYES, who died on Sunday (10Aug08).
DIONNE WARWICK and GLORIA GAYNOR
In a statement, Warwick describes Hayes as "family" and revealed that he had written her 1979 hit song Déjà Vu as a birthday present for her.
She says, "I've lost one of my best buddies and it is not easy to reckon with."
"I know one can never put a question mark where God puts a period, so I will not question the almighty's decision to call him home. We all know when that call comes we all will answer. Personally, my buddy will be missed for many reasons by me. He was 'family'.
"He will be a part of my musical life each time I sing the song 'Déjà Vu', as this was a birthday gift to me from him. His renditions of songs that I had recorded, especially 'Walk On By', in my opinion 'the definitive version', will always be another memory each time I sing it, and the humorous side that he showed few (that I knew so well).
"My family and I send sincere heartfelt condolences to his family for their enormous loss, and we will hold them in continuous prayer."
And disco singer Gloria Gaynor, who recorded one of Barry White's songs, You're The First, The Last, My Everything, for Hayes in 1985, was full of admiration for the soul legend.
She described Hayes as "a gentleman and an extremely warm and talented artist", who she "respected and admired".
Rocker LENNY KRAVITZ is rumoured to be the new frontman of VELVET REVOLVER after being spotted in a studio with the rock supergroup.
LENNY KRAVITZ
The Grammy Award-winning group have been hunting for a new lead singer after Scott Weiland was sacked and went on to reunite with the Stone Temple Pilots in April (08).
U2's first concert video, Live At Red Rocks, will be released on DVD by Interscope/Island/UME on September 30, 2008 in the U.S., along with the accompanying live album, Under a Blood Red Sky.
Recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on 5th June 1983, Live at Red Rocks will be available for the first time on DVD, and will include 5 previously unreleased songs, a director's commentary, digitally re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix.
The remastered Under a Blood Red Sky album was originally released in November 1983, and consists of live recordings from three shows on the band's War Tour through Europe and America.
A deluxe version featuring the Under a Blood Red Sky CD and the Live At Red Rocks DVD will be available, as well as single disc formats of the CD and DVD. An LP version of Under a Blood Red Sky pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl will also be released.
Full tracklisting as below: UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY Gloria / 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / I Will Follow / Party Girl / Sunday Bloody Sunday / The Electric Co. / New Year's Day / "40"
LIVE AT RED ROCKS Out Of Control / Twilight / An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart / Surrender / Two Hearts Beat As One / Seconds / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Cry/The Electric Co. / October / New Year's Day / I Threw A Brick Through A Window / A Day Without Me / Gloria / Party Girl / 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / I Will Follow / "40".
The Album is set to release on October 14, 2008 on The Fever Zone.
Essentially, the music of Army Navy can be best described as impeccably crafted melody over blankets of guitar fuzz that creates a delicate balance between melancholy and joyful resignation. This Los Angeles band looks to groups from the past such as Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, The Posies and The Libertines for inspiration while keeping a firm eye on the future. Set for an October 14, 2008 release, the debut album will be issued on the band�s own The Fever Zone record label and features a wondrous mix of modern power-pop playfulness and timeless Brit-pop elegance consistently through its 12 tracks. Produced by Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Yo La Tengo, etc.), the album is a never-ending barrage of touchstones from a band that references the past at every corner of the record yet is forging new musical pathways with every song they pen.
After co-fronting the band Pinwheel with Death Cab for Cutie�s Ben Gibbard, Army Navy frontman Justin Kennedy moved out to Los Angeles to seek out his own assemblage of dedicated musicians. Through the relentless word-of-mouth received from Kennedy�s demos, a final line-up was eventually formed, which includes Louie Schultz (Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals), Benjamin Gaffin (Bass), and Doug Randall (Drums, Vocals).
Gearing up for this release, along with having an exclusive track being featured on the soundtrack to the upcoming hilarious film "Nick and Norah�s Infinite Playlist" (starring Michael Cera), Army Navy are poised to bring their music to as many willing listeners as possible. From the sweet, infectious jangle of �Saints� to the sweeping gracefulness of �Unresponsive Ears,� a song seemingly ripped out of Moz�s countless songbooks, Army Navy is an amazing recital filled with equal parts purpose and merriment.
"Nick and Norah�s Infinite Playlist" Trailer:
Upcoming Army Navy appearances: Aug. 13 Redwood Bar Los Angeles, CA
Sept. 2 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
Sept. 4 Union Pool Brooklyn, NY
Actress JULIANNE MOORE credits her decision to quit smoking for an emotional awakening that has made her a better actress and person.
JULIANNE MOORE
The Hours star quit 15 years ago and recalls the impact it had on her life.
She tells Parade magazine, "I began to see the most clearly... I was 31 or 32, and I quit smoking. I was so emotional.
"I had been so unhappy, and I realised that I had just been... literally stuffing it back with those cigarettes in my mouth. I felt like I woke up suddenly."
BEN STILLER is still haunted by the memory of upsetting STEVEN SPIELBERG as a child actor - when he called cut on a lengthy EMPIRE OF THE SUN scene after messing up his lines.
STEVEN SPIELBERG and BEN STILLER
The funnyman wasn't laughing when mild-mannered Spielberg took him to task for making a directorial decision on the set - when he was nothing more than a young extra.
He recalls, "There was a long steady cam shot, where a young Christian Bale is coming into this American barracks.
"He walks through the whole barracks and gets to the end of the barracks and there's John Malkovich and Joe Pantoliano and me. It's a six-minute shot... and then I screwed up my line.
"I said, `Oh whoops, sorry. Maybe we should cut.' Steven Spielberg is in another building watching on the monitors and I just hear silence. Then I hear him: `What happened?'
"I'm like, `I just yelled cut because I screwed up,' and he's yelling, `No, no, you never cut!' I literally turned white and shrunk because my hero and idol, Steven Spielberg, is yelling at me.
"I learned you never yell cut as an actor. The director yells cut. For years I lived with this shame... but we've laughed about it since because he remembers it too. I was mortified."
JACK BLACK suffered through new movie TROPIC THUNDER with bruised ribs - but the pain was nothing compared to the fear of an arthropod attack.
JACK BLACK
The funnyman admits stories of a killer, man-eating centipede led to many nervous hours as Black and his castmates and crew waded through the jungles of Hawaii, where the film was shot.
He admits, "There are creepy crawlies in there and apparently they got real dangerous centipedes. You think it's gonna be a fun video game but real centipedes, if they bite you, it's like getting shot with a bullet; it's that painful!
"You can try to control the jungle but no one could clear all the centipedes. The nooks and crannies, where they hide, are impossible to find."
But at least his centipede fear took his mind off his breathing troubles on the set.
Black explains, "On the very first day of shooting I was carrying the biggest gun and I had to be running, shooting, diving with the gun and I landed funny on the gun and I heard something pop.
"I bruised my rib and you know how that goes; if you get a rib bruise it lasts for about six weeks of not being able to breathe all the way in. It's such a drag."
MICHAEL JACKSON's brother TITO has taken a hit from a British martial arts teacher, who claims the pop star owes him thousands.
Tito Jackson at Karen Millen's OBE celebration party at 17 Berkeley Street - Arrivals. London, England - 11.06.08
Matt Fiddes claims he gave the Jackson 5 star almost $40,000 (GBP20,000) earlier this year (08) so the musician could afford to cover a family trip to England to look at potential properties.
Now Devon-based Fiddes is suing Jackson for almost $25,000 (GBP12,500), claiming the star hasn't paid the loan back, according to TMZ.com.
Country couple TIM McGRAW and FAITH HILL plan to turn to Broadway in their old age to play leading roles in ON GOLDEN POND.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill and family leaving Cafe Med restaurant on Sunset Plaza, Los Angeles, California - 30.06.08
They are big fans of the beloved 1981 movie, which starred Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, and McGraw and Hill are considering recreating their roles on the stage.
McGraw says, "Faith and I have joked about doing On Golden Pond on Broadway when we get older.
"The idea of me being a crotchety old dude... I'm not far from that now."
R+B stunner CASSIE VENTURA regrets not taking more acting classes before starring in STEP UP 2: THE STREETS - because her performance was 'a mess'.
Cassie and Briana Evigan in Touchstone Pictures' STEP UP 2 THE STREETS.
The singer jumped at the chance to score her first major movie role in the film, but now wishes she had waited for a part she could have been better prepared for.
She says, "I don't think I took enough classes. Reacting to five other people is completely different than being with an acting coach."
And she recalls the embarrassment of almost maiming a co-star when the task of driving and remembering her lines left her more than a little confused.
She tells Complex magazine, "I'm a horrible driver and my first day on set I had to drive a car and act at the same time. I was thinking about too many things at once... I almost ran over the girl that I was talking to. It was just a mess."
Former BLINK-182 star MARK HOPPUS is suing a company he claims conned him out of a small fortune over a self-service installation at McDonald's fast food restaurants.
MARK HOPPUS
The rocker filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Monday (11Aug08), alleging bosses at the firm Missicom convinced him to invest in new cashier terminals in California McDonald's diners.
But the idea amounted to nothing and now Hoppus is asking for $2 million (GBP1 million) in damages, according to TMZ.com.
Cast: Chi Chung Lam, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang Yuqi, Min Hun Fung, Stephen Chow
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) is back to direct and star in this funny and touching film about a poor father who can't afford a toy for his son. When he decides to pick one up from the local junkyard, it turns out to be a fun-loving extraterrestrial able to perform miraculous deeds.
Starring Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao and Kitty Zhang Directed by Stephen Chow
Synopsis: A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murderer (Val Kilmer) and subjected to brutal beatings orchestrated by the sadistic head prison guard (Harold Perrineau), Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life and must become the thoughest Felon of them all if he's to survive the block. For what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And in state prison, only the strongest will survive.
Synopsis: Marianne Faithfull stars as Maggie, a middle-aged widow who, desperate to raise money to pay for her grandson`s medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club. She soon transforms herself into the much sought after and highly paid “Irina Palm.” Along with her new persona, Maggie gains renewed self-confidence, realizing she is not as old and unattractive as she thought. But her two worlds collide as her clandestine existence provokes the suspicions of her family and inquisitive neighbors alike.
IRINA PALM had its international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival 2007, where it screened in main competition.
Synopsis: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant – but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian Literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him.
Synopsis: What does female desire look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations and social expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing, loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in a Mexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought.
As sweltering summer stretches over a sun-bleached Arizona border town, Doña Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, decides to buy a car. The only catch is that she doesn't know how to drive. When she enlists Don Pedro's pedagogical skills, sparks begin to fly--at her house and beyond. Her daughter, Lolita, played with deadpan poignancy by Elizabeth Peña, seems to have hit a dry spell until things start to sizzle at the butcher shop where she works. Meanwhile, Lolita's teenage daughter, Blanca, a radiant America Ferrera (REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES), engineers an awakening all her own. It's as if the languid heat wave has thawed everyone's defenses and jump-started a sexual revolution.
Like the folks in the story, Riedel's camera never hurries, savoring the poetic vistas and lazy rhythms of the rural Southwest without resorting to sentimentality. Her three heroines are utterly human--full of idiosyncrasies and unexpected charms. In each of them is a distinctive, newly discovered sensuality, an engine that drives them forward, kicking up dust as they go.
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN
Cast: Andrew Loviska, Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Krich, Kellan Larson, Maya Lawson, Sullivan Brown
Synopsis: In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother. Originally mounted as a theatrical event (accompanied by live orchestra, Foley artists, and assorted narrators), Brand upon the Brain! is an irreverent, delirious trip into the mind of one of current cinema’s true eccentrics.
Synopsis: Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite film noirs. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch?
Synopsis: After his corporate career finds him transferred to London, Matthew Barnes (Binder) and his wife (Garofalo) are taken for a ride by John Gissing (Rickman), the associate he has unknowingly come to replace.
Refusing to be pushed out, Gissing intentionally misguides the couple, leaving them stranded in a foreign country, broke, homeless, and continuously finding themselves in the most awkward and troublesome of situations.
The couple strikes back when Gissing's mischievous scheme is revealed, turning matters into nothing less than pure comedic chaos.
Rapper LIL WAYNE's aides are assuring fans that his daughter is alive and well following weekend reports she had been killed in a car accident.
LIL WAYNE
Internet rumours suggested that little Reginae Carter, eight, died in a car crash on Sunday (10Aug08) but the rap star's publicists have confirmed a MySpace.com posting, which dismissed the story, is accurate.
The posting, reportedly from a relative, read, "It is merely a rumor started by someone who obviously is miserable in their own skin that they would even have the notion to attack a child."
EVIL DEAD 2 has topped a new U.S. magazine poll to find the Greatest B-Movie of All Time. The cult zombie film claimed 31 per cent of the Paste reader vote to beat Plan 9 From Outer Space and Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
Other classics in the top 10 included Troll 2, Leprechaun, Zardoz and Witchboard.
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