March 21, 2009

Asked by a random photographer during a public outing about which Jonas Brothers she thinks will be the first to break their virginity vows, Kim Kardashian coyly says Nick Jonas. Pressed by the photographer if she is sure with her pick, the celebrity socialite is quick to add that she is just kidding, claiming she loves all the three siblings.

As for Jonas Brothers, they have publicly vowed not to have sex before they get married. Marking their vow of celibacy, each of them even wears a purity ring, which is meant as a reminder for them to stay celibate.

A music video in companion of Mitchel Musso and Tiffani Thornton's duet track "Let It Go" has been released. It includes scenes from Disney Channel's TV movie "Hatching Pete".

The video centers on Jason Dolley's Pete Ivey dressing in a chicken costume as his high school mascot. Appearing during a basketball game, the chicken soon becomes the main attraction at the school.

Olga Kurylenko would love to take on Camille once again in another James Bond movie, so it has been revealed. Talking about her "Quantum of Solace" role, the Ukrainian-born actress revealed that she had so much fun shooting for the action movie, she would not miss the opportunity to do it again should the Bond producers offer her the chance.

"It wouldn't be for me to decide, but I'd go for it because when we filmed last year it was so much fun," the 29-year-old was quoted by Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper as saying. "Why would I refuse that fun again?" Beside confessing on her willingness to play Camille again, she shared what is needed to be a Bond girl, "To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness."

Brande Roderick successfully delivered her job as a project manager for the women team last week, and this time "Deal or No Deal" model Claudia Jordan is taking the baton. In the new episode of "The Apprentice" second celebrity edition, the teams must launch a product that requires also a presentation.

Clips from the March 22 episode reveal that instead of improving, Dennis Rodman experiences further meltdown. He doesn't help the team in determining the slot, and curses Clint Black instead. This becomes apparent to the women who now know that KOTU is not a solid team.

Celebrity lovers Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have fueled rumors that their relationship is in trouble after they failed to show up on a scheduled promotional appearance for the launch of an Indiana Live Casino in Shelbyville, Indiana, on March 13. According to a report by Chicago Sun-Times, the twosome is still living together, but things aren't going good.

"Things are not going as smoothly as [Biel and Timberlake] would want people to think they are," a friend of the movie beauty tells Chicago Sun-Times. A friend of Justin adds, "I can always sense when Justin is beginning to get itchy in a relationship. ...While he's still very public about being seen with Jessica, it's interesting. ...He hardly talks about her when she's not around. The same thing happened with Cameron [Diaz], and it also was the case with Britney [Spears]."

Two news coming from "Lost" may as well be the key clue to a major plot for the end of the season. First thing first, E! reports that a wedding may occur towards the end of the fifth season. The publication imported the information from a source in Hawaii where the shooting is taking place.

The show, allegedly is casting extras to be wedding guests, and if traced based on the shooting schedule, then this would be for the episode that airs in mid-year, aka the season finale. No confirming news yet about this, but extras are required to show up on Monday, March 23.

A brand new behind-the-scenes video footage from the filming location of Ciara's "Love Sex Magic" music video has come out, previewing a cameo appearance from her collaborator Justin Timberlake. A commentary from the two musicians during a break in between the shooting process has also been included.

The footage captures a steamy scene where Ciara and Justin are standing close to each other as if they are ready to hook up. It also shows Ciara laying on her back on top of Justin's body. Then, she slowly gets up and moves provocatively just in front of his face.

Warner Bros. could end up putting an end to R-rated superhero fare. In its latest article, IESB hinted on the possibility that the studio may follow Marvel in excluding the R-rated films from their future plate after their latest R-rated movie, "Watchmen", opened to less-than-expected box office numbers and continued to experience rapid decline in sales the following weeks.

Warners now are said to stick with films that carry a more family-friendly but still with an edge of PG-13 rating. Pointing out on the reason for the proposed idea, IESB pinned down the financial success of recent PG-13-rated movies, like "The Dark Knight" and "Iron Man", each of whom has collected a worldwide bow of $1 billion and $582 million respectively. Despite the circulating report, Warner Bros. have yet to make any comment.

Trouble comes approaching Joe Jonas after a picture showing him slanting his eyes makes its round all over the web. Previously fellow teen sensation Miley Cyrus found herself in hot water for a similar photo, which was considered defamatory to Asian people.

The particular photo of Joe is first featured on GossipTeen.com. It shows the middle of the Jonas Brothers pulling both of his eyelids with his little fingers. No word on when or where the snap was taken.

Justin Timberlake is confirmed on the official website for Chalice Recording Studios that he works with Leona Lewis in her new single. However, instead of lending his vocals on the song's lines, Justin serves behind production table.

The title of the song recorded by Leona is "Don't Let Me Down". The statement on the Chalice's web read, "The beautiful and talented, Leona Lewis came in to record a new single called 'Don't Let Me Down' with Justin Timberlake producing and James Fauntleroy writing, this song is a surefire smash hit."

A closer look into the upcoming Disney Channel original production, "Princess Protection Program" is available via three clips. Demi Lovato stars as Princess Rosalina who is threatened by an evil dictator bent on taking control of her country. She is then whisked away and placed into the Princess Protection Program.

Mason, an agent with the program, hides Princess Rosalina in his own home where, with the help of his daughter Carter (Selena Gomez), she adopts the cover of an ordinary teen named Rosie. The two form a close bond as Carter helps Rosie transform into a normal teenager and Rosie shows Carter how to find the princess within herself.

Following the outing of new "Terminator Salvation" poster, International distributor Columbia Pictures have brought forth a slew of new promotional photos for the highly anticipated action thriller via Slash Film. Fourteen in all, the fresh images give more on some of the resistance members as well as the terminator factory.

While previous photos mostly focused on revealing Christian Bale's John Connor and Sam Worthington's Marcus Wright, these new pictures share a closer look at characters played by Moon Bloodgood, Common, Anton Yelchin and Jadagrace. Still, they also exhibit several stills of Bale in-action and of a terminator in-the-making.

Calling into Ryan Seacrest's radio show on Friday, March 20 to promote the "Twilight" DVD, Kellan Lutz spilled the beans on the things that make co-star Robert Pattinson a ladies' man, saying "His accent and his crazy hairdo gets the girls swooning." Yet, he said Pattinson's humility is the one that counts most. "Rob's kind of shy, and he does this thing, when he's really shy, or when someone asks him something, he lowers his head down and the girls love it!" Lutz revealed.

"He's such a humble guy, and I'm very impressed with him," Lutz continued praising the British hunk. "Rob is the lead, but you're the better-looking Cullen," Ryan told Lutz who was quick to reply, "Ooh, I need to hang out with people like you more often!" adding, "I don't have those locks."

With "Battlestar Galactica" winding down on Friday, March 20, Sci Fi is gearing up for the two-hour event which provides as the extension of the series in Fall. Set as a TV movie, "Battlestar Galactica: The Plan" will revolve around the plan when Cylons are operating on board the Cylon ships before and after the attack.

"The Plan" is directed by series star Edward James Olmos and written by series writer Jane Espenson. Official synopsis has not been disclosed but Kate Vernon who plays the final Cylon, Ellen Tigh, said that she is involved in it and gave a little bit of the frame.

Rapper Eminem and former guitarist of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, have both been appointed to make a hosting job at this year's "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" induction ceremony. They will be joined by other presenters, including Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones, Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and two members of The E Street Band, Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent.

Eminem is set to induct Run DMC, Jimmy will induct Jeff Beck, while both Wax and Garrye are going to induct two of Elvis Presley's musicians, DJ Fontana and Bill Black. As for Ron and Flea, they will induct Metallica and Bobby Womack respectively.

The filming of "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" allegedly has been started. LaineyGossip has recently come up with a story suggesting that Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart, who return to this "Twilight" sequel as Jacob Black and Bella Swan, were spotted shooting in Tofino, British Columbia on Thursday, March 19.

The two reportedly were joined by fellow co-star Rachelle Lefevre, who portrays villainous Victoria. Since the suggested shooting was taking place around South Beach and the Wickaninnish Inn, it was assumed that the principal photography began with the infamous Bella cliff-diving in La Push scene. Nonetheless, confirmations on either the shooting start or the scenes filmed are yet to be shared.

Known from the preview, "Supernatural" will take on a laid back episode called "It's a Terrible Life", presenting an alternative in Sam and Dean's lives should they become non-hunters. Three clips taken from the March 26 episode have been released as a sneak peek..

In their alternate lives, Dean is a corporate man who enjoys health drinks and listens to news radio vs. rock stations. He works at a company called Sandover Bridge & Iron Company alongside Sam who is in Tech Support. The two meet in an elevator and Sam asks Dean whether they know each other. They don't. Then the curious Sam asks Dean the next time they meet, whether Dean believes in ghost.

In the wake of the private viewing of Natasha Richardson's body, new report has just emerged, claiming funeral services for the actress will be held Sunday, March 22 in upstate New York. After that a burial is set to take place in upstate Millbrook, near where she and husband Liam Neeson have a second home.

Meanwhile, Natasha's family is reported to have asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations to be made in her name to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), for which Natasha was a longtime supporter and had served on its board of trustees since 2006. Though so, there haven't been official words issued by Natasha's family whether or not reports on her funeral are true.

Despite an announcement on his blog about his music retirement plan, Kid Cudi said otherwise. He clarified what he wrote on his blog during a live performance at 2009 SXSW music festival taking place on Thursday, March 19 at Aces Lounge in Austin, Texas.

"You remember when Spiderman didn't want to be Spiderman no more?" Cudi told the crowd at the event. "Cause his personal life was so f***** up, but he was just, like, killing s*** as Spiderman...? So I can't stop, you know what I mean, .. no more retirement."

Showtime has begun promoting the third season of "The Tudors" with the release of the first episode sneak peek and the official poster. In this season, King Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour as his third wife and Anne of Cleves as the fourth. Seymour is played by Annabelle Wallis who takes over from Anita Briem, while Anne sees the acting debut of singer Joss Stone.

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers who plays the King spilled about the women around his character to E!, saying "(Anne of Cleves) is wife number four for three months. That's two episodes, then I banish her to a house in the countryside, but I think she'll be back for season four. The thing is, I've never met Joss' character before I actually meet her. I've only ever seen a painting of her. So I go and I see her, and I don't like her. Not because she's not beautiful-she's just too dramatic. Henry doesn't like her."

Expected to be released in U.S. theaters on October 23, "Saw VI" has been reported to begin its principal photography on March 30 in Toronto, Canada. The possibility of the filming start date has been unraveled by Official Saw News when unveiling the confirmation of Shawnee Smith's return as Amanda Young in the sixth film.

Of Smith report, "Saw" producer Mark Burg said, "Shawnee Smith is in Saw VI." Burg also mentioned that several new characters will be introduced to the this latest installment of the horror thriller, which he described as being "a lot more violent than the previous five". He further gushed, "Lastly, we have traps that pit victims against each other like the opening of Saw V. Could be the best script yet!"

After going to Broadway as theaters dimmed their lights in tribute to his late wife Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday, March 18 due to tragic skiing accident, Liam Neeson was photographed gathering with friends and loved ones at the American Irish Historical Society on Manhattan's Upper East Side Friday afternoon, March 20 for a private viewing of his actress wife. Liam was seen arriving at the venue with sons Micheal Richard Antonio and Daniel Jack, both of whom are his children with Natasha.

Meanwhile, Natasha's mother Vanessa Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson were also seen among the mourners who attended the event. The mother-daughter duo was snapped holding each other as they made their way inside the building. Natasha's longtime friend Mathilde Krim, who is the founding chairman of the AIDS research organization amfAR, was also in attendance. To the awaiting reporters Mathilde described the affair as "very respectful", adding that Natasha looked "beautiful, incredibly beautiful" in her casket.

"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke has given out confirmation that she won't make a return to any future installment of the vampire drama saga. In an interview with MTV, the 53-year-old expressed on what she feels about the director changes done to "Twilight" follow-up movies, explaining, "I think it's healthier to have a new person do [each one]."

The "Thirteen" helmer, moreover, pointed out on the positive side of using different directors for a feature franchise, using successful "Harry Potter" series as the example. "I've loved all the different directors that did the 'Harry Potter' [films], because each one had their own cool style and energy, so I think that's good," she rationalized. "And I'm moving on to other projects."

A brand new track "Chillin'" from Hip-Hop artist Wale featuring Lady GaGa has just been revealed. Sampling Steam's 1969 song "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", the Cool & Dre-produced track will reportedly appear as the lead single off Wale's debut studio album "Attention: Deficit".

No release date has been set for "Attention: Deficit", but Wale eyes to drop the record sometime in summer. The album is said to feature production credits from Mark Ronson, Glitch Mob and David Sitek among others.