Matthew McConaughey’s mom is opening up and telling all about her son in a new book. One little tidbit the mom has come clean about is the way her husband died. Apparently, he died during sex with her, and she says that was the best way for him to go. Matthew even says when he dies that is how he wants to meet his end. At least he would die with a smile on his face.
In other news, reports this weekend that country singer Dolly Parton had passed on after suffering congestive heart failure. The singer is laughing over these rumors, and she is still very much alive and well!
They have called the Twilight cast back to the set to shoot even more scenes for the film set for release in November. These aren’t reshoots, but entirely new scenes meant to spice up the movie according to Peter Facinelli, one of the stars of the movie. These shoots will not change things as far as the day of the film’s release. That date was moved up a couple of weeks ago when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was pushed back to a July release date.
In Star Trek news, JJ Abrams has now made it clear that the original Captain James T. Kirk will not make an appearance in this next Star Trek movie. William Shatner will not be joining Nimoy as was once rumored. The film is still being worked on, and Abrams says the final cut of the movie is only weeks away. Star Trek XI stars Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana, Chris Pine and a many others. It will be released on May 8, 2009.
Cinematical has some new Harry Potter images for fans still upset over the delay of the movie’s release. The movie will hit the big screen in July 2009, but for now fans have the new 2009 calendar to hold them over with images from Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince. Check them out here below! The calendar is in stores now.
The Toy Story 3-D project seems to be moving forward. A few days ago we had the poster for the new animated feature, which appears to be set for a release sometime in 2010. Now we have news of an additional voice added to the mix of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. Michael Keaton will add his voice to Ken. Barbie made a brief appearance in Toy Story 2, and now Barbie and Ken will play a bigger part in the action. The plot as it is now has the toys given up when their owner goes off to college. This leads them on an all new adventure.
In other news, Vin Diesel is hot news this week. With his next film, Babylon A.D., hitting theaters Friday, and the new trailer for Fast & Furious available now, the man is hot. He talks about becoming a father, and some future projects he has in mind. We already heard about him wanting to make a prequel to this new Fast & Furious movie covering the period between the first film and this one for his character and Michelle Rodriguez’s character as well. Now he is talking about making two more movies for his Riddick character. The Chronicles of Riddick was disappointing at the box office, but two sequels that were planned years ago still might be made. Diesel spoke about this to MTV, so we will have to wait and see.
Spoiler TV has the new promo shots for the second season of Samantha Who. The ones of Christina Applegate are below. You can check out Spoiler TV for the rest of the cast here. Samantha Who returns to ABC on October 6.
The trailer for the fourth Fast & The Furious movie is now available online. The trailer hit the big screen with Death Race on Friday. This movie brings back together Paul Walker with the original cast of Fast & The Furious: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Look for it to hit theaters next summer. For now check out the hot trailer below!
The participants for the seventh season of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars were announced this morning. This is who will be dancing when the series premieres on September 22. The series will be recapped here weekly.
Kim Kardashian, reality TV star
Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actress
Maurice Greene, Olympic sprinter
Lance Bass, former N’ Sync star
Rocco DiSpirito, TV chef
Warren Sapp, NFL star
Misty May-Treanor, Olympic beach volleyballer
Toni Braxton, Grammy award-winning R&B star
Cody Linley, that cute kid from “Hannah Montana” show
Ted McGinley, veteran actor (who I hated on “Happy Days”)
Brooke Burke, actress/TV personality
Jeffrey Ross, celebrity roaster and comedian
Susan Lucci, “All My Children” star
This just in from her manager. He spoke on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles Monday morning, and it is now clear that Britney will not be on stage performing at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. She is involved somehow, but performing isn’t how!
She is working on her new album, and she did make an appearance in Madonna’s new tour. Her video appears during Madonna’s performance of Human Nature. The VMA’s will air September 7.
Even with a number of new movies out this past weekend, Tropic Thunder somehow managed to stay on top for the second week in a row. They earned an estimated $16.1 million at the box office, which when you look at the recent successes other openers have had this summer, the number is quite low. It was a close call though because one new release was close on Tropic Thunder’s heels.
The House Bunny, the latest release from Anna Faris, came in second place with an estimated $15.1 million in box office receipts. Death Race, another new release this weekend, came in third place, while The Dark Knight came in fourth. Overseas, The Dark Knight is still coming out on top in box office numbers there.
As for looking ahead to what is coming out this week, we have a number of new releases out in time for the end of summer. Babylon A.D. is the latest action movie from Vin Diesel. His next movie, The Fast & Furious, had its trailer released to audiences that went out to see Death Race. The trailer is not yet available online, but it should be soon, and as soon as it is I will have it for you here!
On DVD, we see a number of new releases as well. These include the comedy from Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas, the second season of Heroes, the fifth season of One Tree Hill, and a number of best of collections of many popular series. Musicwise, we have new music from The Verve and Blues Traveler! For a full list of releases check after the cut.
