Irish lothario Colin Farrell is poised to put his hell-raising talents to
test - by playing legendary bad boy rocker Ozzy Osbourne. The
up-and-coming actor is the front-runner to portray the Black Sabbath
singer in a biographical movie of the bat-biting Brit. Executives at Paramount
Pictures and MTV Films are negotiating to bring 54-year-old Ozzy's action packed
life-story into cinemas across the world.
The 1980s television series
Knight Rider and its crime-busting, talking car are revving up for the big
screen. The drama starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, owner of
the high-tech Pontiac Trans Am known as K.I.T.T. The film is planned as an
action comedy and it's not yet known who will star in the film.
Tobey Maguire
and Viggo Mortensen were nominated for best male performance, and the
movies they star in, Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, each
received a leading five nominations for this year's MTV Movie Awards.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
will host an upcoming TV special about the top 100 heroes and villains of the
screen.
Sydney Pollack
is in negotiations to direct the thriller The Interpreter for Universal
Pictures, Working Title Films and Misher Prods. A late-fall or early winter
start is expected.
Columbia Pictures has won a
tight bidding war for remake rights to the Swedish comedy Kopps for Adam
Sandler and Jack Giarraputo's Happy Madison Productions to produce.
Stan Winston
wants to bring The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to a theater and a toy store
near you in the near future. Winston, the Oscar-winning visual effects artist
and creature creator, continues to delve deeper into the video game realm by
optioning feature film and action-figure rights to 3DO's entirely new
Mature-rated video game franchise Apocalypse.
P.O.D.
are reportedly in discussions with producer Ross Robinson (Slipknot,
Korn, Limp Bizkit) about collaborating on the group's next studio
album, tentatively due on November 4 through Atlantic Records.
Incubus
and Sony Music have kissed and made up after the company offered $11 million in
incentives as part of a new three-album contract.
Chevelle's
major label debut, Wonder What's Next?, has recently been classified gold for
sales of 500,000 units, and will soon reach platinum, for sales of one million
units.
The two-year delay of House of
1000 Corpses, Rob Zombie's feature-film directorial debut, seems to have
whet moviegoers' appetites for the flick's rock-infused gore. The film's opening
weekend generated $3.5 million from just 595 theaters, an impressive $5,800
per-screen average, ranking it seventh on the latest box-office tally.
Season three of The Osbournes
is set to premiere on MTV on June 10. The new season will include details of
Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer recovery, and an "only-in-Hollywood" incident
that found The Osbournes camera crew face-to-face with a crew following
actress/comedienne Roseanne. The third season of The Osbournes is
expected to be its last.
The Rock has already
requested to wrestle Bill Goldberg at the main-event of next year's WrestleMania
XX in Madison Square Garden.
Linkin Park
called off Friday's Projekt Revolution tour stop in
Evansville,
Ind., to allow singer Chester Bennington to recover
from a throat infection. The jaunt resumed Saturday in
Memphis,
Tenn.
Nickelback
frontman Chad Kroeger will share his success story at the NewMusicWest
2003 conference/festival, where he will be featured as a keynote speaker. The
symposium will run May 21-25 in Vancouver, Canada.
NBC's top-rated comedy Friends
will conclude its decade-long run in May 2004, but David Schwimmer's
planning on sticking around a bit longer. NBC announced that it's inked
Schwimmer to a two-year deal, but not for his acting. Schwimmer will develop,
produce and direct his own projects, as well as helm other Peacock shows.
Angelina Jolie
has agreed to provide more than $1.3 million over five years to protect virgin
wilderness in northwestern Cambodia.
A source close to the new band
formed by ex-Guns n' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and
Matt Sorum has confirmed that Stone Temple Pilots frontman
Scott Weiland is the top candidate to fill the singer slot in the group,
presently known only as The Project.
The childhood home of retired
talk-show host Johnny Carson is being renovated by two South Dakota men.
Jennifer Lopez
and fiancée Ben Affleck are looking into remaking the classic film
Casablanca. The pair are said to be planning to take on the roles originally
played by Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in the World War II
romance.
Los Angeles police have
vowed to investigate an alleged fight between rock matriarch Sharon Osbourne
and Hollywood agent Renee Tab. The reality TV star was rushed to hospital
on Thursday night claiming she'd been "vicious attacked" by Tab at Tinseltown
eaterie where she had been dining with her famous family.
Hollywood star Ben
Affleck has been blamed for Jennifer Garner's sudden split from her
husband Scott Foley. Sources tell American tabloid the Globe that Garner
and Affleck, who's engaged to Jennifer Lopez, were very cozy on the Los
Angeles set of their blockbuster movie Daredevil.
Midway has confirmed plans to
release Spy Hunter 2 this fall for PlayStation 2, XBOX, and Gamecube. The sequel
to the revival of the classic action game introduces a customizable new
transforming supercar and complex boss battles to conclude eight of the 16 total
levels.
