Johnny Depp: the "Sexiest Man Alive"

Johnny Depp has been irresistible, not only for his fans but also for the People Magazine, it seems. The 46 year old actor is People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the second time.

Upsetting quite a large number of teenage beauties, Depp overtook the Twilight hunk Rob Pattinson to win the People magazine’s sought after title. Like Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Richard Gere, the other double winners of the coveted endorsement, Depp had bagged the title earlier in 2003.

The senior editor at People, Kate Coyne, explained the reason behind choosing Depp for the title on CBS’ Early Show Wednesday by adding, “Johnny Depp was someone who was sexy 10 years ago. He’ll be sexy 10 years from now. He appeals to multiple generations of women — and for many different reasons to different kinds of women”.

People magazine also described the flamboyantly adventurous “Pirates of the Caribbean” star as “the king of cool with the killer cheekbones”. The 46 year old Depp, succeeded the 2008 winner Hugh Jackman this year.

Depp was seen ruling the screen with roles like 1930s gangster John Dillinger in “Public Enemies” and the murderous London barber “Sweeney Todd” in the recent past. In his forthcoming film, “Alice in Wonderland”, the actor will be seen in the role of the Mad Hatter. The film, directed by Tim Burton, is due for release in March 2010.

An overwhelmed Coyne said, “He’s sort of everything. He’s a guy’s guy, kind of a bad boy, he’s a respected artist and actor. You know, he’s got a little bit of everything”.

The previous winners of People’s sexiest man alive title include Matt Damon (2007), Matthew McConaughey (2005), Jude Law (2004) and Ben Affleck (2002).

People’s sexiest men alive issue featuring the 2009 winner, Johnny Depp, hits newsstands on Friday.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Its a one year anniversary of the most popular vampire movie “Twilight” and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson remembers how they were simply floored by the welcome they received from thousands of eager fans of the the Stephenie Meyer’s book. Throngs of fans had gathered to greet the stars at the premiere of the big-screen adaptation.

At the same location the stars were caught unveiling the sequel “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” amid thousands of eager fans. Monday night in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles Kristen Stewart and the hottest vampire on screen, Robert Pattinson arrived for the premiere of their forthcoming film. The stars, surrounded by fans waiting for them impatiently, quite knew what was coming their way this time.

“I’m not as scared as I was last year. At some point, the security guy said, ‘This is very unsafe.’ And I was like, ‘Uh.’ Other than that, everything was cool”, Stewart said while she signed autographs finding moments out of her very short visit.

The biggest heartthrob and “The Sexiest Man Alive”, Robert Pattinson, said the crowed was much larger than the previous year’s and this they had expected. “And it seems different to me because we have done this world tour in the last week and it has just been unbelievable in every single city. It is about 10 times bigger than any other city in the world”, the star, who plays Edward Cullen in the movie, added.

A group of fans who called themselves as “Twi-Hards” reached the venue on early Thursday afternoon to secure a place in the line for get the tickets to watch their favorite stars’ arrivals on the red carpet from close.

Angelina Jolie in Salt

The trailer of upcoming film “Salt” simply floored millions across the globe. A look at the very hot and sizzling Angelina Jolie stole the mind and hearts of all her fans.

The Oscar nominated actress is back and she looks as sexy as ever. Trailers of Angelina Jolie’s forthcoming film, “Salt” was posted on the internet this week. The mother of 6 looks as appealing as ever. Jolie and Brad Pitt parents three adopted children and three biological. Right before the filing of Salt began Jolie gave birth to twins.

Salt, which stars Jolie as Evelyn Salt, who is a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper spy out to prove her innocence, is directed by Phillip Noyce. Fans are critics are still wondering how Jolie got back in shape in such a short period of time right after giving birth to twins.

Well, if you watch the trailer thoroghly your doubts will be cleared. In a particular scene, featuring Jolie in her underwear, her taut stomach is clearly displayed.

Intially the lead role for Salt was offered to Tom Cruise. But when the actor turned it down the role was rewritten for Jolie. The movie will hit the theaters on July 23rd, 2010.

Taylor Launter, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

The “Twilight: New Moon” stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Launter finally landed in Tokyo for the promotion of the film. New Moon will hit the theaters on November 20th. The stars have been recently all over from Vancouver to Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Brazil and finally to Tokyo promoting their film. And all these in less than a week’s time. Well, it almost requires a vampires sleeping habit to carry on with such a routine.

Rob, Stewart and Launter arrived in Japan early Tuesday morning. The photographs of the stars soon were all over the internet. The most handsome vampire on screen arrived at the press conference in a sharp dark suit. The 23 year old actor spoke about their forthcoming release, New Moon, at the event sponsored by Volvo. Rob was later joined by Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who arrived straight from Brazil.

All the three tried too look less tired but it seems that they only get to sleep once in a “New Moon”. Rob, Stewart and Launter have been really busy with their last minute promotion of Twilight’s first sequel to be released on 20th November.

Pattinson, the heartthrob of millions across the globe, wore a charcoal suit, a deep chocolate shirt, brown striped skinny tie and fit brown shoes. Ahem! Rob is a perfect Englishman, no doubt about that! Kristen Stewart flaunted a short black leather-esque number with a fitted bodice, barely-there straps and a jagged ivory hem. Bella surely looked romantic and sensuous! Taylor Lautner simply stole the hearts of all those present all in black.

With “New Moon” all set to hit the theaters on 20th, Summit Entertainment has already decided to re-release “Twilight”. The first sequel of the vampire series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, is highly anticipated to win the heart of millions again. Twilight will be re-released on 19th, a day before New Moon’s release.

Twilight and New Moon all set to release

Summit is right now negotiating with US Theater Operators about the number of screens they will allow or make available for a one night show for Twilight. The blockbuster vampire film will be screened for a single night. A reliable source reports that some of the theaters have also agreed upon selling tickets of Twilight as a discounted rate, while the other theaters might charge full rate. There is also news of Twilight being screened at the same venue where New Moon will open on November 20th.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the modern vampire love tale “Twilight” is a film based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling teen book series. Starring Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as Bella, the movie went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year generating a sum of $383.5 million in worldwide ticket sales. Twilight also sold about 8 million DVDs in US and Canada alone.

The decision of re-releasing Twilight has been souly taken to gratify the demands of the fans who wanted to see the film on the big screen again, reported the summit. Speculations are going on that double ticket sales from both “Twilight” and “New Moon” would be a highly beneficial to Summit. This will also benifit the Theater owners.

Robert Pattinson

Did you find anything unusually similar between “Twilight’s” Edward Cullen and bad boy James Dean? Yes, you are right, its the perfect hair, grizzling looks and outcast persona of the most handsome vampire on-screen. The look of the vampire in Twilight was much influenced from the “Rebel Without a Cause” said Robert Pattinson.

“‘Rebel Without a Cause’ was a big influence on the first ‘Twilight’ film — it influenced the hairdo and stuff. In lots of ways, it has a very similar character arc: An everyday girl brings this relatively strange individual out of his slump”, the actor said in an interview with USA Today.

Pattinson has an image, which is quite similar to James Dean. Right after his Twilight release Rob became the heartthrob of millions of women from all over the world. In a past interview the 23 year old actor was quoted as saying that he does not feel very comfortable handling all the attention and fame the character “Edward Cullen” brought to him.

“I’m not entirely sure what it is. I’ll probably realize afterward how I could have controlled it a little bit more. But I am still like a deer in headlights”, said Pattinson.

Rob also admitted the fact that a large section os his fans are ardent readers of the “Twilight” series of books. And they all could relate his so much with the bookish character that it became difficult for them to distinguish between the actor and Edward Cullen most of the time.

“Right at the beginning, everyone just called me Edward. I don’t really mind either way. There’s something about that character that, for some reason, has sparked an interest in massive degrees in so many different people”, Rob added.

The actor also said, “If you want to compete with your own character, you have to really fight. I don’t know if I could be bothered to fight. I just let it go by.”

The forthcoming sequel of the popular vampire series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, is all set to hit theatres on November 20.

Michael Jackson is up with 5 posthumous nominations at AMA

It has been a little over four months after the shocking death of the king of pop, and now he has been nominated for a posthumous award at AMA. Michael Jackson has received a nomination for favorite male artist and favorite album in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories.

Besides MJ, the other performers up for nomination in the American Music Awards (AMAs) are Lady Gaga, rapper Eminem and rockers King of Leon. The country crooner Taylor Swift leads the nomination list with six nomination.

The AMAs, which will be presented on November 22nd at Los Angeles, will be decided based on the sale of each artists’ record and radio airplay. Based on the sales count the winners will be finally awarded after voting through online selection.

The late pop singer, Michael Jackson, is up with five nominations at the American Music Awards. These nominations also include a posthumous artist of the year. The “Thriller” singer will face tough competition from some of the very popular singers of the present in the key categories.

The American Music Awards (AMAs) will have a live telecast on ABC network of America on 22nd November night. Fans will be able to vote for their favorite singer or performer through online voting system.

MJ has the credit of winning most number of AMAs till date amounting to 20 till date as a solo artist. The Moon Walker has also won an artist of the century award in AMA earlier. The “Thriller” album of the late pop king won 8 nods in 1983. This record win of Jackson was leveled by Whitney Houston only after 12 years.

Among his other prominent ideas the most mentionable ones are his 13 Grammy wins. The singer has also the fame to be included in the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.

The Black Eyed Peas, along with Alicia Keys and Jennifer Lopez, who are also nominated in AMA, are expected to perform in the ceremony.

Levi Johnston

We don’t yet have any confirmed news of whether Levi Johnston is going to show his front of backside naked for his upcoming photo shoot with Playgirl magazine. But we are certain that the 19 year old, father of one, does not want to take any chance. Johnston is currently busy working out to look good from all sides for his upcoming Playgirl spread just in case he has to pose from all sides. The star has hired a personal trainer with whom he is working out hard 6 days a week for the past three weeks.

Johnston agreed to do a photo shoot with Playgirl about a month back. His representative have not given any information on how much the star will charge for this photo shoot, which will happen soon sometime this month.

“Team Levi is in the process of preparing for his Playgirl appearance. He is in the gym six days a week for the next three weeks”, confirmed Johnston’s lawyer, Rex Butler. Johnston, who rose to fame after making Palin’s teen daughter, Bristol, pregnant last year, is all set to bare his clothes for the upcoming issue of Playgirl. The parents of the the 9 month old, Tripp, are now separated.

In a recent issue of GQ magazine Johnston appeared shirtless with his daughter Tripp, besides appearing in a witty TV commercial for a peanut company. Johnston acted as an escort to comedian Kathy Griffin in the Teen Choice Awards held in August.

Although Johnston is following actor Burt Reynolds’ footsteps for the photo shoot, it has not yet been revealed whether he too would pose on a bearskin rug wearing a broad smile, like the actor.

Heath Ledger in his final film - 'Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus'

Heath Ledger’s final film, ‘Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’, has been trailered and it has already started ruling the box office. Speculations are growing on whether it would be the late actor’s best film beating the box office records of “Dark Knight”, for which the actor won a posthumous Oscar.

After receiving huge applauds for playing the role of Joker in Dark Knight, it is expected that the final film of Ledger will do well in box office and will be loved by all his fans. Ledger fans have liked the trailer of his last film and have considered it to be amazing. The trailer of “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” puts light on the past life of Dr. Parnassus. Ledger plays the role of a mysterious man whose job is to save the doc from a deal with the devil. The film also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell as alternate versions of Ledger within the doctor’s Imaginarium.

Directed by Terry Gilliam, the audience can expect to catch a lot of Heath Ledger in the film. Before the filming of Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was over Ledger had an unexpected death. This uncanny incident brought in four other Hollywood stars to fill in his place. Gilliam promises to take his audience through various emotional spectrum like he did earlier through his films like Year and Loathing in Las Vegas and 12 Monkeys. It would be a journey from gloom to glee and darkness to light.

The Oscar winning actor had an accidental death due to overdose of prescribed drugs in 2008.

Kate Perry

Kate Perry agrees on twitter. She will be hosting the MTV European Music Awards again this year. “RIGHT! I’m hosting the MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS AGAIN! This time w/MORE outfits, MORE antics! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it eh? YAY!!!” Her excited tweet says. This year the even will be held in Berlin at the O2 World on November 5.

The MTV European Music Awards recognizes the most admired music in Europe in the year. It was held in Liverpool last year which was hosted by Perry. The show saw Perry pulling hilarious tricks and riding on a “giant cherry Chapstick”. Must be because of such a huge success that MTV chose to bring her back again this year. The co-executive producer and SVP of the Talent and Music, MTV Networks International, Bruce Gilmer accepts that Kate Perry was the name that “kept coming back to” them for the hosting of the awards show as the “first choice for this year”.

The American 24 year old country-slash-pop-star-slash-songwriter is overjoyed with the news as her twitter post reveals. Adding to this she is nominated for the Best Music Video for “Waking Up In Vegas” alongside Lady Gaga, Shakira, Beyonce and Leona Lewis. She is all set to do something much bigger this year.

In the past Perry has had quite some good times with MTV EMA. She won the Best New Act award last year and showed the world her “world wide appeal” as praised by Gilmer in her hosting of the event. She now becomes the first star ever to host the MTV European Music Awards for the 2nd consecutive year. This has never happened to MTV EMA in it’s 15 years of the celebration of music.

Looking forward to the awards show? It promises to be bigger, much bigger … how excited are you?