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Will Smith’s 20 year old son, Jaden Smith, will be starring in the latest version of The Karate Kid. The original movie made Ralph Macchio the star he was back in the 80’s. It also spawned three more versions, with the fourth and last one featuring and starring Hillary Swank.

The version that will star Will Smith’s son is going to be written by Chris Murphy and will have location shoots in Beijing and other similar exotic environments. It will not be following the original show in the strictest sense.

With the death of Pat Morita who was a very important figure in the Karate Kid movies, casting the new Mr. Miyagi is still underway.

Jaden Smith has dabbled into acting as early as two years ago when he starred alongside his father in the sappy story, The Pursuit of Happyness.

This year’s People’s Choice list is so much more wrong than the Emmy’s, one cannot help but wonder…. Who in the world is putting up this list of choices for the “people”? Are the people really that dumb?

Here are the nominees —

Favorite TV Drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Grey’s Anatomy House Don’t the people watch Lost? Life? Damages? Dexter?	Favorite TV Comedy Samantha Who? Two And A Half Men Ugly Betty These are all the funny choices they can come up? Big Bang Theory? The Office? 30 Rock? No?
Favorite Animated Comedy Family Guy The Simpsons South Park As someone from the TV Squad said — was there even an Animated Drama?	Favorite Sci-Fi / Fantasy Show Heroes Supernatural Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles At least they got Supernatural right
Favorite Competition / Reality Show American Idol Dancing with the Stars Extreme Makeover: Home Edition	Favorite Game Show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Deal Or No Deal Jeopardy
Favorite Male TV Star Patrick Dempsey Hugh Laurie Charlie Sheen	Favorite Female TV Star Christina Applegate Sally Field Mariska Hargitay
Favorite Talk Show Host Ellen DeGeneres David Letterman Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa	Favorite Scene-Stealing Guest Star Luke Perry on Law & Order: SVU Britney Spears on How I Met Your Mother Robin Williams on Law & Order: SVU
Favorite TV Drama Diva Holly Hunter as Grace Hanadarko on Saving Grace Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin on Weeds Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson on The Closer	Favorite New TV Drama 90210 Crusoe Easy Money Eleventh Hour Fringe Knight Rider Life On Mars The Mentalist My Own Worst Enemy Privileged
Favorite New TV Comedy Gary Unmarried Kath & Kim Valentine Worst Week Sadly, these are the only choices for comedy…

The black man leads not only in the White House but in this latest celebrity poll that Parade Magazine did with its readers. In choosing which celebrity to Americans prefer when it comes to raising their spirits, majority picked Will Smith. He bested Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks and Julie Roberts among ten other A-listers…

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High School Musical stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale were in Australia over the weekend doing promotions for their box-office movie.

Here are some photos from that visit:

Ashley appears to be the third wheel in this outing, but the truth is the actress enjoys seeing the couple, Zac and Vanessa, together. She tells Pop Tarts — “I’m a total romantic, I loved watching romantic comedies growing up like ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ and so obviously, like, I just love watching Zac and Vanessa because it is such a sweet and romantic relationship so of course you’re like, ‘aww’ whenever they kiss and everything. But just watching them on set is really awesome, it’s beautiful.”

The runner-up to the most recent American Idol talent contest is releasing his album next week. It comes a week before David Cook’s (American Idol winner) own album release. The two will definitely be competing with each other again at the music charts. But David Archuleta sees this differently.

Speaking before the press, the 17 year old says —-

“I know everyone wants us still to compare and compete, but we are so different. Cook is a rocker guy, a guitarist and an amazing musician, and I’m a pop kid. I am as excited for his album as I am for mine because we have gone together through this process of watching our dreams grow. This is what we’ve been looking forward to — living our dreams and starting our musical careers.”

David Archuleta’s self-titled debut album is a mixture of styles. He says to Reuters, “One song has a reggae-ish feel to it, there are slower ones and others with a different feel.” The singer is also a songwriter. He has worked on a total of five songs in this album.

With its release, he will be very busy performing at festivals and on television this holiday season.

Which David album will you be buying this November? And who do you think will do better?

Robert Pattinson takes time to answer Seventeen Magazine’s 17 Juicy Questions.  He’s indeed musical because the actor is a big fan of talent shows like American Idol and The XFactor and would like to become a pianist, his dream job.

Read on for his answers —

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It’s a tradition Americans look forward to every year, just like the Superbowl. And this year’s  82nd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which will air Nov 27th from morning till 12 noon, will have Miley Cyrus and David Achuleta as featured performers.

The event will be hosted by NBC’s most familiar faces in the morning — Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and Al Roker.

Expect the following performers and celebrities to grace the event as well.

New balloons featuring Buzz Lightyear, Horton and Smurfs will also be featured.

The Secret Life in the LA Times section is a feature on today’s famous celebrities and what they think the high points and low points of their fame is. This week, the featured actress is Selena Gomez, Disney’s up and coming hot young star —

The interview is after the cut…

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The box office hit High School Musical 3 starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens is launching its singalong version this week. The movie will be playing in 125 theaters across the US.

According to reports, this will be the first time a singalong version by Disney is playing in theaters nationwide. The president of the company believes that fans will also be trooping to watch the singalong version as much as the movie has been packing theaters everywhere in the last two weeks. “We felt that the (’High School Musical 3′) movie’s huge base of enthusiastic fans would really embrace a singalong version,” said Mark Zoradi, Walt Disney President.

Apart from the movie, the soundtrack to the series is also doing very well in Billboard 200 charts.

Source: Reuters

Gossip Girl star, Blake Lively, was a recent visitor to The Martha Stewart show where she donned a Cleopatra costume. This was from last week, just before Halloween night.

Martha Stewart, on the other hand, came dressed as Medusa. She takes Blake Lively on a tour of her set and together the two prepared pumpkin marble cakes. Blake was quite at home doing this very domesticated chore.

The two also chatted up about Gossip Girl.

Watch the video:

Robert Pattinson, the star of this winter’s much-awaited film Twilight, has earlier signed on to play Salvador Dali in the movie Little Ashes about this time last year. This was even before he became such a heartthrob or a household name courtesy of his upcoming vampire film.

Little Ashes is about the relationship with Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca, one of Spain’s famous poet. Theirs was the kind of bromance that Dali denied ever became physical. But the film version supposedly adds a bit of spice and steam to it.

The movie is written by Philippa Goslett for the big screen.

Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson was this year’s recipient of the New Hollywood Award. The festivities happened just before the Halloween celebration.

On November 7th, MTV will be hosting a special Twilight event where Rob and Kristin Stewart (his co-star) will be in attendance. Director Catherine Hardwicke is also expected to be at the affair.

MTV News will be holding a very special “Twilight” event in Los Angeles on November 7th, as we tape a television special celebrating the much-anticipated movie. “Twilight” stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and director Catherine Hardwicke will be in attendance to address the crowd, and they’ll premiere never-before-seen footage from the movie some two weeks before it hits theaters. Hardwicke will also take questions from attendees during a Q & A session.

If you would like to attend, then check the mechanics of joining at this MTV Blog. It involves registering and posting a comment on their site.

Photo from EW.