Sean Kingston 21, is getting back to what he does best and that is hitting the recording studio so he can provide us with some new tracks.

As you know, at the end of May, Sean was seriously hurt in a jet ski accident that saw him hospitalized.  Well you can’t keep a good man down, because a little over 2 months later he’s in the recording studio and tweeted:

This is the excited to be in the studio Face! Lmao

So happy to see him back in the studio but more importantly happy and healthy!

More cool pics from Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion have been released (and have gone viral? Will the film open before everyone runs out of germ-related metaphors and snappy quips?) Like 1995′s Outbreak on steroids (although I will miss the monkeys) Contagion is attempting to scare the bejeebers out of anyone with regular contact with other human beings. In other words, everyone. I predict an uptick in the sale of those Habitrail bubbles we’re all gonna want to live in.   “Don’t talkGah! How paranoid is this gonna make everyone in the theater??  On the other hand, it’ll take your mind off of the economy, politics, volcanoes, global warming and street riots.

In the new pics, we see Jude Law roaming around in some sort of haz-mat suit that looks like it’s made from a Hefty cinch-sak, Matt Damon just plain roaming and Gwyneth Paltrow blowing on some dice. Presumably infecting people.

The plot is centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease, and the international team of doctors and scientists with the CDC who are tasked to deal with it. The official synopsis: “Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.”

The first trailer was released about a month ago. Watch again if you’ve forgotten what a truly terrified Gwynie looks like. Contagion’s killer cast includes  Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Lawrence Fishbourne, Bryan Cranston, Demitri Martin, John Hawkes, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan and Elliott Gould. It’s the New Year’s Eve of paranoid action thrillers. With good actors.

Contagion infects the US on September 9^th  and the UK on 21 October.

Jason Patric just finished filming a TV pilot in Chicago (thanks Teresa!) called Powers where he plays detective Christian Walker.

Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Jason’s character works in the part of the police station that deals with crimes involving superpowers only. I’m guessing  this is the toughest gig in the police department. Charles S. Dutton, Carly Foulkes, Bailee Madison and Lucy Punch round out the cast of this show. Lucy plays Detective Deena Pilgrim, who happens to be Walker’s partner.

FX President John Landgraf says of the genre:

“The superhero genre is ripe for reinvention,” “Everything television has ever done in that genre is the equivalent of [a 7 or 8] o’clock show — light, breezy [and] special effects-oriented. I’m not saying that ‘Powers’ isn’t fun, but it aspires to be a serious drama, and it’s fascinating to me to try to reshape and reinvent familiar genres.”

If the series is picked up, you can expect to catch the first glimpse of the show in June 2012. What do you think of the concept of this show? Too far fetched or a nice change?

Along with some great new images, Sony Pictures Classics has given us the first one-sheet poster for Roman Polanski’s Carnage starring the Oscar winning (and Oscar-baiting) cast of Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.

Carnage will play the Venice International Film Festival then make its North American debut in New York, as it has been chosen as the opening night selection of this year’s New York Film Festival.

Set in a single apartment in New York and based on Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony winner for Best Play,”God of Carnage” (Le Dieu du Carnage).  Carnage is about  two sets of middle-class couples who meet at one of their homes for dinner after their children get into a fight at school.

John C. Reilly’s inclusion in the cast should have been our first clue that this is not straight drama and that these people are probably not what they appear to be on the surface. In addition to its Tony, the play also won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy for the London production in 2009. I’m expecting something along the lines of a satirical look at upper-middle class New Yorkers. Kate Winslet does not get a chance to do comedy often enough. She’ll appear with nearly all of the current roster of dues-paying members of SAG in the Farrelly Brothers’ Movie 43, but for further proof, see her episode of Ricky Gervais’ “Extras”. Hilarious! For that matter, Jodie Foster needs to do more comedy. Anyone who went to the theater expecting laughs during The Beaver were misled by the puppet.

The second clue is this new poster, with its primary colors and close-ups of the four principal actors running through the gamut of emotions that presumably they will display during the course of the film. I’m not sure how I feel about this poster. It reminds me of those old Cepacol cough drop ads. (Do NOT tell me I’m the only one who remember those! I’m not THAT old!)

After it finishes its festival run, Carnage opens November 18 in the US.

Real Housewives’ Camille Grammer was quoted earlier in the week as saying  ’big hands, big feet, big disappointment’ myth about men (having an equally big penis) isn’t accurate. In other words, Kelsey Grammer has a little penis. That was what she meant without coming right out and saying it.

Well Kelsey’s new child bride wife Kayte Grammer came out swinging (after she spit out the soother) and basically said the reason Kelsey’s penis is so small was because of Camille:

“Perhaps the fault lies not so much with the member in question but rather with the inspiration at hand.”

Clearly Kayte failed science in school because the size of a man’s johnson is the size of a man’s johnson. If it’s not erect, it’s not erect. I have to think he must have gotten erect at some point in his 13-year marriage to Camille although who knows, she comes across as a bit of a passive-aggressive nutcase so perhaps she scared his johnson back into Kelsey’s vagina.

So now, Camille is coming out and apologizing for Kelsey Grammer’s penis being small. I may have gotten that wrong. She’s sorry she called it small:

“Some joking remarks I made to Kyle Richards got picked up and caused my ex-husband great embarrassment and for that I sincerely apologize.  While the media added words and blew it out of proportion, I acknowledge my part in this and regret my remarks.”

While I don’t care much for Kelsey or his new child bride, I think Camille wasn’t ‘joking’ and that she is basically a coward because when she is confronted with it, she makes excuses. She meant exactly what she said. She’s a grown woman with kids and she knew the implications to what she was saying. And even though we may all have a little snicker about it, it really is a horrible thing to say about a man. If a woman has small boobies she can have an operation, but if a man has a small johnson he is pretty much screwed.

Then of course she goes on to TMZ saying about their divorce settlement (which they agreed would come after the divorce because he had to marry child bride quickly):

“but Kelsey just seems to want to fight this.”  Camille adds, “I offered a 50/50 physical split with joint custody and was soundly rejected.”

“Now he will only communicate through lawyers and others and I fear the message we’re sending our children.”

But talking about the size of their father’s penis on television is sending a good message?

Photo: WENN

Way back in June we gave you a first look at the trailer for the forthcoming Tom Cruise opus, Mission:Impossible – Ghost Protocol and now we have some brand new shiny images to go with it.   The latest entry in this long running franchise (can you believe the first one came out in 1996??) is directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), making his live-action directorial debut.

The pics include a brooding, hooded Cruise, an intense and intent Simon Pegg, Cruise clinging to the side of the world’s tallest building (just watching that scene in the trailer gives me vertigo) and a dapper Cruise escorting the lovely Paula Patton into what will I’m sure turn out to be a hornet’s nest disguised as a black-tie gala.

Great locations, great stunts, gadgets and explosions. Just your average spy thriller to keep us satisfied until we get the next James Bond.  Tom Cruise is no Daniel Craig, but lucky for us he does surround himself with good actors. This time around we get Jeremy Renner (YAY!), Josh Holloway, Mikael Nyqvist (another YAY! I’m glad we’ll see him in something other than the Millenium Trilogy!), Simon Pegg (triple YAY!) and Anil Kapoor.  On the distaff side, we get Paula Patton (Precious) seen below and Leah Seydoux (Robin Hood, Midnight in Paris).