Oh and Leo’s favorite player just happens to be Messi.

Soccer may not be a big deal here in the States but everywhere else it is huge and this kid is the equivalent of Lebron James. He is young and being sought out and purely raw talent. Who knows what will happen to this kid in the coming years but Real Madrid is placing their future in this young kid. All it takes is a slip and fall on a play ground somewhere for this kid to roll and ankle and never be the same. I surely hope not but this is a lot of pressure and responsibilities to put on a kid who is probably just learning to tie his cleats himself.

So keep an eye out for this boy on the world stage because in the upcoming years he could be the biggest thing since sliced bread.

Director Zach Snyder is looking to reboot the franchise after the Bryan Singer version, Superman Returns, failed at the box office.  Snyder has been at the helm for some of the biggest comic book movies such as 300 and Watchmen.  His style is perfect for the genre and he should do a great job with this Superman.

Christopher Nolan (director of the new Batman franchise as well as Inception) is also involved and will make sure this new series will follow in the steps of Batman and be more “realistic” with a few changes to make it more accepting to mainstream audiences and not just comic fans.

With this movie, the Batman franchise, Green Lantern movie and upcoming Flash movie the next logical step is for a Justice League movie that will follow.  Hopefully DC doesn’t fall too far behind of Marvel who already has their major hero group movie, The Avengers, coming out next year.

The official press release is here:

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have provided the first look at the new “Man of Steel,” revealing star Henry Cavill as Superman in the film from director Zack Snyder. The film also stars three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Fighter”) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves”).

Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Julia Ormond, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”).

Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.

“Man of Steel” is being produced by Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer and Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.

Currently in production, “Man of Steel” is slated for release on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part two

The films take crashed an impressive 72% in its second week from $169.2 million domestic to a mere $47.4 million.  The only other films to drop as heavily in the history of box office results have all grossed less than $20 million their first weekend.  Among films that have opened above $100 million dollars, only Twilight: New Moon is even close with a 70% drop.

Warner Brothers, the studio behind the mega popular franchise, is hardly concerned, however.  Deathly Hallows, Part Two has taken in more than half a billion dollars internationally and is up to $833.9 million as of Tuesday.  It’s well on it’s way to making more than a billion dollars in theaters alone.  So what’s with the big box office crash?  Our guess is, everyone had pretty much seen the film already!

Janis Winehouse, Amy’s mother, has admitted to The U.K. Daily Mail that she felt her daughter’s untimely death, “only a matter of time,” after spending the day with her just twenty four hours before the singer passed away.  It’s a parents worst nightmare, watching your child slip away, and Janis Winehouse is doing it on an international stage.

“She seemed out of it. But her passing so suddenly still hasn’t hit me,” she told The Mirror, another U.K. tabloid regarding her last day with her daughter.  She also shared that Amy said, ‘I love you mum’ at the end of their day together.

“They are the words I will always treasure,” Janis told the Mirror. “I’m glad I saw her when I did.”

Winehouse has taken a place in the so called “27 Club” – a long list of talented musicians who have succumbed to drug and alcohol problems in their twenty seventh year.  She’s in unfortunately good company on a list that includes Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, Jim ­Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

As parents, this is a great moment to discuss drugs an alcohol with teens.  Answering any questions your teens might have about Winehouse, and what’s happened to her, should provide some openings to help them see how dangerous substance abuse can be.

A young Arizona Diamondbacks’ fan, Ian, was at a game where a player threw the ball into the stands after an inning was over.  The ball went directly to an even younger fan, Nicholas, who ended up dropping the ball.  The ball then was given to Ian who ran up the stairs with his prize.  But once he noticed Nicholas, he recognized the situation and did the absolute right thing; he gave up the ball.

Watch the heart warming exchange and see what a true act of kindness looks like. 

Ian was not left empty handed though.  Not at all.

The Diamondbacks recognized his excellence by awarding him with a visit to the announcer’s booth where he got to be on TV and everything.  He was given autographed memorabilia as well as future game tickets.  A nice reward for doing the right thing.

You may notice that Ian is directed by an usher to give up the ball but that doesn’t mean much to me.  He does it without hesitation and doesn’t give it a second thought.  The usher has no real power and can’t force him to give up the ball.  Ian did what he had to do because it was the right thing.

I tip my cap to you Ian.

• Beavis and Butthead will return to television and MTV has released the first peek at America’s favorite idiots.

• New footage for the new Batman game, Arkham City, has been revealed and it should get your kids very excited.  This is the follow up to 2010’s Arkham Asylum which was one of the best video games ever.
• Lucasfilm has shown a teaser for some of the deleted scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy that will be available on the Blu-Ray box set coming out later this year.
• LEGO has announced that they will be making DC and Marvel Superhero playsetsand figures.  Now kids can build LEGO machinery for their favorite super heroes and villains.

Captain America

By all accounts, Captain America is earnest, straightforward and likable.  It knows what it is and it’s not trying to pretend to be anything fancier.  Scott sums up what he likes about the movie like this:

“…though there are plenty of the usual digital enhancements and overscaled effects, the pseudo-operatic grandiosity that has become a staple of the genre is mostly missing. Instead “Captain America,” like its unapologetically corny hero, is propelled by unpretentious and plucky ingenuity.”

Don’t expect, however, that Captain America will be the next innovation in action movies.  The Hollywood Reporter’s Kirk Honeycutt points out: “‘Captain America’ lacks the deft touch, appealing character interaction, and sophisticated storytelling skills of Marvel Comics’ ‘X-Men: First Class.’ And let’s not even bother to compare this to Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman’ series.”

And indeed, why would you even think to compare Captain America to Batman Begins?  Other than the fact that both of their heroes wear masks, they aren’t particularly related stories, or worlds. Enjoy Captain America for the simple, easy to digest fun it is, rather than wishing it was an Oscar worthy opus, and it seems sure to deliver on expectations.

She knew of the failed test on July 16 but then for some reason decided to get high again the very next day AND EVEN TOOK PICTURES.   She has absolutely no respect for her new responsibilities in life and the fact that she needs to raise her kid right now and not be smoking it up.

Check out all the pics here, coutesy of TMZ.

We can all thank MTV for making these girls stars and giving them a sense of entitlement because they are on TV.  I don’t care about the girl, what I do care about is her kid who is going to be thrown into all of this and will be able to read all about this in the years to come.  It is unfair that that child should have this thrown at him before he has a chance to even talk.

“She’s brought so much joy, and I love her to pieces,” Richards, 40, told Us Weekly. “She is a cuddle bug. She loves being hugged and held. She’s such a beautiful little baby and little soul.”

Though she’s “been with her since the day she was born,” Richards confided to Us that the adoption progress was long and difficult. “Some people think if a celebrity wants a baby, they get one the next day. The adoption took two years, and there were times I felt discouraged, times when I got close to adopting a baby and it fell through. But I knew the right baby would find us.”

And find them she did!

Miley was spotted at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday with her newest fuzzball, who is apparently named Floyd.  She introduced her new friend officially on Twitter on Friday.

“I’m so in love with him it is ridiculous,” Cyrus, 18, wrote. “His name is Floyd.”

Floyd joins Mate, a german shepard, and Lila, a morkie, in keeping Cyrus company on tour, and pretty much everywhere else.  Of course, it’s easier to take them along when they’re little, like Floyd.  As Cyrus pointed out when she first introduced Mate to the world, puppies make easier tag-a-longs than full grown dogs.

“It’s so great that Mate is a puppy so I can take him everywhere,” she wrote in her official blog at the time. “But it won’t be long until he’s his full size!”

Floyd looks like he may be a husky or an Alaskan klee kai, so he’s likely to be just as difficult to tote around when full grown as one hundred plus pound Mate, now a grown up shepard.

This trailer was leaked to the Internet on Tuesday, a few days before it was set to be released along with the Capt. America movie (another Marvel Studios movie staring Chris Evans).  So Marvel decided to just go ahead and allow it to be released and start the buzz already.

Check it out and see what the new Spider-Man is going to be like.

Story Synopsis:

Orphaned at an early age, Peter Parker lived in Queens, New York with his beloved Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Peter leads the life of a normal high school student, but after being bitten by a genetically altered/radioactive spider, Peter Parker’s life becomes complicated. Able to cling to any surface, shoot webbing from his wrists, and the with the proportional strength of a spider, Peter devotes himself to fighting crime as Spider-Man–his guiding principle, “With great power, comes great responsibility.”

How great will family car rides be when you can interact with the windows and the environment around you.  This is only the tip of the technology too.  I would imagine games and applications will be developed and then eventually it will all be connected to WiFi and you’ll basically have a computer screen on your window.

Kids can be kepts entertained and parents would get some peace and quiet (perhaps) during those long highway miles.  I would imagine movies will eventually be able to play on the windows as well.  Plus this also paves the way for completely clear computer monitors.  Technology is amazing.

My favorite thing is how the drawings move across the window as if they were stationary.  Something about that is just so cool.

What could you do with this sort of technology?  What sort of fun games would you want for your car window?

“YAY!!! I MET GREAT people at a casting. & im going to be in the New Charlie Angels movie! Good luck to the other amazing Casties ,” she tweeted.

Of course the show, which will star Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor and Annie Ilonzeh as the famous all girl team of detectives who work for the mysterious Charlie, who will be voiced by Robert Wagner, is not a movie.  It’s a TV show.  And ABC will not confirm whether or not Abraham actually got the job she thinks she’s got.

It seems likely, however, that if she does get the job, there will be more than one camera crew shooting on the set of Charlie’s Angels show while Farrah is working there as an extra, because this seems like an opportunity too good for Teen Mom’s producers to give up!

Leno asked the very pregnant Fischer if her parents were excited to have their first grandchild on the way.

“This is the second grandchild,” Fischer, star of The Office, replied, “but first grandson.”

That, of course, let the cat out of the bag.  Leno caught the word, “grandson” immediately and demanded confirmation.

“This is the exclusive, Jay,” says Fischer, 37, told him. “When I went to my movie premiere the other day a reporter asked me if I knew what I was having, and I said I do, but I’m not sharing that yet because I’m [going to] have Jay be the first to know.”

She added another little secret to her big reveal – she’s due in in the fall!

“September we’re in what they call the home stretch,” she told Leno.

Fischer’s pregnancy has been worked into the plot of The Office this year, so expect Pam and Jim to have another little one on the way as well.

“Pam and Jim snuck away last season on Valentine’s Day, and they had sex,” Fischer told People Magazine. “The story is that they conceived this baby at that time and were keeping it a secret until we come back from the summer.”

Apparently the plot twist was not planned because of Fischer’s pregnancy, it’s just a fortunate coincidence.

“When we started shooting that episode, I thought to myself, ‘If everything goes well, this is going to be a very, very convenient coincidence,’” she told People. “I think I found out I was pregnant when we were shooting that episode.”

Justin Bieber, always a fan of hijinks and pranks, happened across a wedding in Malibu a few days ago and gave the newlyweds, and their family, the surprise of their lives.  Justin and his girlfriend, Selena Gomez, wedding crashed the beach side reception and joined the fun for some karaoke.  The video is up on YouTube, because, what else do you do with video of Justin Bieber unexpectedly showing up at your wedding?  The description of the video reveals exactly how Bieber ended up there:

“Last night at my cousin Jeanine’s wedding reception, out of nowhere, Justin Bieber shows up while one of his songs was being karaoked by one of the wedding guests.  He stated that he was driving by the reception in Malibu and heard a party and his song being sung, so he decided to check out the event and ended up making a celebrity appearance.”

Bieber then posed for pictures with the Bride and Groom while Gomez waited to one side.

“WEDDING CRASHERS last night,” Bieber tweeted about the incident. “hahaha. too funny. crazy story.”

This Sunday both David and Victoria Beckham tweeted pictures of their spouse with their newest little one.  First David, tweeting a beautiful picture of his wife and daughter sleeping together with the caption, “I took this picture of my two girls sleeping…”

Then Victoria tweeted an absolutely adorable picture of her hubby rubbing noses with his daughter with the caption, “Daddy’s little girl!”

Both Beckhams are clearly taken with their new munchkin.  David wore pink and white cleats in her honor at his match this week, which were embroidered with the names of all four of his children.  He spoke of how much he’s enjoyed having a daughter in a video on his website:

“To have another girl in the family is really incredible. We’ve got three beautiful healthy boys already and we’re so lucky to have that and now to have a beautiful little girl. Having a daughter is a whole new thing. Having pink in the house, having lilac in the house… and you have to be a lot more delicate with girls than boys and I’m not used to that so it’s a whole new experience.”

Beckham also clarified where Harper’s name came from: “A lot of thought goes into our children’s names and Harper was a name that we’ve loved for a long time for a couple of reasons. One reason is Harper’s an old English name which we loved and one of the other reasons was Victoria’s favorite book is To Kill A Mockingbird and the author was Harper Lee. It’s a very strong, passionate book. That’s where Harper came from.”

Here we go again.  Rebecca Black, the tween whose vanity music video turned out so incredibly badly that it became a comedy internet phenomenon, has come back for more.  Her mother paid $4,000 for Friday to be released on ARK Music Factory vanity label.  When it hit the internet, it was dubbed, “the worst song ever” by critics and rewarded for its ridiculousness with 160,000 million hits on YouTube.

So is Black’s follow up awful enough to get the same kind of attention?  Not really.  Watching her new video, My Moment, mostly makes you feel sorry for the semi-talented song writer who wrote the song for her.  It’s catchy, but Black is a fourteen year old girl without a ton of training or natural charisma.  The video could have, and probably should have, been shot by one of her friends with a handheld.  If Black had gone out and made this video with her friends it would have been more fun, and probably had more energy and been more natural than this force fed production.  But as is, it feels a bit like watching a little girl playing dress up who doesn’t quite understand the game.

If nothing else, these videos are solid proof that you can’t artificially replicate the Justin Bieber effect – it happens or it doesn’t.  If you try to construct that “discovered on the internet” feeling, you end up with nothing but a joke.

“This morning [Jared] and I welcomed a beautiful and healthy little baby girl into the world,” Trump, 29, shared with her Twitter followers. “We feel incredibly grateful and blessed. Thank you all for your support and well wishes!”

The little girl, born to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, was born on Sunday, July 17th, in New York City.  Trump and Kushner, who owns the New York Observer, married in October 2009.  Ivanka, the daughter of famously wealthy Donald Trump, admitted to People Magazine, “We have our work cut out for us to ensure that our daughter is grounded and not spoiled.”

Regardless, Ivanka is thrilled to have her little girl.  She tweeted on Monday: “Jared and I are having so much fun playing with our daughter! Arabella Rose is beyond adorable. She’s truly a blessing.”

It was little Arabella’s grandpa who first announced her name, and he went a more traditional route than Twitter.  He shared the baby’s name on Fox & Friends Monday morning.

“I just left the hospital and the baby is beautiful. [Ivanka's] doing great,” Trump told Fox & Frineds. “Arabella Rose is the baby’s name — I just found that out by the way.”

It’s always nice to remember that teenagers are still teenagers, even when they’re famous pop stars.  Selena Gomez, TV, music and movie starlette and girlfriend to one of the most famous teen idols of the moment, Justin Bieber, proved it recently when she met had a fan girl moment over meeting Shia LaBoeuf backstage when both were visiting the same TV studio.

Apparently, dating a famous guy doesn’t mean you don’t have celebrity crushes of your own!  Eighteen year old Gomez was so flustered at meeting her celeb crush that she half ran away, excited and flustered just like you’d think your own teenage daughter would be if she randomly ran into Shia LaBoeuf and was caught off guard.  LaBoeuf very kindly followed her and gave her a hug, saying ”Hey, it’s nice to meet you, thanks for being so sweet to me.”

After getting her picture taken with LaBoeuf, Gomez allowed herself to have a full blown geek out, “Oh my gosh, he’s so handsome! I’m so embarrassed!” She also called her handlers out in a cute, joking way, ”You guys suck, you used my fans as bait! Now he thinks I’m crazy–tell him I’m sorry.”

I already liked Gomez a lot – she’s adorable, talented and seems to be a genuinely good kid.  This just makes me like her more!

Denise’s older daughters, Sam, age seven, and Lola, age six, are the product of her marriage to Charlie Sheen.  Sam, Lola and Denise named their new addition together. Joni was selected to honor Denise’s mother and Sam and Lola picked out their new sisters first name.  The family’s statement to Access Hollywood didn’t specify what inspired their choice, but I bet any parent of little girl’s can guess!

“Eloise Joni Richards is named after Denise’s mom [Joni], and Denise and her daughters Sami and Lola chose the name Eloise,” the actress’ rep told Access in a statement. “Denise and Eloise’s big sisters couldn’t be happier and feel incredibly blessed.”

A while later, Denise Tweeted her thanks, directly to her fans.

“Thank you all for your sweet messages. The girls and I are over the moon and so is my dad Grandpa Irv…xo,” she Tweeted.

Richards’ latest project, Blue Mountain State aired in the beginning of this year.   She has played everything from a Bond girl to dizzy blonde to big gun wielding, alien fighting soldier in Starship Troopers.

Haley Joel Osment was famous for seeing dead people when he was a little tyke, now he’ll play an adapted version of Victor Frankenstein, a literary character famous for waking the dead, in the new film adaptation of the Steve Niles graphic novel, Wake the Dead.

Wake the Dead is an adaptation of the classic Frankenstein story.  Osment’s character, Victor Franklin, is a new take on Victor Frankenstein, the original moster creating doctor.

Scout Productions and Slasher Films — a production company created by Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Slash — are working together to produce the film.

There are several Frankenstein projects are coming to theaters soon, but this one will start shooting this fall.  Meanwhile, Osment is also working on Sassy Pants with Ashley Rickards (“Kill Me Now,” “Fly Away,” “One Tree Hill”), Anna Gunn (“Red State,” “Breaking Bad”), Jenny O’Hara (“Mystic River,” “Devil”) and Diedrich Bader (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Outsourced”).

Osment was nominated for an Oscar for his iconic childhood role in The Sixth Sense.  Now we’ll have to see if he can live up to his early promise!

“We’re no longer engaged,” Maynard told People after taping an interview, which will air on “The Bachelorette” on July 11.

Maynard, a single mother, is speaking out now in hopes of ending the flurry of  ”media speculation.”  All she wants for herself and her daughter, Ricki, 6, is to “move on and get back to normal.”

Of the reasons behind the break up, all she would say was, ”Just because we love each other doesn’t mean we’re right for each other.”

Womack says he’s to blame for the split.

“The demise of our relationship was completely my fault,” he told People.  He did not agree to join the interview with Emily for the ABC reality series.

“I never thought he’d respond,” she told the NJ Post in May. “I was so shocked when the White House called! It was all a dream come true.”

Payton told the President, and the press, today, after meeting Bieber in person, that his story, as told in “Never Say Never,” inspired her greatly and made her want to reach out to others and share her story. “We were so amazed by his story and how he never said never,” she told Yahoo’s Music Blog. “It inspired us to believe in ourselves and share our story to encourage others.”

Payton has been persistent in her dream.  When she set out on her quest to meet Justin Bieber she messaged him on Twitter and wrote to Hollywood executives related to his work. She says she hasn’t just done all of this to meet her idol, however.

“I did it to honor my father,” she the NJ Post. “My father is the reason that we all came together today. I miss and love him and don’t go a day without thinking about him.”

Photo via DailyMail.co.uk.

The pair got married Wednesday in New York in a very small ceremony. In fact, there were only four guests present!  Craig’s eighteen year old daughter, Ella, Weisz’s four year old son, Henry, and two friends.

Weisz was previously engaged to Oscar-nominated director, Darren Aronofsky, whom she was with for nine years.

“David and I did propose to each other, but over five years ago!” Harris tweeted this weekend. “We’ve been wearing engagement rings for ages, waiting for an available date.”

Harris and Burtka are parents to twins, Harper and Gideon, who were born in October of last year via a surrogate mother.

Harris’ always active Twitter feed has been dominated by news of the marriage equality act of late.  On Friday night, just before the vote, he put the hopes and dreams of many same sex couples quite succinctly with the following tweet:

“I’d sure love to get married. Please, NY Senate, vote in favor of marriage equality today. My family would really appreciate it.”

Congratulations, NPH, we can’t wait to see the wedding pictures!

And, congratulations to the New York State government and all of the politicians there who had the guts to vote this bill through.  As Republican Roy McDonald of Saratoga, one of four Republicans to join the Democrats in voting the bill through, put it:

“You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad and you try to do the right thing,” McDonald, 64, told reporters.

“You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, f— it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing.

“I’m tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I’m trying to do the right thing and that’s where I’m going with this.”