Twilight stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner returned to Canada last week to reshoot a few scenes for the upcoming sequel film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Here are a couple pics of K. Stew and Tay Tay surrounded by cameras and crew on the banks of Widgeon Creek in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia:

Now, it’s completely normal for some scenes to undergo reshoots this late in the production schedule. There really is no cause for concern over any perceived problems with the film’s production. Considering that the final book of The Twilight Saga has already been green-lit for production, these reshoots might only be extra scenes that may help bridge the gap between the two movies. Whatever the case may be, you can bet your bottom dollar that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be ready to roll-out on June 30 as scheduled.

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Congratulations are in order today as the nominations for the 2010 Tony Awards have been announced in NYC. Big name celebs who’ve made the move from Hollywood to Broadway like Denzel Washington, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones are celebrating their Tony Award nominations today as their work and their shows receive recognition. The winners will be announced in June, so let’s find out who is in contention this year:

Star wattage will burn bright at the 2010 Tony Awards with Denzel Washington, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kelsey Grammer among those receiving nominations Tuesday. Washington and Law were each cited for best actor performances in “Fences” and “Hamlet,” respectively. Zeta-Jones was nominated for best performance by a leading actress in a musical, “A Little Night Music,” and Grammer was nominated for lead actor in a musical, “La Cage aux Folles.” “What a thrill to be nominated! The experience of doing this incredible show and working every night with such a talented group of people has truly been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career,” Zeta-Jones said Tuesday. “And now to be nominated for a Tony. In my dreams, I couldn’t imagine a better way to make my Broadway debut.” “Fela!” — nominated for best musical — and “La Cage aux Folles” — nominated for the best musical revival — each received 11 nominations, followed by “Fences” with 10 nods. Nominated for best play were “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” by Sarah Ruhl; “Next Fall,” by Geoffrey Nauffts; “Red,” by John Logan; and “Time Stands Still,” by Donald Margulies. Best musical nominations went to Green Day’s “American Idiot”; “Memphis”; “Million Dollar Quartet”; and “Fela!” … Besides Washington and Law, the actor-play nominees include Alfred Molina, “Red”; Liev Schreiber, “A View From the Bridge”; and Christopher Walken, “A Behanding in Spokane.” In the actress-play category, the nominees were Viola Davis, “Fences”; Valerie Harper, “Looped”; Linda Lavin, “Collected Stories”; Laura Linney, “Time Stands Still”; and Jan Maxwell, “The Royal Family” … The performers competing with Zeta-Jones for the actress-musical prize were Kate Baldwin, “Finian’s Rainbow”; Montego Glover, “Memphis”; Sherie Rene Scott, “Everyday Rapture”; and Christiane Noll, “Ragtime” … Besides Grammer, the actor-musical nominees were Sean Hayes, “Promises, Promises”; Douglas Hodge, “La Cage aux Folles”; Chad Kimball, “Memphis”; and Sahr Ngujah, “Fela!” Nominees for featured actress in a play: Maria Dizzia, “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play”; Rosemary Harris, “The Royal Family”; Jessica Hecht, “A View From the Bridge”; Scarlett Johansson, “A View From the Bridge”; Jan Maxwell, “Lend Me a Tenor.” Featured actor in a play nominees included David Alan Grier, “Race”; Stephen McKinley Henderson, “Fences”; Jon Michael Hill, “Superior Donuts”; Stephen Kunken, “Enron”; Eddie Redmayne, “Red” … Special Tony Awards for lifetime achievement were given to playwright Alan Ayckbourn (“The Norman Conquests,” a trilogy of three plays that won the best play revival Tony last year), and actress Marian Seldes (“A Delicate Balance,” “Three Tall Women,” “Tiny Alice”). The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., will receive the regional theater award. Winners will be announced June 13 during a ceremony televised by CBS from Radio City Music Hall.

Because I haven’t spent any time in NYC this year seeing shows I think my excitement for this year’s Tony Awards is at an all-time low. I did love Jude Law in Hamlet when I saw the play last year but I haven’t seen any of the other shows listed among these nominees. David and I will be in NYC all next week and we are hoping to see 2 shows so, perhaps my Tony Awards interest will go up once I get back to Broadway. Have any of y’all seen any of these shows? Which ones are your faves and who are your picks to win Tonys this year?

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How to Destroy Angels, the rumored new music project from Trent Reznor and his wife Mariqueen, has released their first single to the Internet giving us our first taste of what’s to come from this new group. It has been confirmed that HTDA is made up of TR and Q but a new promo photo released with the new track also features Atticus Ross (who is featured in one of the teaser clips posted on the band’s official website) so perhaps this new band is a 3-piece rather than a duo:

I understand this new single, A Drowning, was produced by longtime Nine Inch Nails producers Alan Moulder and, as you may recall, the song matches a tracklisting of the HTDA EP that previously leaked to last.fm.

Now the track … it’s a slower song which, to me, echoes the sounds that TR created for the NIN album The Fragile and could’ve been right at home on the album With Teeth. Mariqueen provides quiet vocals on the track and the song clocks in at just over 7 minutes. I have to say, I’ve been hopeful that TR would start featuring more female vocals in his music since The Fragile days and it would seem that that time has finally come. If this first song is any indication of what’s to come, I think that NIN fans will be very pleased with this new sound. I very much love what I’m hearing and cannot wait to hear more. The song was made available exclusively at Pitchfork and you can listen to it in full there or check it out after the jump. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. I am really looking forward to hearing more, are you?

UPDATE: After the jump, check out an image that was extracted from the MP3 file of A Drowning which was discovered by NINwiki …

Yesterday I posted a link to a demo track that was supposedly of Britney Spears singing the song Telephone, which was eventually shelved so that Lady Gaga could record and release the song herself. Because Britney‘s record company denied the validity of the track, I didn’t feel it was necessary to post the song myself if it was, indeed, a fake. BUT, record producer Rodney Darkchild Jerkins has gone on the record on his official Twitter profile to confirm that the demo is of Britney Spears singing (tho, he clarifies that it was not him who leaked the demo):

Just listened and yes its the demo, not a mixed version. I will not leak a mixed version. I am respecting Britney and Jive wishes. Thx, Rj

Additionally, so as to capitalize on the hype of this newly leaked demo track that he had *nothing to do with*, Darkchild orchestrated a hastily put together “press conference” on Ustream yesterday to, once again, confirm the validity of the demo track and to tease about his involvement with Britney‘s new album (rumored to be “70% recorded” and supposedly to be released this October). This is what he had to say about working on her new album:

The hitmaker said that the leaked version was the first demo they did for the song and was completely unmixed and unmastered, and then went on to insist that he wasn’t behind the leak and wouldn’t be leaking the final version. Now moving on from that old Circus B-side and onto the good stuff, Darkchild also spoke about Britney’s upcoming seventh studio album spilling some exciting details about the secretive project.

“[Britney's manager] Larry Rudolph came to my house and we had an incredible conversation about Britney’s new album. We talked about the direction of her album, he gave me some insight into the direction and he wants me to work on stuff… So with that said, “Telephone” did what it had to do and we’re very pleased with the results, but now I’m about to put 200% of my focus into writing a new smash for Britney’s new album … An international smash … I think the fans deserve it, I think Britney deserves it and I can’t wait to get back into the studio with Britney. I’m about to go crazy on making something that’s so crazy. Since the conversation with Larry Rudolph I’ve studied some stuff from her last album and the Blackout album, and that was great stuff but I’m gonna bring something a little bit greater. I’m gonna give it my all to deliver something that’s crazy, crazy amazing for Britney. The conversation with Larry went great, I know exactly what the direction is and I’m gonna kill it! I’m gonna create the most incredible, unbelievable track that you could ever think of to hit the planet earth, the galaxy, around the world, all of that [laughs], for Britney Spears!”

I suppose you can make of all of this what you will … at least now we know that the Telephone demo track making the rounds of a heavily autotuned Britney Spears is the real deal. Missed hearing the track? Wanna hear it again? Listen in full after the jump …